The veteran rock band WAR, which formed back in 1969, brought a live show to an appreciative audience in Ventura, California. The May 29th show was part of the Concerts In Your Car series at the Ventura fairgrounds. War is a musical crossover band that fuses rock, funk, jazz, Latin, rhythm and blues, psychedelia, and reggae.
Sound Mind Live presented its third annual Mental Health Music Festival on May 20th at the Ventura Fairgrounds. The show was part of the Concerts In Your Car series, which features live music for a drive-in audience. The four-hour show combined five live music sets with comedians, commentators, poets, and more.
By: Ryan Borba
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Snoop In Your CarDJ Snoopadelic, aka Snoop Dogg as DJ, was one of the major artists playing the Concerts In Your Car Series this year, one of the first major drive-in concert series to ramp up during the pandemic. While 2020 has seen many out of work, forced to wait things out or struggling to adapt, the year has seen some busier and more successful than ever – such as CBF Productions’ Vincenzo Giammanco, who normally holds a dozen lifestyle-type festival events in Southern California but this year turned a PPP loan into a full concert season that is expanding into multiple markets.
Reggae-influenced alternative rock band
Iration played a sold-out show for the final performance of the
Concerts In Your Car Series at the Ventura Fairgrounds on December 4th. Since last June, when CBF Productions launched the first drive-in live music experience in California at the Ventura Fairgrounds, there has been a rebirth of live music events on the south coast. A litany of diverse acts has taken the stage at the venue, including Snoop Dogg, Cypress Hill, Fitz, The Tantrums, Los Lobos, Tower of Power and Sublime, and The Beach Boys, and 311. Iration played a three-concert mini-tour of Southern California in support of their new album Coastin, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard Reggae Albums Chart after its release last summer. The special Coastin At The Drive-In run played Anaheim on December 3rd, Ventura on December 4th, and Del Mar (San Diego) on December 5th.