Concerts and public buses are the only places where people can legally assemble to dance, sing, and scream into a PA system. Congregate with fellow merry music lovers with today's Groupon: for $24, you get one general-admission ticket and an invitation to a Groupon-exclusive preparty with a chance to win a backstage pass at the Montalvo Arts Center (up to a $49 value). Choose between the following concerts:

• Smash Mouth and Drake Bell perform Thursday, July 7, at 7:30 p.m.
• Vertical Horizon and Third Eye Blind's Kevin Cadogan perform Friday, July 15, at 7:30 p.m.

As part of a collaboration with the Sobrato Arts Foundation for Education and in support of arts education in Silicon Valley, the Montalvo Arts Center is conducting a summer concert series featuring Bay Area musicians returning for homecoming performances. On Thursday, July 7, watch Smash Mouth's ska-fused pop-rock storm the stage at the center's intimate Lilian Fontaine Garden Theatre. Carved onto a tree-dotted hill just behind the center's Mediterranean-style villa, the theater lies nuzzled against the Santa Cruz Mountains on the estate's 175 sprawling acres. The same night, witness the mercurial rise of nine-time Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award–winner Drake Bell, who will perform hits from his album It's Only Time while traveling at impossibly high speeds in a DeLorean. For the Friday, July 15 show, Kevin Cadogan—tri-ocular cofounder, writer, and guitar player of Third Eye Blind—shares the night's bill with the geographically improbable Vertical Horizon.

For Groupon customers only, exclusive preparties before both shows serve up wine (for ages 21+) and appetizers. Appearances by the bands add to the thrill factor, and a chance to win a backstage pass to the show looms overhead like a tantalizing bough of solid-gold apples.