{"id":180401,"date":"2026-02-16T18:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180401\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T18:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:23:06","slug":"shaq-set-for-sweet-16-basketball-concert-series-lineup-in-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180401\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaq set for Sweet 16 basketball concert series lineup in San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2023\/06\/20\/nba-legend-shaquille-oneal-set-to-perform-night-show-for-outside-lands\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shaq<\/a> is back \u2014 back again.<\/p>\n<p>Having just hosted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/12\/09\/shaquille-oneal-shaq-super-bowl-concert-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">a big Super Bowl party in San Francisco<\/a> in early February, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2023\/08\/12\/outside-lands-kicks-off-year-15-with-kendrick-lamar-shaq-interpol-aespa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shaquille O\u2019Neal<\/a> returns to the Bay Area to perform during the Music Mania concert series in San Jose.<\/p>\n<p>Shaq \u2014 who, in 2023, arguably gave the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2023\/08\/12\/nba-star-shaquille-oneal-shoots-and-misses-with-dj-set-at-outside-lands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">worst performance in the long and distinguished history of the Outside Lands music festival<\/a> \u2014 will once again be performing under the stage name DJ Diesel.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Neal performs on Night 1 (March 27) of this three-day concert series, which is being held in conjunction with the Sweet 16 NCAA college men\u2019s basketball games taking place at SAP Center in San Jose on March 26 and 18.<\/p>\n<p>The other two headliners in the series are pop star Bebe Rexha on March 28 and country star Dustin Lynch on March 29. The complete entertainment lineups are listed below.<\/p>\n<p>The concerts take place at the SoFa Lot at 350 S. First St., San Jose.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets start at $134 for full weekend passes. Individual concert tickets start at $73 (DJ Diesel) and $49 (Rexha, Lynch).<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tixr.com\/groups\/tbd\/events\/music-mania-175663\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/www.tixr.com\/groups\/tbd\/events\/music-mania-175663<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Daily lineups:<\/p>\n<p>March 27: DJ Diesel, Whethan, Eptic, Zen Selekta &amp; Maneki<\/p>\n<p>March 28: Bebe Rexha, Hayla, 3quency, Ashley Mehta &amp; She is Jules<\/p>\n<p>March 29: Dustin Lynch, Ashely Cooke, Graham Barham &amp; Ryan Scripps<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shaq is back \u2014 back again. Having just hosted a big Super Bowl party in San Francisco in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,2644,4978,1533,181,20730,330,8257,8258,88,90,89,198,200,420],"class_list":{"0":"post-180401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-bay-area","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-concerts","11":"tag-downtown-san-jose","12":"tag-keywee","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-march-madness","15":"tag-music","16":"tag-pop-music","17":"tag-rock-music","18":"tag-san-jose","19":"tag-san-jose-headlines","20":"tag-san-jose-news","21":"tag-santa-clara-county","22":"tag-south-bay","23":"tag-things-to-do"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}