{"id":245614,"date":"2026-03-31T20:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/245614\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T20:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:56:14","slug":"snoop-dogg-to-kick-things-off-at-long-beachs-new-live-music-venue-long-beach-amphitheater-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/245614\/","title":{"rendered":"Snoop Dogg to kick things off at Long Beach&#8217;s new live music venue, Long Beach Amphitheater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Poster for Long Beach Amphitheater grand opening (Live Nation)\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0d0509bbb01d3dcb666676d73552ea36.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Poster for Long Beach Amphitheater grand opening (Live Nation)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A new live music venue will open in Long Beach, California, in June, so who better to help kick things off than a musician from the area?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Snoop Dogg will headline the grand opening event for the Long Beach Amphitheater, taking place on June 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cOpening our doors with Snoop Dogg is the perfect way to celebrate Long Beach&#8217;s rich music legacy and signals our commitment to bringing world-class entertainment to this community,\u201d Tra Jones, general manager of Long Beach Amphitheater for Legends Global, said in a statement. \u201cThis venue will be built to honor the city&#8217;s creative spirit, and there&#8217;s no better artist to launch that mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;From our neighborhoods to the global stage, Snoop Dogg has always represented this city\u2014and now we welcome him home to open a venue that reflects our culture and captures the vibe that defines Long Beach,\u201d added Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tickets will be available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachamp.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:LongBeachAmphitheater.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;LongBeachAmphitheater.com&quot;}\" class=\"link \">LongBeachAmphitheater.com<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"http:\/\/Ticketmaster.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ticketmaster.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Ticketmaster.com&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Ticketmaster.com<\/a>, starting with an artist presale Wednesday at 10 a.m. PT. A venue presale will follow Thursday at 10 a.m. PT, with the tickets going on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. PT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 11,000-person-capacity amphitheater will be the first large-scale outdoor music venue in Long Beach. Snoop\u2019s set will get the ball rolling for its first season of performances, which include an Aug. 1 show featuring Lil Wayne with 2 Chainz and The Game as part of Tha Carter series tour, with Nas\u00a0and The Roots set to hit the stage on Aug. 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The full lineup can be found\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/longbeachamp.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:longbeachamp.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;longbeachamp.com&quot;}\" class=\"link \">longbeachamp.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poster for Long Beach Amphitheater grand opening (Live Nation) A new live music venue will open in Long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[109886,131,133,132,43021],"class_list":{"0":"post-245614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-live-music-venue","9":"tag-long-beach","10":"tag-long-beach-headlines","11":"tag-long-beach-news","12":"tag-snoop-dogg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245614","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=245614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}