From now through August, the Ventura Fairgrounds will be home to California’s first social distancing pop up-style concert and entertainment series. Weekly events include live in-person concerts, with acts such as Third Eye Blind, Sublime with Rome, Fitz and the Tantrums, tribute bands, and theater. Drive-in movies have also returned, with some classic favorites including Dirty Dancing, Tommy Boy, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and more.

To enhance the experience of enjoying these events from the comfort and safety of your vehicle, there will be huge video screens, live aerial drone footage, and sound will be distributed through your car’s FM radio. Events will follow and exceed CDC guidelines for social distancing and the use of face masks to ensure all attendees are safe.

Full article here: https://www.nerdsandbeyond.com/2020/07/15/social-distance-in-style-at-the-concerts-in-your-car-summer-event-series/

How many times have you warbled along with your favorite ballad while sitting in the driver’s seat of your car?

A dozen? A dozen dozen? More than a thousand? Probably a million?

Yeah, “a million” is likely the exaggerative answer for a lot of us, at least in our own music-loving minds.

We are, in short, quite comfortable with crooning while cruising, and a vehicle has long been our personal recording booth, even without the proper mic, the soundboard, and the producer.

But chances are good you’ve never seen a live concert from the front seat of a car, the sort of experience that adds a different and delightful dimension to how you enjoy music inside an automobile.

That’s changing over the summer of 2020, at the Ventura County Fairgrounds, thanks to the Concerts in Your Car series.

It is what you think it is: A drive-in for live shows, which means you’ll be able to see before-your-eyes performers, on a stage, through your windshield or out the back of your truck or SUV.

Full article here: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/the-scene/ventura-vibes-with-concerts-in-your-car/2395975/

There may be a pandemic, but you don’t have to give up summertime outdoor movies–or at least not entirely. Clever pop-up series have shifted from crowding parks with viewers on picnic blankets to setting up massive parking-lot screens inspired by classic American drive-in movie theaters. Sure, the logistics will be a little more challenging, but these pop-up drive-in movie series might just be the biggest entertainment events of the season.

Ventura Movies In Your Car

Located at the Ventura County Fairgrounds, this series is run by the same organizers who are also using the venue for drive-in concerts from Third Eye Blind, Fitz and the Tantrums, and other acts. More showings to be announced.

July 10, 8 p.m. Jurassic Park
July 12, 8 p.m. Dirty Dancing
July 14, 8 p.m. Tommy Boy
July 15, 8 p.m. Raiders of the Los Ark
July 17, 8 p.m. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Full article here: https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/drive-in-movie-pop-ups/