Three women-led acts with distinct San Diego music milestones are set to share the stage at the third annual HalloWomen Spooktacular this Saturday. Costumes are mandatory at the 8 p.m. show at Winstons Beach Club in Ocean Beach, where Sara Jade, pop-rock singer Jessie Lark, and Celina Rescott & The Embers will perform. A costume contest and prizes are also planned, with tickets starting at $10.
The show is at 1921 Bacon St., Winstons Beach Club’s home since 1986; the venue holds about 200 people. Tickets cost $10 in advance and $15 at the door, Times of San Diego reports. Winstons is also in a period of change: following an ownership shift in September 2026, a Hoodline report said the club was expected to rebrand as The Mix OB and add a kitchen.
A Halloween Tradition Born From One Musician's 'Spooky Aesthetic'
Sara Jade first staged the concert in 2024, and the participating bands brought it back in 2025, according to Times of San Diego. The outlet reported that Jessie Lark described Jade as having a “spooky aesthetic” and said Jade wanted to create a large Halloween show. The 2026 event is Jade’s and Lark’s third HalloWomen Spooktacular; it is the first for Celina Rescott & The Embers.
Lark has performed since age eight, including around San Diego, and was known as Jessica Lerner in 2009. She has sung the national anthem ten times for the Padres and Chargers, according to the San Diego Reader. She released her self-titled debut album in 2012 and adopted her current stage name in 2020.
Award-Winning Résumés Anchor the Bill
Jade enters the show fresh off winning Best Pop Song at the 2026 San Diego Music Awards for Hippies Raised a Cowgirl, per the San Diego Music Awards. Lark won Best Pop Song at the 2025 ceremony for her single Rainbows and followed that with a win at the 2026 Battle of the Bands at Solana Beach's Belly Up Tavern. Rounding out the bill, Celina Rescott & The Embers' debut EP MIND GAMES was celebrated at an event in August 2025.
Jade and Lark also work together through Songwriter Sisters: Jade founded the group in 2024, and Lark co-chairs Songwriter Sisters Social, according to the Steam Engine Foundation. A USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative study found that female artists accounted for 37.7% of artists on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2024, while women made up 18.9% of songwriters and 5.9% of producers, according to Hypebot. Those national figures offer industry context, not a measure of representation at a particular San Diego concert.
Sponsors and a Surprise Cover Tune
Escondido-based Wildcat Guitars is sponsoring the event and providing T-shirts and hoodies. Pacific Beach’s TMC The Music Company is also backing the show; at last year’s event, the studio gave away gift certificates for free studio time. Lark released a cover of Portishead’s “Glory Box” in early October 2026. The track was originally recorded by the trip-hop group in the mid-1990s. Lark said recording a cover took less work than writing an original song and that she expected to release a video for her version a few days after the concert.
Lark has also urged people who want to support original live music to attend shows and buy tickets, according to Times of San Diego. Winstons has a long-running live-music residency of its own: Grateful Dead tribute act Electric Waste Band has played almost every Monday night there for 37 years, reaching nearly 1,800 shows by late 2026. Hoodline reported that the residency was set to continue through the club’s rebrand.
What the Broader Context Shows
The USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative figures cited above describe national chart and credit representation in 2024; they do not measure local performance or booking patterns, or establish how representative this concert is. The City of San Diego’s Creative City cultural plan framework says the city’s arts and cultural ecosystems face challenges from the pandemic and rising costs of living and doing business. It does not assess Winstons or the local music scene specifically.
A separate local venue story offers a contrast, not a direct parallel: the San Diego Union-Tribune reported that Bay Park’s Brick By Brick abruptly closed in August after 31 years. That report does not establish that Brick By Brick’s circumstances matched Winstons’ proposed transition.
