Bring the Noise UCSC’s Quarry Amphitheater joins forces with Noise Pop for summer concerts BY ADAM JOSEPH
KEEP ON ROCKIN’ IN THE ROCK YARD Before the pandemic, UCSC’s Quarry Amphitheater hosted many large concerts. The 2000+-capacity venue returns to live-music events with a concert series this summer. PHOTO: COURTESY OF UCSC
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n the early ’60s, modernist landscape architect Robert Royston took on an ambitious project:
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designing what’s now the Quarry Amphitheater on the UC Santa Cruz campus. Like Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, Royston’s
approach to creating the venue centers around environmental preservation. After all, the Quarry is located in a majestic setting cuddled by a canopy
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