San Manuel Amphitheater in Devore will be the new site for the Paid Dues Festival on Saturday, March 30. (2011/File Photo)
The Paid Dues independent hip-hop festival, set for Saturday, March 30, has announced it will be changing venues.
The festival was originally scheduled to be at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino. Now the festival will move to San Manuel Amphitheater (formerly Glen Helen Pavilion) in Devore.
Paid Dues is moving due to a shortage of parking space, the festival posted on its website.
From the website:
Guerilla Union founder and CEO Chang Weisberg explains: “The main parking lot at NOS Events Center was sold a few years ago but we had always activated our events with its available use in mind. NOS ended up closing escrow on the lot much sooner than anticipated, and the new owners are looking to begin building their distribution center around same time as this year’s Paid Dues Festival.
The lineup is not changing. Some of those performing include hip-hop supergroup Black Hippy with Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, Schoolboy Q and Jay Rock, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Dom Kennedy, Tech N9ne, Immortal Technique, De La Soul, Joey Bad…, Grouch and Eligh and Hopsin.
The festival, which is put on by Guerilla Union and rapper Murs, will also feature Inland rappers, including Moreno Valley’s Stevie Crooks as well as Curtiss King and Noa James, who have been out with Murs on the Road to Paid Dues tour.
Tickets are $76 for general admission and $186 for VIP.
Get more information at www.paidduesfestival.com.
Guerilla Union has done a number of events at San Manuel Amphitheater over the years, including Rock the Bells and Cypress Hill’s Smokeout festival.