Read the full article by Steve Martarano at RAM’s New Times Magazine
Entering the parking lots at Cal Expo the weekend of Oct. 11-12, the signs told a story: One sign pointed left for the two-day electronic Breakaway Music Festival at the Cal Expo Racetrack; another pointed right, where the reggae-rock Rebelution: Good Vibes Cali Tour would be held that Sunday at Heart Health Park.
A week after the four-day Aftershock festival at Discovery Park that hosted 160,000 attendees, the two relatively low-key touring festivals at Cal Expo — at two very different venues — gave thousands of concertgoers a chance at some fall outdoor music and spectacular lights on two pleasant fall evenings, just a day before the first significant rainfall of the season hit the region.