Every Sunday evening in July, the City of Westminster's parks and public spaces will fill with live music as the City of Westminster Recreation & Parks Department brings back its Summer Sunday Concert Series.
The four-week run features a different act and venue each week, all free and open to the public, running 6:00–8:00 PM. A food truck and snowball truck will be on-site each night. Grab a chair, a blanket, and a cooler, and settle in.
The series opens July 5 at Westminster Municipal Pool with a bonus perk: free pool admission runs the full two hours alongside the concert. Luvable Idiots & Friends, a high-energy Baltimore rock band known for blending rock, country, and blues into what they call an "infectiously fun" sound, headlines the opener. The group has played stages across the Mid-Atlantic since forming during the pandemic and released their debut album, Idiot-Proof, in fall 2025.
The following Sunday, July 12, the series moves downtown to Belle Grove Square for a bluegrass night with Katelynn Casper & The Night Bloom. Casper is a Maryland State Fiddle Champion who has built a reputation on the regional bluegrass circuit, and the Square's open-air setting makes for one of the city's better concert backdrops.
On July 19, the series heads to Dutterer Park for what may be the most distinctive booking of the summer. The JoGo Project is a WAMMIE Award-winning GoGo/Funk/Jazz fusion band out of Washington, DC, founded by saxophonist Elijah Jamal Balbed, a protégé of the late Chuck Brown, the Godfather of Go-Go. The group has performed at the Kennedy Center, Strathmore, and the DC Jazz Festival, and in 2018 represented the U.S. on a State Department cultural diplomacy tour to Russia.
The series closes July 26 at Wakefield Valley Park Event Center with American Darling, an Edgewater, MD band that blends soul, rock, and traditional blues. Their motto — "I'd rather be greezin'" — gives a sense of the vibe.
All four concerts are free. No registration required.
Photo: via Westminster Family Fitness Center Instagram.