Rock festival gets the OK for August 2024

Rock on, says the Garden Gove City Council.

At Tuesday’s meeting the city council voted 7-0 in favor of approving a two-day “High and Mighty” music festival on

Aug. 17-18, 2024 at Village Green park.

That will be a revival of the “High and Mighty” event held in August 2017, which was well-attended and generally considered a success.

A man suspected of being under the influence of drugs was arrested after he smashed a car into two police vehicles Tuesday night.

According to Sgt. Nick Jensen of the Garden Grove Police Department, the suspect – described only as a male Asian in his 30s – has been charged

The original event involved creating a fencedin concert area which featured carnival rides, craft beer bars and a “vendor village.”

Organizer of the event is LFA (Large Format Assemblies), which operates the Garden Amp amphitheater in the Village Green.

Since then the LFA has staged hundreds of music concerts and other events in the facility which formerly housed Shakespeare Orange County.

By Jim Tortolano Orange County Tribune

For about a year, the name of Andrea Palladino Perez, president of the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival Association and the festival itself have been pretty much inseparable. So has the festival and the live representation of the “Strawberry,” Andrea’s daughter Taylor. She dons the costume and reminds people not only of the four-day event but also the good works it does by helping raise money for a wide variety of good causes.

“I’m a volunteer by nature,” said Andrea, 55, whose day job is as a librarian at Garden