Once a year Crenshaw Boulevard comes alive with music, food and celebration at the Taste of Soul Family Festival. What organizers bill as Southern California’s “largest free street festival,” now in its 21st year, takes over nearly three miles between Obama Boulevard and Stocker Street on Saturday, Oct.17.
Come on in, it’s free
And “free” is the operative word.
“At Coachella, it’s $500 a ticket. At Taste of Soul, you come free,” said Pamela Bakewell with Bakewell Media, the festival’s organizer.
Danny J. Bakewell Sr. — chairman of the organization and Pamela’s brother — pitched the festival to then-L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa…