Thousands of attendees at Irvine’s inaugural Daisy Chain Fields music festival this weekend were stranded for hours after performances ended — stuck in lines of traffic, sitting on the curb waiting for rideshares or struggling to get cell service to connect with family and friends.
The single-day benefit music festival raised at least $20 million dollars for nonprofits that support women and girls, Grammy-winning pop singer Olivia Rodrigo announced at the event.
But after the music stopped, many of the majority-female festival-goers were forced to walk for miles at night to catch rides home from the Great Park…