Most Belvedere summers get described as if they were a single mood, warm evenings on the lagoon, picnics at the point, sailboats leaning through Raccoon Strait. That reading is fine for visitors. For residents, it obscures the actual structure of the season, which is a schedule run by three separate organizations that do not coordinate with each other and that each own a different Sunday.

Once you see the calendar that way, the summer stops feeling like a scramble. The four free concerts at Community Park belong to one committee. The ticketed concerts at Old St. Hilary's belong to another. Everything that is not a concert, from tennis courts to the Father Daughter Dance, runs through The Ranch. Knowing which entity owns which afternoon is the difference between showing up prepared and driving up San Rafael Avenue looking for parking that was never going to exist.

The Four Sundays at Community Park

The Concerts-in-the-Park series is the backbone of a Belvedere summer, and it is specifically four Sundays, not a rolling weekly schedule. Each summer the committee hosts four diverse concerts in Community Park, where local residents gather for picnics and dancing, and the concerts are free but rely on donations alongside support from the City of Belvedere and the Belvedere Community Foundation. The 2026 series is the 28th season.

Here is the 2026 lineup at Community Park, all shows starting at 4:00 p.m.:

• June 21, Father's Day. Super Diamond, a Neil Diamond tribute.
• July 12. Big Crush, described as chart-topping dance hits with mash-ups.
• August 9. Native Elements, reggae and roots.
• September 6, Labor Day Sunday. Foreverland, a Michael Jackson tribute.

Two things about that grid matter more than the bands. First, the September 6 date sits on Labor Day weekend, which for most Marin calendars is a dead zone. Belvedere programs into it on purpose, and residents who leave town for the long weekend routinely miss the show they said all summer they would attend. Second, the July 12 slot lands the week after the Fourth of July, when the peninsula is still full of visitors from the Tiburon holiday weekend. If you want a picnic spot within earshot of the stage rather than a distant blanket up the slope, this is the concert to arrive early for.

The Concerts committee is a small volunteer group. Peyton Stein and Adam Gavzer serve as co-chairs, with a committee that includes Sally Burr, Jerry Butler, Roger Felton, Nena Hart, Maureen Johnson, and Kathy Pearson. This is the kind of detail that only registers if you have been to a concert and watched the same people carry folding tables to the same spots for years. It also explains why the tone stays consistent while the band selection rotates.

Old St. Hilary's Runs on a Ticket and a Shuttle

The second summer calendar belongs to the Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society, and it looks nothing like the first. The Landmarks Society concerts are presented with support from the Tiburon Heritage and Arts Commission and the Belvedere Land Company. They are held at Old St. Hilary's, up the hill in the wildflower preserve, and they are ticketed rather than free. Advance tickets run twenty-five dollars general and twenty for seniors and youths, with door tickets at thirty and twenty-five when available, starting at 3:30 p.m.

The practical wrinkle is transportation, and it is the single most common thing that catches even long-time residents off guard when they invite guests. There is no parking at Old St. Hilary's. Attendees park at the Boardwalk Shopping Center at 1550 Tiburon Boulevard and take a shuttle car to the concert, with shuttle service beginning at 3:30 p.m. in front of Rustic Bakery. Handicapped parking is available at Old St. Hilary's itself. Meaning that if you tell a friend "I'll meet you there at four," you are effectively asking them to meet you at Rustic Bakery, not at the church.

The Landmarks Society also operates a wider footprint than most residents realize. The nonprofit manages Old St. Hilary's and the surrounding wildflower preserve, the China Cabin, the Railroad and Ferry Depot Museum, and the Landmarks Art and Garden Center, all on the Tiburon Peninsula. The summer concert series is the most visible slice of their programming, but the same organization is quietly responsible for a lecture and exhibit cadence that runs year-round.

The Ranch Owns Everything That Isn't a Concert

The third calendar is the one residents interact with most and think about least. Recreation services for the City are provided through the Belvedere-Tiburon Joint Recreation Committee, commonly known as The Ranch, which is financially independent of the City and offers programming for all age groups. The Ranch operates under a Joint Powers Agreement between the Town of Tiburon and the City of Belvedere and is designed to be self-supporting.

That structural detail matters because it explains why The Ranch's programming does not always show up on the City of Belvedere's own website. It has its own office, its own calendar, and its own dues. The Ranch's offices are at Dairy Knoll Center at 600 Ned's Way in Tiburon, with a phone line at 415-435-4355. Summer standouts on their 2026 calendar include the Tiburon Classic Car Show at Shoreline Park in June and the Run Tiburon 5K and 10K on August 30, both of which draw a Belvedere crowd even though the mailing address says Tiburon.

The Ranch also controls the two courts residents ask about most. Belvedere has two public parks, a playground, a community center, and two public tennis courts. Belvedere Community Park, Playground, and Community Center are at 450 San Rafael Avenue next to City Hall. Tom Price Park is at 62-72 Lagoon Road, where the two tennis courts are also located and reserved for recreational and program play, with one court usable for pickleball. If you have wondered why the pickleball court on Lagoon Road is sometimes locked to a class you did not know about, that is because The Ranch is running programming on it, not the City.

One Practical Note About Parking

The Community Park playground and Community Center share the 450 San Rafael Avenue block with concert seating on the four Sundays above. Tom Price Park on Lagoon Road is a genuine alternative on those afternoons, and it is where residents who want the park without the crowd tend to migrate.

The other reason to know the Lagoon Road address is that it is where private rentals happen. The Ranch oversees private event planning at Belvedere Community Center, and fees apply. Community Park itself is open to any group or individual on a first-come, first-served basis, including for children's birthday parties. The distinction between reserved and first-come is the one that gets muddled at the neighbor level every June. If a birthday takes over the playground on a Saturday, no one booked it. If the Community Center is closed to walk-ins, someone did.

What The Calendar Actually Buys You

The most useful thing about reading the summer this way is that the three organizations program around, rather than with, each other. The Concerts committee will not move a Sunday because Old St. Hilary's is holding a concert the same afternoon. The Ranch will not shift a class time because Community Park is loading in a band. The result on a given weekend can look chaotic if you assume a central plan, and calm if you accept there is not one.

For a resident, the payoff is a small set of habits. Mark the four Community Park Sundays on the calendar in May, buy Landmarks Society tickets in advance rather than at the door, and treat the Rustic Bakery shuttle as the actual meeting point for anything at Old St. Hilary's. Route guests to Tom Price Park on concert Sundays if what they wanted was a quiet lagoon-side afternoon rather than a Bee Gees tribute. Assume The Ranch, not the City, is the phone number for anything involving a court, a room rental, or a summer class.

None of this is hidden. It is just distributed across three websites, and the reader who assembles it once does not have to reassemble it every June.

If you are thinking about how a Belvedere property fits into the way you actually want to spend a summer here, Scott Woods is happy to talk through the peninsula's rhythms and what they mean for a specific block, lot, or view. Start the conversation about your Marin property.