{"id":388877,"date":"2026-07-07T05:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/388877\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T05:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:39:12","slug":"free-summer-concerts-in-downtown-royal-oak-on-thursdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/388877\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Summer Concerts in Downtown Royal Oak on Thursdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oakgov.com\/community\/oakland-county-parks\/parks-trails\/red-oaks\/red-oaks-waterpark\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-169907 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/OC-Times-waterpark-ad-water-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"766\" height=\"242\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Free Summer Concerts in Downtown Royal Oak on Thursdays<\/p>\n<p>(ROCC, July 7, 2026)<\/p>\n<p>Royal Oak, MI \u2013\u00a0The Royal Oak Chamber of Commerce Summer Concert Series, presented by Henry Ford Health and sponsored by Downtown Royal Oak, is back in Centennial Commons!<\/p>\n<p>Grab a blanket or a lawn chair, a beverage from your favorite local restaurant (we\u2019re in the social district!) and come for the live music. Grab a bite at the food truck or make plans to dine in or take out from your favorite Royal Oak restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>This family friendly series includes a kid\u2019s area that is all free to you courtesy of Woodward Corner Market &amp; Meijer. Kids area includes\u00a0face painters, balloon animal artist, climbing tower for five Thursdays provided by Oakland County Parks, and free Ray\u2019s ice-cream to kids 12 and under while supplies last courtesy\u00a0of Ray\u2019s Ice Cream and the Royal Oak Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p>5:30pm Pre-Show with The Detroit School of Rock and Pop Music\u00ae Student Bands each week<\/p>\n<p>DJ Invisible will be spinning hits between sets each week<\/p>\n<p>JULY 9\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>7:00pm \u2013 AwesomeR (Funky Covers)<br \/>\n8:30pm \u2013 Laura Rain and the Caesars (Vintage Soul and Funky R&amp;B)<\/p>\n<p>\u200bOakland County Parks Climbing Tower<\/p>\n<p>JULY 16<\/p>\n<p>7:00pm \u2013 Roots Vibrations (Reggae, Carribean)<br \/>\n8:30pm \u2013 The Kreellers (Celtic Rock)<\/p>\n<p>\u200bOakland County Parks Climbing Tower<\/p>\n<p>JULY 23<\/p>\n<p>7:00pm \u2013 The Lucas Rhoades Band\u00a0 (Music of Stevie Ray Vaughn)<br \/>\n8:30pm \u2013 Class Act (R&amp;B and Soul)<\/p>\n<p>\u200bOakland County Parks Climbing Tower<\/p>\n<p>July 30<\/p>\n<p>7:00pm \u2013 The Beggars wsg The Custodians\u00a0 (Good Time Rock \u2019n Roll)\u00a0<br \/>\n8:30pm \u2013 Sponge (Detroit Rock Legends)<\/p>\n<p>\u200bNo Climbing Tower<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/collensestatelaw.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-163101 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/CEL_Oakland_County_Times_V3_Final.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"450\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AUGUST 6<\/p>\n<p>7:00pm \u2013 Chef Chris &amp; the Soup Kitchen (Blues)<br \/>\n8:30pm \u2013 Motor City Josh Big Band (High Energy Horn Driven Blues)<\/p>\n<p>\u200bOakland County Parks Climbing Tower<\/p>\n<p>AUGUST 13<\/p>\n<p>7:00pm \u2013 Chest Fever\u00a0 (A Tribute to The Band)<br \/>\n8:30pm \u2013 Angela Davis (Detroit Vocal Powerhouse)<\/p>\n<p>\u200bOakland County Parks Climbing Tower<\/p>\n<p>AUGUST 20<\/p>\n<p>7:00pm \u2013 Y\u2019ALL BAND (Country Hits)<br \/>\n8:30pm \u2013 The Detroit Retro Society Small Band (Motown, Stevie and More)<\/p>\n<p>\u200bNo Climbing Tower<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free Summer Concerts in Downtown Royal Oak on Thursdays (ROCC, July 7, 2026) Royal Oak, MI \u2013\u00a0The Royal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-388877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388877","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=388877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}