Festival Pass: How to watch Ohana and Bonnaroo online this weekend; more streaming shows

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I’m worried about Simon Le Bon. Not the Duran Duran frontman, but my houseplant (a stunning calathea ornata beauty star I named after the singer) that has spider mites. I’ve mentioned it before, but I’ve gotten REALLY into houseplants during the pandemic. I also name them after rock stars so they have a built-in soundtrack. (Didn’t we all do that elementary school science fair experiment where you played music to plants to help them grow?)

Anyway, Simon has spider mites and they’ve also spread to some of my other calatheas, including Mick (Jagger, a peacock calathea) and Elton (John, a rattlesnake calathea), and I wish I could find some music to keep pests away in addition to the neem oil and misting I’m doing.

I’m planning for the plants to get some more musical diversity when I tune in to some “live” shows this weekend. Both the Ohana Festival and Bonnaroo are streaming some archived sets. I have a feeling that Mick will particularly enjoy the James Brown set.

We’ve got lots of news about streaming shows from a former “American Idol” contestant and a current leader of a popular metal band among other interesting stories to share. Read on.

Since the three-day Ohana Festival was canceled due to coronavirus concerns, Ohana 2020 will stream for free starting Saturday, Sept. 26 with archival footage and a few new live performances.(File photo by Nick Agro, Orange County Register/SCNG)

Ohana online

In our alternate non-COVID universe, this weekend would have been the 2020 Ohana Festival in Dana Point. Since we’re in a much darker timeline where festivals can’t happen, Ohana is going virtual this weekend with archival sets from Eddie Vedder, Incubus and Social Distortion as well as new performances starting Sept. 26. Get the details.

Visitors to Burton W. Chace Park in Marina Del Rey take in “Sunset Vestige,” an art installation by local artist Patrick Shearn made of some 40,000 vibrant streamers suspended between trees facing the harbor on Monday, May 22, 2018.Shearn’s art group called Poetic Kinetics is now asking people to send messages reflecting their feelings during the pandemic. The messages will then be handwritten on streamers that will become part of a canopy that will make up the group’s new art project dubbed “Change in the Air.” (File photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)

Art in motion

Poetic Kinetics, the art group behind some of Coachella’s most memorable installations (the roving astronaut, caterpillar, butterfly and snail to name a few,) is working on its next project, “Change in the Air” and you can be a part of it. Reporter Richard Guzman explains how.

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With Universal Studios Hollywood’s annual Halloween Horror Nights canceled for the 2020 season due to coronavirus concerns, HHN executive producer John Murdy (pictured in an attraction based on the “Ash Vs. Evil Dead” television series in 2017) offers tips on how to get safely creative a spooky experience at home this haunting season. (Photo by Leonard Oritz, Orange County Register/SCNG)

At-home scaresSince Universal Studios Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights has been canceled, reporter Kelli Skye Fadroski got the event’s creative director, John Murdy, to share advice on how to scare in quarantine.

Metallica performs at the Forum in Los Angeles in 2016. The band also played the Big 4 concert in Indio in 2011. (File photo by Matt Masin)

Virtual ‘Roo

Bonnaroo, the big music festival in Tennessee that usually happens in June, is doing its own online fest, dubbed Virtual Roo-Ality, starting Thursday, Sept. 24. Some of the highlights include sets by Beastie Boys from 2009, Metallica from 2008, the White Stripes from 2007 and James Brown from 2003. See the lineup.

Twice a month, Young the Giant vocalist Sameer Gadhia will highlight culturally diverse alternative artists via the “Point of Origin” spotlight feature on SiriusXM’s Alt Nation and Pandroa. (Photo by Jessica Ramseir)

Giant on the airwaves

Sameer Gadhia, singer of Irvine-rooted and LA-based alternative rock band Young the Giant, turned to radio to create a place for diverse music. You can hear him on his “Point of Origin” spotlight feature on SiriusXM’s Alt Nation and Pandora. Kelli Skye Fadroski talked to him about that and what Young the Giant is up to during the pandemic.

Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor will headline the Forum or Against ‘Em pay-per-view live streaming event from The Forum in Inglewood on Friday, Oct. 2 to promote his new solo album, “CMFT,” which drops the same day. (Photo by Steve Thrasher)

Forum fun

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor is going back to the Forum in Inglewood on Oct. 2. The gig with his new solo band is the venue’s first full-production pay-per-view live streaming concert, dubbed Forum or Against ‘Em. Kelli Skye Fadroski talked to Taylor’s team about how this is going to come together.

Scarypoolparty is the stage name of Alejandro Aranda, the 25-year-old singer-songwriter from Pomona who finished second on “American Idol” in May 2019. His debut album, “Exit Form,” will be released on Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. (Photo by Skyler Barberio)

Jump in the pool

Scarypoolparty, who you might remember as Pomona’s Alejandro Aranda who was the runner-up on the 2019 season of “American Idol,” is doing three livestreamed sets from the Wiltern, beginning Sept. 27. Peter Larsen has the details.

Ziggy Marley will headline two shows at City National Grove of Anaheim’s Drive-In OC concert series at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24. (Photo by Tim Cadiente)

One for the kiddos

Ziggy Marley announced that he’s doing two drive-in shows in Anaheim next month. One will be a kid-friendly matinee and the other will be a more traditional reggae set in the parking lot of City National Grove of Anaheim on Oct. 24. Get the details.

People enjoy a movie at the Regency Theaters Plant Drive-In in Van Nuys, Thursday, September 3, 2020. The theater has converted a parking lot into a drive-in theater due to the coronavirus shutdown. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Ch-ch-changes

It’s been six months since California shut down the live entertainment industry due to the novel coronavirus. Our staff reflected upon some of the biggest changes in theme parks, concerts, movies and casinos and what’s here to stay.

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