Barcelona’s Primavera Sound, one of Europe’s best-regarded music festivals, announced that its first American edition will come to L.A. next year.
People attend the second day of the Primavera Sound music festival in Barcelona, Spain, on Friday. announced that its first American edition will come to L.A. next year.
The festival, known for an idyllic waterfront location and Coachella-caliber bookings such as this year’s Tame Impala and J Balvin, will debut at Los Angeles State Historic Park in Chinatown September 19-20, 2020, with early tickets going on sale Friday. “We had been thinking about crossing the Atlantic for some time now and, in particular, about Los Angeles,” said Gabi Ruiz, the director and founder of Primavera Sound. “Los Angeles is a city that has always fascinated [us]. Its vitality, its appeal, its forward thinking. We feel that in some ways, in Barcelona, we share the sensations and way of experiencing things with Los Angeles.”
The new Live Nation-produced festival isn’t the first international edition for Primavera, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary next year. The fest also has a smaller annual satellite in Porto, Portugal, which began in 2012. Ruiz says the L.A. version will initially be more akin to Porto in scale than the flagship, which draws 220,000 fans from 150 countries.
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