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# Time to party on Main Street
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/time-to-party-on-main-street/
- Published: 2003-06-14T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T02:19:45.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Entertainment, Main St, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

It’s party time on Main Street, just in time for father’s day. The Third Annual Main Street Santa Monica Summer SOULstice will be held on Sunday. It will feature live music, an art show, fashion shows, a scavenger hunt with big prizes, and children’s activities.

A Beatles tribute band, a petting farm, and the chance to win a couch from Ashland & Hill or a meal for two at Wolfgang Puck’s Chinois, in a scavenger hunt are just part of the fun.

The Main Street Merchants Association will sponsor the celebration and sidewalk sale from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., on Main Street between Pico Boulevard and Marine Street.

Activities will be in parking lots, courtyards and in the SOULstice “playground” lot across from Schatzi.

From noon to 6 p.m. there will be a variety of live music including jazz, folk-rock, Latin, rock ‘n roll, Indian-Brazilian fusion, soul and more. Three tribute bands, Forever Fab (The Beatles), Highway 61 Revisited (Dylan), and Peace Frog (The Doors) will play on Kinney, across from Joe’s Main Street Diner at 2917 Main St.

Critical Brass, a New Orleans-style jazz band, and Joe Gaeta’s jazz trio will play after the Farmers’ Market in front of the Victorian, located at 2640 Main St. and the Nancy Luca Band, Sara Bareilles, and Andre Comeau & Band will play on Pier Avenue. Arohi, a jazz-Indian classical-Brazilian fusion band, and Prince Diabate (West African music) will play in the Edgemar Courtyard, located at 2431 Main St.; Baba Alade (folksinger), Capital Pusher (funk), Judith Owen (contemporary singer/songwriter) and Los Pinguos (Latin) will be at the First Federal lot, located at 2817 Main St. For the kids, there will be pony rides, a petting zoo, face-painting, a dunk tank, games and a hands-on sea life exhibit called “Windows On Our Waters.” Most of this will be at the SOULstice playground lot on the corner of Main and Marine. “Windows On Our Waters will be on Ashland.”

A fashion show will be held at 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., featuring items from Monkie, Black + Blue, Fito, Eyes On Main, Fedora Primo, Moonlight Rugs, Uroborus and more, in the New Orleans Building Courtyard, located at 2665 Main St. There will be an art show just south of Mani’s, located at 2507 Main St.

New this year is the Scavenger Hunt. Scavenger Hunt information tables will be at the Art Lot, located 2515 Main St., the First Federal lot and at the SOULstice “playground.” Entry is free.

Many Main Street merchants will be offering items on sale. Several merchants, including Baci, Splash, Gioia, LaVecchia, O’Brien’s, Trendy Sunglasses, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Bhutan, Amelia’s and Wildflour Pizza also will be having customer appreciation open house specials and activities.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 14, 2003.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/061403.pdf?ref=smdp.com)