There are just two more chances to enjoy downtown Riverhead’s Alive on 25 summer street festival and one of them is tonight, beginning at 5 p.m.
The popular Main Street festival offers live music, lots of food and drink and plenty of kid-friendly activities, stretching from Griffing Avenue on the west to Ostrander Avenue on the east.
There will be seven bands performing along Main Street: Who Are Those Guys, Oogee Wawa, Mambo Loco, Mean Machine, Boom Shot, Billboard Live Band, and Ain’t So EZ.
The arts stage on the grounds of East End Arts, hosted by Mick Hargreaves, features singer-songwriters and poets. Tonight’s arts stage performance lineup, curated by Dorene Romero: The Second Hands (5 p.m.), Bill Batcher poetry (5:45 p.m.), Bryan Gallo (6 p.m.), Maggie Bloomfield poetry (6:45 p.m.), Pete Mancini (7 p.m.), Julie Scarr poetry (7:45 p.m.), Eddie Ayala (8 p.m.).
Local visual artists will be working live on the grounds, displaying both finished art and work in progress.
Also on the green at East End Arts: a scavenger hunt, sponsored by the Riverhead Town Recreation Department and the Riverhead BID; disc golf, sponsored by Long Island Sports Park; life-size games including tic-tac-toe, bowling, Connect Four and checkers, sponsored by Riverhead Free Library.
More fun for kids on the east end of the Main Street festival: a rock climbing wall by YMCA East Hampton, bubble palooza and paint ball.
Classic cars line up on Peconic Avenue for admirers and visitors who enjoy a trip down memory lane.
See photos of the Aug. 10 festival.
Downtown restaurants open during Alive After Five: Diggers Ales and Eats, Cucina 25, Dark Horse Restaurant, Joe’s Garage, Tweeds, Mazi, PeraBell Food Bar, Cliff’s Rendezvous, Jerry and the Mermaid, Shadees Jamaican Restaurant and Blue Duck Bakery. More than a dozen food truck vendors will also be on hand.
At 8:30 p.m. the Suffolk Theater presents Rob Base, a platinum-selling, hip hop legend. (Admission to the show is $15.)
The weather forecast is calling for clear skies and pleasant temperatures for tonight’s festival, which runs from 5 to 9:30 p.m.
Main Street will be closed to vehicular traffic from 2 to 11 p.m. between Griffing and Ostrander avenues. A portion of Peconic Ave will be closed during the same time period as well. Roanoke Ave will be closed between Second and Main streets.
Motorists are encouraged to use Second Street to travel east and west. North-south traffic should use alternate routes as well: Center Drive to Osborn Avenue;, Ostrander Ave or County Route 105.
Free shuttle service will be provided from the municipal parking lot on Court Street. The pickup location will be on the south side of the lot. The shuttle will drop visitors off on Griffing and Main.
Handicap parking will be available on Heidi Behr Way behind the former Swezey’s building and Joe’s Garage and in the First Street parking lot near the walkway alongside the First Congregational Church.
Since the first Alive on 25 event this season was canceled due to inclement weather, there will be one more event next Thursday, Aug. 31, with a new lineup of bands on Main Street and performers on the arts stage.
The street festival is produced by the Riverhead Business Improvement District Management Association with support from Bridgehampton National Bank, Main Street businesses and more than a dozen local sponsors, including RiverheadLOCAL.
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