Your weekend: Launch summer with a big board, bigger burgers and lots of music
Summer and Father’s Day arrive on Sunday, and the weekend is full of ways to celebrate:
Jazz will fill the air Friday starting at 6 p.m. as the four-month-long Summer Concert Series kicks off at the Hyatt Regency Newport Beach. More info is at series.hyattconcerts.com
Laguna Beach’s eighth annual Fete de la Musique on Saturday will showcase singers, dancers and musicians performing at about 35 locations along Forest and Ocean avenues and Coast Highway from 1:30 to 4 p.m. There’s also face painting and a children’s parade at 12:30 p.m.
Fullerton is putting on a Day of Music on Sunday at various locations around the city from 10 a.m. to sunset. Information is at thedayofmusic.com
Can 60 people ride the world’s biggest surfboard at the same time? Find out Saturday in Huntington Beach, as the city’s visitors bureau tries to break two world records in one afternoon. It’s at Huntington Beach Pier Plaza starting at 8:30 a.m.
Also in Huntington Beach, Darrell “The Gambler” Sheets, star of A&E reality series “Storage Wars,” will gavel the auction at Huntington Harbor Antiques and Art Mall. Registration starts at 4 p.m. Saturday.
If dad is hungry, JT Schmid’s Restaurant & Brewery in Anaheim and Tustin offers its Bigger, Badder Asser Burger -- with 6 pounds of meat -- at an indulgent price: $60. Bacon is extra.
Out on Balboa Island, you can tour eight homes Saturday on the Balboa Island Historic Home Tour, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tickets are $25 to $30, on sale at the Balboa Island Museum store, 327 Marine Ave., Newport Beach, and at balboaislandmuseum.org.
If being near the water makes you want to try sailing, OCC has boats at the ready Saturday for its Discover Sailing event from noon to 4 p.m. at the college’s School of Sailing and Seamanship in Newport Beach. Register at occsailing.com (walk-up guests are welcome, too).
And once the weekend is over, there’s the newly expanded Discovery Cube in Santa Ana to explore, and tyke-friendly theme park Aventure City in Anaheim for more family fun.