It's the best music festival of the year here in L.A. -- well, in my opinion since (a) it's free, (b) it's free, (c) it's free, and (d) it's kid-friendly, not crowded, diverse, and Eagle Rock's ever-growing stable of restaurants, bars and coffee houses cater to it.
The Eagle Rock Music Festival, which takes place Saturday night, is expected to attract 20,000 people -- listening to music at 17 different locations. Colorado Blvd. will be closed for the evening, as people stroll up and down the street grooving to the music.
The L.A. Times, meanwhile, writes about the continued emergence of Eagle Rock -- but pegs it with the tale of an empty lot-turned-condo project-turned-empty lot at the far end of Colorado Blvd. Still, the mostly praises Eagle Rock:
Eagle Rock stumbled into a terrible decline in the 1970s. In the '90s, it began to ascend, fueled by millions of dollars in public and private investments -- and a wave of artists and bohemians priced out of the beach and unimpressed with the hip scenes of Los Feliz, Silver Lake and Echo Park.
Along with counterculture types who'd never left, they sought to create a different sort of community on what might be called an urban seam -- not quite city, not quite suburb; edgier and funkier than nearby Glendale and Pasadena, but more forgiving and artsy than the metropolitan center to the south.
By and large, they succeeded. Colorado Boulevard is the most obvious testament -- coffee shops and muffler shops and an old-fashioned hardware store interspersed with galleries, artisans and eateries with Malbec tastings and vegan tempeh balls.
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