{"id":273414,"date":"2026-04-18T00:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273414\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T00:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T00:22:10","slug":"the-gettys-free-sunset-concert-series-is-back-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273414\/","title":{"rendered":"The Getty\u2019s free sunset concert series is back for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer may still be a couple months off, but some of our favorite annual alfresco events are already announcing their return, including two free concert series:\u00a0Jazz at LACMA<\/a>\u00a0kicks off its season May 1 (which is bound to be even more popular than usual, given the opening of the new David Geffen Galleries<\/a>), and\u00a0the\u00a0Getty Center<\/a>\u00a0in Brentwood has unveiled the\u00a0Off the 405<\/a> lineup early\u00a0this year.<\/p>\n

The museum\u2019s\u00a0popular concert series will feature\u00a0five evenings of eclectic programming kicking off at the end of May. The best part: Tickets\u2014like admission to the Getty Center\u2014are free, though you\u2019ll want to try to secure a reservation well ahead of time; tickets tend to open up about three weeks before each show and sell out fairly quickly.<\/p>\n

The locally beloved Off the 405 series has been drawing crowds to the Getty\u2019s courtyard since 2009 (besides taking a couple years off during the pandemic). With past headliners including Moses Sumney, Allah-Las, Chicano Batman and Shannon and the Clams, the series\u2019 curated lineup always spans a range of genres and regularly showcases some of the most exciting up-and-comers in the independent music scene.<\/p>\n

Each Saturday-night performance starts at 7:30pm and will be preceded by a DJ set at 6pm. Listening to free live music while watching the sun set over the L.A. skyline in one of the city\u2019s best museums<\/a>\u2014what could be better? And if you need any added motivation to make it out to a show, remember that the Getty Center will be closing for a year<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0planned improvements before the Olympics<\/a>\u2014from March 2027 through early 2028\u2014so the concert series will likely be taking a year off after this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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And now for the lineup:\u00a0First up on May 30 is\u00a0Los Angeles\u2013based \u201csurrealist blues poet\u201d aja monet, who\u2019ll be returning to L.A. after\u00a0playing Carnegie Hall. Her\u00a02023 debut album, when the poems do what they do, was nominated for a Grammy for best spoken word poetry album, and she has new music on the way. She recently released a single, \u201chollyweird,\u201d co-produced with\u00a0Meshell Ndegeocello and inspired by the\u00a02025 Los Angeles wildfires. Tickets<\/a> are available starting Thursday, May 7.<\/p>\n

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Next up\u00a0are Hunx and His Punx on June 13 (which is just a fun name to say). The San Francisco trio\u2014led by Shannon and the Clams frontwoman Shannon Shaw\u2014are back in action after over a decade-long hiatus, with a new album whose tracks include the L.A.-inspired \u201cAlone in Hollywood on Acid.\u201d Expect a night of\u00a0queer garage punk and outsider pop that\u2019s reminiscent of the \u201cgleefully twisted kitsch of John Waters.\u201d Tickets<\/a>\u00a0are available starting Thursday, May 21.<\/p>\n

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On July 11,\u00a0Seoul seven-piece band\u00a0LEENALCHI will be in town for a show. You might recognize them from Netflix\u2019s\u00a0Midnight Asia: Eat. Dance. Dream. Made up of three singers, two bassists, a drummer and keyboard player\u2014no guitarist in sight\u2014the group\u00a0imbues the act of\u00a0musical folk storytelling with Talking Heads vibes. In fact, they\u00a0have a new record on the way that David Byrne\u2019s label,\u00a0Luaka Bop, is releasing. Tickets<\/a> will be available Thursday, June 18.<\/p>\n

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Two weeks later on July 25,\u00a0Horse Lords will take the stage.\u00a0The four-piece band from Baltimore pushes the boundaries of\u00a0experimental minimalism\u00a0and post-punk, using their traditional instruments as parts of a larger \u201crhythmic engine,\u201d leaning into repetition and patterns. Tickets<\/a> will be available Thursday, July 2.<\/p>\n

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And last but not least, L.A.-based\u00a0electronic composer, producer and musician Laurel Halo\u00a0will perform on August 22, bringing her unique\u00a0mix of techno, ambient music and musique concr\u00e8te to the Getty\u2019s courtyard. Tickets<\/a>\u00a0will be\u00a0available starting Thursday, July 30.<\/p>\n

Note that even though tickets are free, they\u2019re still required and will serve as your museum reservation. If a show is sold-out, walk-ups will be admitted day-of if any spots end up being available, if you want to try your luck. Either way, we recommend arriving early to check out the galleries and gardens before the show (they remain open till 9pm on Saturdays) and making a day of it. But if you already have your tickets, there\u2019s also a compelling case for showing up right before the show: While parking\u00a0drops to $15 after 3pm, the Getty is offering\u00a0free\u00a0parking for those who show up after 6pm on Saturdays, so if you play your cards right, you can enjoy an entirely free night out on the town.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summer may still be a couple months off, but some of our favorite annual alfresco events are already…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[53454,48,52,51,47,50,49,330,53455],"class_list":["post-273414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-categories-music","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-music","tag-news-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273414","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=273414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}