Los Angeles · Hollywood Hills
Hollywood Bowl
Seventeen thousand people, a shell in a canyon and a tradition of bringing your own wine
The picnic before the concert, which is as much the event as the music
A natural amphitheatre in a canyon north of Hollywood Boulevard, in use since 1922, with a band shell that has been rebuilt several times and seating for about seventeen thousand on benches and boxes up the slope. The Los Angeles Philharmonic plays a summer season here and the rest of the calendar mixes film scores, jazz and touring acts.
Alcohol and food may be brought in for most concerts, which has produced a picnic culture of considerable seriousness. People arrive two hours early with tables, candles and wine, which is the local way of going to a concert.
The detail
Good to know
- In use since
- 1922
- Capacity
- About 17 500
- Season
- June to September
- Picnics
- Food and wine permitted at most concerts
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