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Santee Summer Concert Series 2026 — Thursday Nights
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Santee Summer Concert Series 2026 — Thursday Nights

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Today · Thursday, July 16, 2026
6:30 PM PDT – 8:00 PM PDT
Town Center Community Park East, Santee, CA 92071
Free
Repeats every week · until Aug 13, 2026
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Summer should feel like it's actually happening on a Thursday in Santee — live music in the park, food trucks nearby, neighbors who turned up because that's just what people do here in July.

The Santee Summer Concert Series runs Thursday evenings from June 11 through August 13, 2026, with concerts beginning at 6 PM. Each week features a different band covering a range of genres — the series is built for variety, rotating through rock, pop, R&B, and country across the summer. It's a genuine neighborhood event: free to attend, outdoors, and the kind of low-pressure gathering where you show up not knowing what's playing and leave having stayed longer than you planned.

Local food trucks set up alongside the show on most nights, making it easy to turn this into a full evening without much planning. Bring a blanket or lawn chairs. Dogs on leashes are welcome.

The series is hosted at Town Center Community Park East in Santee — a venue big enough to handle a crowd but small enough that it still feels like your neighborhood.

Every Thursday 6 PM through August 13. Town Center Community Park East, Santee.
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