{"id":447613,"date":"2026-08-29T23:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/447613\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T23:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:48:08","slug":"l-a-phil-offers-10-hollywood-bowl-tickets-for-medi-cal-ebt-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/447613\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Phil Offers $10 Hollywood Bowl Tickets for Medi-Cal, EBT Users"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Imagine a Saturday night \u201cspectacular,\u201d under the stars at the Hollywood Bowl, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic <\/a>performing as fireworks explode in the night sky \u2014 for $10?<\/p>\n

Not a pipe dream.<\/p>\n

The L.A. Phil<\/a> has taken a major step in expanding its accessibility. The organization announced this week that it will offer Los Angeles County residents with active Medi-Cal or EBT cards $10 tickets to L.A. Phil performances at the Hollywood Bowl <\/a>starting with the 2027 season.<\/p>\n

It will offer at least 100 of these tickets at each of the orchestra\u2019s Hollywood Bowl concerts. Tickets will be offered on a first-come, first-served basis. The L.A. Phil didn\u2019t say exactly how eligible residents could secure such tickets. It plans to announce that process in Spring 2027 before the season starts.<\/p>\n

L.A. Phil Vice President of Community and Government Engagement, Cynthia Fuentes, said in an interview that the organization has been \u201cprioritizing accessibility for a very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you create accessibility programs, they have to be very intentional,\u201d Fuentes said. \u201cFolks are really struggling to make ends meet right now, and for us, it\u2019s so important not only that we create great music on our stages, but that people can afford to see it. Your income levels shouldn\u2019t dictate whether you have access to the arts or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

The $10 ticket announcement is the latest move towards making L.A. Phil events more accessible at a time when tickets to see the orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl are, on average, about $48, Fuentes said. <\/p>\n

The L.A. Phil has been offering discounted tickets since the 1970s. It now offers more than 50,000 $1 Hollywood Bowl tickets annually \u2014 some seats open to the general public and others given out by the L.A. Phil in partnership with the L.A. County Board of Supervisors and L.A. County Parks, to low-income students, senior centers and others in need. <\/p>\n

Last year the L.A. Phil boosted the numbers of its $1 tickets from 36,000 to 55,000. It also distributes tens of thousands of free tickets to non-profit organizations through a program called Community Concert Connections.<\/p>\n

The L.A. Phil debuted its new accessibility program at the Ford <\/a>during the venue\u2019s 2026 season. The program is still active at the Ford.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was our pilot program for the L.A. Phil, with the intention of implementing it at the Hollywood Bowl,\u201d Fuentes said. \u201cWhen we started looking into EBT cardholder tickets, [we realized] it happens in a lot of museums but not a lot at performance arts organizations. Partly because it\u2019s a ticketed structure with assigned seats and it\u2019s a more controlled environment. We wanted to build the infrastructure of how you execute it on the back end. The Ford was an incredible way to start the process \u2014 do it on a smaller scale, look at what works and then be able to scale up to the bowl.\u201d<\/p>\n

The L.A. Phil is in a period of transition. Daniel Harding <\/a>will step in as the L.A. Phil\u2019s new Music Director, replacing Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel<\/a>, starting with the 2027\u20132028 season. He\u2019ll oversee orchestral programming at Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. Newly appointed Creative Director Esa-Pekka Salonen<\/a> begins his tenure at the start of the 2026\/27 concert season in early October. He\u2019ll conduct and curate subscription concerts and multidisciplinary projects. Anna Handler <\/a>will serve as conductor in residence for the next three years starting with the 2026\/27 season. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut Gustavo will be back every summer to do a suite of concerts at the Hollywood Bowl and also in December of this year at Walt Disney Concert Hall,\u201d Fuentes said. \u201cHe\u2019ll continue to have a presence with the L.A. Phil.\u201d<\/p>\n

Operating the Hollywood Bowl is a partnership between the L.A. Phil and the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger, whose district includes the Hollywood Bowl, said in a statement that the L.A. Phil has been \u201ca trailblazer in the arts\u201d for more than a century. Their new accessibility initiative, she said, is \u201cthat same spirit of innovation and partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Hollywood Bowl is one of Los Angeles County\u2019s most cherished public assets,\u201d Barger said, \u201cand every resident should have the opportunity to experience the joy, inspiration, and sense of community that it offers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several other L.A. area cultural institutions offer EBT card holders free or deeply discounted admission, including: the Huntington<\/a>, in San Marino, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County<\/a>, the Autry Museum of the American West <\/a>and LACMA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut there\u2019s no other L.A. County facility, for performing arts, that we found in our research that had an EBT Program,\u201d Fuentes added. \u201cPart of our goal is to take our findings to the field to share so that other performing arts non-profits follow, especially L.A. County-based [ones], so we can ensure we\u2019re creating accessibility for everyone in the county.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fuentes pointed to her own upbringing to illustrate the importance of accessibility programs in the arts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up in South Central with working-class parents that had three kids,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen you don\u2019t have disposable income, you don\u2019t have opportunities [to see arts performances]. Everyone should have the opportunity to go to a show and share a communal experience around music without the fear of not having enough to make your rent or mortgage.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagine a Saturday night \u201cspectacular,\u201d under the stars at the Hollywood Bowl, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic performing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[177243,2308,177242,12599,177241,18341,21713,48,52,51,7036,47,22680,50,49,1768,9240,4576,278,211],"class_list":["post-447613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-accessibility-program","tag-art","tag-cynthia-fuentes","tag-ford","tag-hollywood-bowl-tickets","tag-l-a-county-board","tag-l-a-phil","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-last-year","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-county-resident","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-organization","tag-partnership","tag-program","tag-season","tag-ticket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}