The Wonderfront Festival is a gift to the city — a festival for San Diego by San Diego. It features three days of music, culture, and sports.

The inaugural Wonderfront Music and Arts Festival takes place Nov. 22-24, 2019 along the beautiful downtown San Diego waterfront.

Shawn Walchef and the Digital Hospitality podcast team were invited to a special Flagship Cruise’s tour of the numerous waterfront venues for the Wonderfront Music and Arts Festival in downtown San Diego.

“It’s going to be a great festival,” said Brad Engel, president of Flagship Cruises, which has operated in various forms for over a century on San Diego Bay. “It’s going to be a great festival. 10 stages. 130 acts. And we are all the water transportation for it.”

Wonderfront Festival co-founder Paul Thornton said this festival is more akin to a South by Southwest, than a more traditional single location event.

Wonderfront is anything but traditional. It’s event will be with bursting with energy, creativity, discovery, and a strong local spirit.

“There’s a lot of artists that might not break by November 24, but next year in 2020 some of these artists you’re going to see just explode,” Paul Thornton said about the Wonderfront lineup. “You’re going to be able to say, ‘I saw them first at Wonderfront.’” [ Ссылка ]

Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk was invited to be a part of Wonderfront from the very beginning.

“I was really excited to be part of a festival in San Diego,” Tony Hawk said about his hometown.

Cali BBQ Media owner Shawn Walchef has observed a buzz building about Wonderfront in the city. On his way to the Flagship Cruise tour, Shawn talked with a valet who told him he thinks the festival is a great thing for San Diego.

“He said San Diego needs festivals like this. And I said absolutely. This is a great thing for every single business that’s out here to celebrate this great place that we love.”

One of the San Diego media members on the Flagship Cruise tour with the Digital Hospitality team was reporter Lauren Phinney from KUSI.

“Having a chance to see the different stages and how this all works is incredible,” Lauren Phinney told Digital Hospitality podcast host Shawn Walchef. “I was out on the waterfront with (Wonderfront co-founder) Ernie Hahn just a couple days ago. To see the vision actually come to life is really cool.”

That vision is many years in the making. Ernie Hahn said the Wonderfront Festival is a labor of love.

“We have stages that are punk rock, we have stages that have Latin, we have stages that have reggae. At the end of the day it’s about bringing everyone in San Diego to the waterfront.”

The Wonderfront app gives attendees everything they need to know about the festival weekend in the palm of their hand. Download it here: [ Ссылка ]

Check out the interactive Wonderfront lineup list here: [ Ссылка ]

Pick up your Wonderfront Festival passes now at [ Ссылка ]

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