This Saturday and Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m, 130 performers at 24 homes will be appearing on the Eastside (map here),<\/a> and more than 120 performers at over 20 homes on the Westside (map here<\/a>). Both hosts and performers give their time for free (aka no ticket cost) and you can be outside, enjoying the gorgeous weather and reveling in community. (Taking your own folding chair is recommended).<\/p>\n All kinds of performances are on offer over the weekend, including indie folk, jazz, sketch comedy, a comedic punk songster, Tex-Mex folk songs, a clown duo, the \u201cmega beautiful poetry porch\u201d curated by Los Feliz Poet Laureate Derrick Brown and the oddly specific \u201cweird ass comedy meets like a Foucault lecture.\u201d (Check out the Eastside <\/a> and the Westside<\/a> schedules).<\/p>\n All kinds of music and performances are welcomed<\/p>\n Porchfest began in Ithaca, N.Y., in 2007 and has since spread across the country. It was held in L.A. for the first time last year when actor H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Udy brought it to the Eastside. This year, the Westside is joining in, organized by Rob Kadota of the Mar Vista Music Project. He says it\u2019s what we need to connect in our increasingly isolated world.<\/p>\n \u201c\u200aL.A., we are such a car-driven place, we don’t get out and talk to our neighbors,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s \u200aan opportunity to really sit outside and contemplate and think about your neighborhood in maybe different ways than we typically think of.\u201d<\/p>\n He recommends biking if you can to visit more porches but also suggests choosing locations that you can walk to and just being open to whoever shows up.<\/p>\n \u201cI’d say pick two porches for Saturday and pick two on Sunday and enjoy the day,\u201d Kadota said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keep up with LAist. If you’re enjoying this article, you’ll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":346016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,24652,224,5337,170034,66051,170033,59322],"class_list":{"0":"post-346015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-live-performance","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-mar-vista","15":"tag-neighbors","16":"tag-porchfest-la","17":"tag-silver-lake"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115469892700529610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n