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Eddie Vedder, Lana Del Rey headline new Ohana Music Festival in O.C.
Eddie Vedder, Lana Del Rey, Elvis Costello and X are at the top of a bill for a new summer music festival that will launch Aug. 27 and 28 at Orange County’s Doheny State Beach in Dana Point.
The Ohana Music Festival, taking its name from the Hawaiian word for extended family, the event also will include performances by Mudhoney, Band of Horses, City and Colour, Cat Power, Corinne Bailey Rae, Ryan Bingham and veteran O.C. punk-roots musician Jonny Two Bags, among others.
“Opportunities to create something so pure and special with people that you have immense respect for don’t come along often,” Rich Best, Live Nations'...
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