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World Music in San Diego

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Nothing in this lane on the calendar right now. The full calendar has every show we track.

World music in San Diego mostly arrives through presenters rather than clubs, which means it shows up in theaters and on campus more often than in bars.

The biggest of those presenters is ArtPower at UC San Diego, which puts much of its season on the lawn at the Epstein Family Amphitheater and bills the outdoor programming there as a mix of local and international talent. The amphitheater sits right next to the Blue Line's UC San Diego Central Campus station. Campus parking needs a permit every day of the week, so the Trolley is the simpler ride. The lawn is steep, so leave the folding chair at home and bring a blanket and a layer.

Theaters and Halls

La Jolla Music Society presents at its own hall, The Conrad in La Jolla, and also brings international artists to the Balboa Theatre, a seated 1924 theater in the Gaslamp. The San Diego Civic Theatre and The Rady Shell have room for the larger tours, and up in North County, the California Center for the Arts, Escondido has a concert hall with about 1,500 seats.

A lot of this music lives outside the ticketed world, too. In Balboa Park, the House of Pacific Relations cottages, which date to the 1935 exposition, hold lawn programs where member houses take turns sharing the music and dance of their home countries. Treat this page as the touring side of a much bigger story.