Spring is finally here! The city is celebrating with plenty of activities all month-long, including a an Asian street food festival, live music along Adams Avenue, Coronado Playhouse’s new musical comedy, The Drowsy Chaperone, and more. Here are all the best things to do this month in San Diego:
Concerts & Festivals | Theater & Art Exhibits | More Fun Things to Do
Concerts & Festivals in San Diego This Month
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Terence Blanchard & Ravi Coltrane honor the 100th birthdays of jazz legends Miles Davis and John Coltrane at Balboa Theatre with a symphony of saxophone and trumpet.
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The acoustic arrangements of Japanese multi-instrumentalist Ichiko Aoba play out like a lush fantasy. Using nature as her soundscape, enter Aoba’s soft and spectacular world via her Balboa Theatre concert.
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Find your new favorite musician via Adams Avenue Unplugged. Punk icon Alejandro Escovedo headlines a lineup of 80 (mostly free) performances at an array of local businesses along Adams Avenue.
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The musical legacy of Old Havana lives on within the world-renowned Buena Vista Orchestra. See
the vibrant ensemble play classic Latin American standards at Belly Up.
Theater & Art Exhibits in San Diego This Month
4/4–5/15
Can you keep a secret? British photographer Michael Kenna’s black-and-white snapshots of confessional boxes, Confessionali, will reveal a stark yet profound vision of religious iconography at Joseph Bellows Gallery.
4/10–5/10
When a Broadway faithful decides to spin the The Drowsy Chaperone soundtrack, the musical comes to life. Observe this satire and celebration of theater’s age-old charm at Coronado Playhouse.
4/11–9/6
Brothers in Arts: James Hubbell and Bert Hubbell tells the story of a familial bond shaped through creative harmony. Track the Hubbell’s immortal connection through Oceanside Museum of Art’s dual retrospective.
4/18–8/9
New York swagger + Girl-on-fire energy = Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys. MCASD will host the power couple’s only West Coast exhibit featuring more than 130 works highlighting influential Black American and diasporic artists.
23–26
Shakespeare said all the world’s a stage, and the proof is in La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls (WOW) Festival, a forum for daringly original performances with locales all around UC San Diego.
More Fun Things to Do in San Diego This Month
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Clear your afternoon, and let your taste buds lead the way during Taste of Hillcrest. With over two dozen unique stops—be sure to bring your appetite.
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Ripe with festivities like the Avo 500 race, costume contests, and a guac recipe showdown, there is much to see and avoca-do during the free Fallbrook Avocado Festival.
25 & 25
This spring, a new panda comes to town. Waterfront Park will host the traveling Panda Fest for a weekend of street food, K-pop crews, and cultural immersion.
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