The City of Palo Alto, with the aid of West Coast Songwriters, presented the Palo Alto Promenade of Film & Music Festival on Friday, July 20th, 2007. Flyer for event • Link To Event Website
The festival featured 50 performers on three stages and in stores. The Main Stage audience included A&R Reps from Island Records and Atlantic Records. The audience decided which one of the artists shared a breakfast table with the A&R Reps the next morning.
Palo Alto is a bustling town that is home to Stanford University. The festival took place on University Avenue, which was closed off from 4pm to 10pm with three stages for performers - the Main Stage, the Singer/Songwriter Stage, plus a Peninsula Artists Stage. The Singer Songwriter and Peninsula Artists Stages was from 4pm to 8pm.

Palo Alto Promenade Film & Music Festival Photos

Above - 5AM, The Band

Above - Lucy Schwartz. Above right - Ian Crombie WCS Exective Director, Lucy Schwartz and David Schwartz

Left & Center - Megan Slankard. Right - Tommorrow's Hero

Above Left & Center - The New Longview. Above right - Breakfast with A&R Megan Slankard (2nd from left) with Steven Melrose (A&R Island Records) and Mollie Moore (A&R Atlantic Records).

A&R Event - Thursday, July 19th at 12 galaxies, San Francisco (photos courtesy of Scott Weiss)

Top Left: Groovy Judy, Mike Steed, Eoin Harrington,Megan Slankard & WCS Executive Director Ian Crombie

Top Right: Eoin Harrington & Megan Slankard doing an acoustic set.

Top Left: Groovy Judy

Top Right: WCS Executive Director Ian Crombie, Mollie Moore (Atlantic Records) and Steven Melrose (Island Records)

Mike Steed band - Mike pictured left.