Santa Barbara Bowl
| The Bowl | |
| Location | Santa Barbara, California |
|---|---|
| Owner | Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation |
| Type | Outdoor Amphitheater |
| Seating type | Seats |
| Capacity | 4,562 |
| Construction | |
| Built | 1936 |
| Renovated | 1994 - 2012 |
| Website | |
| Santa Barbara Bowl | |
The Santa Barbara Bowl is a 4,562-seat amphitheater, located in Santa Barbara, California.
The Santa Barbara Bowl is open for concerts from approximately April through approximately October with an average of about 27 concerts per season. Booked exclusively by Nederlander Concerts in Los Angeles, the Bowl hosts primarily popular music concerts. Since 1991, the Santa Barbara Bowl has been managed by the not-for-profit Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation.
It was carved into the hillside, in 1936, as a WPA project. It was originally built as the home for the final pageant of Old Spanish Days — Fiesta.
The amphitheater's original stage was a revolving wooden stage, but this was washed out during El Niño rains in 1939. The stage was replaced with a concrete slab that remained in place until renovation work in 2001.
Joni Mitchell's 1980 double live album and concert film, Shadows and Light, was recorded at the venue in September 1979 on the tour supporting her Mingus album. Her all-star backing band was made up of prominent jazz fusion musicians Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Jaco Pastorius, Don Alias, and Michael Brecker.
The British band Tears For Fears performed at the amphitheatre in May 1990, which was filmed for their Going To California concert video (the American vocalist/pianist Oleta Adams appeared with them).
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