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Summer Arts Fest at Liberty Station

Name: Summer Arts Fest at Liberty Station
Start: 2026-07-12T16:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-07-12T19:00:00-07:00
Location: 2820 Roosevelt Rd, San Diego, CA 92106

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Tomorrow · Sunday, July 12, 2026

4:00 PM PDT – 7:00 PM PDT

2820 Roosevelt Rd, San Diego, CA 92106

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Arts District Liberty Station believed that a free outdoor concert series featuring actual San Diego musicians -- not corporate bookings, not national touring acts, not a sponsored stage -- could become the neighborhood ritual that marks the summer. The North Promenade is where they tested that belief. Three months, second Saturdays, 4 to 7pm, no ticket required.

The concert series runs July through September. Each month brings a different local artist: Whitney Shay opens July with her blues-soul catalog, Kogee Soul Reprise led by vocalist Kori Gillis takes August, and Bambu Sound Exchange -- an analogue dance music collective -- closes out September. Three genuinely different feels across three months. The programming is not arbitrary.

Liberty Station itself matters. The former Naval Training Center was converted into a walkable arts district -- galleries, studios, restaurants, and performance space that still feels like a neighborhood rather than a development. The North Promenade is the open plaza at the center of it. Summer concerts in this space feel earned, not produced.

Show up when you want, stay as long as you want. Bring kids or a dog. Grab food from one of the nearby restaurants before or after. The crowd is Liberty Station regulars, NTC Park families, and Point Loma locals who have made this their July-through-September tradition.

Address: 2820 Roosevelt Rd, San Diego, CA 92106. Free admission. More at artsdistrictlibertystation.org.

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