Aug 22, 2008 9:15 pm US/Pacific
Outside Lands Festival Rocks Golden Gate Park
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5/KCBS/BCN) ―
The city has opened Golden Gate Park to night time concerts for the first time during a three-day music festival that started Friday.
Indie favorites Radiohead headlined the main stage on Friday night, kicking off a three-day extravaganza filled with appearances by more than five dozen national and local acts on six stages.
The festival takes its name from the name American settlers gave the area after the gold rush before the first park's superintendent, William Hammond Hall, began transforming the shifting sand dunes into a landscape of trees and manmade lakes.
A line-up that includes Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Beck, Steve Winwood, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson and a host of Bay Area musicians is expected to draw more than 60,000 fans a day.
For more information and a complete list of bands scheduled to perform, visit
www.sfoutsidelands.com.
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