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JPAC is excited to announce ANDY GRAMMER as the 2026 Gala headliner on May 2, 2026, sponsored by Quint and Rishy Studer and Nowlan Law! Starting his career in Santa Monica as a busker, Grammer has several top hits in his career since 2009. Songs like KEEP YOUR HEAD UP, FRESH EYES, FINE BY ME, DON'T GIVE UP ON ME and GOOD TO BE ALIVE(HALLELUJAH) are some of his most recognizable. In 2014 his most well known single HONEY, I’M GOOD hit top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 list, which has been certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Grammer performed on Dancing with the Stars in 2015 with Allison Holker and most recently took 2nd place in 2025 on The Masked Singer as "Boogie Woogie", which resembled a hairy orange monster in disco clothes. Considering his 2024 album is titled Monster, it's only fitting that was his character on the show. He struck a careful balance on Monster: He laid it all out there lyrically, but it’s not as if Monster is uncharacteristically heavy in aesthetic. Complex feelings were filtered through rousing instrumentals, reflective ballads and rejuvenating jams alike. Across the album, Grammer takes on a spectrum of human experience — the mandolin rippling alongside him, like old wisdom surfacing to lead him to some kind of answer. Like a good therapy session, Monster excavates life from one angle after another. Lead single “I Do” features Grammer singing alongside country music duo Maddie & Tae, in a song written about Grammer’s wife Aijia that both playfully and thoughtfully depicts how the couple navigates the ups and downs of long relationships. “I sing ‘Even when I don’t love you, I do,’” he says. “Aijia and I have a standard of love for each other that’s bigger than the moment. We’re both committed to something larger.” The couple wrote and recorded other material for the record, including “Grey,” a song that mulls over whether love will survive as we age, and “Unforgivable,” an unflinching track influenced by a friend’s divorce. Pain and euphoria mingle freely. Grammer reclaims his “nice guy” reputation after getting stung in “Save A Spot In The Back”; playing on “nice guys finish last,” he proclaims “Save a spot in the back for me.” “Magic” surges forward like a classic indie-pop banger while reminiscing on loss and the unexplainable in life that, nevertheless, give it all its vibrancy. The song has an extra layer of poignance as the last composition Grammer wrote with his longtime collaborator Bram Inscore prior to Inscore’s tragic death. Now 40, Grammer’s seen his fair share of real stuff, and the songs on Monster capture it all — the ugly and the beautiful sitting alongside one another, each making no sense without its counterpart. From the hurt and confusion of the album’s opening, these songs trace Grammer’s process of re-centering himself with what really matters in life before concluding with “Friends And Family.” Grammer sings of all the wild turns his life has taken, but decides “It all means nothing without friends and family.” It’s a portrait of a man who has wrestled with parts of himself, and found what’s really important. "I think people will understand the journey — from acknowledging the anger, leaving and experiencing things, and then coming home to realize you're not able to be your full self without these things," Grammer concludes. "And when we all end up singing it together at the top of our lungs — that's what makes life explosive."
Price per ticket will range between $110 to $150. This performance is Assigned Seating and will take place in our historic Hansch Theatre. Lobby Doors open at 6:30pm Theatre Doors open at 7:00pm Concert starts at 8:00pm
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