Michael Franti & Spearhead and Iration will headline the first BeachLife Nights on Oct. 18 and 19, a two-day music and food event in the Redondo Beach Harbor, organizers announced on Thursday, Sept. 5.
The BeachLife Festival has brought tens of thousands of music lovers to Redondo Beach since 2019. With the cancellation of BeachLife Ranch this year, organizers wanted to bring a new experience to the South Bay.
BeachLife Nights is more of a concert on a beach than a festival, the event’s manager, Sam Meyers, said. Organizers expect 3,000 to 4,000 to attend each day, compared to the more than 10,000 a day that BeachLife Festival drew its first five years.
“It’s a casual concert on the beach for $75 a day that you and your family can come when essentially no more shows are happening,” Meyers said. “This is like the season where people start to shut down and tours go off the road.”
Along with the two days of music, celebrity chef Curtis Stone will host a VIP barbecue behind the event’s main stage both days.
Michael Franti & Spearhead headlines the entertainment on Friday, Oct. 18, along with performance by The Rookies, The English Beat and Soja.
Anuhea, Donavon Frankenreiter and Fortunate Youth will open for Iration on Saturday, Oct. 19.
General admission and VIP tickets are available and are currently on sale. The event takes place from 4 to 10 p.m. each day.
VIP tickets, which cost $259 each day, will include a food and beverage tasting session from 4 to 6 p.m. with Stone, access to the Backstage VIP Lounge, a VIP front row viewing area and more.
General admission tickets for each day are $75.
“A festival or a weekend a big ask, and we’re trying to make this as easy as possible for people to come out and have great time,” Meyers said. “So we built this around a single day. You’re there for six hours, you get to go home, you’re in bed by 10, and then you can do whatever you want the following day.”
The event will be contained in the Seaside Lagoon…
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