Awards (film, art, music, and entertainment) has since been relocated to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Those 30 artists or groups were flown to Los Angeles where they then performed and competed in front of a panel of judges.
Additional funding comes from tickets which must be purchased by contestants and then sold by them to would-be audience members for, in 2014, $175 a piece.
Also the acclaimed winners of the 2016 award are not shown at the Avalon Theater but at the Hard Rock Cafe on Hollywood Boulevard.
In 1992 the Los Angeles Times said of the show that it "has a lack of feeling for the city's musical character and diversity".