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In an exciting announcement, Eddie Vedder has announced the Ohana Encore festival will be returning to California in Autumn 2021. The Pearl Jam frontman’s festival lineup for the weekend has been revealed with tickets going on sale from 23rd July.
The festival will take place in Dana Point, California over 1st and 2nd October, and is an addition to the Ohana Festival – which is a festival Vedder is hosting at the same venue between 24 – 26th September.
“Celebrating its 5th year anniversary in 2021, Ohana Festival has made its home on Doheny State Beach; this site’s unique beauty and intimate setting, offers a magical, Southern California vibe that is truly incomparable… adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, with lush grass and soft, white sands are encompassed by illuminated palm trees that sway in the summer air.
‘Ohana’ means family and that’s exactly what Ohana Festival is… a festival of intimacy and community from Eddie Vedder’s heart, hosted on the actual beach where Vedder learned to surf.
A portion of Ohana’s proceeds go to the San Onofre Parks Foundation & the Doheny State Beach Interpretive Association, which both support the development & preservation of California State Beaches and their neighboring communities.”
The lineup for Ohana Encore has been released for both dates, with Pearl Jam set to perform on both the Friday and the Saturday. Other artists have been named as:
If you’re unable to attend the Ohana Festivals in person, you can throw on your sun cream and flip-flops wherever you are and get into the spirit of the festival by enjoying the Ohana 2021 Festival Playlist on YouTube.
Fun fact:
Ohana is a Hawaiian term meaning “family” (in an extended sense of the term, including blood-related, adoptive or intentional). The term is cognate with Māori kōhanga, meaning “nest”. The root word ʻohā refers to the root or corm of the kalo, or taro plant (the staple “staff of life” in Hawaii), which Kanaka Maoli consider to be their cosmological ancestor.
The term also references a theme in Disney’s 2002 film, Lilo & Stitch, and throughout its franchise (“ʻOhana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind—or forgotten.”)
Looking to the future, it’s possible that Pearl Jam will be using the California festivals as a rather nice warm up for getting back to normal and out on the road again once more – they have a European tour booked in for summer 2022 which includes two dates at London’s BST Hyde Park as well as a variety of very cool shows across mainland Europe – we’re looking at you, Lollapalooza in Stockholm. You can find all details of the Pearl Jam European 2022 tour here.
After a year and a half like no other, we are feeling tentatively hopeful that music, festivals and tours may be able to ease into some kind of normality again once more. While the spring and summer of 2021 have been unpredictable across Europe and North America, there is hope that the autumn will pave the way for music to resume both at concerts and festivals going forward.
You can buy tickets to Ohana Encore as well as signing up to the waitlist for Ohana Festival tickets, or make a donation to the Doheny State Beach Foundation online.
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