Kevin Bronson on April 6th, 2013

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The Jubilee Music & Arts Festival, which launched in 2010 as the Silver Lake Jubilee, raised some eyebrows this week when it announced a pre-sale of a limited number of $35 tickets for the June 7-8 event without having announced the lineup.

As we reported in November, the Jubilee has abandoned Silver Lake – where, as Sunset Junction found, mounting a street fair is an expensive proposition – in favor of the Downtown Arts District. The new location is 590 S. Santa Fe Ave., at 6th Street. All good, but now music consumers who figure to get their ears full at free events such Make Music Pasadena (June 1) and Chinatown Summer Nights (June 15) must consider whether $35 (the pricetag will go up after the pre-sale is over on Sunday) is a good value for two days of music.

All signs point to yes.

While fans might hear as early as next week who some of the performers are, you can intuit that this year’s Jubilee will be a much bigger deal than in years past. First, a look at the festival map reveals four stages – which means that if music starts at 3 p.m. each day, there figure to be about 50 performers in all over two days. And in the Jubilee’s FAQs section, organizers take care to point out that the lineup will include “up-and-coming and nationally recognized artists,” which one can take to mean that the Jubilee’s days as an all-local affair are over.

More details as we get them, but our thinking right now is that $35 doesn’t sound too bad if you’re a festival fan.

Here’s that map: