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SXSW 2027 — Austin, TX

Mar 15 – Mar 21, 2027 Austin Convention Center, 500 E Ce…

If you have ever felt like the interesting version of American culture is happening somewhere you're not, this is the address it's happening at. For nine days every March, Austin becomes the one place where the music industry, the film industry, and the technology industry all arrive at once and go looking for the same parties. SXSW isn't a single event -- it's a city-sized festival. The Music Conference alone hosts thousands of acts across hundreds of venues, from dive bars and converted warehouses to the Austin Convention Center and the open air of Auditorium Shores. At the same time, the Film & TV Festival premieres features and series that go on to win Oscars and Emmys, and the Interactive and Emerging Technology conference hosts the conversations that decide how the industry thinks about what comes next. These three things happen simultaneously, in the same zip code, and the cross-pollination isn't incidental -- it is the product. The person who catches a breakthrough band at midnight, a groundbreaking documentary at noon, and stumbles into a startup pitch at 3pm isn't having three experiences. They're having the SXSW experience. The festival rewards whoever arrives with no fixed agenda and the flexibility to chase what's interesting, and punishes the over-planner who misses the spontaneous set that becomes the most-talked-about performance of the year. The unofficial parties and free shows matter as much as the official programming -- sometimes more. Austin in March is warm but unpredictable, so layers are essential and comfortable shoes are mandatory. SXSW runs on a badge system: the Platinum badge accesses everything, the Music badge covers all official showcases, and unofficial events run free and parallel across the city, often carrying the most interesting programming of all. Book accommodation six to twelve months out, because Austin fills completely. The Convention Center is the official hub, but the real SXSW happens on 6th Street, Red River, and along the South Congress corridor. SXSW 2027 earns its place among the country's essential cultural moments because it's the single event where American creative culture most fully takes stock of itself. The lineup hasn't been announced yet -- and the anticipation before the announcement is itself part of the ritual. Every year, artists, filmmakers, and technologists make their American debut here. Every year, something that started in a 200-capacity Austin venue becomes the story everyone's telling by April. This isn't just where culture happens -- it's where culture decides what it is. Badge registration is open at sxsw.com/badges/.

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Sakura-Con 2027 — Seattle, WA

Mar 26, 2027 Seattle Convention Center, 705 Pik…

The oldest and largest anime convention in the Pacific Northwest was started by a group of college students in the mid-nineties, back when liking this at all required explaining yourself, and it is still run entirely by volunteers. That fact shapes everything about the weekend. Nobody is extracting margin from you. The programming is built by people who wanted it to exist rather than by a department, which is why the schedule is full of things no commercial convention would ever green-light. What that produces is a convention with an unusually high proportion of actual content — panels running past midnight, a serious concert program, a masquerade that people prepare for over months, and a video programming track that still shows things on a screen in a dark room to whoever wanders in. There is a formal ball. There is a chess tournament. The dealer hall is large but is not the center of gravity, which at an anime convention in the current era is genuinely unusual. The crowd skews younger than the older-guard conventions and the atmosphere is closer to a very large school event than to a trade show, in the best possible way. Worth it? If you want a convention where the programming rather than the shopping is the reason to be there, this is one of a handful left in the country, and it is the best of them on the West Coast outside of Los Angeles. If you are coming primarily for big-name industry announcements, the larger shows will serve you better. Sakura-Con is for people who want to spend three days inside the thing rather than adjacent to it. What to know before you go: registration opens early and the price ladder rewards buying well ahead. Late March in Seattle means rain, and the walk between the convention center and most hotels is short but unsheltered. The concerts are included with a badge and fill up, so line early for the ones you care about. Bring cash for artist alley. And the volunteer staff will genuinely help you if you ask, because they are attendees too. It belongs on this list because a thirty-year-old, volunteer-run, still-thriving convention is evidence that a community can build something durable without anyone monetizing it, and that is worth knowing exists. Sakura-Con 2027 runs March 26–28, 2027 at the Seattle Convention Center.

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Ultra Music Festival 2027 — Miami, FL

Mar 26, 2027 Bayfront Park, 301 Biscayne Blvd, …

You have heard the drop a thousand times through earbuds on a train. You have never heard it through a wall of speakers facing the open water of Biscayne Bay while thirty thousand people make the same involuntary noise at the same time. That difference — between knowing a song and feeling it rearrange your chest cavity — is why Ultra exists and why it keeps filling a downtown Miami park every March. Ultra Music Festival returns to Bayfront Park for three days in late March 2027, and the thing that separates it from every other electronic music festival on earth is the setting. The main stage faces the bay. The Miami skyline rises behind the crowd. The transition from daylight to dark happens while the music is playing, so the whole visual register shifts without anyone announcing it. The afternoon acts play to sunshine and palm trees. The headliners play to a city that looks like it was engineered as their backdrop. The lineup will drop between December and January, and it will be the usual argument-starter — legacy acts who defined entire genres performing alongside rising names who are about to, and at least one booking that makes the Reddit thread go sideways within minutes. Ultra's curatorial identity has always leaned toward "the person you will be talking about in five years," and the proof is in the alumni list. Acts who played the mid-card stage at Ultra headlined Coachella eighteen months later. The festival does not chase the moment. It creates the next one. Three stages run simultaneously, which means the real experience is the walk between them — leaving one sound world, crossing a park, and entering another entirely. The bass from the main stage bleeds into the resistance tent. The ambient stage near the water sounds like a different planet. Biscayne Bay keeps the temperature human even at midnight. The food vendors have learned that this crowd eats at 11 PM and again at 2 AM. Tier 1 general admission three-day passes started at $359 and moved fast. Tier 2 is $419. VIP three-day starts at $1,797 and includes elevated viewing decks, private bars, and air-conditioned lounges that nobody actually stays in because the point is to be outside when the drop hits. General admission is 18+. VIP areas are 21+. Payment plans available for $49 down with equal monthly installments through January 2027. March 26 through 28, 2027. Bayfront Park, downtown Miami. The drop hits different when the whole city is the subwoofer.

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2027 — Preview Day

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Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2027 — Preview Day

Apr 8, 2027 Empire Polo Club, 81800 Ave 51, In…

Shade structures go up in the aisles, somebody's speaker is already going a few rows over, and a stranger comes past handing out popsicles because they overbought. None of the actual music has started yet. This is the day before. The main gates stay shut, which is exactly why the people who chose camping treat it as the best part — the whole social infrastructure of the weekend assembles itself out here in the hours before anything official happens. Elaborate camps, communal cooking, spontaneous sets in the aisles. Out in the valley the parties are launching, the hotels are filling, and the artists are making final adjustments to installations nobody will see until tomorrow. Camping passes for the first weekend include the early arrival at the polo club in Indio, and desert lodging goes fast once badges are confirmed. The weekend belongs to everybody. This day belongs to whoever got there first.

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2027 — Weekend 1

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Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2027 — Weekend 1

Apr 9 – Apr 11, 2027 Empire Polo Club, 81800 Ave 51, In…

Nobody sees all of it. That is engineered rather than accidental — every stage runs at once from mid-afternoon until long past midnight, so the weekend becomes a series of small betrayals: the set you skipped for a friend, the tent you stayed in too long, the act you will spend a year hearing about from people who stayed. Seven stages spread across a polo field in the Colorado Desert, headliners on the main stage each night, and a hundred thousand people a day making the same impossible choices you are. Whatever gets booked here tends to shape the year's musical conversation, which is why the lineup drop is its own event months before anyone arrives. Empire Polo Club in Indio, a couple of hours out from Los Angeles, with shuttles from the desert cities and a campground that is a festival inside the festival. Desert April runs hot by day and genuinely cold at night. Decide now who you would want stuck in the Sahara tent with you at one in the morning. That is the actual trip.

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Coachella 2027 — Indio, CA

Apr 9, 2027 $599+ Empire Polo Club, 81-800 Avenue 51…

Every April a specific kind of homesickness arrives for a place most people have never been. It comes through a phone: someone you half know, backlit orange, standing in a desert that looks nothing like wherever you are reading this. You are not envious of the lineup. You are envious of being the sort of person who goes. That feeling deserves to be taken seriously, because it is most of what this festival actually sells and the part nobody admits to buying. What happens in Indio is smaller and stranger than the highlight reel suggests. Two near-identical weekends at the Empire Polo Club, April 9 through 11 and then April 16 through 18, held on grass that is improbably, almost aggressively green for the middle of the Coachella Valley. Goldenvoice books it. The art installations are commissioned rather than decorative, which is why they photograph well and also why several of them are genuinely good. And the sets people are still describing to strangers four years later are almost never the headliners — they are some 4pm slot in a side tent where a couple thousand people found the same thing at the same moment and knew it while it was happening. Is it worth the money? Honestly, yes, once, and not for the reason most people assume. It is worth it because the distance between the weekend you imagined and the weekend you actually got is the experience itself. Anyone who arrives expecting the phone version goes home disappointed and posts anyway. Anyone who arrives expecting three hot, dusty, overpriced, overwhelming days in the desert with roughly forty minutes of transcendence buried in the middle tends to come home converted. If you genuinely dislike crowds, do not go. No amount of planning solves a crowd this size. The things veterans actually know: it will clear ninety degrees, and shade is the scarcest resource on the entire site — worth more than standing close to a stage. Phone theft is endemic rather than occasional, so a wrist strap or a zipped inner pocket is not paranoia. Food and drink run a hundred to two hundred dollars a day, so eat before you walk in. Car camping is a hundred forty-nine dollars and disappears the morning it opens; the shuttle pass is the best purchase most attendees make, because rideshare surge pricing in Indio is its own category of injury. And if you do camp, the entry queue has run twelve hours in bad years, in terrain with nowhere to hide. Bring a sleeping bag, a towel, and an EZ-Up. Every year, people forget all three. General admission opened at five hundred ninety-nine dollars for the first weekend and sold out during the May advance sale; payment plans start at forty-nine dollars down. The lineup lands sometime between October and December, which means for now the whole thing is pure anticipation — which, if you have read this far, you had already worked out was the point. Empire Polo Club, 81-800 Avenue 51. Most people reading this will never go and will still spend part of April there anyway. The same grass hosts a country festival the following weekend, for the people who want the dust without the cameras.

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Coachella 2027 — Saturday Day 2

Apr 10, 2027 Empire Polo Club, 81800 Ave 51, In…

Every year out there produces exactly one day people still bring up a decade later, and it is almost never Friday. Saturday is where the consensus lands — the set that gets permanently attached to that year's name, the one your friends will describe to you in detail whether or not you asked. Which makes it the day where standing position becomes a competitive sport. People start staking the main field hours ahead of the headliner, and the actual skill is holding something close while still catching sets on the other stages all afternoon. Get that math wrong and you spend the day walking. The Sahara after dark is the other reason. Largest tent on the grounds, packed well past whatever its stated capacity is, bass and heat and body density combining into something you can still feel the next morning regardless of who was playing. Send it to whoever you would want to lose your voice next to in the desert.

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Coachella 2027 — Sunday Day 3

Apr 11, 2027 Empire Polo Club, 81800 Ave 51, In…

By the last day everybody is sunburned, out of clean clothes, and living inside that specific ache of something about to end that cannot be extended. Sunday is when the festival stops competing with itself. The afternoon belongs to a completely different energy, no more sprinting between conflicts, no obligations left, just the crowd watching itself on the grass while Gobi and Sonora pull the most devoted audiences of the weekend. Then the closing headliner goes on late, near midnight, and hands the crowd an emotional conclusion nobody knew they were owed. This is the day that has produced the sets people still argue about years later, the ones that outgrew the festival and became their own cultural events. The polo fields in Indio, the final day of the first weekend, camping through the night. This is the one you describe to the friend who has never been. Start with how quiet the drive back is.

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2027 — Weekend 2

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Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2027 — Weekend 2

Apr 16 – Apr 18, 2027 Empire Polo Club, 81800 Ave 51, In…

Everyone you know went the first weekend and you told yourself you would catch the second one. The people who plan it that way will tell you it was never a consolation. Weekend two is the local's version — Southern Californians who missed the first passes, repeat attendees who already know exactly what they got wrong, and a crowd that treats the second half as the more relaxed and more social of the two. Same polo field, same stages, same headliners, same installations. What changes is who is standing in front of them: veterans who know when to arrive at which tent and what to skip entirely, which is why the second weekend often plays more musically sophisticated than the first. The desert swings hot in the afternoon and genuinely cold after dark, so pack for both. Go with the friend who will still be upright at the last set.

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Attack on Titan - Symphony from Paradis

Apr 18, 2027 6801 Hollywood Blvd., Dolby Theatr…

The first piano notes land and a theater full of strangers stops breathing at the same instant, because every one of them carried this story home years ago and never quite put it down. This is the officially licensed orchestral concert, with new symphonic arrangements curated by the original composers, Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto, played by more than a hundred musicians and a choir while projection scales the series up to the size it always deserved. Shinzo wo Sasageyo in a room like that stops being a song. It is a full theater offering up its hearts for a freedom none of them were ever sure existed, out loud, most of them in a language they do not speak. The Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with tickets through Ticketmaster. If you have been waiting for the day this music became something you could stand inside, it is finally on a calendar.

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Coachella 2027 — Weekend 2 Sunday

Apr 18, 2027 Empire Polo Club, 81800 Ave 51, In…

The last day has a texture the others do not. Everyone slows down on purpose. You stop sprinting between stages, you plant yourself near the main one, and you spend the afternoon deciding to be exactly where you already are. That is the second Sunday: the closing day of the entire run, the last main-stage set anyone will play out here, and the strange hush that settles over a polo field in the Colorado Desert as it starts remembering that it is a polo field. The campground thins through the afternoon while people break down setups. The afternoon sets are the ones with nothing to compete against, which is usually when the surprises happen. Empire Polo Club in Indio, with camping access ending after Sunday. Go with the person you want beside you on the drive back out. The road home, sunburned and wordless, is part of the thing.

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PAX East 2027 — Boston, MA

Apr 22, 2027 Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhi…

Video games are played alone in a room by almost everybody, almost all of the time, and once a year a few tens of thousands of people who do that go stand in a convention hall in Boston to be reminded it is not actually a solitary hobby. That is the whole emotional mechanism of PAX East and it is more powerful than the announcements and the demo queues suggest. The floor is enormous and loud. Major publishers build elaborate booths for games nobody has played yet, and the lines for those can eat an afternoon — but the part regulars organize their weekend around is the indie section, where a person who spent four years making something is standing behind a folding table watching you play it. That interaction does not exist anywhere else. Elsewhere in the building there are freeplay areas with hundreds of consoles and PCs, a tabletop hall running around the clock, tournaments, concerts, and a handheld lounge where people simply sit on the floor together playing separately, which is somehow the most affecting room in the place. The Enforcers — volunteer staff in distinctive shirts — set a tone of aggressive friendliness that keeps a very large crowd unusually pleasant. Worth it? If games are a real part of your identity rather than a way to pass time, yes, and specifically for the indie hall and the freeplay rooms rather than the big booths. If you only want to see trailers, they will be online within the hour and you can watch them from your couch. What you cannot get remotely is the experience of being one of thousands of people who all care about the same thing, in a city that has been overtaken by it for four days. What to know: badges sell out months in advance and the four-day pass goes first. Wear real shoes; you will walk many miles on concrete. The convention center is a walk from most affordable hotels, and Boston in April can be anything from snow to seventy degrees. Eat before you get inside. And the queue room system means the smart move is picking two or three big demos and letting the rest go. It is on this list because the annual gathering of a hobby that is otherwise entirely private is a genuinely interesting cultural event, whether or not you go. PAX East 2027 runs April 22–25, 2027 at the Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center in Boston.

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2027 — New Orleans, LA

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New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2027 — New Orleans, LA

Apr 22 – May 2, 2027 Fair Grounds Race Course, 1751 Gen…

There is a version of American music that most of the country only knows secondhand - the brass bands, the gospel that leaves you undone, the traditional jazz that started all of it - and for two weekends every spring, all of it plays at once in the city that built it. The New Orleans Fair Grounds holds twelve stages simultaneously, so at any given hour on a Jazz Fest afternoon there are twelve choices, most of them extraordinary. The headliners close the evening, and Jazz Fest headliners have historically included the most celebrated artists of any era - but the afternoon is where the festival actually lives. The traditional jazz sets at the Jazz & Heritage Stage, the brass band second-lines threading through the food courts, the gospel tent on Sunday morning: these are not supporting acts. They are the event. The food is genuinely great by any standard - the crawfish bread, the cochon de lait, the pralines - and the fairgrounds feel like a city within a city, 70,000 people sharing the same remarkable afternoon. This is for anyone who has ever felt that American music deserves the same reverence other countries give their cultural heritage, for the person who knows New Orleans is the original source and wants to stand where it all came from. It is also for the person who never thought much about any of this and ends up in the gospel tent for three hours because they could not make themselves leave. New Orleans in late April is warm and occasionally rainy, so layers and rain gear are smart, and the Fair Grounds is standing-room, so comfortable shoes and sunscreen are mandatory. Hotels near the fairgrounds and in the French Quarter book months in advance; the Airbnb market near the fairgrounds is what most regulars prefer. Single-day and multi-day passes are both available. The drive from the airport takes 20 minutes, and rideshare is the standard arrival method. New Orleans exists as a cultural argument - that joy is worth preserving, that tradition is worth celebrating, that the past does not have to compete with the future - and the festival is that argument made annual and made real. Two weekends in late April and early May. Tickets available on AXS.

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Awesome Con 2027 — Washington, DC

Apr 23, 2027 Walter E. Washington Convention Ce…

Washington takes itself extremely seriously fifty-one weekends a year, and once each spring several tens of thousands of people in costume take over its convention center and the effect is genuinely restorative. Awesome Con is the capital's pop culture convention, and its particular character comes from the city it happens in: there is a substantial science track built with the Smithsonian and NASA sitting directly alongside the comics and the film guests, and it does not feel bolted on. What that produces is a convention where a nine-year-old can go from a panel by an actual planetary scientist to a line for a voice actor without leaving the building, and where the crowd is noticeably more family-heavy and more racially mixed than most large cons. The Walter E. Washington Convention Center is enormous and easy to move around, which matters more than people expect — there is room to sit, room to eat, room for kids to melt down and recover. Artist alley is strong. The cosplay is competitive without being cliquish. And because it is April in Washington, the city outside is at its best; a lot of attendees build a weekend around the museums, which are free. Worth it? If you have children who are into any of this, it is one of the best large conventions in the country for that, and the science programming is a genuine differentiator rather than a marketing line. If you are a hardcore collector chasing exclusives, the bigger coastal shows have deeper inventory. Awesome Con is broad rather than deep, and that breadth is the point. What to know before you go: the convention center sits on top of a Metro station, so do not drive — parking downtown is punitive and the trains run late. Badges are cheaper in advance and children's pricing is generous. Saturday is by far the busiest day; Friday and Sunday are calmer and better for actually talking to artists. Bring a bag for prints. And if you are traveling in, the museums a few blocks away mean the non-convention hours are unusually well spent. It is on this list because a convention that treats curiosity and fandom as the same impulse is a rarer thing than it should be, and because a weekend where the most self-serious city in America lets go is worth knowing about. Awesome Con 2027 runs April 23–25, 2027 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

Stagecoach Country Music Festival 2027 — Weekend 1

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Stagecoach Country Music Festival 2027 — Weekend 1

Apr 23 – Apr 25, 2027 Empire Polo Club, 81800 Ave 51, In…

The desert gets cold at night in a way that surprises everyone the first time, and by two in the morning half the campground is wearing every layer they packed and refusing to go to sleep anyway. That is the part regulars talk about afterward. Not the headliners. The nights. Once a year the country music community from across the Western states drives out to Indio, and the Empire Polo Club becomes a small temporary city with the Mane Stage at one end and the Palomino carrying the artists you will later claim you found early. The lineup is deliberately wide: traditional country, Texas country, outlaw, country-rap crossovers, Western folk. The crowd reflects that, and it runs warmer than any rock or pop festival audience of the same size, which nobody believes until they are standing in it. Camp on site or shuttle in from the valley towns. Send it to the friend who has been threatening to go for years and still has not.

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Stagecoach Festival 2027 — Indio, CA

Apr 23, 2027 Empire Polo Club, 81-800 Avenue 51…

Stagecoach is the largest country music festival in the United States, held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio the weekend after Coachella wraps. The 19th edition runs April 23 through 25, 2027, on the same grounds, with the same infrastructure, for a completely different crowd — and that contrast is the most interesting thing about it. What it feels like is a desert county fair that happens to book stadium headliners. The temperature routinely hits triple digits by mid-afternoon and drops hard after dark, so the day has two distinct halves: a sunburnt, beer-in-hand, sitting-on-the-grass afternoon, and a cold, enormous, everybody-singing night. The Palomino stage is where the people who actually care about country music spend their time — it programs Americana, outlaw country, and legacy acts who have been touring for forty years, and regulars will tell you the best set of the weekend almost always happens there rather than on the main stage. There is a working honky-tonk dance floor with line dancing lessons, and the number of people who arrive skeptical and end up on it is high. Worth it? If you like country music even slightly, this is the definitive American version of the experience, and the production is genuinely enormous. If your interest in country is ironic, skip it — the crowd is sincere in a way that makes irony feel bad-mannered, and you will have a long, hot, expensive weekend feeling like a tourist. It is also, worth saying plainly, an easier festival than Coachella: older crowd, less status anxiety, more people who came to hear songs. Before you go: the heat is the entire logistical problem. Shade is limited and the campgrounds are exposed, so the veterans bring canopies and treat the middle of the day as downtime. Hydration stations are free and the lines at them are shorter than the bar lines. Boots are the standard footwear and the ground is grass and dirt, not pavement, which matters by day three. Camping sells out well before the lineup is announced, which tells you something about who attends — people book the weekend before they know who is playing. It earns its place on this list because it is the one weekend a year when the largest country audience in America gathers in the California desert, forty-five minutes from Palm Springs, on the same field that hosted an entirely different culture seven days earlier. Knowing both things happen in the same place is the whole story. April 23 through 25, 2027, at the polo grounds on Avenue 51.

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BeachLife Festival 2027 — Redondo Beach

Apr 30 – May 2, 2027 King Harbor, 233 N Harbor Dr, Redo…

Salt in the air changes what a song means. The one about the drive, the girl, the water, the summer that never quite ended — for three days a harbor full of boats behind the crowd makes the case that none of it was ever a myth. The booking is explicitly Californian and the past lineups say it plainly: the Doobie Brothers, the Beach Boys, Counting Crows, Slightly Stoopid, Sublime with Rome, Steve Miller Band, and dozens more across the state's whole rock spectrum. Classic rock bleeding into Americana into blues into whatever the surf towns made of all of it. The Pacific is visible from the main stage, and that single fact changes how every song lands. King Harbor in Redondo Beach, the last weekend of May, with VIP, general admission, and single-day options. Take the parent who taught you these songs in the car, and let them be right about something for a whole weekend.

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OC Marathon 2027 — Huntington Beach

May 2, 2027 Huntington Beach, CA 92648

You run through Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach and the reward at the end is the ocean itself - the finish line dropping you onto sand and surf, steps from the pier, in one of the most scenic finishes in American distance running. The OC Marathon routes participants each spring toward that ending, and it serves the full spectrum: full marathon, half marathon, 10K, 5K, and a dedicated kids' run, drawing thousands from across the region and beyond. The full marathon course meets Boston Marathon qualification standards, pulling in serious competitive runners, while the half marathon is the most popular distance and routinely sells out months in advance. Live bands and volunteer crowds line the route through downtown Huntington Beach, and the post-race area includes food, a beer garden, and live music. Packet pickup and the race expo run in the days before at a dedicated location - check ocmarathon.com for the current expo venue and schedule. Register early regardless of distance; the event fills well ahead of the entry deadline. 2027, Huntington Beach.

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