SEMA Fest brings The Offspring, Jimmy Eat World and 311 to the Las Vegas Convention Center Nov. 6

SEMA Fest, the one-day public concert and car-culture festival that closes out the SEMA Show, returns Friday, Nov. 6, in the Bronze Lot of the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Offspring headline, with Jimmy Eat World, 311 and The Alive also on the bill, according to the Specialty Equipment Market Association, which produces the event, and the Las Vegas Sun.

Gates open at 3 p.m. The Alive are scheduled at 4 p.m., 311 at 5:10 p.m., Jimmy Eat World at 6:50 p.m. and The Offspring at 8:40 p.m., according to the festival schedule. Between sets, Optima Unleashed stages drifting demonstrations, motorcycle riders perform in a steel globe, and Supercar Saturdays Florida displays hypercars and exotic cars.

Tickets are sold at semafest.com. Concert-only general admission was listed at $80 when we checked, and a combined ticket for the SEMA Show's public Friday plus the concert was listed at $170, with some tiers sold out. The festival says the concert is open to all ages, while the Friday show-floor ticket, valid 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., requires attendees to be 16 or older and does not include the concert. A SEMA Show badge does not get you into SEMA Fest.

There is no parking at the Convention Center for the event, and organizers recommend rideshare, taxi or the Las Vegas Monorail. The SEMA Show itself runs Tuesday, Nov. 3, through Nov. 6.