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2017 TWILIGHT CONCERT SERIES Schedule WEEK 1 6/22 NEO SOUL

KHALID Bibi Bourelly WEEK 2 6/29 INDIE POP

LEMAITRE Coast Modern WEEK 3 7/13 REGGAE

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HEADLINER PROFILE P5

BAND BIOS P7, P10, P12, P13

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Mr. Elevator Arms Akimbo/ Rusty's EAC

TCS HIGHLIGHTS ARTISTIC SOUL

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EVENT MAP P8, P9

INSIDERS GUIDE P15

WEEK 4 7/20 ROCK

ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS

7/27 DANCE

MIAMI HORROR Cleopold WEEK 6 8/3 AMERICANA

VALERIE JUNE IRMA THOMAS WEEK 7 8/10 LATIN

MON LAFERTE Buscabulla WEEK 8 8/17 INDIE ROCK

WARPAINT Wild Belle

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A date with reggae royalty ow do you become the virtually undisputed Queen of Reggae?

Step one: Grow up in Kingston, Jamaica, and get noticed for your immense singing talent.

Step two: Parlay a successful early career into a trailblazing stint with the IThrees and provide backing vocals for Bob Marley and the Wailers for the better part of a decade.

Step three: Launch an international dance craze with the Electric Slide by re-recording “Electric Boogie,” a Bunny Wailer track.

Step four: Put together a music career spanning more than 50 years and continue touring at the age of 67.

And, finally, step five: Arrive at the Santa Monica Pier on July 13 for what figures to be a special edition of the Twilight Concert Series.

Marcia Griffiths, one of the most accomplished reggae artists in history, will bring her upbeat brand of dancehall grooves to an oceanside venue that perfectly matches her relaxed vibe.

Griffiths is the latest in a series of talented reggae musicians in recent years to take the pier stage, which featured fellow reggae legend Sister Nancy and Jesse Royal in 2015 and Protoje and Raging Fyah last year.

She is expected to perform later this month in New York, New Jersey and at the Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley, north of San Francisco. Luckily for her Southern California fans, although she has been recording and performing since the 1960s, she apparently has no intentions of slowing.

“Music alone shall live, and it’s not only for the money, but the satisfaction I get from doing the work that I love,”she says in her official biography. “That is what really keeps me going every day.”

Griffiths has made impressions with her music across the decades. In 1968, she found success as a soloist with “Feel Like Jumping,” whose “La la la la la” chorus begs for a calland-response exchange with live listeners. In 1970, her recording of Nina Simone’s “Young, Gifted and Black” with Bob Andy reached No. 5 on the singles chart in the United Kingdom.

In the 1980s, people around the world starting doing the Electric Slide line dance to an “Electric Boogie” remix.

By the 1990s, she cemented her status as a prolific reggae empress by releasing six albums, including one with a beautiful cover of Bob Marley’s “Trenchtown Rock.” But more accolades were in her future. In 2004, she was featured as a guest on Toots & the Maytals’ album “True Love,” which won the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album. In this decade, she received the Jamaican Order of Distinction (Commander class) for her outstanding contributions to her country

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Griffiths’ sound is equal parts groovy and soothing, energetic and easygoing. Her lyrics, too, deliver inspiration. Take “Steppin’ Out of Babylon,” which explores the theme of freedom through the religious framework that is typical of many reggae songs: “Stand firm and keep the faith / Oh your reward shall be great / So now I see the day.”

Her reward has been great indeed, not just as a musician but as a pioneer who has paved the way for other female

reggae artists.

“It’s been a rough, tough job standing up as a woman in this business,” she says in her biography. “My views on women in reggae are positive; most of the new or upcoming female singers in reggae started out singing my songs before doing their own originals. I feel very good about that; to know that I have influenced my people positively.”

And, in doing so, she’s given thousands of people around the globe a career’s worth of reasons to dance.

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TCS highlights the City’s artistic soul he Twilight Concert Series has earned a reputation among thousands of music fans for encompassing a range of musical styles and genres that makes the summer series feel more like an extended beachfront festival than a one-day-a week show.

Bringing together fans of diverse tastes has grown the event to a communitywide gathering including people of different cultures, ages, beliefs and backgrounds. The particular focus on spotlight up-and-coming talent has long been a hallmark of the show’s artistic identity.

“Twilight has a history of being a platform for emerging artists,” said Pier Executive Director Jay Farrand. “Originally this was born from necessity since the nonprofit's budgets couldn't support larger acts. But as the years passed, a tradition of letting attendees discover new artists became part of the DNA of the series.”

However while it may be called a “Concert Series” it’s about more than just the music.

“Twilight has also been a platform for visual artists as well,” said Farrand. “This year's poster was created by up-andcoming Detroit-based designer Lorenza Centi, who is known for playful hand-illustrations and social commentary. John Van Hamersveld, the iconic artist who designed the Endless Summer movie poster and legendary rock posters, created the 30th anniversary graphics for the series. This year, art and architecture firm, Snarkitecture is providing interactive installations on the Pier in the form of large inflatable columns that dance with the wind and the music. This was a follow-up to last year's inflatable art installation by acclaimed art collective Friends With You. While music is the star of the show, we view Twilight as an annual opportunity to celebrate the artistic soul of Santa Monica and give people a chance to make memories with new and old friends and neighbors.”

Tapping into the arts community and building a community around art harkens back to the origins of the series when the shows were envisioned to save the community institution of the Santa Monica Pier.

Concerts began in 1983 after a severe storm wiped out a third of the pier. To counter a public perception that the entire Pier had been washed away, Save

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the Pier Week was organized and the Pier hosted a festival that featured a series of concerts, art exhibits, dances and competitions.

Organizers realized they had stumbled onto an immensely powerful tool for promoting music and the annual shows began in 1985. As they moved locations over the years to accommodate the reconstruction work, they built an expectation among attendees that Santa Monica is a welcoming home to celebrate the arts and given the ever rising costs of Los Angeles, the beautiful beach town was building its artistic base at no cost to attendees.

The City has caught on to the Pier’s realization that free art benefits everyone. From incentivizing public art installations to the burgeoning mural scene, a simple walk of the city can quickly become a self-guided art walk. The City has even built on the music angle with the popular Make Music Day in local parks.

“Art has the ability to bring people together to strengthen community bonds,” said Constance Farrell Public Information Officer with the City of Santa Monica.

“This is why the City of Santa Monica has long prioritized the creation and celebration of the arts through public art programs like ROAM: the Art of Exploration, which will be unveiled in August and free cultural programming such as Jazz on the Lawn, Art at Tongva, and the Airport Art Walk. The Twilight Concert Series is one opportunity of many to experience free live music in Santa Monica.”

Farrand said free art, of any type, is intrinsic to a well rounded city.

“The more unique and enriching opportunities a community provides for interaction between neighbors, friends, and visitors, the more that community is playing an active role in the wellbeing of its members,” he said. “Cultural programming not only allows for new opportunities to re-experience familiar spaces that we may have started taking for granted, but when those experiences are free, we include the whole community because people don't have to face trade-offs between ticket prices and other costs.

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2017 Twilight Concert Series bios WEEK 3 7/13 REGGAE

MARCIA GRIFFITHS Jah9 Jah9 Deeply mystical, Jah9 has emerged from a chrysalis of poetry, dub and spirit to become a powerful femiNINE energy within a universal grassroots movement of consciousness. Inspired by the open spaces in the instrumental dub of 1970’s Jamaican roots music, Jah9 sings with a voice that belies the dimensions of her physical body, from a soul much older than its current vessel. Her philosophy – profoundly spiritual, and her style – Jazz on Dub. Born Janine Cunningham, Jah9 spent her first 9 years in Falmouth, Trelawny, on the rural western edge of Jamaica before moving into the city of Kingston, in 1991. Transplanted in the city, this country girl, used to the idyllic Falmouth where everyone knew everyone else, was suddenly struck by chaos disguised as order in Jamaica’s capital. Highly sensitive to her surroundings, she ventured inward and found an outlet for her feelings in the words that she wrote.

A staple on Jamaica’s underground poetry scene by 2009, in instrumental dub she found a place where her words could live, and the songs she started to write found eager encouragement.

She has shifted her energies to unveiling a deeper more personal deployment of her ‘Jazz on Dub’ sound. Empowered by her femiNINE – that which is found in the symbolism of 9, the symbol of creation and womb of the universe – Jah9 released her sophomore album divinelyentitled ‘9’ on September 9, 2016.

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ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS Mr. Elevator Arms Akimbo/ Rusty's EAC

ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS Eric Burdon has one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in rock and roll.

A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 1994, and hailed by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 Greatest Voices of All Time, Burdon’s music has forged new territory while also topping the charts for more than five decades.

Highly prolific, Burdon has released nearly 50 records in those 50 years, as front man of The Animals and WAR and simply as Eric Burdon. Through the changing sounds and genres, what remains constant is his courage as an artist to explore new sounds, diving into new territory with his unrivaled and unique voice.

Eric Burdon has shared the stage with legends such as Chuck Berry, Jimi

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Hendrix, Jimmy Witherspoon, Otis Redding and Bruce Springsteen, and has recently been cited by cutting edge musicians like Patti Smith and Iggy Pop as one of their personal top ten musicians.

Eric began his musical journey as a young man growing up in Newcastle, England. Listening to his idols, Ray Charles and Bo Diddley, he immersed himself in American blues and jazz. As front man and driving force of the British Invasion band The Animals, Burdon helped shape rock and roll’s DNA, and his imposing yet soulful vocals are the driving force of the iconic favorite “House Of The Rising Sun.” A long string of hits followed, including “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” and the Vietnam-era anthem, “We Gotta Get Out Of This Place.” Pioneering the psychedelic San Francisco sound, Burdon’s classics include “San Franciscan Nights” and “Monterey.”

Burdon continued to perform throughout the years with different iterations of The Animals, while also founding and fronting the funk group War, one of the first multiracial bands, and topped the charts again with his groundbreaking hit single, “Spill The Wine.”

In the decades to follow, Burdon became an accomplished painter and author, and he continues to record and tour now as a solo artist. The year 2012 saw the release of his latest album, ‘Til Your River Runs Dry. SEE BIOS PAGE 10

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MIAMI HORROR The Shapes comes to life as a sonic / art experience and sees the band delve deep into rhythm and percussion with influences ranging from the art pop and lyrical wit of Talking Heads to Caribbean funk and African beats. The first taste from The Shapes, "Leila" premiered on Stereogum, who said the track said the track "shows the band in one of their strongest forms to date." Embodying the glitzy, glamorous sunshine of LA, draped in 80s synth melodies and topped with those iconic Miami Horror vocals, it's a fitting first single.

Visually, the themes compliment the rhythmic and percussive sounds of the project. Focusing on the use of bold shapes, hand drawn lines and color. "I've always been a fan of colourful art and murals, especially those from the late 80s and early 90s. As a child, they excited and inspired me every time I passed them. This left a lasting effect on me into adulthood, a lust for colour and the extraordinary amongst the mundane colours of suburbia or the grey-ness of Melbourne city," says Ben Plant.

Since the release of their debut album Illumination in 2010, Miami Horror has toured extensively across the globe showcasing their diverse mix of influences, whilst living between LA and their hometown of Melbourne. Along with other Australian acts including Cut Copy and Total Giovanni, Miami Horror have helped in the

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rebirth of disco creating their own brand of Aussie electronica that is recognized internationally and have become absolute staples on dance-floors worldwide.

The Shapes is like nothing the band have produced before. Their imaginative vision brings color back to daily life with a mold-breaking collection of art. Be sure to catch them at one of their epic block parties or headline shows and boogie down with Melbourne's most colorful four-piece.

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VALERIE JUNE & IRMA THOMAS VALERIE JUNE "Understanding the order of time is important to anyone hoping to manifest a dream," says Valerie June. "There is a time to push, and a time to gently tend the garden."

Since the release of her 2013 breakout Pushin' Against A Stone, June has been patiently at work in the garden of song, nurturing seedlings with love and care into the lush bloom that is her stunning new album, The Order Of Time. Some songs grew from seeds planted more than a decade ago, others blossomed overnight when she least expected them to, but every track bears the influence of time. See, time has been on June's mind a lot lately. It's the only constant in life, even though it's constantly changing. It's the healer of all wounds, the killer of all men. It's at once infinite and finite, ever flowing with twists and turns and brutal, churning rapids that give way to serene stretches of placid tranquility. Fight against the current and it will knock you flat on your ass. Learn to read it, to speak its language, and it will carry you exactly where you're meant to be.

"Time is the ruler of Earth's rhythm," June explains. "Our daily lives revolve around it. Our hearts beat along to its song. If we let it, it can be a powerful guide to turning our greatest hopes and dreams into realities."

June knows a thing or two about turning hopes and dreams into realities. With Pushin' Against A Stone, she went from self-releasing her music as Tennessee's best kept secret to being hailed by the New York Times as one of America's “most intriguing, fully formed new talents."

The New Yorker was captivated by her

"unique, stunning voice," while Rolling Stone dubbed her "unstoppable," and NPR called her "an elemental talent born with the ability to rearrange the clouds themselves." She astonished TV audiences from coast-to-coast with spellbinding performances on The Tonight Show, The Late Show, Austin City Limits, Rachael Ray, and CBS Saturday Morning, and graced some of the world's most prestigious stages, from Carnegie Hall to the Kennedy Center. First Lady Michelle Obama invited June to The White House, and she toured with artists like Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, Sturgill Simpson, Norah Jones, and Jake Bugg in addition to flooring festival crowds at Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, Newport Folk, Hangout, ACL, Pickathon, Mountain Jam and more. In the UK, the reaction was similarly ecstatic. June performed on Later‌with Jools Holland, joined a bill with the Rolling Stones in Hyde Park, and took the press by storm.

Uncut praised her "remarkably careworn vocals," MOJO swooned for her "glorious sound," and The Independent's Andy Gill wrote, "June has the most strikingly individual delivery I've heard in ages."

When it came time to record the follow-up, June felt liberated by the success, fearless and more confident than ever in trusting her instincts and following her muse. There was to be no rushing the music, no harvesting a song before it was ripe on the vine and ready to be plucked. When she sensed the time was right, she headed to rural Guilford, Vermont, with producer Matt Marinelli, spending long stretches through the fall and winter living and recording away from the hustle and bustle of her adopted home of Brooklyn.

"They made us feel so welcome in Vermont," remembers June. "I was cooking amazing food and hanging out with the band all the time. There were long talks and long walks in the snow, and friends would come up for holidays. I felt SEE BIOS PAGE 12

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BIOS FROM PAGE 10 like I put myself in a place where I could really soar. With the last album, I was absorbing and learning and developing so much in the studio, but this is me taking the things I learned and the things I felt in my heart and fighting for them."

In her heart, June is a songwriter first and foremost, willing and able to blur the lines between genres and eras of sounds. The result is an eclectic blend of folk and soul and country and R&B and blues that is undoubtedly the finest work of her career. Opener "Long Lonely Road" settles in like languid southern heat, as June looks back to the sacrifices of her

parents and grandparents, singing in a gentle near-whisper of the sometimes difficult, sometimes beautiful journey we all must undertake in search of brighter days. On the soulful "Love You Once Made," her voice is backed by rich horns and vintage organ as she makes peace with the specter of loss and the ephemeral nature of our relationships, while the bluesy juke joint rocker "Shake Down" features backup vocals from her brothers, Jason and Patrick Hockett and father, Emerson Hockett recorded at home in Tennessee, and "Man Done Wrong" centers on a hypnotic banjo riff that's more African than Appalachian.

"People shouldn't necessarily think of bluegrass when they see the banjo,"

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explains June. "It was originally an African instrument, and people in America used to play all kinds of banjo: mandolin banjo, ukulele banjo, bass banjo, classical banjo, jazz banjo, there were even banjo orchestras. For some reason people like to limit it and say it just has to be in folk and bluegrass, but to me it can be in anything, and I really wanted to set the banjo free on this record."

The banjo turns up again later as the underpinning of the R&B rave-up "Got Soul," which plays out like a mission statement for the entire album, as June offers to "sing a country tune" or "play the blues" but reveals that underneath it all is her sweet soul. Those genre terms might be simplistic ways to attempt to

define her, empty signifiers creating distinctions between sounds where June sees none. "With You" channels the sprightly, ethereal beauty of Nico with fingerpicked electric guitar and cinematic strings, "Slip Slide On By" grooves with shades of Van Morrison, and "If And" slowly builds over meditative hum that hints at John Cale.

Despite the music's varied nature, the songs all belong to a cohesive family, in part because they're tied together by June's one-of-a-kind voice, and because they're all pieces of a larger rumination on the passage of time and how it affects us. The ultimate takeaway from tracks like "The Front SEE BIOS PAGE 13

BIOS FROM PAGE 12 Door" and "Just In Time" is that the present is all we have. Everything around us (our loved ones, our youth, our beauty) will someday fade and disappear, but that transience is what makes those things all the more magical. We're given this brief moment to share our love and light with the world, and when, as June sings on the album, "Time's hands turn and point straight towards you," you'd better be ready.

Thankfully for us, June was ready when time told her to harvest these songs. In the garden, as in life, there is a time for everything and the moment has finally arrived to enjoy the fruits of all her labor. With 'The Order Of Time,' Valerie June has prepared a bountiful feast, and there's a seat at the table for everyone.

IRMA THOMAS 2009 marked the 50th anniversary of Irma Thomas's first recording session and she remains one of America's most distinctive and classic singers, a treasure from the golden age of soul music who remains as compelling and powerful as ever.

Irma first achieved prominence with a string of 1960s hits such as "Time Is On My Side," (later covered by the Rolling Stones), "It's Raining" and "Wish Someone Would Care." She toured extensively across the South with her band, The Toronados. Yet, her life has not been without its share of hardship and challenge. Pregnant at age 15, she was

forced by her father into what she calls a "shotgun marriage." After the devastating effects of Hurricane Camille in 1969, when she was a single mother with four children to support, she moved her family to Los Angeles and worked for a time at a Montgomery Ward store, recording and performing only intermittently.

Upon returning to Louisiana in the 1970s, she slowly rebuilt her reputation as The Soul Queen of New Orleans, signing with Rounder in 1986. In 2005, while she was working in Austin, Texas, Hurricane Katrina flooded her home and destroyed all her possessions, along with her nightclub, The Lion's Den. In the wake of the tragedy and loss that Katrina brought, her career has enjoyed an unprecedented upswing. After several nominations, she won a Grammy and continues to produce new music.

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MON LAFERTE Singer, Songwriter and Chilean performer from Viña del Mar, Mon Laferte is a winner of double platinum album plus gold in Mexico, winner of two MTV 2016 awards, nominated to two Latin Grammy Awards with a tour that visited the USA, Mexico and Chile with over 70 sold out dates.

She knew what she wanted in life when since she was 14 years old when the gui-

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tar turned into her partner and even in her teen years she transmitted her feelings through the verses she was writing.

Musically educated in the streets of Viña del Mar and Valparaiso, she captures popular poetry from her roots that reflect in her tearing yet mellancholic voice.

emotion or the core feeling of what our band is all about—which I don’t even think we could take out if we wanted, because it is who we are—but we wanted to bump the speed up and have a little bit more fun.”

Warpaint spent only four months in the studio making Heads Up, the quickest they’ve ever made a record. “We have a tendency to over-marinate on certain ideas,” Mozgawa says. “There wasn’t a great deal of laboring over things or doing things a million different ways and overdubbing for months.”

In another switch, Warpaint tended to work one-on-one or in pairs with producer Jake Bercovici (who produced their EP Exquisite Corpse) in the studio. “The doors were a little more open in terms of what was accepted and what wasn’t, because we were sharing ideas so rapidly between us,” Mozgawa says.

These looser vibes and individual experiences ensured that once Heads Up was complete, even Warpaint themselves were surprised—in a good way—at how the album turned out. “We’ve been on tour, and we’ve been around each and other,” Lindberg says.

“But you need to take a break from that sometimes to get a fresh perspective, and to be excited and inspired about what you’re doing. I feel like we did that.

“I feel really proud of what we made— almost surprised and shocked,” she continues. “When we were making it, I was like, ‘I wonder what this is going to sound like? How’s this going to come together?’

I love the way that it came together so nicely. I feel so proud of it, and like it’s an evolution of our band. It sounds like a mature version of Warpaint.”

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WARPAINT It’s easy to get the wrong impression about Warpaint. The band’s studio albums (including their most recent full-length, 2014’s Warpaint) tend to emphasize moody atmospheres: gauzy keyboards, hypnotic harmonies and sinister grooves.

In concert, however, the Los Angeles quartet—vocalist/guitarist Emily Kokal, vocalist/guitarist Theresa Wayman, bassist/vocalist Jenny Lee Lindberg and drummer/keyboardist Stella Mozgawa— pair this moodiness with bumped-up tempos and sinewy beats.

Of course, confounding expectations has been part of Warpaint’s m.o. since the band formed in 2004. And so when the band convened to make their third studio album, Heads Up, they shared a common goal: to make a faster, dance-oriented record.

“We’ve always had this really jammy, highenergy live show compared to some of our records,” Kokal says. “We all love to dance.

We didn’t want to take away from the

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No tickets necessary, this is pure free Summer fun (remember that?) all thanks to our partners and sponsors who have brought us another season of awesome free concerts at the beach. Make sure to show them some love.

There is a 21-and-over Concert Garden featuring refreshments from Boulevard and Duvel beers, Deep Eddy Vodka, and an assortment of cocktails and non-alcoholic beverages. Do not miss this view.

There are plenty of great food and beverage options on the deck and at the various restaurants on the Pier. Most even have to-go options perfect for munching during the show. As a reminder, alcohol consumption is not permitted in public spaces, but there are several full-service bars in the area.

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TIME 7PM - 10PM, but those in the know stake out a good spot early.

METRO EXPO Arrive in style on the new EXPO line.

No parking, no traffic, no hassles.

WEATHER & ATTIRE It never gets too cold, but sometimes it gets a little chilly once the sun goes down. So bring something or head up to the Pier Tent on the deck to grab this year's limited-edition sweatshirt or t-shirt!

PARKING We highly recommend alternate transport for a hassle-free experience (EXPO, Bus, Breeze Bike Share, rideshare, skateboard, walk, llama), but if you need to drive, parking is available in the 1550 Pacific Coast Highway Lot next to the Pier on a first-come, first-served basis. Those wanting to avoid long waits and higher fees should try one of the municipal lots a few blocks inland around 2nd/Colorado or 4th/Olympic.

VOLUNTEER We couldn't put on this free amazing event without a little (or a lot) of help from our friends.

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FRIENDS & FAMILY Bring them, the more the merrier. You will not regret it. This is one epic Summer tradition.

SEATING BIKE/SKATEBOARD VALET Park your wheels at the free bike and skateboard valet located next to the beach bike path just south of the Pier. Make it even easier and cruise over on a bike from the new BREEZE bike share.

FIRST AID/LOST & FOUND If you need first aid or assistance, please visit the Pier Tent or flag down a security officer. If it is an emergency, please call 911.

PETS Friendly dogs are welcome on the Pier only and must be on a leash.

Seating is not provided, so feel free to bring your own chairs, blankets, etc...

PRO TIP Get to the Show early! There’s so much to do. The venue opens at 5:45 and you can grab a drink in the concert Garden, check out all the cool art installations and other activities on the deck, plus the Pier is chalk full of great places to eat, drink and hang out. Come early, explore the pier and then enjoy the show!

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