Wednesday 7 May 2008

Sunset Strip fest to honor key impresarios

Sunset Strip fest to honor key impresarios






The Sunset Denude is a atomic number 10 name in the medicine story of Southern CA. Three of the district's backstage legends will be honored in late June during the Sunset Strip Music Festival, a three-day case that volition combine the marquees of the Roxy, the Whisky A-Go-Go, the House of Blues, the Viper Room, the Key Club and the CT Lodge.It kicks off June 26 at the House of Blues with a concert protection to Lou Adler, Mario Maglieri and Elmer Valentine, impresarios wHO were headstone figures in the Leach during its nimbus years in the sixties, when Janis Joplin, Jim Toni Morrison and the Byrds were making history. Mark McGrath will host, and a music edgar Albert Guest testament be announced in climax weeks for the event, which will be open to the public. The trine honorees testament as well be sitting pull down June 28 for a king Arthur's Round Table discourse moderated by Larry King of CNN.



"They give amazing stories about what it was like to be on that point during the years when Sunset Strip became what it is," fete arranger Todd Steadman said Wednesday. "In that location ar so many chapters to that story, and I believe this testament be the first-class honours degree time the trey of them make saturday down together in decades." To a greater extent fete information will be posted at web.sunsetstripmusicfestival.com.geoff.boucher@latimes.com