Don’t Miss Megan Thee Stallion and Mariah Carrey at Pride’s Outloud Music Festival!

It’s officially June and the kickoff of Pride Month happenings in Southern California.

There are several large-scale music festivals on the calendar that celebrate the LGBTQ+ community including the Outloud Music Festival, which takes over West Hollywood Park on June 2-4 as part of WeHo Pride.

Reporter Holly Alvarado spoke with the festival curators about bringing Grace Jones, Carly Rae Jepsen, Idina Menzel, Orville Peck and more together for this three-day affair. Read her full interview and find out how to get tickets to the event here.

The following weekend, LA Pride in the Park will take place on June 9-10 at LA State Historic Park with sets by Megan Thee Stallion, Mariah Carey, Fletcher, King Princess, Gigi Goode, G Flip and others. Here are some details about the two-day festival and how to get passes.

Our entertainment team also put together a list of 15 Pride events happening across Southern California in June that includes festivals, drag brunches, parades and other events. Get our full list here.

Top 5 tours hitting Southern California this Summer

While we still have dozens of music festivals on the calendar in the coming months, there are several massive tours rolling through our amphitheaters, arenas and stadiums as well.

According to StubHub, Taylor Swift is the most in-demand artist playing in the Los Angeles area this summer.

That should come as no surprise as the singer-songwriter’s tour dates swiftly sold out in stadiums across the country, even as she added more dates to each venue. She set a record when she included a total of five shows with The Eras Tour at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood Aug. 3, 5-6 and 8-9.

The SubHub data shows that The Eras Tour has already tripled the final sales of summer dates for Swift’s 2018 Reputation Tour.

The list continues with Beyoncé at No. 2 as her Renaissance Tour hits SoFi Stadium on Sept. 1-2 and 4. The current tour is seeing a 120% increase compared to the final sales of the On the Run II Tour with her husband and rapper Jay-Z in 2018.

Both Swift’s Reputation and Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s On the Run II tours sold out two nights each at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena in 2018, each one drawing in over 50,000 fans per evening.

Other concerts on the list include: Metal giants Metallica at No. 3 (M72 World Tour at SoFi Stadium on Aug. 25 and 27); Country singer-songwriter Morgan Wallen‘s One Night At a Time World Tour at No. 4 (at SoFi Stadium on July 22); and hip-hop stars Drake and 21 Savage at No. 5. (Aug. 12-13 and 15-16 at Kia Forum in Inglewood and Aug. 21-22 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles).

These numbers are based on the cumulative tickets ales on StubHub as of May 25, 2023 for events in the Los Angeles area.

 See Willie Nelson’s 90th Birthday Bash in Theaters 

Country music icon Willie Nelson celebrated his 90th birthday with a pair of star-studded concerts at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on April 29-30. The shows were recorded and condensed into a two-hour film that will be shown only in theaters on Sunday, June 11, with encore screenings on Tuesday, June 13 and Wednesday, June 14 in select theaters.

Special guests included Keith Richards, Snoop Dogg, George Strait, Chris Stapleton, Miranda Lambert and many more. For a full list of participating theaters and showtimes, go to willienelson90experience.com.

Until next week, thanks for reading and keep rockin’!

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