Cal Poly St. Fratty’s Day concert sold out. So it’s dropping 4,000 more tickets
Cal Poly will release another 4,000 tickets to its “Morning on the Green” music festival, after the 10,000 tickets available to students sold out in less than three hours on Wednesday.
Scheduled to start at 5 a.m. on March 14, the event will mark the second annual concert hosted by the university as an alternative to the annual unsanctioned St. Fratty’s Day block party, which historically led to damage and disgruntlement within the community after often-inebriated students flooded the residential streets.
Last year’s concert was largely successful, and paired with a heavy law enforcement presence in the neighborhoods, helped prevent large off-campus gatherings.
The 5,000 available tickets sold out within 3 minutes in 2025 — but ultimately, closer to 6,000 attended the event after a standby crowd surged through security barricades and rushed the field.
This year, Cal Poly already expanded the number of available tickets to 10,000 — and now it appears that the concert could see as many as 14,000 people attend.
University spokesperson Matt Lazier told The Tribune that the university will drop another 2,000 student tickets Thursday afternoon for students who weren’t able to snag one the first time around.
Then on Friday, another 2,000 tickets will drop — and those will be open to students who already registered, but want to bring a guest.
The university announced its chosen headliners for the early morning music festival on Tuesday. Australian DJ Odd Mob and EDM duo Walker and Royce are slated to grace the stage at the Sports Complex Lower Field.
Enforcement throughout this year’s St. Fratty’s season will look similar to last year.
The city of SLO will 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.
Last year, the university spent nearly $1.2 million on the concert, security and enforcement.
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