Friday, August 21, 2026

Altadena’s 29th Free Concert Season Closes Saturday With a Fleetwood Mac Tribute at Loma Alta Park

[photo credit: Rotary Club of Altadena]

The band performs at 7 p.m. at the park, 3330 N. Lincoln Ave. Admission is free. It is the last of seven Saturday concerts that began July 11, and the second season the series has run at Loma Alta. 

Stevie Nicks Illusion draws on Fleetwood Mac’s catalog and Stevie Nicks’ solo work, with Diana Grace on the Nicks vocals, Monty Sommer on Lindsey Buckingham’s guitar parts and Laurie Richardson covering Christine McVie. The Rotary Club lists the act as presented by Gigroster.com. 

The 2026 season opened July 11 with the Taylor Swift tribute Dream Like Taylor. It continued with Past Action Heroes, the all-female salsa band Las Chikas and the Beatles tribute Britain’s Finest, then the steel drum reggae and soca band Upstream and the Blue Breeze Band. 

The concerts are staged in partnership with the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation. They moved to Loma Alta after the January 2025 fire damaged Farnsworth Park, the series’ previous home. Loma Alta closed after the fire and reopened May 17, 2025, following a $3.4 million renovation. The county has called it the first of Altadena’s county parks to reopen. 

The rebuild added two Dodgers Dreamfields, a gymnasium renovated by the Los Angeles Clippers Foundation, a satellite senior center and a technology center. The county said it compressed a rebuild that would normally take about 18 months into roughly two. 

“Here we are, as promised, just two months later,” Norma E. García-González, director of Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation, said at the May 2025 reopening. Kathryn Barger, chair of the county Board of Supervisors, described the park at the reopening as a vital gathering place, especially while the community is healing. 

The Rotary Club said in announcing the 2026 lineup that it was “incredibly grateful” to Barger and the county parks department for support that kept the series running through Altadena’s recovery.

The club has put free music in an Altadena park on summer Saturdays since 1997. The series has missed one season, in 2020, when it was canceled during the coronavirus pandemic. It did not miss the summer after the fire.