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Event Information:
KROQ
Weenie Roast is a multi-artist music
concert, presented annually in June
by the Los Angeles, California,
modern rock radio station KROQ-FM.
Since its beginning in 1993, the
event has been traditionally held on
a Saturday in June, except from 2005
to 2009 and when it occurred in
May. Every year it has taken place
at Irvine Meadows / Verizon Wireless
Amphitheater, in Irvine, CA. The
exception was 2000. That year it was
held at Angel Stadium, in Anaheim,
CA.
From 2006 to 2009, the event was
re-branded as Weenie Roast y Fiesta
with the distribution of
complimentary sombreros for its
festival attendees. In in
conjunction with Cinco De Mayo it
returned to the Weenie Roast y
Fiesta name again. Its East Coast
"sister" concert, presented by KROQ-FM's
Baltimore/Washington, DC affiliate
station WHFS, is the HFStival. Its
northern California "sister"
concert, presented by KROQ-FM's Bay
Area affiliate station KITS, is the
BFD festival.
The
Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
(formerly Irvine Meadows
Amphitheatre) is an amphitheater,
located in Irvine, California. Built
as Irvine Meadows Amphitheater in
the 1980s and opened in 1981, the
name was changed to Verizon Wireless
Amphitheatre in 2001. Since 1987, it
has been the summer home of the
Pacific Symphony Orchestra. It is
home to the annual KROQ Weenie
Roast, except in 2000. The
amphitheatre has played host to
music festivals, including The
Uproar Festival, The Area2 Festival,
The Gigantour, Projekt Revolution,
Lollapalooza and Lilith Fair. A
benefit concert for then-recently
deceased Social Distortion guitarist
Dennis Danell, dubbed "When the
Angels Sing", took place here on May
6, 2000.
Lineup: Coldplay, The Offspring,
Incubus, Silversun Pickups,
Pennywise, Angels & Airwaves,
Garbage, Grouplove, Awolnation, The
Dirty Heads, Walk the Moon, Of
Monsters and Men
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