A day of Bach at Union Station and it’s free
by Two women standing beside me in Union Station wondered how anyone could afford to put on 10 hours of amazing performances of Bach’s music with …
Category: Festivals around LA
Clouds of colors at the Holi Festival
Once again the South Pasadena Education Foundation sponsored a Holi Day festival with all the thrown powdered chalk in fun colors. Here are some South …
Decorating the 2017 South Pasadena Rose Parade float
In keeping with the theme for the 2017 Tournament of Roses Parade the city of South Pasadena is entering a float that volunteers were busy …
Dancing in the Plaza by Olvera Street
From a block away I could hear the Mexican music from the bandstand in the center of La Placita at the historic Pueblo de Los …
Singing on a raft at Fiesta Perpetua on Echo Park Lake
The Fiesta Perpetua on and around Echo Park lake was the brainchild of Carmina Escobar as her contribution to the huge Pacific Standard Time LA/LA. …
Decorating the 2017 Rose Parade float in South Pasadena
The city of South Pasadena always enters a float in the Tournament of Roses parade and the float is always decorated by local volunteers. The …
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Mission Inn Festival of Lights is wild for animatrontic elves and real parrots
“Too much is just about right” at the amazing, annual Festival of Lights at the Mission Inn in Riverside, about an hour or so east …
Carrie Fisher, Littlefinger, Frida Kahlo honored with Day of the Dead altars in Pasadena
In the 2017 Day of the Dead event in Old Town Pasadena there were altars for a number of celebrities, as well as pets and …
A very quick trip through the Jackalope Fair in Pasadena
I guess I am burned out on street fairs. Even though the Jackalope Fair has lots of vendors with young faces there was not much …
Blessing the Animals with a much much smaller crowd in Los Angeles
The Blessing of the Animals in the plaza at Olvera Street is an old tradition in Los Angeles that goes back 87 years. When I’ve …