Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Free Altadena Rotary Concerts Return to Renovated Loma Alta Park July 11

[photo credit: County of Los Angeles]

Seven Saturday shows mark the second summer season since the fire-recovery rebuild

The Rotary Club of Altadena will open its 29th season of free Saturday-night concerts July 11 at Loma Alta Park, the Eaton Fire-damaged county park that reopened last year after a $3.4 million renovation.

The seven-Saturday series, staged in partnership with the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation, runs through August 22 at lower Loma Alta Park, 3330 N. Lincoln Ave. Concerts begin at 7 p.m. The Rotary Club will sell beer and wine at each show, according to Pasadena Now and Altadena Now’s reporting on this year’s lineup.

Loma Alta Park was damaged in the January 2025 Eaton Fire and closed before reopening May 17, 2025. It was the first Los Angeles County park to reopen after the fire, according to reporting by Pasadena Now, Altadena Now and heysocal.com at the time of the reopening.

The rebuild, backed by Supervisor Kathryn Barger’s office and philanthropic partners, added two Dodgers Dreamfields, a renovated gymnasium funded by the LA Clippers Foundation, a satellite senior center and a technology center, on top of restoring what the fire destroyed. A $2.4 million FireAid grant was earmarked specifically to rebuild and expand the park’s playgrounds, according to a March 2025 Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation announcement.

“Loma Alta Park is a vital gathering place where our community can come together, especially in times of healing,” Barger said at the park’s reopening.

At a March 2025 ceremony announcing the rebuild plan, LA County Parks Director Norma García-González said crews would compress a project that would normally take about 18 months into two. At the May 17 reopening, she said the timeline had held: “The community asked for the park to reopen, and knew we needed to meet the moment. Here we are, as promised, just two months later.”

The concert series’ return follows a broader push by Barger’s office, which announced in November that the county had secured more than $60 million toward restoring all of Altadena’s fire-damaged parks, including Eaton Canyon Natural Area and Charles Farnsworth Park. García-González has said the parks department sustained more than $250 million in damages from the Eaton Fire.

This year’s sponsor list, released by the Rotary Club, includes the California Community Foundation, MonteCedro, Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts, Toyota Pasadena, Southern California Edison and Barger’s office, among others. Full band lineup and schedule information is available at altadenarotary.org.

García-González said funding is still needed to complete the remaining fire-recovery projects across Altadena’s parks.