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Grand Performances Kicks Off in Style

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

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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 on June 11, 2007, at 03:22AM – #1

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.

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Dennis Smith on June 11, 2007, at 06:23AM – #2

kenarch,

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

Eric Richardson (@blogdowntown) on June 11, 2007, at 06:38AM – #3

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

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Fred Camino on June 11, 2007, at 08:10AM – #4

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

Eric Richardson (@blogdowntown) on June 11, 2007, at 09:04AM – #5

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.

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kenarch on June 11, 2007, at 03:33PM – #6

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.

Guest 1