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 […]
[News, rumors, observations and random things from the depths of my notebook:] Silver Lake may soon be without a neighborhood festival. No official word yet, but sources are saying the Silver Lake Jubilee – the three-year-old fundraiser for community-based nonprofit the Los Angeles Arts and Athletics Alliance (LAAAA) – will go off at a new […]
When the Silver Lake Jubilee returns in May for a third year, the nascent neighborhood festival will come with a higher admission price and a new location. The May 26-27 street party moves one block from its previous Myra Street location to Santa Monica Boulevard, just below Sunset Junction. And general admission – $5 the […]
LA Weekly’s West Coast Sound has the details on how to get refunds for Sunset Junction – if you bought them at Neighborhood Alliance’s Farmers Market or at Origami Vinyl. Read all about it. And this just in: Kenneth Scalir, whom frequent concert-goers know as “KROQ Ken” and recognize as a regular railbird, got his […]
Fans who bought advance tickets to Sunset Junction might have a hard time getting a refund. At least, that’s the way ticketing agency Flavorus.com makes it sound. Not surprisingly considering the week’s developments, Sunset Junction’s promoter is not picking up the phone, although via Twitter on Wednesday the organizers assured: “Tickets/vendors money will be refund […]
It won’t hold a Ferris wheel (and you might need a neck brace after seeing a show in the loft), but the cozy Origami Vinyl record store is transforming itself into a mini-Sunset Junction this weekend. In fact, in the aftermath of the cancellation of the annual festival, the Echo Park business community is doing […]
More updates on the Sunset Junction-displaced bands, adding to news about new local gigs for boldfaced bands such as Butthole Surfers, Art Brut, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Helmet: The Californian, Chasing Kings (pictured) and Cinderella Motel, three bands who lost gigs after Sunset Junction was denied it permit, will team up for a free […]
Bands who were all dressed up for Sunset Junction and now have nowhere to go scrambled to find other gigs this week in the wake of the festival’s cancellation. Talent buyers with holes in their weekend schedules suddenly have myriad options. Here’s what’s on our radar (Thursday morning updates in red, Thursday afternoon updates in […]
Sunset Junction is off. The L.A. Board of Public Works on Wednesday unanimously rejected the Sunset Junction Street Fair’s permit for this weekend’s festival, ending a week’s worth of drama that included impassioned arguments for and against the two-day event, initial rejection of the festival’s application and a frantic 36-hour fund-raising effort by organizers to […]
UPDATED, 5:30 p.m.: Sunset Junction organizers have raised the $141,000 in city fees to resubmit their case to the L.A. Board of Public Works on Wednesday morning. The morning post: Organizers of the beleaguered Sunset Junction Street Fair are scrambling to collect donations in an effort to reach the $141,000 they need to induce the […]