Gator By The Bay

🎉🎷 Get a Taste of New Orleans This Weekend at Del Mar Racetrack! 🎷🎉

Join us for a Big Easy experience like no other! Our friends at LSU are hosting a Taste of New Orleans event at Del Mar Racetrack, and you’re invited! 🌟🍹

Event Highlights:
✨ Savor five New Orleans-themed drink samplers, including beer, hurricanes, and frozen daiquiris.
🍤 Indulge in authentic Cajun cuisine—gumbo, shrimp po’boys, beignets, red beans & rice, and jambalaya.
🎵 Enjoy live Cajun music and browse through art & craft vendors.

📅 When: This Weekend
📍 Where: Del Mar Racetrack

Don’t miss out on this festive blend of racing and Cajun culture! Grab your tickets and join us for a day filled with great food, music, and fun!

sdseventsusa.com/taste

🌞✨ Frolicking in San Diego’s sun-kissed grass, chasing bubbles, and dancing to live music. The perfect day for Gator By The Bay. 🎶🌴 TODAY is also the last day to share your feedback in our brief survey! Complete the survey, and be automatically entered to win 4-Day Passes to 2025 🤩 🎟️ 🐊 Thanks, gators!

🌞✨ Frolicking in San Diego's sun-kissed grass, chasing bubbles, and dancing to live music. The perfect day for Gator By The Bay. 🎶🌴 TODAY is also the last day to share your feedback in our brief survey! Complete the survey, and be automatically entered to win 4-Day Passes to 2025 🤩 🎟️ 🐊 Thanks, gators!

Let’s take a look back at Gator By The Bay 2024! 😎 What an incredible year, and we are already making plans for the 2025 festival, which will be held May 8-11, 2025.

Your feedback is important, so please complete our brief customer survey. All customers who complete the survey will be automatically entered to WIN a pair of 4-Day Passes to the 2025 Gator By The Bay! 🎟️ 🐊

Happy Mother’s Day weekend! 🌸 If you’re looking for some last-minute fun with Mom, it’s not too late to get tickets to Gator by the Bay! Families will enjoy non-stop musical performances, Mardi Gras-style parades, dance and cooking lessons, delicious Louisiana cuisine, arts and crafts at the Rad Hatter, family entertainment from , and so much more! 🎭🎶

Purchase tickets ahead of time online or get them at the gate when you arrive. Kids 17 and under get in FREE when accompanied by a paid adult. In addition, updated parking information is available on the website. See you soon for day 2️⃣ of the festival, Gators! 🐊

Gator by the Bay starts TOMORROW! Laissez les bons temps rouler! 💃🙌🦞🎉

Festival hours:
Thursday, May 9 • 4:30–10:30 PM
Friday, May 10 • 3:30–10:30 PM
Saturday, May 11 • 10:30 AM–8:20 PM
Saturday Night Dance • 9 PM–Midnight
Sunday, May 12 • 10:30 AM–7:40 PM

Get your last-minute tickets and prepare for a weekend of fun! Be sure to check our stories for all the essentials including the full schedule and parking map. Visit our FAQ Page for information on what you can bring. Link in bio. See you there, Gators! 🐊

PARKING & TRANSPORTATION
How are you getting to Gator By The Bay this year?

🚖 Ride Share Dropoff - Try Uber or Lyft. (Drop off at Sheraton Hotel 1380 Harbor Island Drive on Friday and 3900 N Harbor Drive Sat & Sun) See suggestions for park and ride on website under the parking tab.

🅿️ New Parking Option - Hampton Inn Parking Lot - $25 per car with Shuttle to Festival

🅿️ Adjacent Lot Parking – Limited Parking available for purchase at the corner of Harbor Drive & Harbor Island Dr - $40

✈️ Terminal 2 Parking – Make Advance Reservations at www.san.org/parking

Or, 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 to get to Gator by the Bay on our website…at https://gatorbythebay.com/parking-transportation/

Carpool to any of the following nearby lots and take a rideshare to Gator by the Bay.

🌃 Old Town Transit Center
➡️ Parking Lot at 4980 N Harbor Drive
🚆 Liberty Station
P Shelter Island
P Harbor Island

The 2024 schedule is here! 🎵📝 There’s never a dull moment at Gator by the Bay; save this post for easy reference and don’t miss a beat! With 7 stages on the festival grounds, you can choose which artists you want to see. Dance along to the tunes of as many performances as you can or sit down, relax and dive deep into the musical layers of your favorites. 🩵

Congratulations to all the San Diego Music Awards 2024 winners! Catch some of the best musicians San Diego has to offer, all in one place at Gator by the Bay, including:

🎶 Song of the Year – Kimmi Bitter, “Aquamarine”
🎬 Best Video – Berkley Hart “Faded Tattoo” (Jeff Berkley)
🎷 Best Jazz Artist – Mercedes Moore
📀 Best Jazz or Blues Album – Shane Hall “Howl & Sway”
🎸 Best Blues Artist – Anthony Cullins

Just one week until the largest Louisiana-style party this side of the bayou! Get your tickets today and come cheer on your favorite local artist. Laissez les bons temps rouler!

🤩 The Blues are exploding at Gator By The Bay! 🐊

🦞 Get ready for savory Cajun cuisine, gritty guitar licks, and music that speaks to your soul! Come celebrate 101 performances on 7 stages, May 9-12, 2024. 🎸

Tickets for this celebration of Blues and Louisiana flavors are on sale NOW, and you don't want to miss this. 🤤

Gator by the Bay is just 10 days away! 🐊🎉🙌💃

Don’t miss out on four days of Louisiana-style fun right here in San Diego, California. Join us at the Spanish Landing Park May 9-12, 2024. Explore the festival and purchase tickets via the link in our bio.

Just hours left to save on Gate Price; don’t miss out on your discount! Tickets increase to Gate Price tonight at 9:00 PM PT. 🚨 See you later, Gators. Only 14 days until the West Coast’s largest Louisiana-style festival! 🎉

Join us for the Saturday Night Dance Afterparty May 11! 💃

A beloved Gator tradition; for when you just want to keep on dancing, or for when you only have three hours and $25 to get a taste of Gator by the Bay! Held in the Fairbanks Ballroom in the Sheraton Bay Tower, the dance is a fantastic opportunity to see some of the top Zydeco and Cajun musicians in a more intimate setting. 🎶✨

Headlined by one of the most popular Zydeco bands around, Geno Delafose and French Rockin’ Boogie, with special guest Jeffery Broussard of the Creole Cowboys, one of the few Creole fiddlers in the Zydeco world. Plus Blake Miller of the Daiquiri Queens and Andre Nigoghossian of Iko YaYa; both talented and seasoned accordionists with vocals to match.

Plan your weekend at Gator by the Bay TODAY! Tickets increase to Gate Price this Friday. Tickets to the festival are not required to attend the Saturday Night Dance. 🎟️

Friday will be a day of fun! Exciting music, dance lessons, tasty food, and memories—all Louisiana style. 🪗🪕🎶 Expect nothing less from Friday night’s Bayou Boogie as we celebrate the 100th birthday of the late “King of Zydeco”, Clifton Chenier, with an unprecedented musical combo featuring his son CJ Chenier, the electric sounds of Sonny Landreth and blues legend, Marcia Ball. 🥳

Discover more about the artists and get your tickets via the link in our bio. Make your plans today, last week to save on Gate Price. 🎟️

Have you seen the Gator By The Bay Street Banners yet?

You will find them on Harbor Drive from the airport to downtown, past Broadway. We share the banner display space alternating banners with the San Diego Padres! What great company to be in!

Go Gator By The Bay!!! Go Padres!!!

⚜️🎭🦞🤩 San Diego’s spectacular 4-day festival brings the sights, sounds, and flavors of Louisiana’s bayous to the shoreline of San Diego Bay. Enjoy 101 performances across 7 stages May 9-12, 2024! With national and local artists playing the best of Cajun, zydeco, blues, rockabilly, salsa, and New Orleans jazz.

Lock in Tier 3 Pricing before we increase to Gate Prices, you still have time to save.

We’re kicking off Gator by the Bay with a Western Swing and Rockabilly par-tay, and you’re invited! Bring your cowboy boots or dancin’ shoes, grab your partner, and get ready to burn up the dance floor! 🤠🕺

Lose yourself in the unbelievable riffs of Thursday night headliner, legendary guitarist Rosie Flores. 🎸 Named one of the “Top 75 Greatest Female Guitarists of All Time” by Venus Zine, she has proven to be a musical chameleon, embracing punk rock, country of both the Bakersfield and Nashville varieties, Alt-Country, straight-up Rock, and Rockabilly.

Connect with your roots through a musical treat performed by the rockabilly and electric roots band Deke Dickerson & the Whippersnappers — winner of the Ameripolitan Music Awards 2019 Musician of the Year award! 🎶

Dance the night away to NorCal favorites Mitch Polzak & the Royal Deuces, returning to the stage by popular demand with a larger-than-life energy featuring rockabilly and 60’s country tunes.

Enjoy the 1950s Sun Records-inspired vibe of 2024 San Diego Music Awards nominees for Best Rock Album, Blame Betty, who will open the evening with a big Rockabilly, Roots Rock, and Surf Music sound. 🏄

Thursday evening promises to embody the festival’s motto, “Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler” (Let the Good Times Roll). So let’s just go ahead and get this party started, darlin’! Get your tickets today! Reserved table seating with food and beverage service is also available. Visit the link in our bio to learn more. 👀

Are you a fan of Gator by the Bay? We’d be honored to receive your vote for Best Annual Event/Festival in the San Diego Magazine Best of San Diego 2024 Reader’s Choice Awards! Every vote enters you for a chance to win two free tickets to the Best of San Diego party hosted by San Diego Magazine on August 2, 2024. 🙌

Voting closes Sunday, April 14. Cast yours today! ✅

https://sandiegomagazine.secondstreetapp.com/Best-of-San-Diego-2024-2/gallery/?group=481242

Tier 3 pricing is here. Don’t worry, there’s still time to save! Purchase your tickets before April 26 for a discount on the gate price and let the good times roll. 🥳

Plus, keep an eye out for the full schedule so you can plan your day (or days 😉) at Gator. Coming next week!

Reminder 🚨 Ticket prices will increase to Tier 3 tomorrow. Don’t miss out on all the fun; lock in some of the lowest prices of the year today!

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50 days away! The countdown begins for the West Coast's largest Louisiana-style festival! Food, music, dance, workshops, entertainment and more. All fun! 🤩

Get your tickets today before prices increase next week. Kids 17 and under get in FREE when accompanied by a paid adult so you can bring the whole family. Mark your calendars for Gator by the Bay May 9-12! 📆