Five days. Twenty-eight seats. Black Coffee on the water.

Black Coffee is not a DJ playing background music at a club. He is one of the most distinct voices in electronic music working today — the kind of artist whose sets feel like a continuous, deliberate thing rather than a sequence of drops. The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park is not a warehouse or a festival field. It is one of the most architecturally considered outdoor venues in Southern California, set against the water's edge in Balboa Park. On April 10 they share a bill. JADA is the only way to hear it from the bay.

Here is how the day runs. Boarding begins at 1:30 PM at the dock. We depart by 2:00 PM. JADA anchors in position in front of the Rady Shell before the 3:00 PM show starts. That window matters — you want to be settled before the music begins. You want a drink in hand, a spot on deck staked out, and enough time to watch the city from the water before the first set rolls in across the harbor. We have run this timing. It works.

Bring what you actually drink. There is no bar tab, no $22 venue cocktail, no minimum. JADA is BYOB. Bring wine, bring beer, bring a cooler stocked exactly the way you want it. Bring food if you want food. The boat is yours for the afternoon. That combination — world-class music, open water, and full control over what you eat and drink — is not something you can replicate on land, and it is not something most people know is available until they have already missed the chance.

Twenty-eight seats. Some are already claimed. The show is April 10, which is five days from the date of this entry. There will not be a follow-up charter because there is not another Black Coffee date on the calendar. If you are reading this and you have been thinking about it, the window is not figurative. It is this week or it does not happen this year.

There is a specific quality to electronic music heard across open water at sunset on San Diego Bay. The low end travels differently. The air carries the mix in a way that a room cannot. You hear the space between the sounds. People who have been on these concert nights come back for the next one — not because the boat is remarkable (though it is), but because the combination of that music and that water and that sky at that hour is something you do not forget easily. April 10 is that night. Seats are at the link below.