Your Favorite Bay Area Things To Do This Summer

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🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Summer months bring longer hours to enjoy everything our region has to offer from music festivals, movie nights in a park, and picturesque hikes. What are you most excited about doing this summer in the Bay? Is there a free concert series in a city park, a bike ride through wine country, a favorite swap meet or beach that you’re looking forward to? We’ll talk about some of the great concerts, festivals and events coming up in the Bay Area this summer. And, we want to hear from you. What is your favorite Bay Area summer tradition? Guests: Gabe Meline, senior editor, KQED Arts & Culture Johnny Hayes, founder, AKA Johnny Funcheap; co-founder, RushTix Azucena Rasilla, arts and community reporter, Oaklandside Pete Crooks, senior writer and editor, Diablo Magazine Lance Gardner, events producer, KQED Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.6	... From KQD in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal. My seven-year-old has a favorite saying that we hear at least once a day, I don't know what to do, which, it turns out, is an amazing way to get other people to lay out some options for stuff to do.
1:02.6	And, well, after some pandemic weirded summers and our long wet winter, I dare say that the people were ready for the summertime. But what
1:12.6	should we do? Do you even remember how to do summer? I'm not sure I do. Luckily, we're
1:17.2	going to bring you some experts who can tell you all the fun things, music, movies,
1:21.7	tomato festivals, all that kind of stuff. So stay tuned, get your calendar ready. We're
1:26.4	going to fill it out right after this news.
1:28.3	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. Oh man. It is nearly summer. I'm just over here waxing my white shoes to wear after Memorial Day.
1:47.1	I'm freezing extra popsicles. I'm packing a go bag filled with fleece for a trip to Ocean Beach.
1:52.7	I'm thinking about going to a music festival for the first time since the Warp Tour in 1999.
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