1905 Fest is planned for Venice Beach in fall 2027, bringing a new two-day music festival to the Southern California coastline. Organizers plan five music stages, more than a dozen bars and food vendors.
The event is led by Sam Meyers, a former BeachLife Festival director. Named for the year Venice was founded, the festival will feature music, art and culture. Meyers said it draws on Venice’s “colorful history” and his view of the city’s founding vision: “having fun and building community.”
The plans follow the cancellation of Ocean Way Festival, a separate inaugural event in Santa Monica organized by Goldenvoice. Heavy rain over Labor Day weekend caused by Hurricane Marie eroded the beach south of the pier. Organizers said the conditions would have pushed the festival’s safe shoreline setback 96 feet inland, while runoff from the Pico-Kenter Storm Drain outfall would have moved the site’s southern boundary around 500 feet north. Officials determined that the remaining beach and emergency vehicle access were insufficient to build the event safely.
