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Summer Solstice Festival, Downtown Merchants of Blacksburg, Virginia


Downtown Blacksburg, Inc. is pleased to invite you to the 3rd Annual Summer Solstice Fest

 Saturday June 19th 2010 3-11pm

FREE Admission to all!

Click here for a Map of the Summer Solstice Fest.
Click here for a Summer Solstice Fest Brochure.

Featuring:

Soul Biscuit bringing Carolina Beach Music to downtown Blacksburg!    Details here!

Alberti’s Flea Circus & Street Organ  Details here!

The PanJammers Steel Orchestra Details here!

DJ Kerri Taylor Details here!


3:00pm   Taiko Drumming at the intersection of Main and Lee Street
3:30pm   PanJammers Steel Band onstage
4:30pm   Dog parade and doggy costume contest sponsored by New River Valley Varmints Pet Sitting Agency
5:00pm   DJ Kerri Taylor onstage
5:30pm   Oyster slurping contest in front of the stage
6:00pm   Soul Biscuit bring beach music to Blacksburg
7:00pm   DJ Kerri Taylor more musical fun for the whole family
8:00pm   Soul Biscuit singing and dancing the night away!
8:30pm   Downtown Sundown 5K Race to benefit the Blacksburg High School Track Club. (Download registration form.)
10:00pm  Dallas Leonard plays an acoustic set in the beer garden
10:30pm  Fire performance by Pyre & Becca in the beer garden
3-11pm Beer and wine garden-serving Blacksburger Pils, Awful Arthur's Virginia Creeper and Sunshine White Ale, Shooting Creek, Yuengling and Coors Light

The Stage will be located where Lee Street meets Draper Rd.
The Beer Garden will encompass Lee Street between Draper and the Tech Bookstore Parking lot entrance.

Food vendors- Cafe de Bangkok, Bike Barn smoothies, Carly's Kettle Korn, sno cones, cotton candy, Crepes, DBI burgers and dogs!
Nonprofit groups hosting midway style games
A Sand Beach (yes a real sand beach) in the parking area of Cabo Fish Taco. Beach Olympics including limbo contests, hula hooping, beach volleyball and more
Chef demonstrations- featuring chefs from Boudreaux's, Cabo Fish Taco, Awful Arthur's & Champs
Young children’s play area and care station provided by the MOMS Club of Blacksburg
Blacksburg Children’s Museum interactive exhibit- featuring Charlotte's Web based theme including a straw maze & duckpond
Poi spinners, jugglers, hoopers and other street performing artists
Live music by The Foresters in the picnic area next to Subway
10 Minute Portraits
Dunk Tank- staffed by Alpha Kappa Psi- Come and Dunk Christian Trejbal of The Roanoke Times and other "local celebrities"!
Bike Barn & Hokie Spokes show you sustainable transport options!
Henna tattoos
Jazzercise
Rockers All Stars
The Chicken Guy
Happy the Clown
Blacksburg Recycling & Sustainable Blacksburg
South West Virginia Social Dance Club
Live Music on the beach at Cabo Fish Taco all day and night!
The Foresters- live music next to Subway at Kent Square
Jimmie's Chicken Shack band at Awful Arthur's
And more to come..

This is a Virginia Green Event and will include food waste composting and recycling.

Click here for the Sundown 5K registration form.
Click here for the Sundown 5K route map.

Click here for the Dog Parade registration form.

Click here for the Oyster Slurping Contest form.

EVENT PARTNERS:

Comcast Spotlight, NRV Varmints, Cabo Fish Taco, Awful Arthur's, Mix 100.7, New River Voice, Freedom Foundation of Southwest VirginiaTown of Blacksburg, Banfield Pet Hospital


Blacksburg Live Music sponsoring Green Room Services to the participating performers



For specific information on Downtown Blacksburg Events please contact:
Laureen Blakemore, Director of Special Events
Tel: 540-951-0454
Email: events@downtownblacksburg.com

Downtown Blacksburg, Inc.  |  P.O. Box 233  |  Blacksburg, Virginia 24063  |  (540) 951-0454  |  dbi@downtownblacksburg.com