(BCN) With the first concert days away, America's Cup organizers Wednesday provided a sneak preview of a temporary 9,000-person waterfront venue in San Francisco that will hold more than a dozen concerts over the next several months.
The America's Cup Pavilion, located at Piers 27-29 along The Embarcadero, holds its first concert on Friday, when the act Imagine Dragons takes the stage.
Sting then plays there on Sunday, with the Steve Miller Band, Weezer, Train, the San Francisco Symphony, Counting Crows and The Wallflowers among the other groups scheduled between this week and October.
The concerts are meant to coincide with the start of the America's Cup sailing races, which start in July with the Louis Vuitton Cup and end in September with the America's Cup Finals.
"The Super Bowl has a halftime show, the Olympics have the Cultural Olympiad, and the America's Cup will have its concert series," said Stephen Barclay, CEO of the America's Cup Event Authority.