Santa Barbara Bowl

Santa Barbara Bowl is an open -air concert area above Santa Barbara, California. Farms is the site since 1994 by the Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation. In the Bowl from April to October in into an average of the 27 mainly pop concert instead. The stage has 4,562 seats.

History

The stage was built in 1936 for U.S. $ 80,000 at that time as a sort of Arbeitsbeschaffungsmanßnahme of the Works Progress Administration (WPA ), Originally it was planned as a resort for the population of Santa Barbara.

1981 founded the Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation enthusiasts to revive the area. After long negotiations with the Santa Barbara County Bowl, the Foundation, in 1994 the responsibility for the management, maintenance and renovation of the historic town. Owner is still the County. The Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation is run by community volunteers, with the aim to make the Bowl the leading open-air stage for art in California.

Since 2000, the entire premises for around 40 million U.S. dollars will be renovated. Completion is scheduled for 2014.

Music History

At the Santa Barbara Bowl always played significant artists in rock, pop, reggae and folk history. For a long time the stage was a way station for artists who toured from Los Angeles to San Francisco. The Reggae Sunsplash made ​​in the Bowl station.

In the Bowl, among others played Santana, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. More recently, The Kinks, Radiohead, REM, The Psychedelic Furs, Foo Fighters, Wilco, and others played on the stage.

1979 played here Bob Marley and the Wailers.