Photos: Ohana Fest, Day 3, with Mumford & Sons, Beck, Young the Giant, Andrew McMahon and more

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Mumford & Sons at Ohana Fest (Photo by Samantha Saturday)
Mumford & Sons at Ohana Fest (Photo by Samantha Saturday)

Fans turned out en masse Sunday for the third and final day of Ohana Fest, with Mumford & Sons drawing the biggest crowd of the weekend to Doheny State Beach and the audience thrilling to local (Orange County) heroes Young the Giant and Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness.

Mumford & Sons’ 15-song set, which saw Marcus Mumford drum on a couple of songs, included a four-song encore that wrapped with a cover of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower,” on which Mumford was joined by festival founder/curator Eddie Vedder.

Beck delivered a crowd-pleasing set of hits mixed with carefully chosen covers. “Raspberry Beret” paid tribute to Prince. He wedded his own “New Pollution” to the Creation’s “Making Time.” And stitched into a five-song medley near the end of his set were “Blue Monday” and “In the Air Tonight.”

Young the Giant, who formed not far away in Irvine, attracted a rabid crowd, kicking off their set with audio of a radio station flipping through America-themed songs (“Born In The USA”, “American Pie”, “America, Fuck Yeah”) before launching into their own “Amerika.”

McMahon kept his set light and energetic — he and his band wore flower crowns, and the frontman did a massive leap off his piano and ended up crowd-surfing on an inflatable.

Notably, Fantastic Negrito closed out the Tiki stage with a set of hard blues and scorching guitar and a phenomenal band, and Switchfoot made the most of their trip up the I-5. “Thanks for Letting a San Diego band crash your party!” Jon Foreman told the crowd.

||| Also: Day 2 coverage; Day 1 coverage.

Photos by Samantha Saturday