Flights & Sounds Summer Festival

Free Saturday Night Concerts and Friday Night Dance Parties

Exceptional music and dance concerts return this summer at the Orange County Great Park’s third Flights & Sounds Summer Festival.

Free dance lessons at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays will warm up the dance floor before the live bands perform at 8:00 p.m. On Saturdays, audiences will enjoy proven musical favorites and unexpected discoveries, in a temporary concert pavilion at 8:00 p.m., located next to the Great Park Balloon. Limited seating is available, so lawn chairs permitted. Leashed pets are welcome, except in the Hangar Café. Flights & Sounds is presented by the Orange County Great Park Corporation in partnership with the Irvine Barclay Theatre.

Hangar Café

Time(s): 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
The Hangar Café returns, with an eclectic menu (PDF, 971 KB) of hot and cold entrées, salads, snacks, drinks, and more. A selection of beer and wine will also be available for purchase. (You must be 21 or over to purchase or consume alcohol. ID required. Bringing alcohol to the Orange County Great Park is prohibited). Visitors can purchase food on-site or pre-order a picnic dinner for pick-up upon arrival (coming soon).

Saturday Night Comedy Corner

Time(s): 7:00 p.m.
Location: Hangar Café Terrace
Just outside the café, local stand-up comedians and comediennes (seen on Comedy Central, the Tonight Show, Last Comic Standing, at the Improv, and more) will perform every Saturday at 7:00 p.m. before each concert. Performance schedule below.

And Don’t Miss…

• Free chess outside the Hangar Café
• Phantoms Phorever art installation in the Visitors Center
• Farm + Flight art exhibit in the Hangar Café
• Kids Rock play area adjacent to the Visitors Center
• Great Park Balloon night flights

Schedule of Performances

Saturday Night Concerts, 8:00 p.m. Comedy Corner opens at 7:00 p.m.
Date	Artist(s)	Comic(s)
August 7	Mariachi Reyna de Los Angeles First all-woman professional mariachi ensemble in the United States.	Patrick Keane with special guests Eddie Barojas, Tim Chizmar
August 14	Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Favorites of last summer’s concert series return for a well-deserved encore.	Quinn Dahle
August 21	Last for One World champion b-boy crew from Korea.	Dante with special guests Rebekah Kochan, David Marley
August 28	Te Vaka From the Maori music of New Zealand to the chants of Tahiti — music from across the massive Polynesian Triangle.	Tom Connolly, Lou Santini
September 4	Scrap Arts Music World-famous performance outfit plays instruments made from recycled industrial scraps.	Matt Claybrooks with special guests Jackie Fabulous, Chris Adams
September 11	Blind Boys of Alabama Grammy Award-winning. Gospel, soul, blues, and funk.	Tom Clark with special guests Chris Edwards, Jonny Loquasto
September 18	Donavon Frankenreiter Orange County native Donavon Frankenreiter has traveled the world both as a musician and as a respected professional surfer.	Taylor Williamson with special guests Robbie Pickard, Ryan Niemiller
September 25	BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet with Big Chief Monk Boudreaux and the Mardi Gras Indians Closing night party: America’s grandest Cajun band brings Mardi Gras to Orange County.	Kenny Kane with special guest Tom Vrab
Friday Night Dance Parties, 8:00 p.m. Free dance instruction will be available on Fridays at 7:30 p.m.
Date	Artist(s)
August 6	Swingtown From Glen Miller’s songbook to James Brown, as long as a song swings, it’s fair game for this 11-piece band.
August 13	Lucky 7 Mambo Lucky 7 Mambo’s Afro-Cuban rhythms are some of the most romantic music this side of Havana.
August 20	DJ House Party Featuring DJ Hapa and DJ Casey Connor.
August 27	Hector del Curto’s Eternal Tango Quintet This Argentinean outfit will get you tangled up in tango.
September 3	Steve Lucky and the Rhumba Bums with Miss Carmen Getit Steve Lucky and friends return to the Great Park with their hot mix of swing, West Coast jump blues, and R&B.
September 10	Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys Big Sandy and his crew will rock the Park with the sounds of R&B and rockabilly.
September 17	The Jerry Mandel Swinging the Standards Jazz Band Bringing the cool sounds of Gershwin and Cole Porter, Sinatra and Tony Bennett — music that dares you to listen without snapping your fingers.
September 24	Waltz Me: A Night in Vienna Strauss waltz and ballroom dance night with top local musicians. In ballgowns or board shorts, come out and join in the fun.