{"id":244420,"date":"2026-03-31T03:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244420\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:29:12","slug":"snoop-dogg-to-perform-at-long-beach-amphitheater-grand-opening-on-june-6-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244420\/","title":{"rendered":"Snoop Dogg to perform at Long Beach Amphitheater grand opening on June 6 \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Long Beach Amphitheater is set to open on Saturday, June 6, in style \u2014 when legendary rapper and Long Beach native Snoop Dogg kicks off the new venue\u2019s grand opening with a performance.<\/p>\n

Construction on the new waterfront amphitheater near the Queen Mary began in January<\/a>, with city officials touting the venue as an opportunity for Long Beach to leverage its rich music history to boost local tourism, generate new revenue, and expand the city\u2019s brand as an entertainment hub.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s arguably no one more representative of the city\u2019s deep ties to the music industry than Snoop Dogg, who grew up in the Long Beach and helped define the iconic West Coast hip-hop sound in the 1990s alongside other icons including Dr. Dre, Warren G, Tupac Shakur, Nate Dogg, and more.<\/p>\n

Snoop Dogg\u2019s legacy and career are also deeply intertwined with Long Beach\u2019s VIP Records \u2014 a cornerstone of West Coast hip-hop.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Long Beach native Snoop Dogg is escorted to the stage on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, for a performance at a special event on the beach in Belmont Shore. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Snoop Dogg playing basketball with the kids of the Long Beach Boys & Girls Club at the refurbished basketball gym at the Wallace Petrolane Center in Martin Luther Park. (Photo by Courtney Pierson, Under Armour)\n<\/p>\n

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Rap icon and Long Beach native Snoop Dogg will perform a special Saturday night set at the Cali Vibes Festival in Long Beach on Feb. 18. (Photo by Amy Sussman, Getty Images)\n<\/p>\n

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Snoop Dogg headlines the sold-out Summertime in the LBC music festival at the Queen Mary in Long Beach on Saturday, July 7, 2018. Thanks to the use of augmented reality, the Long Beach native appears as a hologram and answers questions from people who purchase a bottle of Snoop Cali Red wine.
\n(Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Long Beach native Snoop Dogg comes home July 27-28 to headline the Once Upon a Time in the LBC concert at the Queen Mary. (Photo by Amy Harris\/Invision\/AP)\n<\/p>\n

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Rapper Snoop Dogg, third from bottom right, and Blacc Sam, middle right, get ready to cut a ribbon celebrating the opening of a Marathon Burger in downtown Long Beach on
\nSunday, March 1, 2026. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Snoop Dogg will perform at the grand opening ceremony for the new Long Beach Amphitheater on Saturday, June 6. (Photo courtesy LB Amphitheater).\n<\/p>\n

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Long Beach native Snoop Dogg is escorted to the stage on Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024, for a performance at a special event on the beach in Belmont Shore. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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\u201cLong Beach built the culture \u2014 and now we\u2019ve built the stage for it. The opening of the Long Beach Amphitheater is a defining cultural moment and a historic homecoming,\u201d Mayor Rex Richardson said in a Monday, March 30 announcement. \u201cFrom our neighborhoods to the global stage, Snoop Dogg has always represented this city \u2014 and now we welcome him home to open a venue that reflects our culture and captures the vibe that defines Long Beach.\u201d<\/p>\n

Snoop Dogg will help welcome the Long Beach Amphitheater with a performance during the venue\u2019s grand opening scheduled for Saturday, June 6. Snoop Dogg will also be bringing along special guests, according to the announcement.<\/p>\n

The amphitheater, meanwhile, boasts an 11,000-person capacity, views of Long Beach\u2019s waterfront, and more. Several shows for the venue\u2019s inaugural season have also been announced, including:<\/p>\n

Claypool Gold featuring Primus & more on July 3
\nLil Wayne and 2 Chainz on Aug. 1
\nTOTO, Christopher Cross, and The Romantics on Aug. 14
\nLuke Bryan on Aug. 15
\n311 and Dirty Heads on Aug. 18
\nJack\u2019s Mannequin, Something Corporate, and Andrew McMahon on Aug. 22
\nNas & The Roots on Aug. 28
\nLos Angeles Azules on Sept. 5
\nDeep Purple on Sept. 11
\nFive Finger Death Punch on Sept. 18
\nM\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce\u00a0on Sept. 19<\/p>\n

Tickets for the grand opening celebration and Snoop Dogg\u2019s show will go on sale this week. Artist presale begins Wednesday, April 1 at 10 a.m., followed by a venue presale on Thursday, April 2, at 10 a.m., with general sales beginning Friday, April 3 at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cOpening our doors with Snoop Dogg is the perfect way to celebrate Long Beach\u2019s rich music legacy and signals our commitment to bringing world-class entertainment to this community,\u201d said Tra Jones, general manager of Long Beach Amphitheater for Legends Global. \u201cThis venue will be built to honor the city\u2019s creative spirit, and there\u2019s no better artist to launch that mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

For tickets, go to longbeachamp.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Long Beach Amphitheater is set to open on Saturday, June 6, in style \u2014 when legendary rapper…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,584,23,131,133,132,137],"class_list":["post-244420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-events","tag-local-news","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244420","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=244420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}