¡Hello! Estevan Vásquez here. The joy really is in the journey and for many years I have stayed inspired and fulfilled producing Los Angeles Music Festival® and VisionBroadcast.com. These are the surviving assets of my years as a music and media entrepreneur. In the early days of the internet, my NYC-based company Vision Broadcasting was among the first on the World Wide Web to stream audio and video and host message boards and chats with national artists.

Los Angeles Music Festival® was spawned by the Global Internet Gathering (1996), the first international internet music festival. That year and the next Los Angeles Music Festival® made a splash with shows at the Troubadour, Whisky A Go Go, Billboard Live, Viper Room, Coconut Teaszer, Dragonfly and Jack’s Sugar Shack. More live shows and entertainment websites followed, including a period streaming House Of Blues live concerts. Then in 2015, I started the internet radio station that is now the music pillar of the Los Angeles Music Festival® communications platform.

I’m a communicator from NM. Columbia grad (BA), Army Veteran and former broadcast journalist. My experience includes public and commercial broadcasting, multimedia production, strategic communications, marketing and PR, public information, nonprofit arts and intergovernmental work. Day job is communications coordinator for a dynamic and progressive county government. It’s a rewarding job with an inspired team doing communications, marketing and production for a variety of programs, services and special events.

Los Angeles Music Festival® had a good run as a self-funded passion project. Los Angeles Music Festival® has more Twitter followers than @CultureLA and @GrandPerfs and was gaining on @LACountyArts, @GrandParkLA and @MusicCenterLA, and LosAngelesMusicFestival.org has thousands of listeners around the world. It’s a humanist vision and the platform can be used to amplify the messaging of artists, neighbors and community people and organizations. Hope springs eternal. A possibility awaiting its moment. Please say hello.

Did I mention I was a journalist? Here are a few of my favorite stories.