Redondo Beach’s BeachLife Ranch Country and Americana Festival is canceled for this year – Orange County Register

Cowboy boots won’t hit the sand at Redondo Beach in 2024 because the BeachLife Ranch Country & Americana Festival won’t take place this year.

According to festival founder Allen Sanford, BeachLife Ranch, which debuted in 2022 at Seaside Lagoon in Redondo Beach, will be postponed until next year.

Sanford, who also founded the more reggae and rock-oriented BeachLife Festival in 2019, said the cancellation of this year’s country festival was due to complications with another of his projects; the California Surf Club, a 21,000-square-foot indoor-outdoor resort adjacent to Seaside Lagoon scheduled to open in October at 239 N. Harbor Drive.

“We just can’t juggle the complexities of construction while also putting on a festival,” he said.

The Surf Club, which will feature restaurants, outdoor bars, dining and sunset terraces, a private courtyard for music and events, a Zen chess garden, kayak and bike rentals, is in the “deep construction” phase but has recently encountered some roadblocks. he said.

The California Surf Club land is leased in Redondo Beach through a public-private partnership and includes two old buildings currently being repurposed.

“One of the buildings was on the verge of collapse,” Sanford said. “What we thought would be a light renovation turned into a massive structural project. »

With this level of work, Sanford said he doesn’t think the project will be finished by the time BeachLife Ranch arrives in September.

“The plan is we will take a year off and bring it back in 2025 bigger and better than ever and have our build finished later this year. It’s just too complicated a logistical puzzle to solve,” Sanford said.

BeachLife Ranch debuted in 2022 with three stages and a lineup including Brandi Carlile, Dierks Bentley, Lukas Nelson & Promise of The Real, Greensky Bluegrass and Songs of Waylon Jennings. He returned last year with a lineup of about three dozen country and Americana acts with headliners including Jack Johnson, Cody Links, Brad Paisley, The Doobie Brothers, Wynonna Judd, Shakey Graves, Chris Isaak.

Sanford’s BeachLife Festival, which features headlining sets from Sting, Incubus and My Morning Jacket, is still scheduled to take place at Seaside Lagoon May 3-5.