FYF Fest / Save Our State Parks (A Music Festival)

Taken without editing from the press release:

FYF Fest Presents:
Save Our State Parks
At the Los Angeles Historic State Park in Downtown LA
On Sat. Sept. 5, 2009

The 2009 Lineup includes:

Lightning Bolt (first U.S. Festival performance), Black Lips, Tim and Eric (comedy duo from Adult Swim), F***ed Up, Lucero, Converge, Glass Candy, WAVVES, Times New Viking, No Age, Crystal Antlers, Telepathe, Mika Miko, Cold Cave, The Thermals, Japanther, Ninjasonik, AA Bondy, Matt Skiba (of Alkaline Trio), Carbonas, The Strange Boys, Har Mar Superstar, Peanut Butter Wolf, Kurt Vile, Eat Skull, Katie Stelmanis, Nobunny, Darker My Love, Avi Buffalo, and Dios plus more artists and comedians to be announced shortly.

In addition to being the best day ever (for real), the event is also attached to an important and urgent awareness campaign. Due to the recent budget cuts by Gov. Schwarzenegger, many vital programs are beginning to lose their lifelines, one of which is the California State Park System where the governor decided to cut $14.2 million in funding, bringing over 100 California State Parks to the brink of closing down. FYF hopes that this event will send a message to all of the California state lawmakers stating that these parks are vital components of our communities should not be cut.

"This is a dark day in the history of California's state park system," said Elizabeth Goldstein, president of the California State Parks Foundation. "At a time when Californians are most in need of their low-cost, accessible state parks, the gates are being slammed in their faces."

For more information on the State Park situation please visit: www.calparks.org

FYF FEST will also be donating $1 of every ticket to two organizations making positive change within the community on a daily basis, Homeboy Industries and Harvest of Hope.