SEVEN "HOLLYWOOD CARNIVAL" EVENTS, JUNE 22-25, HIGHLIGHT CARIBBEAN, WORLD CULTURES in L.A. — June 16 2017 special edition

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Events begin Thursday; culminate with FREE Parade & Festival on Hollywood Blvd, June 24

(Los Angeles, CA) – Entering its 6th year, the "Hollywood Carnival Parade and Festival" will take over Hollywood Boulevard from 11 am to 4 pm on Saturday June 24, transforming this storied street into a grand carnival and extravaganza with marchers and masqueraders dressed in vibrant, breathtaking costumes and dancing to pulsating rhythms from around the globe.

The Saturday celebration begins at Hollywood Boulevard and Edgemont Street in Los Feliz and proceeds on West Hollywood Blvd. for three miles, ending at the event’s "Carnival Culture Village" festival site at Highland Avenue in central Hollywood.

The Parade of Bands is a colorful FREE event for all ages to watch.

The parade features over 30 bands with the pulsating rhythms of Calypso, Soca, Samba, Reggae, Zouke, Latin, Punta, Meringue, Mariachi, Reggaeton, Blues, Jazz, Steel-pan, Indian, Asian, African, Middle Eastern, and other global music.
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Following the high energy Hollywood Carnival Parade, masqueraders, participants, and onlookers, will make their way into the Carnival Culture Village at 6800 Hollywood Blvd, open from noon until 10 pm. The Village is the grandest, most exciting and fully entertaining outdoor event for the Hollywood Carnival Weekend Experience. It is filled with a wide range of world cuisines, arts and crafts, and top headlining acts including the world music genres' reigning "King of Soca," Machel Montano; dancehall/soca star Linky First; award winning Canadian/Jamaican singer Kreesha Turner; three time Belizian vocalist of the year Tanya Carter; and many more.

Tickets for the "Hollywood Carnival Culture Village" are $10, at:

https://www.universe.com/events/carnival-culture-village-tickets-GN60L1.
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The event, day-by-day...

The Hollywood Carnival weekend kicks off Thursday, June 22, with a "Welcome to Hollywood" party at popular nightspot Lure, 1439 Ivar Avenue in Hollywood, featuring Bajan Superstar Rupee performing his greatest hits from “Ice Cream” to his recent smash hit "Tipsy."
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The long weekend of "Caribbean style partying" continues Friday, June 23, with the day-party “Fete du Jour” from 11 am to 4 pm. Taking place at Liaison Lounge (formerly and notably Les Deux Café), 1638 North Las Palmas Avenue, in Hollywood. We're told, in a long-on-hype, short-on-substance announcement, "This event is the true taste of a sexy, high energy Caribbean day party. It will be filled with surprises that no other event during the Hollywood Carnival weekend will offer. Attendees will be amazed and never know what to expect aside from the music, beautiful people, and tropical atmosphere."
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Curiously, what's given as the event's "Main Event, ever since the birth of Hollywood Carnival," happens this year on Friday, June 23, from 9 pm to 2 am. Billed as "the Highlight of the entire carnival weekend, as it has always been graced with the hottest performers and DJs the music industry has to offer." This year's "Main Event" takes place at DTLA’s The Belasco, 1050 S. Hill Street. It features Trinidadian soca artist and Soul Train Award winner Bunji Garlin; his wife, "soca royal" Fay Ann Lyons; and reigning Road March Champion, MX Prime.
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While another aspect isn't our cup of tea, either, we'll share it, as well. On Saturday, June 24, after the high energy "Hollywood Carnival Parade" and "Carnival Culture Village," there is an "Official After Party" where attendees will encounter DJ-driven entertainment with "Soca Brainwash mix DJ" Private Ryan, L.A. based "soca dj" DJ Stephen, DJ Eternal Vibes from Miami, "and many more," all DJs.
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Since Caribbean parties really do last all weekend, the Hollywood Carnival ends on Sunday June 25 with "Shine" from 11 am – 5 pm at popular Sunset Blvd hot spot Boulevard 3. We're told that "Shine" is "one of the most anticipated events, as it marks the end of the Hollywood Carnival Weekend Experience." This event features a wide range of entertainment to keep attendees dancing, drinking, "and enjoying the amazing vibes right until the end."

To maximize your Caribbean vibes along the streets of Hollywood for the one annual weekend, you can become an immersed reveler by purchasing a full weekend pass, available at:

https://www.universe.com/events/hollywood-carnival-festival-pass-2017-tickets-VMC9BK

If you're doing this whole-hog, the pass is a significant savings instead of buying each event ticket separately.

That, and an online perusal "for a true taste of the worldwide Carnival spirit [and] bringing the sounds, tastes, and vibes of the islands to L.A." can be had at:

https://www.hollywoodcarnival.com



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For ALL that's happening THIS WEEKEND, see today's hugely inclusive EVENTS edition. It's titled, "EVENTS, Weekend through July 4th — UPDATED... concerts (in detail), festival calendar (with links), musical theatre, fun hangs, freebies, & more! - June 16 2017 edition." It's at:

http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com/2017/06/events-this-weekend-through-july-4th.html
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A companion MUSIC NEWS edition will be along shortly.

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PLENTY MORE is archived, back to when Lassie was a little bitty puppy dog, Napoleon was a private, and banjos only had four strings.

The entire Guide, since we moved the archival editions to Blogspot years 'n years ago, is there and searchable at the basic url:

http://acousticamericana.blogspot.com

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See you next time!

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Ahead in the Guide...

THE COMING SUMMER...

We'll keep you updated on MUSIC NEWS, all the festivals that feature Folk-Americana and/or acoustic music, and we'll bring you plenty of feature stories on whose in the studio, who's collaborating or touring with who, and what they're working on. And we'll continue to bring you news of special events, along with some previews, reviews and select "picks" (the recommendations kind, not the kind you use on strings; we've never had any of those printed with our logo, though we would if someone wanted to sponsor that.)

That said... contrary to appearances the last month or so, we're really NOT going back into the daily music calendar bid'ness. But there is SUCH an irresistible bridge of tunefulness from all the spring weekends of festivals until summer heat abates them, so we ARE doing full-blown music calendars through the end of the July 4th holiday.

We all know that if you rely on corporate mainstream media for your supposed news, you'd miss all these things.

Along with 'purt near everything else we bring you.

It certainly does seem like Big Corporate Media only promotes and reports on soundalike pop pablum with incongruously unnecessary vocal gymnastics... we don't do that, and we wouldn't cover that stuff even if they didn't.

But the point is, big corporate media just plain refuses things and then claims those things are "non-commercial." (Which might explain why cable news, exclusively sponsored by Big Pharma ads, is so bad.) Big media certainly refuses to cover real organic acoustic music made without loops of electrocution sound effects — from Frankenstein's lightning storm or wherever they find that annoying stuff.

So just hit the mute button on them and turn here. We cover all kinds 'o real acoustic music and offer plenty of links to hear it in our news and reviews features. And, yes, we'll feature some select picks of concerts, etc., as NEWS FEATURES, as we navigate the summer together.
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As always, we invite you to join us and to let us know what YOU are listening to, and what artists or bands just sent you swooning and need to be shared with others.

That's your part, so you'll know that a whole lot more is always coming soon — including fresh MUSIC NEWS, PREVIEWS & REVIEWS, and more additions to our massive guide to the MUSIC FESTIVALS of 2017.

Meantime, with everything happening through these festival-packed, arrival-of-summer weekends? Go get tuneful!


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