| EVENT REPORT 08.05.08 2:57 PM |
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Lollapalooza Adds More Stages—and a Beer Garden—to This Year's Sold-Out Festival
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Photo: Eric Craig for BizBash |
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FROM CHICAGO
For Chicago's fourth-annual Lollapalooza, which took over Grant Park Friday through Sunday, festival organizers C3 Presents from Austin, Texas, offered a smorgasboard of choices for music—not to mention art and beer—lovers. Eight stages featured performances by 120 acts running concurrently over three days, while new distractions abounded, from Perry's, an electronica stage named after festival founder Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction, to Lederhosen's Biergarten, a popular stop for brews and brats.
The sheer size of Grant Park coupled with the diverse array of acts—mash-up wizard Girl Talk, gypsy punks Gogol Bordello, and headliners like Wilco, Radiohead, and Nine Inch Nails—could make getting the lay of the land difficult for any concertgoer. However, several helpful tools were on hand, such as pocket-sized official schedules, a centrally located information tower, and hordes of volunteers holding "Fest Info—Ask Me Now" signs. This is the first time Lollapalooza has sold out all three days in Chicago, with crowds upwards of 75,000 attending each day.
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| NEWS 07.29.08 8:00 AM |
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With Plenty of Sponsors, Lollapalooza Set to Take Over Chicago This Weekend
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FROM CHICAGO
The current incarnation of Lollapalooza, the brainchild of Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell, along with Austin, Texas-based promoters C3 Presents and the William Morris Agency, will once again set up shop in Chicago's Grant Park this Friday through Sunday. The fourth-annual Chicago-only festival encompasses 120 acts (including Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, and Kanye West) performing on eight sponsored stages, as well as various environments, lounges, and activities scattered throughout the park.
Lollapalooza 2008 incorporates several new elements this year, including Perry's, named for Farrell, an open-air electronica stage featuring live DJ sets each day at 2 p.m., and Lederhosen's Biergarten, a beer hall situated near Buckingham Fountain. Both Green Street (a destination space educating festival-goers about Lolla's eco-friendly initiatives) and Kidzapalooza (featuring a stage, "School of Rock" Jam Tent, a recording studio, and special performances) are returning this year.
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| EVENT REPORT 04.28.08 12:44 PM |
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Coachella Festival Boosts Art Factor, Green Initiatives—and Comfort Level
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FROM INDIO, CALIF. For a nearly decade-old festival with a storied history including financial woes, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has an uncanny way of reinventing itself and keeping its offerings fresh every spring. Goldenvoice, the Los Angeles-based producer of the festival, which began on Friday and wrapped yesterday at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, amped up programs geared toward environmental friendliness, artistic expression, and—most noticeable to the hordes who made the pilgrimage to the desert—concertgoers' comfort.
This year Goldenvoice introduced an expanded lobby area that featured lockers, vendors, restrooms, and water fountains, leaving more room on the main polo field for concertgoers to mingle. Over the three-day weekend, an estimated 150,000 people meandered through the bustling expanse of grass, with the biggest crowd on Saturday, the day with the most buzzed-about lineup. Prince, added late to the schedule, drew the most enthusiastic crowd and performed such unexpected songs as Radiohead's "Creep" (and more expected ones like "1999" and an encore including "Let's Go Crazy").
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