{"id":435111,"date":"2026-08-17T08:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T08:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/435111\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T08:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T08:21:15","slug":"stern-grove-shutouts-its-not-just-you-who-lost-the-ticket-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/435111\/","title":{"rendered":"Stern Grove shutouts: It\u2019s not just you who lost the ticket lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published Aug. 16, 2026at6:00am<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">If you tried and tried to score tickets to the free Stern Grove Festival this summer without success, join the club. Around 80% of people who wanted tickets were in the same boat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">It\u2019s been more than a year since the annual concert series replaced its unpopular online ticket giveaway with a lottery system. It also has turned out to be, well, unpopular.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">The concert meadow, surrounded by redwoods and eucalyptus trees, has a capacity of 12,000. This summer, there was an average of 100,000 entrants to the lottery for each performance, organizers revealed to The Standard. Last year\u2019s Diana Ross concert set the record with almost 170,000 lottery participants; Al Green\u2019s show this Sunday nearly matched that, organizers said. There were 1.1 million total entries this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">\u201cWe understand how disappointing it can be not to receive tickets, and we don\u2019t take that frustration lightly. Stern Grove Festival has become significantly more popular in recent years, and interest now far exceeds what our historic venue can accommodate,\u201d festival spokesperson Molly Fremgen said. \u201cIn fact, we\u2019re serving more people than ever before, and our total season attendance has doubled since the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Aug. 16, 2026at6:00am If you tried and tried to score tickets to the free Stern Grove Festival&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2644,330,101,103,102,104,106,105,155402],"class_list":["post-435111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-concerts","tag-music","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-stern-grove-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435111","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=435111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}