Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean Mark 30 Years of The Score at the Hollywood Bowl Tonight

The 7:30 p.m. concert, presented by Live Nation, is part of a short West Coast run that opened Wednesday at Berkeley's Greek Theatre. A portion of each ticket supports restoring county parks damaged by recent wildfires.

By Herald Staff · Nov. 8, 2026, 2:30 PM ET

The Hollywood Bowl's white concentric shell sits empty in daylight below dry chaparral hills, with rows of dark seats in the foreground and the Hollywood sign visible on the ridge against a clear blue sky. — The Hollywood Bowl in January 2024, with the Hollywood sign on the ridge behind the empty shell. Ms. Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean perform there tonight to mark 30 years of The Fugees' The Score. Photo: Edwardrhodes06 (cropped) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (license).

HOLLYWOOD — Ms. Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean take the Hollywood Bowl stage tonight to mark 30 years of The Fugees' "The Score," the 1996 album that made the group a household name. The concert is billed as "Ms. Lauryn Hill & Wyclef Jean: Celebrating 30 years of Fugees' The Score," Sunday at 7:30 p.m., with gates at 5:30 p.m., at 2301 N. Highland Ave. Discover Los Angeles listed it among the weekend's headline events.

Live Nation and Hewitt Silva present the show, which the Bowl classifies as a lease event. The venue recommends arriving at least 90 minutes early.

A Short West Coast Run

The Bowl date sits in the middle of a brief November itinerary on the group's official site. It opened Wednesday, Nov. 4, at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, a show the Fugees tour page marks as sold out, and continues Tuesday, Nov. 10, at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle. The Hollywood Bowl is the only Southern California stop listed for this month.

The Album That Made Them

"The Score" came out Feb. 13, 1996, according to a Grammy.com retrospective. The original trio — Hill, Jean and Prakazrel "Pras" Michel — released it on Ruffhouse/Columbia Records. The album topped the Billboard 200 and, Variety reported that October, was certified six times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, making it the best-selling rap album by a group at the time.

Its singles included "Fu-Gee-La," "Ready or Not" and a hip-hop recasting of Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly With His Song," the track that, Grammy.com wrote, "shifted gears for The Fugees and made them a household name." At the 39th Annual Grammy Awards in 1997, the group won Best Rap Album for "The Score" and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal for "Killing Me Softly," and the album was nominated for Album of the Year, according to the Recording Academy.

Tonight's Hollywood Bowl billing names Hill and Jean. The original trio included Michel; the official listing does not.

A Summer Reunion, Then the Bowl

Hill and Jean performed "The Score" in full this summer at the first U.K. edition of Hill's Diaspora Calling! festival, held Aug. 7 at the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, England. In a Q&A with the Associated Press ahead of that show, Hill was asked whether her relationship to the album had changed in 30 years.

"Absolutely. Absolutely. That's a timeless piece of work for us as well. Timeless," she said. Jean added, "Every time I perform 'The Score' now, I feel like it's the first time." Hill agreed: "It doesn't feel old."

She told the AP that even while singing older lyrics, "there's a new energy, a new spirit." The pair also paid tribute this year to Flack, whose song they recast, at the Grammy Awards, the AP noted.

Tickets Support Fire-Damaged Parks

A Ticketmaster listing for the Bowl show says a portion of each ticket will support the Los Angeles County Parks Foundation "in restoring damage to parks from the recent Los Angeles wildfires." Tickets are sold through Live Nation, Ticketmaster and the Hollywood Bowl box office.

Because it is a lease event, outside alcohol is not permitted. Food and factory-sealed non-alcoholic drinks of one liter or less are welcome in the Bowl's picnic areas, the venue says. Parking is extremely limited, stacked and may sell out; the Bowl advises buying a space in advance. Rideshare drop-off and pick-up is at 6655 Odin Street, and Metro, Park & Ride and Bowl Shuttle options are available for anyone who would rather skip the canyon traffic.

Programs, artists and times can change, the Bowl notes, and all sales are final. For Angelenos who grew up on "The Score" — or who only know "Killing Me Softly" from a car radio — tonight is the local chance to hear two of its voices under the shell that faces the Hollywood sign.

Original reporting by The Los Angeles Herald, drawing on the Hollywood Bowl, Discover Los Angeles, the Fugees' official tour page, Grammy.com, Variety, the Associated Press and Ticketmaster listings, as linked above.