Monday, August 17, 2026

A Fleetwood Mac Tribute Closes Altadena’s 29th Summer of Free Concerts

[photo credit: Rotary Club of Altadena]

Stevie Nicks Illusion plays the lower lawn at Loma Alta Park on Saturday, the season’s last night

The Rotary Club of Altadena has put free music in a park on summer Saturdays since 1997. It has missed exactly one season — 2020, when the pandemic canceled it. It did not miss the summer after the Eaton Fire.

The 29th season, staged in partnership with Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation, ends Saturday at 7 p.m. with Stevie Nicks Illusion, a Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks tribute act presented by GigRoster.com, on the lower lawn at Loma Alta Park, 3330 N. Lincoln Ave. Admission is free. The Rotary Club sells beer and wine.

Where the concerts happen is itself part of the story. The series spent years at Farnsworth Park, which the January 2025 fire damaged. Loma Alta Park also closed after the fire and reopened on May 17, 2025, following a $3.4 million renovation — the first county park to reopen after the Eaton Fire, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation, which said it compressed a rebuild that would ordinarily take about 18 months into roughly two. The work added two Dodgers Dreamfields, a gymnasium renovated by the LA Clippers Foundation, a satellite senior center and a technology center.

Norma E. García-González, director of Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation, said at the reopening that the community asked for the park to reopen. Kathryn Barger, chair of the county Board of Supervisors, called it a vital gathering place, especially in times of healing.

This summer’s lineup ran through a Taylor Swift tribute, a salsa band, a Beatles tribute, steel drum reggae and Motown before arriving here. The Rotary Club has said it is grateful to Barger and the county Parks and Recreation Department for making it possible to keep the series going as Altadena recovers.

Saturday is the last one of the season.

Stevie Nicks Illusion will perform on Saturday, August 22 at 7 p.m. Loma Alta Park, 3330 N. Lincoln Ave., Altadena. Visit altadenarotary.org. Admission is free. Beer and wine available for purchase.