Connect with locals at the kindhearted Pasadena Neighbor Day NBC Los Angeles [Video]

If you’ve had the sense that we could be spending more time getting to know our neighbors and communities, an important calling that can easily fall by the wayside in our hectic modern lives, you’re not alone.

The Nextdoors, a band based in East Pasadena, wanted to help change that less-than-ideal situation.

So band members Russell Mark and Mika Larson began to dream: What if a free event dubbed Pasadena Neighbor Day could help people meet each other in a music-filled, easygoing, no-pressure, good-feeling setting?

Now that cheerful story has taken a poignant and urgent twist: The 2025 happening, organized before the new year began, was scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 19, less than two weeks after the Eaton Fire swept through Altadena and parts of Pasadena and Sierra Madre.

Knowing that a community meet-up is needed now more than ever, the free event is going forward at Wild Parrot Brewing Company, with a …