Arts & Entertainment

A Smaller Summer Music Festival with a New Name

Thanks to $7,500 in sponsorship funds from the City, Gary Mandell will produce a minimum of four summer concerts this year under the name the Culver City Boulevard Music Festival.

In the days and weeks following the abolition of the City’s redevelopment agency, there was genuine concern that the City’s beloved summer music festival would be canceled.

However, after weeks of to-ing and fro-ing, on Monday night the City Council agreed to a Memorandum of Understanding that will see Gary Mandell produce a minimum of four concerts sponsored by the City this summer.

The newly formed festival will be called the Culver City Boulevard Music Festival and will be held in the courtyard in front of City Hall. 

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Mandell, who owns Boulevard Music and who has produced the summer music series for the past 11 years, will fund the festival through sponsorships he plans to seek out, along with  $7,500 from the City.

The City funds include $5,500 carried over from sponsorships in 2011 and $2,000 donated by Sony Pictures Entertainment to the City for cultural programming. The City will also provide $1000 in staff time to help plan, prepare and promote the event.

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At Monday night’s meeting, Mandell said he would run the concerts on consecutive weeks in the summer, but until he knew how much sponsorship money he could raise, he could not state at this stage if he could afford to hold more than four concerts.

No dates have yet been set for the concerts.

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