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Del Mar Racetrack concerts to include Ludacris, Steve Aoki, Eagles of Death Metal

By George Varga
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The Eagles of Death Metal, Ludacris, Billy Currington and San Diego’s Slightly Stoopid are among the music acts confirmed to perform at the 2017 edition of the Del Mar Summer Concert Series.

The series at the Del Mar Racetrack will open with a July 21 concert by San Diego reggae band Tribal Seeds and conclude with a Sept. 3 performance by EDM favorite Steve Aoki.

Those two shows will bookend concerts by such varied acts as Violent Femmes, Lord Huron and The Revivalists, the seven-man New Orleans band that scored a breakthrough hit last year with its chart-topping song, “Wish I Knew You.”

The full schedule of performers appears below.

This will be the seventh year the Del Mar Summer Concert Series takes place at the standing-room-only Seaside Stage, located near the west end of the racetrack’s Grandstand.

All concerts are 18-and-up and are free with the standard racetrack admission fee of $6. Concertgoers arriving after the last race of the day will be charged a $20 admission fee. .

Performances are scheduled to begin shortly after the last race of the day. On Saturdays and Sundays, the post time for the first race is at 2 p.m. On Fridays, the post time for the first race is at 4 p.m., with the exceptions of Aug. 25 and Sept. 1 when the first post is at 3:30 p.m.

General parking during the races costs $10. The price rises to $20 for those parking after the last race of the day. Free shuttle service is available from and to the nearby Solana Beach Amtrak and Coaster station.

For more information, call: (858) 755-1141, or go to delmarracing.com/concerts.

2017 Del Mar Summer Concert Series lineup

Friday, July 21 - Tribal Seeds

Friday, July 28 - Violent Femmes

Friday, August 4 - Eagles of Death Metal

Saturday, August 5 - Country Fest, starring Billy Currington

Friday, August 11 - Special guest to be announced

Saturday, August 12 - Ludacris

Friday, August 18 - Steel Pulse

Friday, August 25 - Lord Huron

Saturday, August 26 - Slightly Stoopid

Friday, September 1 - The Revivalists

Sunday, September 3 - Steve Aoki

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George Varga

San Diego Union-Tribune music critic George Varga began drumming in rock bands at 12 and writing professionally about music at 15. A Louisiana native who grew up mostly in Germany, Varga has earned three Pulitzer Prize nominations for his writing at the U-T and is a voting member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to providing live coverage of the Grammy Awards and festivals from Coachella and KAABOO to the 1994 edition of Woodstock, he has interviewed everyone from Miles Davis, Britney Spears and (over a game of chess) Ray Charles to Willie Nelson, Kanye West and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis. A triple first prize-winner for criticism and arts writing at the 2022 San Diego Press Club awards and a double first prize-winner at the 2022 San Diego Society of Professional Journalists awards, Varga is also a contributing writer for Jazz Times magazine and has written for Billboard, Spin and other publications. After attending San Diego City College and San Diego State University, he created and taught the 2002 UC San Diego Extension course, “Jazz in a Post-Ken-Burns World.” Varga has written liner notes for more than a dozen albums, including by jazz sax greats James Moody and Michael Brecker, and contributed two chapters to the book, “Dylan: Disc By Disc.”

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