Your Guide to the Warner Park Summer Concert Series

If you haven't been to Warner Park on a Sunday evening yet this summer, you're missing the closest thing Woodland Hills has to a neighborhood block party. The Valley Cultural Foundation's free concert series is marking 51 years at the Lou Bredlow Pavilion this year, and honestly, the crowd that shows up is as much the draw as whoever's on stage. Beach chairs, picnic blankets, kids weaving between them with glow sticks.

The basics

Concerts run Sunday evenings from June 14 through August 23. There's an Emerging Artist Showcase at 5:30 p.m., then the main act takes over around 6:30. Everything wraps by 8 p.m. The venue is the Nora Ross Bandshell at the Lou Bredlow Pavilion, 5800 Topanga Canyon Blvd. Admission is free. Parking in the structures at 21825 Califa Street runs $20, cash or online, or you can look for street parking around the park starting at 4:30 p.m.

What's left this season

• Sunday, July 19 – Raised on TV performs "Ridin' the Storm Out," a REO Speedwagon tribute
• Sunday, July 26 – Sanford Street backs Abbey Road, a Beatles tribute
• Sunday, August 2 – 101 Girls opens for New Romantics, a Taylor Swift tribute
• Sunday, August 23 – Mike Scully opens for Led Zepagain, a Led Zeppelin tribute, closing out the season

There's no concert the Sunday right after the Fourth. The Foundation gives everyone a week off after the fireworks. (Missed it? Here's our recap of the July 4th Extravaganza.)

Good to know before you go

Bring a low chair (under 3 feet), a blanket, or a tarp. There's plenty of lawn to go around. Canopies and EZ-ups are fine before the music starts but need to come down once the show begins so everyone behind you can actually see. Food trucks and local vendors set up around the park each week too, so you don't need to pack a full picnic if you'd rather just grab dinner there.

Our pick if you can only make one more

July 26's Beatles tribute is shaping up to be one of the better-attended nights left this season. It tends to pull a slightly older, more sing-along crowd than the pop-tribute weeks. Bringing kids? August 2's Taylor Swift night is the one to circle.

Full schedule and any last-minute changes are always posted on the Valley Cultural Foundation's site.

Know a local business that should have a table at one of these? Or a Woodland Hills event we should be covering? Send us a note. We're building this guide one Sunday at a time, same as everyone else in the park.

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