Third Eye Blind to headline Palm Springs Pride Festival – Desert Sun
’90s alternative band Third Eye Blind will bring a ‘Semi-charmed kinda life” to the 35th Annual Palm Springs Pride Festival.
The San Francisco outfit known for its other hit songs such as “Jumper” and “How It’s Going To Be” will headline the festival at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov 6. Other acts scheduled to appear are Jody Watley, A Flock of Seagulls, The Robyn Party, Shannon, and Jeanie Tracy.
There will also be performances by the Palm Springs Gay Men’s Chorus, the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles, The Perry Twins and local band Probe 7.
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Weekend hosts include local drag personality Bella da Ball, actor Jason Stuart, and comedians Shann Carr and Scott Nevins.
Palm Springs Pride celebrates the diversity, strength and equality of the LGBTQ community in Greater Palm Springs.
This year’s Pride Week in Palm Springs takes place on Nov. 1-7 and the theme is “You Are Included.”
The festival in Downtown Palm Springs takes place on Nov. 5-7 between Amado Road and Tahquitz Canyon Way in the surrounding area of a new city park on Museum Way and Belardo Road. There’s also live entertainment and dancing on Arenas Road and Palm Canyon Drive. The annual parade will start at 10 a.m. Sunday.
Other offerings include the Art of Pride with LGBTQ artists, and health resources such as vaccinations and HIV testing.
PS Pride did not hold the typical parade last year due to COVID-19. Instead, the organization played recordings of parades from prior years on Facebook and promohomo.tv and livestreamed the annual Pride Week rainbow flag raising in downtown Palm Springs over Facebook. The livestream of the flag raising drew more participation than the typical in-person event, so PS Pride plans to continue livestreaming the flag raising each year.
The 2021 parade will also be broadcast online, which has been offered in prior years.
More information on Palm Springs Pride is available at apps.pspride.org.
Previous reporting by Desert Sun reporter Erin Rode was used for this report.
Desert Sun reporter Brian Blueskye covers arts and entertainment. He can be reached at brian.blueskye@desertsun.com or on Twitter at @bblueskye.