ANAHEIM, Calif. — A few red hot chefs and one Red Hot Chili Pepper are heading to the 4th Annual BeachLife Festival as part of the event’s food and punk art offerings.
BeachLife will take place May 5-7 at Redondo Beach’s Seaside Lagoon and features headliners The Black Keys, Gwen Stefani and The Black Crowes. Other acts include the Pixies, Modest Mouse, Poncho Sanchez, Sublime with Rome, Band of Horses, John Fogerty, Caamp and more.
Festival promoters recently announced the roster of chefs who are taking part in the the DAOU SideStage Experience, a 100-seat pop-restaurant on the side of the main stage where guests are served a $100-$275 prix fixe menu crafted by a different chef each day of the festival.
Cooking on May 5 is Josiah Citrin, the Michelin Star rated chef and owner of Santa Monica’s acclaimed Mélisse Restaurant.
On May 6, Chef Antonia Lofaso, the chef and owner of three acclaimed Los Angeles restaurants: Black Market Liquor Bar, Scopa Italian Roots, and DAMA, will be taking over the kitchen. To close out the festival on May 7, chefs Lijo George and Max Boonthanakit, owners of the downtown Los Angeles restaurant Camphor will serve the side stage crowd.
This year, there will also be brunch served May 6-7 by pastry chef Stephanie Boswell and Jacob Ramos, who is the the executive chef for the BeachLife Festival.
While the chefs are carefully curating menus, several rockers will be showing off another side of their talent over at the Punk Rock & Paintbrushes pop-up gallery, which focuses on art inspired by music.
The lineup of rock star artists showing off their artwork this year include Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Pennywise vocalist Jim Lindberg, LAW’s Jakob Nowell, The Revivalists’ Andrew Campanelli, Jason Cruz of Strung Out, as well as professional skateboarder Steve Caballero and Tiffany Anastasia Lowe, the granddaughter of country music outlaw Johnny Cash.
Passes for the festival are currently on sale starting at $169 for single-day general admission; $199 for single-day general admission plus; $399 for three-day general admission passes; $379 for single-day VIP admission; $899 for three-day VIP admission; $1,250 for single-day Captains passes; $2,999 for three-day Captains passes; $995 three-day admirals passes. All options are available at beachlifefestival.com.
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