Jubilee Music Festival won’t happen in 2014
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The Jubilee Music & Arts Festival, which stumbled last year as it tried to grow from its origins as the Silver Lake Jubilee into a major downtown event, will not happen this year, co-founder and producer Jack Martinez said.
“As an industry leader in providing emerging music discovery for fans and critics alike the Jubilee Music Festival is sad to announce this year’s hiccup in programming,” he said. “The event is looking for a promotional sponsor for 2015.”
The Jubilee launched in 2010 as a benefit for the Los Angeles Arts and Athletics Alliance – a neighborhood-y street festival in same spirit as the long-running Sunset Junction Music Festival. In 2011 and 2012, Jubilee grew only incrementally as Sunset Junction famously fell on its face in 2011, canceled at the 11th hour in a cloud of financial mismanagement and neighborhood ill will.
Jubilee’s 2012 event was a highlight, featuring the likes of Aloe Blacc, Kinky, the Soft Pack, Allah-Las and more, but the high cost and complicated logistics of doing a street festival anywhere in the city of Los Angeles prompted organizers to make the move downtown. Last year Jubilee was staged at a warehouse complex on Santa Fe Street in the shadow of the 6th Street Bridge, but despite a lineup that boasted the Black Lips, Trash Talk, Free Energy, Bleached and Cayucas, the festival suffered lower-than-expected turnout.
||| Previously: Galleries from 2010; 2011/Saturday recap; 2011/Sunday recap; 2012 Saturday recap; 2012/Saturday two galleries; 2012 Sunday recap; 2012/Sunday two galleries; “Hounds of the 2012 Jubilee” (our favorite photo gallery ever); 2013/Friday gallery; 2013/Saturday recap; 2013/Saturday gallery
Above: Together Pangea at Jubilee 2013
Those ass clowns never paid all their bills either. Owe me 11,000 for unpaid production services … Scum is not indie
Ps fidlar never played jubilee they canceled
Bro! You’re right. I corrected it.
I can also attest to unpaid work. And handing out checks to bands that bounced. It was a fun fest, 2012 was great, but please have the money to spend before you spend it.