Grand Performances Kicks Off in Style

By Eric Richardson
Published: Sunday, June 10, 2007, at 11:59PM

Dengue Fever Eric Richardson [Flickr]
Yohimbe Brothers Eric Richardson [Flickr]
Ozomatli Eric Richardson [Flickr]

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — If you missed tonight's kick-off of this year's Grand Performances, you seriously missed out. The crowd arrived earlier for a 3pm set by Dengue Fever, stayed for a 4:30 set by the Yohimbe Brothers, and was in full force for the 6pm headliners Ozomatli. While normally Grand Performances takes place on the Watercourt at California Plaza, today's gig was held on Grand Avenue, a great move made to accommodate the large crowd.

Dave, Ed and I were all there with cameras, so consider this little post more of a preview than our full coverage. Between us we probably took close to a thousand pictures, so it may be a bit into tomorrow before we're sorted out enough to find the good ones and figure out how to show them here.


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kenarch writes:

This was a seriously under-advertised event. I read three LA blogs regularly including this one, plus New Downtown, and I walk all over downtown pretty much every day, and I never even knew about this until I looked at it here - AFTER the event. Bummer - since I was free Sinday afternoon, and even went over to Pitfire Pizza at around 3:00. Nothing about this anywhere that I could see.

Then again, maybe I'm just really blind... or more likely I'm one of those people that are totally turned off to advertizing due to the maniacal oversaturation of it these days.

# on Jun.11.2007 AT 03:22 AM
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Dennis Smith writes:

kenarch,

Ed did give the show a mention in his DotDotDash column on Friday, June 8.

# on Jun.11.2007 AT 06:23 AM
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Eric Richardson writes:

And his June 5th one as well... But I think this does highlight that there's a real need for a Downtown events calendar.

# on Jun.11.2007 AT 06:38 AM
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Fred Camino writes:

The Downtown News has a website called Downtown LA Scene which has an events calendar.

# on Jun.11.2007 AT 08:10 AM
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Eric Richardson writes:

I've talked about my opinion of the Downtown LA Scene site before. The calendar is just as functionally poor as the rest of the site. It's really a shame since the Downtown News is the place that does have the most comprehensive event information.

# on Jun.11.2007 AT 09:04 AM
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kenarch writes:

Hey thanks, guys... normally I'm not that unobservant, this is a weekly or monthly event anyhow - I'll look it up and go from there.

Yeah, the Downtown News hasa real good base to work from but their LA Scene website is pretty poorly set up. Maybe a DN person reads this blog and will initiate some improvements.

# on Jun.11.2007 AT 03:33 PM
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kenarch writes:

Page 10 of this week's Downtown News... Jeez, I feel like that guy...

# on Jun.11.2007 AT 07:12 PM

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