Full Coverage: Made in America 2014; the acts, crowds and scene
The two-day Made in America music festival took over downtown Los Angeles’ Grand Park over Labor Day weekend. The event, the brainchild of rap mogul Jay Z, hoped to draw up to 50,000 people to a variety of musical acts that included Kanye West, Imagine Dragons and John Mayer.
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A two-day music festival held in downtown L.A.’
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The recent Made in America Festival, the first big pop concert in Grand Park, generated $144,000 in rental income that will be funneled into increasing regular programming in the downtown park.
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Dozens of tickets to the Made in America festival were distributed to Los Angeles City Council offices last week by representatives of Mayor Eric Garcetti, provided free by concert promoter Live Nation.
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Kanye West wore several intimidating, face-obscuring masks during his headlining set at the Budweiser Made in America festival on Sunday, but underneath each of them, he told fans, was a good guy.
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The Made in America festival at Los Angeles’ Grand Park came to a close Sunday night with a performance by rapper Kanye West, after a day marked by scorching heat but no major security issues.
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“Sing so loud Jay Z can hear it,” Chance the Rapper hollered Sunday from one of two stages in front of Los Angeles City Hall.
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Scenes from the second day of the Made in America festival in downtown Los Angeles.
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Police officials say there have been a few arrests but no major security incidents on the second day of the Made in America Music Festival in downtown Los Angeles as of Sunday evening.
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As festival-goers at the Los Angeles edition of the Budweiser Made in America fest sought relief from the heat Sunday, the Philadelphia edition of the two-day concert had to be temporarily halted due to severe weather.
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The first day of the Made in America festival featured a diverse slate of acts (Kendrick Lamar, Imagine Dragons, Capital Cities), pounding heat, snarled lines aplenty, busy porta johns, shirtless bros, girls in floppy hats and everything else that comes with a daylong music festival.
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“Hello, Los Angeles,” said Metric lead singer Emily Haines near the end of the band’s second song on the city’s first day of the Budweiser Made in America Festival.
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Scenes from the first day of the Made in America festival in downtown Los Angeles.
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As the sun beat down on tens of thousands of concertgoers in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, organizers of the city’s debut Made in America festival said the weekend event was going as planned.
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In the next few hours, tens of thousands of fans will descend on Grand Park for the first day of the Made in America festival.
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They made it in Philly. But can they make it in L.A.?
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Grand Park has held plenty of concerts and holiday events but nothing quite like what’s coming this weekend for the Made in America Festival.
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As crews are working to transform downtown’s Grand Park into the Budweiser Made in America festival, local residents gathered at the nearby Caltrans headquarters to express confusion and frustration just days before the two-day concert was scheduled to kick off.
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This weekend will bring the first Los Angeles production of the Budweiser Made in America festival, a two-day concert event co-founded by Blue Ivy Carter’s father, Jay-Z.
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Jay Z’s Made in America is officially coming to Los Angeles.
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The impending arrival of the Made in America festival in Los Angeles hasn’t been without controversy.
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It’s going to be one of the biggest concerts of the summer, drawing performers such as Kanye West and John Mayer and as many as 50,000 fans to Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles.
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Imagine Dragons and John Mayer will headline the first L.A. edition of Jay Z’s the Budweiser Made in America festival.
