NORTH PARK MUSIC FEST MAKES DEBUT
TWO-DAY EVENT, REPLACING THE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS, WILL SHOWCASE MORE THAN 40 ACTS FROM S.D., TIJUANA
Hello, North Park Music Fest! Goodbye, North Park Festival of the Arts!
After having its biggest annual event silenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, the nonprofit North Park Main Street is getting back to business in a big way this year.
Make that, a big, smaller and dramatically different way.
Founded in 1996, the volunteer-based organization this weekend bids farewell to its one-day Festival
of the Arts and ushers in its ambitious, all-ages, two-day North Park Music Fest. What had previously been a free event that drew 30,000 or more people will now be a ticketed event with attendance strictly limited to 3,500 per day.
The lineup boasts a bevy of leading and rising homegrown San Diego bands and solo artists. Some of them have made an impact nationally and, in some cases, beyond. They include Wavves, Little Hurricane, Whitney Shay, Silent Comedy, Creepy Creeps, Montalban Quintet and such Tijuana-based acts as Tulenga and .357 Magnum.