If you haven’t attended a concert in...

If you haven’t attended a concert in the park in Manhattan Beach or El Segundo this summer, you had better go today.

This is your chance to take in the last of the cities’ free outdoor concerts this season, which have featured jazz, bluegrass, country-Western, Big Band sounds and more.

Today, for its finale, El Segundo will present the Mustangs, a suburban country band. The four-piece, all-female band has added some flash to traditional country music, using an upbeat, progressive sound that appeals to people who don’t wear cowboy boots and ten gallon hats.

“Even if you don’t like country-Western music, you’ll probably like this group because they’re such fine musicians,” said Gala Burkholder, El Segundo’s Cultural Arts supervisor.

The band will play for free beginning at 2 p.m. at the gazebo in Library Park, Main Street and Mariposa Avenue in El Segundo.

After that’s over, cruise down Pacific Coast Highway to Manhattan Beach to catch that city’s last summer concert in the park. But leave your progressive taste behind and prepare to wax nostalgic with Les Brown and His Band of Renown.

Brown and his 15-piece band will showcase their 1940s Big Band sound for free beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the Polliwog Park Amphitheater, at 1601 Manhattan Beach Blvd. in Manhattan Beach.

The 80-year-old Brown and his band have certainly lived up to their name, achieving renown since Brown formed the band in 1938.

Brown has been musical director for the television shows and specials of Bob Hope, Dean Martin and Steve Allen. His 1945 tune “Sentimental Journey,” sung by Doris Day, sold more than 1 million records.

If this seems like too much music for one day, consider it a way to stock up for winter until the concerts return to the parks next year.