A Great Day In East LA® is an independent project created by Piero F. Giunti. The A Great Day In East LA® name and trademark are owned by Piero F. Giunti, as are the copyrights to his original photography and video works created for the project.

The project's photographs, videos and protected trademarks may not be reproduced, published, distributed or used without prior written permission from the applicable rights holder.

For more than a decade, we have done our best to find and document as many artists as possible with the limited resources available to an independent project. Much of A Great Day In East LA® grew through word of mouth, community relationships and extensive research. But the internet and our own networks can only take us so far.

We know there are people and stories we have not yet discovered. If we missed someone, please send us a message. We would genuinely love to hear about them and add their name to our growing list.

Celebrando the Eastside Sound® was the project's major 2025–2026 museum exhibition at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in Los Angeles. It brought the existing archive together with hundreds of historical objects, instruments, photographs, documents, clothing and other materials gathered collected by Mark Guerrero and Piero F Giunti.

Because no music scene exists in isolation. East Los Angeles has always been shaped by exchange, collaboration and the people who have passed through, performed in, influenced or been influenced by its communities.

To understand East LA's musical history, we also have to understand its connections to the larger Los Angeles music landscape. East LA is the heart of the project, not a boundary around it. Part of what makes its musical history so extraordinary is its ability to embrace different people, genres, cultures and sounds.

We know there are people and stories we have not yet discovered. If we missed someone, please send us a message. We would genuinely love to hear about them and add their name to our growing list.

East Los Angeles is the project's cultural center, but the history does not stop at a geographic boundary. The archive documents the relationships between East LA and musicians, neighborhoods, genres and cultural movements throughout greater Los Angeles and beyond.

Yes. A Great Day In East LA® is a living archive. Photography, oral histories, historical research and the preservation of community stories continue beyond any individual exhibition.

Licensing, exhibition, publication, research and educational inquiries are considered individually. Please use the contact page with information about your project and intended use.

Yes. Musicians, artists, family members, collectors and community members with photographs, recordings, artifacts, documents or firsthand stories connected to Los Angeles music history are encouraged to get in touch.

The archive crosses generations and genres, including rock and roll, R&B, soul, Chicano rock, punk, hip-hop, Latin music, alternative music and numerous sounds that resist easy classification. Rather than treating these histories separately, the project documents how they intersect.

Piero F. Giunti and Mark Guerrero are available for select speaking engagements, panels, lectures, classroom visits and community programs. Together, they can speak about the history of East Los Angeles music, the creation of A Great Day In East LA®, photography and oral history, cultural preservation, and more than a decade of documenting the artists and communities behind the archive.

To inquire about an appearance, please use the contact form and include information about your event, organization, proposed date, location and type of program.

You can reach us anytime via our contact page or email. We aim to respond quickly, usually within one week.