Jazz at LACMA 2026 — Free Friday Evenings at the Museum

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Every Friday evening from spring through fall, the BP Grand Entrance at LACMA becomes a concert hall with no roof. The musicians aren't there because the pay is exceptional — they're there because the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has been building this program since the 1960s, and the stage means something.

Jazz at LACMA draws players who tour internationally and fill the Wiltern for five hundred dollars a ticket. On Friday evenings, they're playing for whoever walked in off Wilshire Boulevard.

The doors open at 5. Music starts at 6. The crowd fills in by 6:30. You can sit on the steps, walk the grounds, or stand near the back and let it happen to you. The galleries are open behind you. The Chris Burden urban light installation gives the whole plaza a particular quality at dusk that's hard to plan around but impossible to miss when it happens.

6067 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036. Free. No ticket, no reservation. The concert is outdoors — check weather and bring a layer for after dark. Fridays through October.