Grammy Museum Taps Eleni Mandell, Billy Bob Thornton for April Events

The local chanteuse will bring her jazz-stoked pop songs to the institution April 14, engaging in a Q&A with museum chief curator Ken Viste before the performance. Tickets are $15 and come bundled, Prince-style, with a CD (2007's live effort Voxhall and WUK).

Mandell, long a local favorite, will perform in the museum's pristine 200-seat theater, which recently has played host to the likes of Tom Morello, Nas and Annie Lennox, among others. Artificial Fire sees Mandell exploring the pop songbook with a deft, vintage flair. “I got tired of the weepy, dark songs," she recently told The Times.