{"id":414752,"date":"2026-07-28T03:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T03:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/414752\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T03:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T03:40:09","slug":"free-concerts-in-san-diego-this-summer-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/414752\/","title":{"rendered":"Free concerts in San Diego this summer: What you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2014 San Diego is packed with free concerts this summer, and Westwind Brass is behind many of them.<\/p>\n<p>The organization hosts free performances across the city, with a mission to make live music accessible to everyone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We try and reduce barriers for audience members,&#8221; said Barry Toombs, the Executive Director of Westwind Brass. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/calendar.ucsd.edu\/event\/summer-with-stuart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Westwind Brass is partnering with UCSD to present the Summer with Stuart Concert Series<\/a> \u2014 evening performances held at pieces from the Stuart Collection on campus, including at the Bear, a massive sculpture on the grounds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we always want to do is share the Stuart collection with as many people as possible&#8230; they&#8217;re a fantastic group,&#8221; said Jess Berlanga-Taylor, Chief Campus Curator for UC San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>Two more UCSD concerts remain in the series, and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westwindbrass.org\/events\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Westwind Brass has additional free performances<\/a> scheduled over the next few months featuring other musicians as well.<\/p>\n<p>All performing musicians are paid a fair wage, funded through donations and grants, according to Toombs.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2014 San Diego is packed with free concerts this summer, and Westwind Brass is behind&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[152585,110683,66546,330,74,76,75,5729,165915],"class_list":["post-414752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-free-and-fun","tag-free-concerts","tag-free-things-to-do","tag-music","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-uc-san-diego","tag-westwind-brass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414752","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=414752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}