Now in its third year, Orange County-based Brew Ha Ha Productions’ Punk in the Park festival has expanded its footprint to include a total of three stages led by punk and hardcore acts like Pennywise, Descendents, Circle Jerks, Buzzcocks, Goldfinger, GBH and more. Festival producers also partnered with Costa Mesa-based skateboarding shoe and apparel brand Vans to bring a vert ramp along with skate and BMX legends to the event at Oak Canyon Park in Silverado on Nov. 4-5.
“Skateboarding and punk rock have always gone pretty much hand in hand,” pro skater Steve Caballero and guitarist for Carlsbad-based punk band Urethane said during a recent phone interview. Caballero has played the Punk in the Park festival in the past, but this year will be hitting the Vans vert ramp for demos with other skating and BMX superstars.
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“I wish I was playing this year, too, but maybe I’ll jump on stage with Pennywise for a song,” he said with a laugh.
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During the festival, Caballero will be joined by fellow pro skaters Christian Hosoi, Bucky Lasek, Ruby Lilley, Lizzie Armanto, Josh Borden, Omar Hassan, BMX rider Rick Throne and more on the Vans vert ramp.
“I listen to all kinds of music, but growing up at the skate park I feel like I listened to so many of the bands that are performing (at Punk in the Park),” Armanto said during a separate phone chat. “I grew up skating with an older generation of bowl skaters and they listened to Circle Jerks, Descendents and even Goldfinger from the soundtrack to Tony Hawk’s pro skater video games — those are all such like classic skate bands.”
Both Caballero and Armanto were featured skaters on the summerlong Vans Warped Tour at some point in their careers. The beloved traveling music festival, which was helmed by Southern California promoter Kevin Lyman and ran from 1995 to 2019, brought on Vans as…
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