The Sawdust Art Festival celebrates its 60th anniversary season in summer 2026, running from late June through Labor Day weekend at its iconic canyon home in Laguna Beach. For six decades this festival has showcased over 180 local Laguna Beach artists presenting original work you cannot find anywhere else: ceramics, paintings, jewelry, sculpture, woodwork, glass art, and more. Every piece is made by hand by the artist who stands beside it. The festival is more than a marketplace. It is a living arts community. Free art classes run throughout the season, giving visitors hands-on experience with wheel-thrown pottery, watercolor painting, and other crafts. Live music fills the shaded canyon venue each day. Food and drink vendors line the festival grounds. The canopy of trees and winding pathways make it one of the most atmospheric outdoor venues in Southern California. Located at 935 Laguna Canyon Road, the festival is walkable from downtown Laguna Beach and easily paired with a visit to the Pageant of the Masters next door. Tickets are available at sawdustartfestival.org. Open daily through the summer season. Free trolley from downtown Laguna Beach. Parking available on-site and along Laguna Canyon Road. This is the kind of event that brings back the same families year after year alongside the same artists who have shown here for decades. One of the most beloved summer traditions in Orange County. Do not miss the 60th anniversary.
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In 4 days· Jun 13
327 E 2nd St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Little Tokyo after dark is already a different city. Add an anime community that claims it on a Thursday night, and you have one of the few Los Angeles experiences that doesn't try to be Coachella. This is a neighborhood event run by people who actually live in the culture — not a convention, not a festival, not a sponsored activation. Just anime fans, good food, and Little Tokyo's block-by-block intimacy.
The gathering rotates between Little Tokyo's best spots — restaurants, lounges, and venues that have their own identity outside of event night. The crowd is a mix of casual watchers and people who can quote chapter numbers. Both feel at home. The format keeps things loose: themed nights, cosplay-optional, and enough vendor presence to make it worth staying late. It's the kind of night where you end up talking to strangers about seasonal lineups and leave with three new shows on your watchlist.
For the SoCal anime community that lives outside convention season, this is what the in-between looks like. It doesn't peak. It's just consistent. That's the rarer thing.
Nearest metro: Little Tokyo/Arts District (A Line). Free street parking after 8pm in most Little Tokyo lots.
The Regent Theater, 448 S Main St, Los Angeles. June 9th. Flawed Mangoes — the Killswitch Memories Tour, at the Regent, which is exactly the right size for a band that rewards a room that can see the whites of their eyes.
The Regent holds around 400 people on a good night, and for bands at this level of the indie circuit, that capacity is the sweet spot: close enough to feel the room, large enough to generate the crowd pressure that makes a live show feel different from a playlist. The Killswitch Memories tour is a named tour, which means there's a concept and a setlist organized around it — not just a greatest hits run but a designed live experience.
Tickets at ticketmaster.com. June 9th in Downtown LA. The Regent is a convertible venue that handles standing shows the right way — good sightlines, real sound, a room that doesn't require being in the front to be in the show. If you've been following Flawed Mangoes and have been waiting for them to come through LA on a real tour, this is the date. Get your ticket before the floor goes.
Tomorrow· Jun 10
6215 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood Pallad…
Earl Sweatshirt & MIKE Home on the Range Tour at Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood on June 10, 2026: the bars that hit different in a small room, where the ad-libs carry and the energy is something the recording was always a rough draft of. Earl Sweatshirt & MIKE Home on the Range Tour performs at Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood on June 10, 2026. Doors at 7PM, show at 8PM, All Ages. The setlist is fixed, the room is real, the sound doesn't survive the door — this is the version that lives only in the people who show up.
In 2 days· Jun 11 – Jun 14
From $435
Great Stage Park, 682 Burnett Road…
Four days on a 700-acre Tennessee farm, 80,000 people, and a lineup that has been staking claims about American music since 2002. Bonnaroo gets this right every June.
The experience at Bonnaroo is harder to explain than it is to feel. Walking into Centeroo — the central festival grounds — for the first time, you're hit by scale and warmth simultaneously. Multiple stages blast sound across the Tennessee heat. Art installations catch light at unexpected angles. Strangers hand you things with no expectation of return. The crowd skews eclectic: first-timers in bucket hats, veterans who've camped here fifteen years running, families with kids in tow, groups of friends who planned this trip for months. By midnight on the first night, the distance between those groups collapses entirely. Bonnaroo runs on a social logic that few festivals have cracked.
Is it worth it? If you've ever wanted to see five artists you love across four days without leaving a square mile — yes. If the idea of sleeping in a tent next to 80,000 people sounds more thrilling than inconvenient — yes. This is not a day-trip event. It rewards people who surrender to the full experience: camping, late nights, early mornings, the unplanned conversations that become the story you tell for years. Bring comfortable shoes, a portable charger, and a shade structure. The Tennessee sun is not subtle.
Before you go: buy tickets early — prices increase in tiers and the best camping spots are first-come. The festival grounds open days before the music starts; arriving early gets you better tent placement and lets you acclimate to the heat before show days. The main stage headliners are announced in January, but the discovery is in the mid-day sets on smaller stages. Water stations are free and plentiful — bring a refillable bottle. Car camping requires a separate pass. Cell service is limited on the farm, so download maps and schedules to your phone before arrival.
Bonnaroo is on Falkor's Nation's Best list because it is one of the few remaining American events that genuinely cannot be replicated by staying home and watching a livestream. The physical, social, temporal convergence of it — the fact that everyone there is also there — is the product. The music is the occasion. The experience is the reason. Four days, Manchester, Tennessee. June 11–14, 2026.
In 2 days· Jun 11
3503 South Harbor Boulevard, Const…
Live music in a room like Constellation Room has a specific physics: the sound arrives before you've decided how to feel about it, and True North & Out In Front has always known what to do with that. True North & Out In Front performs at Constellation Room in Santa Ana on June 11, 2026. Doors at 7:00 PM, show at 8:00 PM, All Ages. The crowd at a show like this has been waiting for exactly this room — the specific night where the distance between stage and floor is close enough to matter.
In 2 days· Jun 11
45000 Pechanga Parkway, Pechanga R…
Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula is the kind of venue where the crowd can see the sweat and the setlist changes feel personal. 24K Magic Band performs at Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula on June 11, 2026. The setlist is fixed, the room is real, the sound doesn't survive the door — this is the version that lives only in the people who show up.
In 2 days· Jun 11
Free
Historic Core, Spring St & Main St…
The Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk happens on the second Thursday of every month from 6 to 10 PM across the Historic Core galleries, studios, and cultural spaces clustered on Spring Street and Main Street between 3rd and 9th. It has been running continuously since 2004 and draws between 5,000 and 10,000 people on a typical night.
The format is self-guided. No wristband, no single entrance, no ticketed main stage. You walk. Galleries extend opening hours and host receptions, live music, and artist talks. Boutiques, bars, and restaurants along the route stay open late. Street art installations appear in parking lots and alleys. Pop-up vendors set up between gallery hops.
The crowd skews young and creative — designers, photographers, muralists, and the people who follow them. It is one of the few monthly events in LA that reliably brings out the local art community rather than the art-adjacent tourist circuit.
Parking is available in DTLA surface lots and garages. The nearest Metro stops are Pershing Square (B/D Lines) and 7th St/Metro Center (A/E/B/D Lines). Most people walk between venues. Wear comfortable shoes. The event is free to attend — individual galleries may have ticketed openings happening the same night.
In 3 days· Jun 12
From $18
Del Mar Fairgrounds, 2260 Jimmy Du…
The San Diego County Fair opens June 12th at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, and the cheapest ticket starts at $18 — the going rate for the single most SoCal-summer thing you will do this year. Jimmy Durante Boulevard leads you in. The smell of funnel cake and sunscreen meets you before the parking lot ends.
Del Mar in June means a particular kind of heat that doesn't apologize — the kind that makes the lemonade taste better and turns a crowd of strangers into people all in it together. You walk past livestock barns and end up at a stage where someone is playing to three hundred people like it's their last show on earth. You eat something fried that has no business existing and don't regret a single thing. The Midway lights come up as the sun drops behind the grandstands and suddenly you're twelve again, which is the best thing the fair does — it gives everyone permission to stop being jaded for one afternoon. The concerts run every night. The rides don't care how old you are. The strawberry shortcake line moves slowly for a reason. Go on a weeknight for room to breathe. Go on a Saturday to feel the full weight of Southern California in summer. That's worth feeling at least once.