If you have lived in the marina for more than a season, you already know the drill: the second Saturday of July, Admiralty backs up, Mindanao is a parking lot, and the concert crowd descends on Burton Chace Park. What is worth paying attention to this summer is how much the surrounding machinery has changed around that ritual. The concert series is in its 26th year, but the WaterBus, the food scene along Via Marina, and the programming filling in the shoulder weekends have quietly reorganized what a Saturday here can look like.
The short version of the thesis: summer 2026 is the first year where a resident can plan a full concert night, dinner, and ride home without touching a car, and the reason is a set of small decisions the county and a few operators made over the last twelve months.
The 2026 concert lineup, in one glance
The Marina del Rey Summer Concert Series runs Saturdays at 7 PM from July 11 through August 15 at Burton Chace Park. All six shows are free, festival seating, first-come first-served.
| Date | Act |
|---|---|
| Saturday, July 11 | Marina del Rey Symphony — Encanto in Concert Live-to-Film |
| Saturday, July 18 | Los Lobos |
| Saturday, July 25 | TBA |
| Saturday, August 1 | Marina del Rey Symphony — Video Game Soundtrack |
| Saturday, August 8 | Monsieur Periné |
| Saturday, August 15 | D Smoke and Carl Thomas |
The August 1 program is worth flagging even if video-game music sounds like a novelty on paper.
