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Music Bingo & Trivia Mondays at Brewers Deck
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Music Bingo & Trivia Mondays at Brewers Deck

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Monday, August 17, 2026
6:00 PM PDT – 8:00 PM PDT
Repeats every week · until Dec 28, 2026
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Monday earned its bad reputation just about everywhere except the rooftop at Sky Deck, where a couple hundred people willingly show up to shout song titles at each other into the sunset. Music bingo is the great equalizer: it doesn't matter how you dress or what you do for a living, only whether you can name the deep cut off the third bar of a track, and the whole deck erupts when someone finally slams their card down. Perched above Del Mar Highlands with the light going gold, it's the rare Monday plan people actually look forward to instead of quietly dreading. Half the room is on a nervous first date, half is a friend group that's been coming for months, and everyone is a little too competitive about a game with no real stakes at all. Bring the one friend who somehow knows every 2000s pop lyric by heart. It runs Monday evenings on the rooftop at Sky Deck, Del Mar Highlands Town Center.
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IE International Food and Music Festival
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IE International Food and Music Festival
In 3 days · Jul 29 – Jul 30 Mission Inn Avenue, Downtown River…

The freeway version of the Inland Empire is fast food and strip malls; the real one is Vietnamese and Mexican and Filipino and Central American and Lebanese and Ethiopian, all on the same blocks - and this festival puts that whole landscape on one street. A food festival here is genuinely different from one in a more homogeneous city, because the region it samples is genuinely diverse. Downtown Riverside's celebration of the IE's cultural breadth spreads across the blocks leading to the Mission Inn, with food from the region's communities and live music across multiple stages. Mission Inn Avenue in late July brings the architecture and the heat in equal measure, and the Mission Inn itself is visible from the festival - the kind of backdrop that makes a food festival feel like a cultural occasion rather than a weekend market. Come hungry, and come willing to eat something you did not know you were going to like. Leave with the full picture of what the Inland Empire actually is. Mission Inn Avenue, Downtown Riverside, July 29th. Schedule and full vendor and performer list at riversideca.gov.

Sizzling Summer Nights 2026 — Free Latin Music at the Autry in Griffith Park
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Sizzling Summer Nights 2026 — Free Latin Music at the Autry in Griffith Park
Every Thursday · Next Jul 30 Autry Museum of the American West,…

On Friday nights in the summer, the Autry Museum opens its courtyard and something happens that most museums would never allow: people start dancing. Sizzling Summer Nights is a free outdoor concert series at the Autry Museum of the American West in Griffith Park. The best salsa and Latin fusion bands in Los Angeles play live while families spread out across the courtyard. There is a separate dance floor for kids. Free dance lessons start early in the evening for anyone brave enough to try. Food trucks line the parking area. The sun sets over Griffith Park and the music keeps going. This is the kind of event that exists because someone at a museum decided that the building should come alive on Friday nights instead of sitting dark. No tickets. No reservations. No velvet ropes. You show up, you eat tacos from a truck, you dance badly with your children, and you drive home remembering why you live in Los Angeles. The series runs select Friday evenings through the summer at the Autry Museum, 4700 Western Heritage Way in Griffith Park. Gates open at 5:30pm. Music typically runs 6-9pm. Free admission. Free parking. Bring the whole family. The kids' dance floor is the best part — a separate space where small humans move with the kind of fearless joy that the rest of us spend the whole evening trying to recover.

La Jolla Music Society SummerFest 2026 — 40th Anniversary
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La Jolla Music Society SummerFest 2026 — 40th Anniversary
In 5 days · Jul 31 – Aug 29 $40-$150 Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Cent…

La Jolla's SummerFest turns 40 this summer, and the La Jolla Music Society is marking the occasion with four weeks of chamber music, jazz, world premieres, and free community programming at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center — one of the genuinely beautiful performance spaces built in the last decade anywhere in the American West. SummerFest 2026 runs July 31 through August 29. The main concert series features more than 20 performances including Brad Mehldau's Ride Into the Sun — a reimagining of Elliott Smith songs with Chris Thile and Blake Mills that does not fit into any existing genre and is selling fast. Imani Winds performs Wayne Shorter's Terra Incognita during the second week. One marquee night moves to the Balboa Theatre in downtown San Diego for a program built around the American musical tradition. The Conrad is at 7600 Fay Ave in the heart of La Jolla Village, a 10-minute walk from the water. Parking is available in the adjacent structure; street parking is possible but fills early on weekend nights. The venue seats roughly 500 in the main hall and is intimate enough that the third row and the twentieth row feel equally close to the stage. The free programming is serious: open rehearsals, artist conversations, master classes, and youth performances run throughout all four weeks. If you want to understand what SummerFest actually is — a working music residency where internationally recognized artists collaborate and perform — the free open rehearsals are where you see it clearly. Tickets for individual concerts went on sale May 4. The festival has sold out multiple nights in prior years. This is the 40th. Book early.

The Music of John Williams — Rady Shell San Diego
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The Music of John Williams — Rady Shell San Diego
In 5 days · Jul 31 The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, 200…

Close your eyes during the Imperial March and tell me you don't straighten your spine. Open them during the Hedwig's Theme and tell me you don't feel eleven years old, standing in a hallway that shouldn't exist. John Williams didn't write movie music. He wrote the emotional architecture of three generations, and on July 31 the San Diego Symphony Orchestra performs it live under the open sky. Conductor David Newman leads the full orchestra through an all-Williams program at the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park — the waterfront amphitheater where the bay stretches out behind the stage like it was designed for this exact purpose. Harry Potter. Indiana Jones. Star Wars. E.T. Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Jaws. Each piece performed live while San Diego's skyline glows behind eighty musicians who know exactly what these notes mean to the people in those seats. The Rady Shell sits on the harbor. The sound carries across the water. The program moves through decades of cinema like a highlight reel of every feeling you've ever had in the dark of a theater — except now the dark is a summer sky and the strangers beside you are all holding their breath at the same moment. Lawn seating. Table seating. Either way, by the time the brass reaches the Star Wars finale, nobody is sitting down.

La Jolla Music Society SummerFest 2026
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La Jolla Music Society SummerFest 2026
In 5 days · Jul 31 – Aug 1 The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts …

There is a room in La Jolla where the acoustics are so precise that you can hear a cellist breathe between movements. The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center was designed for this. For the kind of listening that requires the audience to meet the music halfway. La Jolla Music Society SummerFest returns from July 31 through August 29, 2026, with a month-long series of concerts featuring top-tier classical artists and ensembles performing diverse programs that range from traditional chamber music to genre-crossing collaborations. This is San Diego premier classical music event, running since the 1980s, and it draws performers and audiences from across the country. SummerFest is not a single concert. It is a season compressed into four weeks. Multiple performances per week, each programmed to stand alone but designed to reward the listener who attends several. The repertoire spans centuries from Baroque precision to Romantic sweep to 20th-century dissonance to contemporary compositions that have not yet decided what tradition they belong to. Guest artists rotate throughout the festival, bringing interpretive approaches that keep the same Beethoven quartet sounding different on different nights. The Conrad Prebys center is intimate enough that every seat feels like a front-row experience. The La Jolla setting with ocean air, evening light, and the particular quality of a summer night in a neighborhood that takes its culture seriously adds a dimension that indoor-only venues cannot replicate. For anyone who has been meaning to explore classical music but finds symphony halls intimidating, SummerFest is the entry point. The scale is human. The programming is curated. The audience is there because they want to be, not because they have season tickets they feel obligated to use.

Moonlight Beach Concerts 2026 — Free Live Music on the Sand, Encinitas
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Moonlight Beach Concerts 2026 — Free Live Music on the Sand, Encinitas
In 7 days · Aug 2 400 B St, Encinitas, CA 92024

The stage faces the ocean. The audience sits on sand. By the second song, someone’s kid is dancing barefoot at the edge of the crowd and nobody is telling them to stop. Moonlight Beach Concerts is Encinitas at its most itself — a free afternoon concert series held directly on the beach, where the Pacific is not a backdrop but part of the performance. The 2026 season brings four unforgettable afternoons of live music, dancing, and the particular golden-hour light that only happens when you are sitting on a North County beach with nowhere else to be. Moonlight State Beach, 400 B St, Encinitas, CA 92024. All shows are free and open to the public. No tickets, no reservations — just show up with a blanket and the people you want to remember this with. This is the concert series that families in Encinitas build their summer Sundays around, the one where the kids fall asleep on the drive home and the adults keep humming the last song.

Midsummer Scream 2026: Horror Musicals
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Midsummer Scream 2026: Horror Musicals
In 12 days · Aug 7 – Aug 9 35.0 Long Beach Convention Center, 300 …

There are people who live for the season all year, who treat October like a religion and spend the other eleven months in withdrawal. This is the weekend that carries them through summer. The signature draw is the Hall of Shadows - a massive darkened section of the convention center holding more than a dozen fully produced haunted experiences, all three days, included with every badge type, no separate ticket. It's the largest indoor haunt zone in California outside the October season itself. The show floor runs 350-plus vendors and artists selling horror costumes, seasonal decor, original artwork, vintage collectibles, props, and franchise merchandise. Celebrity guests for 2026 include Matthew Lillard, Barry Bostwick, and Jasmin Savoy Brown, plus a 20th anniversary celebration of Repo! The Genetic Opera with director Darren Lynn Bousman and actor Bill Moseley confirmed. Panels cover haunt design, genre cinema, practical effects, cosplay construction, and industry Q&As. Now in its tenth year and themed 'Horror Musicals,' Midsummer Scream is the West Coast's largest Halloween and horror convention. Long Beach Convention Center, 300 E Ocean Blvd, minutes from the waterfront. August 7-9, 2026. Weekend and single-day passes online in advance.

The Strike + Kids That Fly at Music Box
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The Strike + Kids That Fly at Music Box
In 12 days · Aug 7 $18-$22 Music Box, 1337 India St, San Dieg…

A horn section in an indie-rock band shouldn't still feel like a small act of defiance, and yet -- and yet, when the trumpet line comes in on a Friday night, the whole room lifts. The Strike have been arriving in full five-piece configuration for ten years out of Salt Lake City, the catalog built to fill exactly this kind of night. Kids That Fly opens, and it's the right opener -- Salt Lake again, sibling band, same energy pitched at a different volume. Music Box downtown is the room for it: five hundred capacity, twenty dollars at the door. Bring the friend who dances the second the brass hits. The crowd is the Mormon-circuit indie kids who travel for shows like this plus the SD regulars who heard the trumpet line on Spotify and needed to see it live. Doors at seven, music at eight. Friday in San Diego.

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