Grace Jones, Carly Rae Jepsen, Passion Pit and Orville Peck to Headline Three-Day LGBTQ+ Music Festival Taking Place June 2 – June 4
Tickets Go On Sale February 22
Los Angeles, (February 21, 2022) – OUTLOUD Music Festival returns to West Hollywood, Calif., to kick off the 2023 WeHo Pride Weekend celebration. The incredible three-day outdoor music festival will take place Friday, June 2, through Sunday, June 4, at West Hollywood Park. The weekend of live music will feature top talent headlining OUTLOUD’s ticketed concert series with headliners Grace Jones on Saturday and Carly Rae Jepsen on Sunday. Friday night details will be announced soon.
Tier 1 specially priced early bird two-day (Saturday/Sunday) general admission passes are available beginning February 22 and starting at $34 for a single-day ticket. To purchase tickets, including weekend passes, upgraded WeHo Pride Pass VIP tickets, visit: www.weareoutloud.com.
Produced by JJLA, this year’s OUTLOUD Music Festival will feature a stellar lineup on Saturday and Sunday of LGBTQ+ music artists and allies including Grace Jones, Carly Rae Jepsen, Passion Pit, Orville Peck, Santigold, Princess Nokia, Yung Bae, La Roux, Blu DeTiger, Meet Me @ The Altar, Jodie Harsh, Rubio, Cub Sport, Black Belt Eagle Scout, and more to be announced.
WeHo Pride Weekend will also include multiple free events including community programming, a weekend Street Fair, the annual Dyke March, the Women’s Freedom Festival, and Sunday’s WeHo Pride Parade. Last year’s inaugural WeHo Pride Parade garnered global attention with celebrity participants including Janelle Monae, JoJo Siwa, and Cardi B. WeHo Pride this year will kick things off on Harvey Milk Day, May 22, with the start of the 40-day WeHo Pride Arts Festival, which will run through June 30, 2023.
OUTLOUD will take place Friday, June 2, 6 p.m. – midnight, Saturday, June 3, 1 p.m. – midnight, and Sunday, June 4, 1 p.m. – midnight.
OUTLOUD Music Festival champions queer musicians and is the signature music event at WeHo Pride, the City of West Hollywood’s Pride celebration. Last year’s OUTLOUD at WeHo Pride celebration included major celebrities and emerging queer artists on OUTLOUD’s stages, including Jessie J, Lil’ Kim, Marina, Years & Years, MUNA plus 30 other artists, and attracted nearly 23,000 ticketed attendees and reached over 750,000 viewers via its Twitch livestream. Building off of the success of WeHo Pride’s inaugural celebration in 2022, JJLA has been awarded a multi-year contract with the City of West Hollywood to produce WeHo Pride and OUTLOUD at WeHo Pride through 2025.
“After a successful festival at WeHo Pride 2022, JJLA is extremely excited to bring OUTLOUD Music Festival back to West Hollywood this year,” said Jeff Consoletti, JJLA Founder & CEO and the event’s Executive Producer. “OUTLOUD is all about bringing queer voices into the limelight, and we’re honored to bring another exciting lineup of queer artists to WeHo Pride this June.”
“Pride starts here in West Hollywood,” said City of West Hollywood Mayor Sepi Shyne. “I’m so excited to welcome everyone to WeHo Pride 2023. The OUTLOUD festival lineup is incredible and there will be a wonderful range of community programming during WeHo Pride Weekend and throughout Pride season starting on Harvey Milk Day on May 22 and running through the end of June. There will be something for everyone at WeHo Pride. I can’t wait to celebrate our amazing LGBTQ community!”
Created and produced by JJLA, OUTLOUD Music Festival was launched in 2020 as a virtual concert series, highlighting and elevating Queer artists and performers while many Pride celebrations were being canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, OUTLOUD Music Festival partnered with Pride Live’s Stonewall Day and Adam Lambert to deliver a three-day, in-person concert series in Los Angeles, marking the return of live events to the city after the pandemic shutdown. Performers included Sofi Tukker, VINCINT, Brooke Eden, Daya, Hayley Kiyoko and more, plus an in-person appearance from former City of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. The event, which won a 2021 BizBash Event Experience Award for Best Cultural/Multicultural Event (Live Events & Experiences), was simultaneously streamed on Twitch, garnering 4.8 million views and providing the artists and queer charities highlighted throughout the weekend a unique and critical global platform.
JJLA remains committed to its non-profit and community partners. As such, tickets will be available for those organizations whose members need assistance in purchasing tickets. To apply for a hosted community pass, please visit: www.WeAreOutloud.com
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About OUTLOUD
OUTLOUD Music Festival, created by Jeff Consoletti, launched in 2020 as a ten-episode series on Facebook in lieu of Pride Celebrations happening in cities across the country due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, quickly becoming one of the first major virtual LGBTQ+ showcases. Since its debut, OUTLOUD garnered over nearly two billion media impressions and won several industry-topping awards including multiple SHORTY Awards for Best Use of Facebook and Best Use of Twitch, a MARCOM Award & a Cynopsis Digital Award for BEST LGBTQ Series. Follow @OfficiallyOUTLOUD #WeAreOUTLOUD. http://weareoutloud.com
About the City of West Hollywood and WeHo Pride
Pride Starts Here. For nearly four decades, the City of West Hollywood has been home to one of the largest Pride celebrations in the nation. Hundreds of thousands of LGBTQ people and allies from around the world make West Hollywood their regular destination during Pride. 2022 marked the City’s inaugural WeHo Pride.This year, WeHo Pride Weekend (June 2 – 4) will include a free WeHo Pride Street Fair representing a diverse array of LGBTQ+ community groups as part of visibility, expression, and celebration; the ticketed OUTLOUD Music Festival; and the WeHo Pride Parade on June 4. The WeHo Pride Arts Festival (May 22 – June 30) formerly known as the One City One Pride LGBTQ Arts Festival, will take place during 40 days at various locations throughout West Hollywood, along with selected online programming. Additional information about #WeHoPride will be posted at www.wehopride.com and on Instagram @wehopride as it becomes available.
Since its incorporation in 1984, the City of West Hollywood has become one of the most influential cities in the nation for its outspoken advocacy on LGBTQ issues. No other city of its size has had a greater impact on the national public policy discourse on fairness and inclusiveness for LGBTQ people. Home to the “Rainbow District” along Santa Monica Boulevard, which features a concentration of historic LGBTQ clubs, restaurants, and retail shops, the City consistently tops lists of “most LGBTQ friendly cities” in the nation. More than 40 percent of residents in West Hollywood identify as LGBTQ and three of the five members of the West Hollywood City Council are openly gay. The City has advocated for nearly four decades for measures that support LGBTQ individuals and the City is in the vanguard on efforts to gain and protect equality for all people on a state, national, and international level. #WeHoPride @WeHoCity