The Flaming Lips deliver dazzling set to close out the Stern Grove Festival
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Stern Grove Festival wrapped up its current season of free concerts at San Francisco's Sigmund Stern Recreation Grove Sunday.
On Sunday afternoon, KBCW and KPIX.com broadcasted the Big Picnic, the festival's season-ending fundraiser concert featuring modern psychedelic rockers the Flaming Lips.
The free festival concerts have brought an array of talents to the grove on Sunday afternoons all summer long. Sunday's show featured the Lips playing songs from the band's landmark album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots after opening DJ sets from indie rocker Neon Indian (Alan Palomo) and DJ Foodcourt (aka SF scene fixture Parker Gibbs). The Big Picnic is the festival's annual fundraising event to raise money so Stern Grove can continue presenting admission-free concerts for Bay Area audiences.
The concert also included an official city proclamation read by Mayor London Breed declaring August 20th "The Flaming Lips Day" in San Francisco prior to the band's performance.
This year marked the first time CBS News Bay Area and KBCW are partnering with Stern Grove to broadcast and livestream most of this season's concerts.