Following the successful two-day hip hop Real Street Festival at Honda Center in Anaheim, the first-ever, multi-day outdoor festival and concert experience to attract about 80,000 fans to the venue, on Aug. 10-11, Billboard reported Wednesday, Aug. 14, that one of the festival promoters, Synergy Global Entertainment (SGE) will effectively shut down.

The Laguna Hills-based production company, spearheaded by founder John Reese, is responsible for some of the biggest festivals in the area including Back to the Beach, Surf City Blitz, the Sabroso Craft Beer, Taco and Music Festival, the Musink Tattoo Convention & Music Festival and many more. The company also put together Ozzfest Meets Knotfest at Glen Helen Amphitheater in San Bernardino; The High & Mighty Festival curated by Sublime with Rome in Garden Grove; The Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival at the old Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre; and the inaugural Big Adventure comic-con, music festival and comedy show all rolled into one which took place in Costa Mesa last year. Though it has always been primarily a Live Nation event, the L.A.-based live events giant tapped SGE as a production partner for the annual Ohana Festival, which has its fourth installment scheduled to take place at Doheny State Beach Sept. 27-29.

“The Ohana Festival will proceed as planned,” a spokesperson from Live Nation said on Wednesday, following the news of SGE’s closure.

The company has one other two-day fest on the horizon, the On The Water Festival, scheduled for Oct. 12-13. The event was curated with the band Slightly Stoopid and is scheduled to feature sets by Dirty Heads, 311, The Interrupters, The Expendables and more. As of press time, the On The Water Festival is still on sale and calls and emails to SGE have yet to be returned.

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After numerous shows in Southern California, Reese & Co. expanded across the nation, taking certain shows on the road with numerous stops around the country and arguably the biggest event was a collaboration with EDM artist Diplo dubbed the Super Mega Ultra Giant Mad Decent Block Party Festival. It was scheduled for July 20-21 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., however a week and a half before the show it was canceled with promoters telling fans, “putting this event on in the way that it was envisioned has become impossible.” SGE later sent a statement to Pollstar that announced it would be “reorganizing its operations and assessing strategic options.”

SGE formed in 2005 with Reese at the helm. He had a lean and mean crew back then, but a vision to produce numerous niche festival experiences within a variety of genres of music and he would later venture into several other types of events including beer and stand-up comedy shows. Billboard also reported that SGE experienced big losses in 2019, which made the company “no longer financially viable” and that most of the SGE crew was picked up by L.A.-based event producer Danny Wimmer Presents, which puts together annual fests such as Aftershock in Sacramento, Epicenter in North Carolina and Louder Than Life in Kentucky.