Santa Cruz Music Festival | 2017
The Santa Cruz Music Festival is a multi-venue music festival in Santa Cruz with 250+ artists on 17 stages at 14 venues in the downtown area. Tickets to the main festival cost $80 in advance, but fortunately, seven of the stages are completely free and open to the public.
Free Concert Venues
Most free venues start at 2pm and run until 8p or 11p. View the schedule for full lineup and details.
- Reef Bar / Pono
- Rosie McCanns
- Streetlight Records – 13 bands over two days
- Woodstock’s Pizza
- The Poet and Patriot
- 99 Bottles
- The Food Lounge – 1001 Center ST. – 2pm to 10pm – “Santa Cruz Speaks” lecture series, comedy, poetry & spoken word.
- Plus late night Sunday shows at Blue Lagoon