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Life is Beautiful transforms downtown Las Vegas into music mecca — PHOTOS

Jonathan Strublein paints a fence in preparation for Life is Beautiful music festival in downto ...
Jonathan Strublein paints a fence in preparation for Life is Beautiful music festival in downtown Las Vegas on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto
Big Vision entertainment workers Nick Werst, left, and Shane Smith run fiber for camera and vid ...
Big Vision entertainment workers Nick Werst, left, and Shane Smith run fiber for camera and video feeds at the intersection of North 7th Street and East Ogden Avenue in preparation for Life is Beautiful music festival in downtown Las Vegas on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto
Lithuania artist Ernest Zacharevic, center, and Nicky Holiday discuss Zacharevic's mural in pre ...
Lithuania artist Ernest Zacharevic, center, and Nicky Holiday discuss Zacharevic's mural in preparation for Life is Beautiful music festival in downtown Las Vegas on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto
Workers at the intersection of North 7th Street and East Ogden Avenue prepare the area for Life ...
Workers at the intersection of North 7th Street and East Ogden Avenue prepare the area for Life is Beautiful music festival in downtown Las Vegas on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto
Workers build piping for stages at the intersection of North 7th Street and East Ogden Avenue i ...
Workers build piping for stages at the intersection of North 7th Street and East Ogden Avenue in preparation for Life is Beautiful music festival in downtown Las Vegas on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto
Big Vision entertainment workers Noah Wynia, left, and Shane Smith run fiber for camera and vid ...
Big Vision entertainment workers Noah Wynia, left, and Shane Smith run fiber for camera and video feeds at the intersection of North 7th Street and East Ogden Avenue in preparation for Life is Beautiful music festival in downtown Las Vegas on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto
Big Vision entertainment workers Noah Wynia, top/center, and Shane Smith run fiber for camera a ...
Big Vision entertainment workers Noah Wynia, top/center, and Shane Smith run fiber for camera and video feeds at the intersection of North 7th Street and East Ogden Avenue in preparation for Life is Beautiful music festival in downtown Las Vegas on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto
Construction workers lay brick at the intersection of South 6th Street and East Carson Avenue i ...
Construction workers lay brick at the intersection of South 6th Street and East Carson Avenue in preparation for Life is Beautiful music festival in downtown Las Vegas on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto
Power Entertainment workers Juan Reyes, top/left, Shanton Stinchfield, bottom/left, and Oracio ...
Power Entertainment workers Juan Reyes, top/left, Shanton Stinchfield, bottom/left, and Oracio Mendoza build a stage in preparation for Life is Beautiful music festival in downtown Las Vegas on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto
Construction workers install flooring at the intersection of South 8th Street and Fremont Stree ...
Construction workers install flooring at the intersection of South 8th Street and Fremont Street in preparation for Life is Beautiful music festival in downtown Las Vegas on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto
Construction workers install flooring at the intersection of South 8th Street and Fremont Stree ...
Construction workers install flooring at the intersection of South 8th Street and Fremont Street in preparation for Life is Beautiful music festival in downtown Las Vegas on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. (Benjamin Hager/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @benjaminhphoto
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September 17, 2019 - 9:30 pm
 

To transform downtown Las Vegas into this weekend’s music mecca, Life is Beautiful organizers are busy preparing for nearly 200,000 people over three days.

The festival gets underway Friday afternoon, but in reality the party already has started.

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