Most towns get one summer concert series. Agoura Hills quietly runs two, on parallel tracks, and the residents who plan around both end up with something closer to a season than a schedule. Free Sunday evenings on the grass at Chumash Park. Ticketed nights a few minutes away at The Canyon. A jazz matinee tucked between them. If you already live here, the calendar is the point, and it rewards a little attention.
The thesis worth knowing: Agoura Hills' summer music isn't a single event you catch once. It's a rhythm of Sunday city concerts, mid-week club shows, and one quiet afternoon in a school auditorium, all inside a five-minute drive of each other.
The Sunday Rhythm at Chumash Park
The city's free series is the anchor. The City of Agoura Hills Department of Community Services and the DIY Home Center present the 2026 Summer Concerts in the Park, held at 6 p.m. on Sundays and free of charge, with food trucks on hand. All concerts are held at Chumash Park, 5550 Medea Valley Drive, Agoura Hills.
The four-Sunday lineup this year leans hard into tribute acts, which is either a feature or a bug depending on your taste, but it does give the season a shape:
| Date | Act |
|---|---|
| Sun., June 14 | Skynard Reloaded, a Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute |
| Sun., July 5 | Disco Inferno, followed by a patriotic drone show |
| Sun., Aug. 2 | Fortunate Son, a CCR tribute |
| Sun., Aug. 16 | Turn the Page, a Bob Seger tribute |
That schedule is confirmed by the City of Agoura Hills Department of Community Services on the grassy field at Chumash Park, with concerts beginning at 6 p.m. and free for the public with all family members welcome.
A quick note for planning: bring chairs and blankets, and expect food available for purchase on site.
What Actually Happens After the July 5 Concert
The July 5 date is the one to circle, and not only because it falls on the tail end of the long weekend. After the Disco Inferno set wraps, the city stages its annual drone show. Agoura Hills' Summer Concerts in the Park closes the long weekend at Chumash Park with a patriotic 300-drone show by Sky Elements after a free DSB Journey tribute concert.
There is a small wrinkle worth flagging for residents who like to know exactly what they're walking into. Different official listings for the July 5 evening name different opening acts. The America250 event page describes a DSB Journey tribute followed by the drone show, while the city-affiliated listings and The Acorn's rundown describe Disco Inferno as the concert act. Patch's local event listing places the concert at 6 p.m. at Chumash Park, 5550 Medea Valley Dr, with the drone show beginning after the concert, and frames the night as "America250 Summer Concerts in the Park features Disco Inferno: Disco Variety Show, followed by a patriotic drone show at Chumash Park." If you're driving in from outside town for a specific band, confirm with the city before you leave the house.
Either way, the drone show is the local draw. Three hundred drones over the grass at dusk is a different experience than fireworks over a stadium, and it's the reason the July concert tends to draw the biggest blanket-and-cooler crowd of the four.
The Mid-Week Counterpart: The Canyon on Roadside Drive
If Chumash Park is the family picnic, The Canyon at 28912 Roadside Drive in Agoura Hills is the grown-up night out. It's the reason a lot of residents don't drive into the Valley or over the hill for a show. A partial list of what's booked into the club through the summer:
- Fri., July 3 — Rock Cellar Productions' Get Together Foundation charity event, an orchestrated Beatles tribute featuring The Tribe and the Fab FOUR-chestra
- Sat., July 4 — Tom Petty tribute by So Petty with the Bobby Gray Band
- Fri., July 10 — Ambrosia, with an opening set by Sierra Drummond
- Fri., July 17 — Reverend Horton Heat
- Sat., July 18 — Poncho Sanchez, with an opening set by YOCOYA
- Fri., July 31 — Henry Kapono
- Sat., Aug. 1 — Spazmatics, with Ghost in the Machine opening
- Fri., Aug. 7 — Bruno Mars tribute by Locked Out Of Heaven
- Sat., Aug. 8 — The Doobie Brothers tribute by The Doobie Doubles
- Fri., Aug. 14 — David Bowie tribute by Electric Duke
- Fri., Aug. 28 — The Boogie Knights, with LA Winter and Guilty Pleasures
Those dates and openers are drawn from the venue's own 2026 calendar. The mix is telling: two originals-heavy acts (Ambrosia, Poncho Sanchez, Reverend Horton Heat, Henry Kapono) sitting alongside a heavy dose of tributes. It mirrors the city's own programming philosophy at Chumash, just with table service and a cover charge.
The Sunday Afternoon Nobody Talks About
Between the tribute nights and the club shows, there's one quieter listing that gets almost no attention outside the families who know about it. The City of Agoura Hills also announces the 2026 summer performance of the Community Concert and Jazz Band, with Robert Hackett as conductor of both bands. The Conejo Valley Community Concert and Jazz Band will hold its summer concert at 4 p.m. on Sun., July 19 at the Agoura High School Performing Arts Center at 28545 Driver Ave.
Four in the afternoon, in a proper performing arts center, with an actual community band and jazz ensemble under one conductor. It slots neatly between the July 5 concert and the August 2 Chumash date, and it's the closest thing on the summer calendar to a traditional civic music event. If you've got out-of-town parents visiting on a July weekend and want something that isn't a tribute act on grass, this is the answer.
How Locals Actually Work the Calendar
A few things become obvious once you start planning around all three tracks.
The Sunday concerts at Chumash draw the earliest arrivals of the season. The grassy field at 5550 Medea Valley Drive fills quickly by 5:15 for a 6 p.m. downbeat, especially the July 5 date with the drone show attached. Blankets go down early, and the food trucks work through both the pre-show and intermission windows.
The Canyon shows on Roadside Drive are the low-friction option when the weather turns hot in late July and early August. Indoor, seated, and a five-minute drive from most of the city.
The July 19 afternoon at Agoura High's PAC on Driver Avenue is the sleeper. It's air-conditioned, it starts and ends inside a two-hour window, and it's the one summer music event where you can reasonably dress up.
A practical planning note. The city's official contact for the Chumash Park series runs through the Recreation Center. For more information, call the Agoura Hills Recreation Center at (818) 597-7361 or visit www.agourahillscity.gov. That's the number to call if a Sunday is weather-questionable or if you want to confirm a food-truck lineup before you skip dinner at home.
Why This Matters More Than the Individual Shows
Zoom out and the pattern is what makes Agoura Hills unusual for a city its size. Four free Sunday concerts. A drone show at the halfway point. A community band matinee in a real theater. A working music club running its own parallel calendar of tributes and legacy acts a few blocks away. Most Conejo Valley cities have one of these. Agoura Hills has all four, and the drive time between any two of them is short enough that a family can catch the June 14 Skynyrd tribute at Chumash, the July 19 jazz band at Agoura High, and a Saturday at The Canyon in August without ever getting on the 101 for more than a mile.
That density is easy to take for granted if you've lived here a while. It's also the specific texture of summer that new arrivals notice first and old-timers eventually remember to appreciate.
If your own summer plans include thinking about whether this stretch of the Conejo Valley is where you want to be for the long run, Cris Epstein knows this town at the block level and is glad to walk through the market with you. Let's Connect.
