A Laid Back “Laurel Canyon,” Afternoon with The Dawes Honoring Rock Photographer, Henry Diltz.

 By Laura Medina

Lovers of the Sixties’ and Seventies’ folk/country-rock and pop emitting from Laurel Canyon, the Hollywood Hills border between Hollywood’s urban Sunset Strip and the suburban Valley, showed up for Henry Diltz, the photographer who documented the emergence of that laid back sound by The Byrds, Joni Mitchell, and Jackson Brown.

Ethan Hawke, Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon, Alice Cooper, and The Who’s Roger Daltrey showed up for this jam-packed, intimate laidback Sunday afternoon.

This easygoing, mellow country/folk rock/pop genre born out of Laurel Canyon, is continuing to this day, with a new of mellow rockers, like The Dawes, who performed a chill, intimate set.

This all happened after the excitement of Coachella and revelry of Stagecoach and the early windstorm emergency closing of Beach Life Festival that same day, at that same time.

The Dawes paying tribute to the Laurel Canyon sound, that Henry Diltz historically preserved, was a relaxing ending to a fun-filled charged month of Coachella and Stagecoach, that are igniting this current Summer of music festivals.

Chill.