PALM SPRINGS: Big changes ahead for this years festival, the second weekend of November, 2014... • The festival will no longer be in Sunrise Park...Palm Springs Pride festival downtown this year... • If Im not mistaken, the parade will now go from north to south. This is great, because we will be taking photographs with the sun behind us for a change... TEXT: Greater Palm Springs Pride, set for Nov. 7-9, is shaking out to be one of the largest free outdoor music festivals the city has ever seen. Palm Springs Pride heads downtown this year as organizers have announced a new parade route that will lead into the Pride Festival entrance on Amado Road. And this year’s festival will be free, unlike in years past when the festival was in Sunrise Park and required a cover charge of about $10. Palm Canyon Drive — between Amado and Baristo roads — and Arenas Road will be closed to traffic and transformed into a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly Pride Festival, unique to southern California. Pride weekend starts with the Stonewall Equality Concert on Nov. 7 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., and features a slate of LGBT artists and allies. The outdoor concert is a free, 21-and-older event. Festival highlights will include the US Bank stage, Palm Canyon Drive stage, Kalliope DJ stage, Walter DJ stage, and the Pride Stage at HooDoo. The festival will feature full concert performances by English rock band The Psychedelic Furs, riot pop band WASI, Americana, singer-songwriter Jeremiah Clark, London based pop artist Frankmusik, big beat alternative rock band Lunden Reign and the electro-pop, LA-based bands The Story of the Running Wolf and Scavenger Hunt. The two-day lineup includes live performances by pop sensation Amanda Lepore, hip hop artist Irawniq, Icelandic musical group Steed Lord, out singer-songwriter Aiden James, and New Jersey’s out rock musician Josh Zuckerman. Special appearances include pop artist Lisa DAmato, who won the all-star cycle of Americas Next Top Model in 2011, and Quatrele Daan, X Factor season 2’s gender-bending revolutionary pop stand out. Guest DJs will spin from the top of two-story tall stages on Palm Canyon Drive all weekend. The Kalliope stage is an art car attraction coming direct from Burning Man and Bonnaroo and will be home to DJs Aaron C, Galaxy, Lino, Robb, Aly B and more to be announced. The Walter stage of disco will feature Colour Vision, DJ Coo Ley, DJ Waide Riddle, DJs Twin Tables, and Boys Don’t Disco. Walter is a massive two-story extra-large Volkswagen bus art car from Burning Man. Festival emcees include Fiona St. James from New York, LA’s Pauly and Monks, Manny De La Rosa and the desert’s very own hostess and social ambassador Bella da Ball. Bella has coordinated an impressive lineup of 50 acts for the Palm Canyon Drive stage. Scheduled to appear are award-winning, multi-talented personalities, actors and actresses, singers and dancers from stage and screen, recording artists with musical styling ranging from jazz, blues and swing, to country, pop, rock, easy listening, dancing disco beats, to opera, Broadway, comedy and more. Vocalists will include Charles Herrera and Carol Kamenis, drag personalities including Marina Mac and Sassy Ross, and performances from the Desert Rose Playhouse and the Palm Springs Gay Men’s Chorus. Additional artists appearing live on the US Bank Stage include Miss Lela Brown, the teen R&B pop sensation from “America’s Got Talent,” and Asia Monet Ray from Lifetime’s “Raising Asia,” disco divas Chris Bennett and Pattie Brooks, dance/pop artist Korr-a, hip hop bear Big Dipper, pop artists Blake Lansing, The Love Collective, Ricky Godinez, Noise of Rumors, R&B artist T McCrae, singer/songwriter Cameron Nielson and the incomparable Mona Caywood as Miss Fern and Irene Soderberg. The lineup on the Palm Canyon Stage includes performances by: Allison Annalora, Bijou, Calypso Ross, Carol Kamenis, Cat Lyn Day, Cher-Javier, Claudia Sussman Court Graves, Dave Hirsch, David McBride, Desert Rose Playhouse, Dios Dios Gracias Dance Co, Empress Lonnie, Eve Holmes, Fabeyonce, Francesca Amari, Jason Hull, Lecia Breen, Liz Loren, Marina Mac, Morganne, Nicky as “Carol Channing”, Noni Lambertson, Palm Springs Gay Men’s Chorus, Pat McCann, Phillip Moore, Pinkie Meringue Shimmer, Rickie Lee, Sassy Ross, Tim Gibbs, Tommy Dodson, and Tony Romano. The festival is held on Palm Canyon Drive between Amado and Baristo Rd and on Arenas Road from S. Calle Encilia to Balardo Road. The festival is all ages with the exception of the US Bank Stage, which is 21 and older. All performers are scheduled to appear and and subject to change. Donations will be accepted at entry points to keep Pride free.
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 17:43:29 +0000
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