Maroon 5 will headline a free beach concert in Narragansett on Saturday night, turning the stretch behind Joseph Healey’s beachfront home into a crowd scene expected to draw thousands. The show starts at 8 p.m. on the beach between the North Beach Club House and The Dunes Club.
Healey said the concert is part of his 60th birthday celebration, and he has done something similar before. He held beach concerts of a similar scale in 2006 and 2016, and Maroon 5 also headlined the show in 2019. This year’s announcement gives beachgoers the answer they had been waiting for after the headliner had been kept quiet.
Courtney McCourt said she plans to be there again. “I was here for Sting and Lenny Kravitz, so this will be my third time,” she said, adding that she thinks it is wonderful that Healey does it and wants people in town to enjoy it. “I think it's a nice gesture,” she said.
That enthusiasm is coming with a practical worry. Terri Coles said she is concerned about parking and hopes there will be shuttles running back and forth, maybe from the overflow lot across the street. The area could see significant traffic in the hours before the concert, and people planning to go are being urged to arrive early.
The scale of the event is what makes the logistics so tricky. A free concert on the beach in Narragansett is designed to feel open and easy, but thousands of people arriving at the same time can quickly turn a short evening show into an afternoon traffic problem. With the start time fixed and the location narrow, the main question now is not who is playing, but how everyone gets there and gets home.
