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Live Nation ticket sale: $30 each for 82 San Diego concerts, including Muse, Santana, Kesha

Live Nation, the world's largest promoter of concerts and live events has announced its newly renamed Summer of Live! The annual all-inclusive discounted online ticket sale applies to more than 4,000 concerts nationwide, including more than 80 upcoming shows in San Diego.

The one-week sale will offer San Diego fans the opportunity to save money on shows here at multiple venues by everyone from Rod Stewart, The Roots, Kesha and Ziggy Marley to Guns ‘N Roses, Santana, Muse and Carlsbad-born singer Alex Warren.

The 82 discounted San Diego concerts represent a marked increase over last year, when the sale only applied to 27 concerts here. The $30 all-inclusive per ticket price remains the same as last year. It includes all service fees for each ticket, as well as parking for the concerts at North Island Credit Union Amphitheater. The average U.S. concert ticket price in 2025 was $132.62.

Three indoor San Diego venues that were included in 2024 but not in last year's Live Nation sale - The Magnolia, House of Blues and The Observatory - have been added back this year. Summer of Live! was billed as Ticket To Summer last year after a decade of being billed as Live Nation's National Concert Week All-In.

The 2026 discounted ticket sale begins April 29 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time for the general public and will run until May 5, or as supplies last. The number of online-only tickets available at the reduced rates for each concert is unspecified and limited.

Live Nation All Access members have early access to the $30 ticket offer from today, April 23, through 11:59 p.m. on April 28. The free membership also includes exclusive pre-sale opportunities for other concerts throughout the coming year.

An early access pre-sale for T-Mobile customers will take place Tuesday, April 28, from 10 a.m. local time until 11:59 p.m. local time the same day, at: t-mobiletickets.com.

All of the discounted tickets are available at: LiveNation.com/SummerofLive.

This year's discounted ticket sale comes barely one week after a New York jury found Live Nation and its sister company, Ticketmaster, guilty of operating as a monopoly in the live events and ticketing industry, which both companies have long dominated. Live Nation has vowed to appeal the verdict.

Here is the full list of San Diego concerts and venues participating in the Summer of Live!

Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre

June 2: The Human League, Soft Cell, Allison Moyet

June 19: Metric, Broken Social Scene, Stars

June 20: Ziggy Marley

July 11: Brit Floyd

July 15: Young the Giant

July 24: Howard Jones

July 25: The Fray

Aug. 9: O.A.R.

Oct. 22: Dermot Kennedy

Oct. 31: UB40

House of Blues San Diego

April 30: iDKHOW

May 6: Eric Johnson

May 8: The Dear Hunter

May 24: Dance with the Dead, Magic Sword

May 25: The Paper Kites

May 27: The Cab

May 28: Kinky

May 29: Juvenile

June 7: KES

Aug. 22: Bleach

Sept. 9: Gnash

Sept. 25: Melanie C

Sept. 25: Jesse Baez

Nov. 7: Josh Garrels

Nov. 25: Fear Factory

Gallagher Square at Petco Park:

May 21: Russell Dickerson

June 3: The Kid Laroi

June 25: Iration

July 1: Claypool Gold, featuring Primus, Claypool Lennon Delirium, Frog Brigade

July 23: Rainbow Kitten Surprise

Aug. 18: Yeat

Aug. 20: Tucker Wetmore

Aug. 27: Nas, The Roots, De La Soul

Sept. 17: Jack Harlow

Oct. 22: Juanes

The Magnolia

June 5: "Always, Adele"

May 16: Ben Folds

May 23: "The Rhythm is Gonna Get U! Gloria Estefan Tribute"

June 18: Three Dog Night

June 20: Ivy Queen

July 24: Walk off the Earth

Sept. 10: W.A.S.P.

Sept. 19: Matute

Oct. 10: The Rush Tribute Project

Oct. 20: Iron & Wine

Oct. 28: Jim Henson's "Labyrinth"

North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre:

May 17: mgk

May 23: Kesha

June 10: The Pussycat Dolls

June 12: Rod Stewart, Richard Marx

June 27: Kid Cudi

July 17: Evanescence

Aug. 11: Santana, The Doobie Brothers

Aug. 12: Toto, Christopher Cross, The Romantics

Aug. 18: Ne-Yo, Akon

Aug. 19: 311, Dirty Heads, Portugal. The Man

Aug. 29: Muse

Sept. 8: Deep Purple, Kansas

Sept. 15: Godsmack

Sept. 18: Mötley Crüe, Tesla, Extreme

Oct. 4: $uicideboy$

Oct. 9: Jack Johnson

Oct. 10: MANÁ

The Observatory North Park:

May 1: Lebanon Hanover

May 9: The Academy Is…

May 23: The Afghan Whigs

May 29: Inner Wave, Los Mesoneros

June 3: Allah-Las

June 7: Between The Buried & Me

June 16: Toadies

June 19: IDOBI Radio Summer School Tour

June 21: Alex Isley

June 28: RX Bandits

July 18: Fulton Lee

Aug. 23: Hulvey

Sept. 5: Screeching Weasel

Sept. 14: Arlo Parks

Sept. 27: Geoff Tate

Snapdragon Stadium

Sept. 2: Guns N' Roses

Viejas Arena

June 8: Alex Warren

June 18: Parker McCollum

July 9: 5 Seconds of Summer

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This story was originally published April 23, 2026 at 1:51 PM.

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