Scenes From A Drive-In Concert: Photos

Despite being unable to perform for crowds due to coronavirus-related restrictions on public gatherings, Los Angeles-based musicians Ben Babbitt, Booker Stardrum (above), Celia Hollander, Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer teamed with nonprofit radio station dublab to organize a “drive-in concert” in a grocery-store parking lot in the city’s Echo Park neighborhood. Over the course of the evening, the performers used a hyperlocal FM radio transmitter to broadcast their sets to listeners in about 50 cars parked in the lot and around 900 people who tuned in from home using dublab’s website livestream.

While the majority of listeners at the Vons/Taco Zone lot remained inside their cars, a few sat on their roofs at a safe distance from others.

Chiu and the other performers pivoted to the drive-in idea after their show at local venue Zebulon, scheduled for the same night, was canceled.

On Instagram, dublab encouraged followers “to come hang out (in the safety of your own car) and be in the present energy of other people.” From left, Jake Magee and Amber Coffman.