Cal Poly announces artists set to perform at St. Fratty’s Day music festival
Cal Poly will once again host an on-campus music festival as an alternative to students’ St. Fratty’s Day partying — and the university just announced which headliners will be performing.
EDM artist Odd Mob and EDM duo Walker and Royce are slated to grace the stage at the Morning on the Green music festival on March 14, according to an Instagram post by the university.
The event will start in the Sports Complex Lower Field at 5 a.m. on March 14, and will end around 9 a.m., the post said.
Tickets were scheduled to be available Wednesday at 10 a.m., the post said, but are limited to Cal Poly students who are 18 years old or older. Each student can claim a single free ticket.
The March 14 concert will mark Cal Poly’s second annual early morning music festival, which began in 2025 as an alternative to the typical St. Fratty’s Day block party that drew crowds of students into the streets of residential neighborhoods.
Last year’s music festival hosted EDM artists Galantis and ZHU. Tickets to that festival sold out within three minutes, and though the university allowed students who didn’t get tickets to wait in a standby line, a crowd broke through the security barriers at one point and rushed the field.
The music festival, paired with a significant law enforcement presence in the neighborhoods bordering campus, succeeded at keeping large crowds of students from gathering in the streets last year.
The university has expanded this year’s event to 10,000 tickets, double the number from last year.
The city of SLO will also enforce safety enhancement zones from midnight on March 6 through 7 a.m. on March 9, midnight on March 13 through 7 a.m. on March 16, and midnight on March 17 through 7 a.m. on March 18, according to an email previously sent to students.
No guests — either from outside campus or from other residence halls — will be allowed in the dorms from 8 p.m. on March 12 through 8 a.m. on March 17, the email said. All students will be required to show their student ID when they come and go from their dorms during that period.
The university also will not allow overnight guest parking and will double housing damage fines.
On campus, the university will make sobering stations available for students who do choose to party.
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