Free live music returns to Big Bear Saturday, with motocross stunts between sets
The third year of Big Bear Lake's free concert series lands its second weekend Saturday, June 27, and the headliner is a name most IE adults will recognize: Alien Ant Farm, the SoCal alt-rock band behind the early-2000s "Smooth Criminal" cover, plays a 7:45 p.m. set. Garage-rock openers The High Curbs start the music at 6:30.
The whole thing is free. Gates and the beer garden run 4 to 9 p.m. at the Moonridge Lot, 42600 Moonridge Rd., with parking free starting at 3:30. Draft beers and canned cocktails are $12, non-alcoholic options $9, and four food trucks plus nearby Moonridge spots handle the rest.
New this year: Nitro Circus freestyle-motocross athletes run live stunt demos at 5:30 and 7:15, with an OC Ramps skate demo and a kids' balance-bike track filling the gaps. No dogs, no outside food or alcohol, and bring your own chairs — the grounds are mostly hardscape, not grass.
For an operator in the valley, it's the cheapest family evening on the calendar this weekend, and the drive up doubles as the heat-relief play.