Los Angeles Music Festival® was founded during the emergence of the World
Wide Web when it seemed the Internet would make anything possible.  

Los Angeles is music's greatest city with an illustrious past, present and future and a wish list of assets and attributes for a major destination festival. 

The immortal music festival brands are place-based: New Orleans, Coachella, Newport, Montreux, Glastonbury.

There are big music brands in LA... But Los Angeles as a brand has tremendous and even universal resonance in association with music, recreation, destination travel and hospitality.  Local, regional and nearby international markets are served by public and private transportation and affluent destination travelers will come from everywhere for a worthy Los Angeles Music Festival®.

The business-to-business question is how do you imagine Los Angeles Music Festival®? The USPTO registered trademark was just renewed and is available for license, sale or trade. Live concerts, television and theatrical distribution, websites, etc.  Contact Floyd E. Vasquez Jr.

BACKSTORY

How Los Angeles Music Festival® came to be is the unlikely story of a NYC-based  entrepreneur who jumped at the dawn of the Internet to create something new.

Under composer and conductor Franz Waxman, Los Angeles Music Festival® ran from 1947 to 1966.  Waxman was a legendary film score composer and émigré who featured music of Stravinsky, Shostakovich and  Bernstein alongside Bach, Beethoven and Mozart.

After 1966 the brand was abandoned. In '96, Floyd E. Vasquez Jr. (dba VisionBroadcast) seized a moment in time to reinvent Los Angeles Music Festival® as a component of the first global internet music festival known as the Global Internet Gathering. LAMF™ is a live and on-demand multimedia arts music festival network.

The debut of today's Los Angeles Music Festival® took place July 14-20, 1996 and featured 100 up and coming bands at 4 venues over seven nights. Badges were sold which allowed entry into all of the participating clubs. LOS ANGELES MUSIC FESTIVAL '96 was sponsored by United States Satellite Broadcasting Company and Tower Records.

Expectations were high though most people had yet to experience the World Wide Web. The international festival included the Macintosh New York Music Festival, Los Angeles Music Festival® and participating venues in Seattle, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, Washington D.C., Amsterdam, Köln, Dublin, Paris, Warsaw, Zurich, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.

In LA VisionBroadcast, 3 club owners, a booker and Roy Hendrickson joined forces to present LAMF™ '96. Bands had the thrill of having news of their performances spread near instantaneously around the world. It was an early international breakthrough and the network received hundreds of thousands of visits from around the globe.  Fans reached across borders, continents and oceans in a surge of global human communication around music.

Our second festival was July 16-19, 1997 and introduced television production standards to Internet broadcasting. Anchored in Billboard Live (now the Key Club), LOS ANGELES MUSIC FESTIVAL '97 presented live and on-demand video concerts each night of the festival and for many months thereafter. There were performances at the Troubadour, Whisky-a-Go-Go, Viper Room, Dragonfly and Billboard Live. Performing artists included Edwin McCain, The Ranch (with Keith Urban), Japan's Feel So Good and local favorites The Untouchables, Jay Gordon and Bootie Quake. We had music features, IRC and Java chat, and streaming audio and video.

LAMF™received mentions in Daily Variety, Rolling Stone, New York Times and MTV. And  Hispanic Business magazine selected Floyd Vasquez as an Hispanic Business Entrepreneur of the Year. 

During the period 1998 to 2003 there were three complete reinventions of the Los Angeles Music Festival®website and we presented exclusive content with Andy Summers, Motley Crue, Bush, No Doubt, Squirrel Nut Zippers and dozens of other outstanding artists.

During 2001, we partnered with the then leading producer of Internet broadcasts and co-presented daily live and on-demand concerts using a co-branded media player and featuring many superstars of rock, pop, jazz, blues, R&B, rap, world, ethnic and roots music. Original LAMF™ and House of Blues programming made LAMusicFestival.com a best ofmusic streaming website of its day.

LOS ANGELES MUSIC FESTIVAL® 2004 took place Wednesday, October 13, 2004 at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood and featured 11 select  groups from the edges of LA’s musical life on 3 state of the art live performance spaces.  Artists included RPM, Eartha, Hope Shorter, Green Man, Clear Soul, Band Sold Separately, Mark Latham, Onostatic, Scrote and DJ John Von and Clay Rose. 

Los Angeles Music Festival® is a live and on-demand multimedia arts music festival network.   

LosAngelesMusicFestival.com is in beta and Los Angeles Music Festival® is open for business.  Contact Executive Producer Floyd Vasquez Jr.  

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