Please go to this page and buy your tickets. If you’re using a credit card to buy the tickets, we urge you to buy them here on the site through paypal before Friday at 10 pm. Otherwise, tickets are available at the gate on a CASH ONLY basis. We’re sorry that we won’t be able to accept checks or credit cards on the day of the show, but there are ATMs nearby at Chevron, Joe’s Quick Stop, and local banks.

A STUDENT DISCOUNT is available at the box office the day of the show: $20 for students–cash only at the gate.

As a concertgoer, your wristband will get you a 10% discount at participating local eateries, and you can exit and come back in to grab some great food. Also, we’ll have a BEER AND WINE GARDEN at the Art Center just a short walk across the bridge behind the bowl, so be sure to bring your valid I.D. so you can take advantage of that during the concert.

We’re looking forward to seeing you there at this fantastic show! The weather’s going to be fine and the music is going to be rockin’!

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Listen to Maureen on Matt and Lisa’s Ojai Moment Show….

While the Stop the Trucks! Coalition recognizes the importance of mining available gravel, it opposes the increased truck traffic through the Ojai Valley that will result from the opening of new mining operations.

WHAT IS THE THREAT?

Our health and safety – the trucks pass four schools and our local hospital.

Our air quality – diesel fumes are highly toxic and a known carcinogenic especially to children and the elderly.

Our economy – based largely on tourism, agriculture, and education.

>Driver’s safety – non-truckers and truckers, alike – Rt. 33 is a winding and aging highway, never built to withstand these trucks and their loads
(in fact, the tunnels are not wide enough for two of these trucks to pass at the same time).

IS THERE AN ALTERNATIVE?

Yes, Highways 5 and 126 are established routes for heavy trucking.

No one involved in this benefit is against independent truckers. In fact, we are concerned for driver safety. The mines can use safer and more environmentally sound alternatives, and that’s what we’re arguing for.

AN ARTICLE THAT JUST APPEARED IN SCIENCE DAILY CONFIRMS SOME OF OUR GREATEST FEARS.

(overturned gravel truck on Maricopa Highway, August 2009)
Damage to our air quality is one of the reasons the Coalition has been opposed to gravel trucks traveling through the Ojai Valley on their way from the Cuyama valley to Oxnard and Ventura. Ojai has what is known as a “closed” air shed, which means that pollutants collect here in the valley and remain trapped. Despite appearances that might suggest otherwise, Ojai has some of the worst air quality in the County.

Scientists have demonstrated that the link between diesel fume exposure and cancer lies in the ability of diesel exhaust to induce the growth of new blood vessels that serve as a food supply for solid tumors.
…Read more at the OJAI POST

And more insight from a member of the Coalition to Stop the Trucks:
NOBODY is against the truckers OR the trucking industry. It is quite the opposite in fact. The coalition wishes to protect not only the forest, the air quality in Ojai and anybody wishing to use Highway 33, we are also hoping to save the lives of the truckers.

The overturned double-hopper gravel truck from just two weekends ago could VERY well have resulted in a trucker fatality. NOT to mention a motorist or bicyclist. He claimed he was only going 35 mph and I believe him but what it says is that the road is unsafe at ANY speed for these large vehicles. In fact, we’ve measured the inside of the tunnels and it is true that two trucks, going in opposite directions cannot fit. It is an accident waiting to happen! And the gravel that spills from the truck has resulted in many, many accidents according to police reports…


Our hope is to slow down mine expansions and re-route the truck traffic to the established truck route…Highway 166 that leads directly to the 5 Freeway. Volunteers driving the various routes tell us that given the amount of braking that takes place on those hairpin corners on Highway 33, it would probably be faster (and less wear and tear on the trucks) to go the other, safer route.

So why do they continue to use Highway 33? Even after CalTrans has admitted that it is insanity to use that road for truck traffic? It is because there is no monitoring…truckers self-load, overload and then head on down and nobody does anything to regulate the situation.

We don’t wish to stop commerce or prevent the truckers from doing their job. We just believe that it is possible to do that in a way that will not destroy this beautiful scenic highway and destroy the air quality and peace and quietude that makes Ojai the Shangri-la that it is. Nobody in our group resents truckers!