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2011 dates and information for this picnic on the beach in July and August at the Hermosa Beach Pier.

Concerts at the Pier Hermosa Beach
Free Beach Music on the Beach

English Beat, which once played house parties and at Chiller's, rocks the crowd for the first Sunday beach concert in Hermosa Beach.

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On three Sundays each summer (and now extending into the fall) the city of Hermosa Beach throws a party on it's most treasured asset – its sand.

Called the Sunset Concert, it features popular bands playing on a stage with the Pier as the backdrop. There's even a warm-up band before the main show. It starts at 6 p.m., and ends to a brilliant sunset – almost as if nature is suppllying the final applause – at between 7:30-8 p.m. The 2011 Summer Concert series schedule is as follows: July 31 (English Beat rocked the beach and the crowd), Aug. 7, Aug. 14 and Aug. 21.

It's a summertime sand party Sunday evenings in Hermosa Beach.

Beach chairs and blankets make it a picnic on the sand.

Residents of Hermosa and the neighboring cities of Manhattan and Redondo treat it like a picnic. They bring beach charis and towels to sit on the sand and stake out an era with, well, steak, chicken, cheese and crackers, and all manner of food and snacks.

Standing on the sand to a free concert on the beach.

It's family style, with music by groups like the Drifters and Temptations (or what's left of them) playing beach and surf music, which is ideal for this community on the Southern California shore.

Yet this is also a town of several young and single people and for them it's an open-air social party. They bring beverages to compliment their food and spend the time talking, using the music as a pleasant background soundtrack.

The concert series was in danger of being canceled in 2010 due to city budget cuts, but the bar Saint Rocke stepped in to save the shows. One band scheduled to play is Sand Section.

Afterward, they hit bars like Sharkeez, Silvio's, Patrick Molloy's and Cafe Boogaloo and make a night of it.

Peope dance to the Hodads, then stay and anjoy the sunset.

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