BeachLife Festival to bring music back to Seaside Lagoon, Redondo Beach
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The festival hopes to be the communal party at pandemic’s end
Willie Nelson performs at the first BeachLife Festival in 2019. Photo by J.P. Cordero
by Mark McDermott
Seven hundred and thirty eight days ago, Willie Nelson stood on the main stage at the BeachLife Festival in Redondo Beach. The sun had just gone down over King Harbor, forming a spectacular, multi-hued backdrop behind the legendary singer that, like the festival itself, seemed almost too joyous to be real.
Musical highlights were many. Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson joined Grateful Dead tribe elder Bob Weir to close out Friday night. Beach Boys Brian Wilson and Mike Love closed out Saturday, where it had all begun for them more than a half century ago, reaching a point of harmonious delirium as they sang “Surfin’ USA” and particularly the lyric, “Haggerty’s and Swami’s/Pacific Palisades/San Onofre and Sunset/Redondo Beac