June 10, 2016: Snapchat Partners With AEG for Music Festival Takeover, Why This Bowling Chain is Doubling as a Music Venue, L.G.B.T. Rights Advocates Hope Pride Reception Will Continue After Obama

1. SNAPCHAT PARTNERS WITH AEG FOR MUSIC FESTIVAL TAKEOVER: Snapchat has announced a multi-year partnership with music festival producer AEG to bring users content that will be featured on its event-centric "Live Stories" feature. The video-sharing company will now cover festivals including Stagecoach, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, FYF Fest, and Panorama. Forbes: "Those attending any of the select festivals will be able to share photos and videos that highlight the best of what’s going on around them and that convey, at least in some part, the experience of being on the ground and dancing the night away. Anyone with a phone will be able to share their views, and Snapchat’s curators will sift through all the incoming content and compile the best of the best into longer clips that will be shared with millions of Snapchat users. All of this content will live on the app’s Live Stories section, which is quickly becoming one of the more popular features of the app. This new program is a win-win-win-win, with everybody involved benefitting. Brands can pay to advertise within these Live Stories, literally inserting themselves into the social conversation at any given event. They get to associate themselves with music festivals, which are seen by millennials to be pretty much the coolest of the cool. Snapchat claims that tens of millions of people have tuned into Live Stories, so it isn’t difficult to understand why this new opportunity would be so attractive to brands." http://onforb.es/21aTXX1

2. WHY THIS BOWLING CHAIN IS DOUBLING AS A MUSIC VENUE: Lucky Strike has already gained popularity as a music venue by booking live acts at its Los Angeles location. In the next year, the bowling chain is looking to expand its Soundcheck Live music series into a national touring network by bringing shows to as many as 10 of its 16 locations throughout the U.S., including New York, San Francisco, and Chicago. Billboard: "First up: the early June opening of Albany’s Lucky Strike Social, which will feature two stages—one, a 900-person concert hall; the other a platform among the lanes. 'There’s been trial and error and a lot of learning in a year’s time, but we’re delighted with what it has evolved into,' Lucky Strike Entertainment founder and CEO Steven Foster tells Billboard. 'We’ll have the ability to route bands, whether it’s regional or bigger national acts, through our locations as part of a Lucky Strike tour, if you will,' adds head of marketing and live entertainment Barry Pointer. Eventually offering live music in all 16 locations, he adds, is 'definitely on our list of things to accomplish.' The Sherman Oaks, Calif.-based company enters an already robust sector of live entertainment with established players like Brooklyn Bowl, which opened the first of its 3 venues in 2009, and Rock and Bowl in New Orleans—venues that have made its diverse music bookings a calling card. It’s a vision Foster shares. 'Lucky Strike, in its heart and soul and DNA, has never been, in our minds, about bowling,' he says." http://bit.ly/1tlePAx

3. L.G.B.T. RIGHTS ADVOCATES HOPE PRIDE RECEPTION WILL CONTINUE AFTER OBAMA: President Obama hosted his last White House Pride Reception on Thursday, and gay rights activists hope the annual event will continue with the next president. Time: “Held every June since Obama took office in 2009, the reception is the Administration’s way of welcoming the LGBT community while also making sure to mark some of its progress on political issues. He’s used it to talk about the repeal of ‘don’t ask don’t tell,’ same-sex marriage and employment discrimination. JoDee Winterhof, vice president of policy and political affairs for the Human Rights Campaign, said she’d like to see it become a mainstay. ‘It would be my assumption that if Hillary Clinton is elected president, which, we certainly hope she will be, we’re going to work hard to help make it so that she would continue this tradition,’ she says. ‘We think as a community these sorts of things and gatherings are important and so we would certainly encourage anyone to continue this type of celebration.’” http://ti.me/1ZCGS8C

* LOCAL NEWS *

CHICAGO:  Cat Carter has been named director of sales and marketing at Sheraton Grand Chicago and Westin Chicago River North.

LAS VEGAS:  Red Rock Resort has debuted a whiskey and cigar experience, Onyx Bar. The new venue has a private V.I.P. room that seats 10.

LOS ANGELES:  Pet expo CatConLA will take place June 25-26 at the Reef. The event will feature a pop-up Kat Von D beauty bar, a cat adoption lounge, and speakers from BuzzFeed Pets and Cats of Instagram.

The sixth annual Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival, presented with founding partners Food & Wine and Lexus, is slated to return August 25-28.

Disneyland plans to open a 700-room luxury hotel at the resort in 2021. The Orange County Register: http://bit.ly/1Uy7lQ3

For information on upcoming events in Los Angeles, visit Masterplanner: http://www.masterplanneronline.com/losangeles

NEW YORK:  The Hank Lane Orchestra will perform at the Tony Awards gala at the Plaza hotel on Sunday.

The Destination Moon Music & Arts Festival will take place June 17-19 at Camp Lakota in Wurtsboro.

For information on upcoming events in New York, visit Masterplanner: http://www.masterplanneronline.com/newyork

ORLANDO/CENTRAL FLORIDA:  The horror movie convention Spooky Empire will take place at the Orange County Convention Center October 7-9.

BemBom food truck is opening a restaurant in the Audobon Park District later this year.

PHILADELPHIA:  Fergie will headline the Creative Coalition's Democratic National Convention charity-benefit concert on July 27. The venue will be announced at a later date.

SAN FRANCISCO:  Las Alcobas, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Napa Valley, will open for previews in September. The St. Helena hotel will have 68 guest rooms and suites, a 3,500-square-foot spa and wellness center, and a 2,200-square-foot barn that can hold as many as 100 for receptions.

TORONTO:  The inaugural Toronto Art Book Fair will take place June 16-19 at Artscape Youngplace.

WASHINGTON, D.C.:  Events DC will host a Muhammad Ali tribute screening of When We Were Kings: The Untold Story of the Rumble in the Jungle tonight at the DC Armory Mall.

YOUR NEWS: What are you doing? Tell us: [email protected]. 

JOB BOARD: Post a job or find a job: http://jobs.bizbash.com

With contributions from Jenny Berg in Chicago, Alesandra Dubin and Claire Hoffman in Los Angeles, Mitra Sorrells in Orlando, and Beth Kormanik, Michele Laufik, Jill Menze, and Ian Zelaya in New York.

BizBash Daily is the must-read digest of event industry news from BizBash.com.

Feed the Sheet: [email protected]

Subscribe: www.bizbash.com/bizbashdaily

Advertise with BizBash: [email protected]