If rabid festival junkies really wanted to – and had the thousands it would cost to indulge their habit – they could travel the country from Easter to Thanksgiving and experience major events virtually every week.īut there was a time when just the opposite was true. Those are only the leading lights of a trend whose offshoots come a dime a dozen. So popular are such bacchanals that, like Coachella and Bonnaroo before them, these too will stream live via YouTube.
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This very weekend brings two more: rap maven Jay-Z’s Made in America festival in Philadelphia, featuring Pearl Jam, Beyoncé, D’Angelo and the reunited Run-D.M.C., plus Bumbershoot in Seattle, spearheaded by Jane’s Addiction, electronic star Skrillex and pop legend Tony Bennett. The annual spring Coachella gathering, 13 years strong and currently doubled in size, remains the pace-setter, with the behemoth Bonnaroo in Tennessee, Austin City Limits, Chicago-centered Lollapalooza, Sasquatch to the north and Outside Lands in San Francisco right behind it. We insatiable music lovers live in a rather glorious time when wildly eclectic weekend-long festivals packed with the biggest names from all corners of the globe are taken for granted, defying economic downturns and routinely drawing tens of thousands to sell-out encounters. An US Fest ’82 attendee hoists her seat cushion. Steve Wozniak’s $13 million creation returned Memorial Day weekend ’83. The Forgotten Festival: Remembering US ’82 and ’83 as Steve Wozniak’s dream bash turns 30 – Orange County Register Close MenuĪwaiting the next band during the first day of US Festival ’82, which attracted 425,000 people over Labor Day weekend to Glen Helen Park in San Bernardino, now the site of San Manuel Amphitheater.
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