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Downtown Sounds Summer Concerts & Food Trucks at Veterans Memorial Park
July 19, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
An event every week that begins at 5:00 pm on Friday, repeating until August 2, 2019
Come summer, you will have yet another reason to visit Downtown Shelton: free live music! Celebrate Shelton and Liberty Bank are proud to announce the fifth annual Downtown Sounds Summer Concerts at Veterans Memorial Park in downtown Shelton on Fridays – July 19th, July 26th and August 2nd from 5:00pm – 9:00pm.
“We are thrilled to continue this free summer concert series and food truck festival in Downtown Shelton as an enjoyable place for all families to gather,” said Jimmy Tickey, co-creator of Celebrate Shelton. “When we started this summer concert series five years ago, we could only hope for the response we have seen from our community.”
“Each night offers a great musical lineup, food trucks, handmade artisans, and a beer garden sponsored by New Belgium Brewing” said Nicole Heriot-Mikula, creator of Celebrate Shelton.
“This year, we will kick off each week with a Kids Hour: Mad Science the Rocket Show, BringtheHoopla, and Hands On Drumming! Then, starting at 6:00pm each week, there will be live music from local to national bands,” noted Michael Skrtic, co-creator of Celebrate Shelton. The musical line-up includes: The Split Coils and Slam Allen Band on July 19th; Baby Dynamite and The Alpaca Gnomes on July 26th; Jen Durkin & the Business and The Big Takeover on August 2nd. Rain Date is August 9.
Food Trucks include: Pierogies on Wheels, Szabo’s Seafood Truck, Lucky Dog, Fryborg, M’estezo Grill and Tipsy Cones.
The concerts are free to attend, though there is a suggested donation of $5 to sustain Celebrate Shelton’s efforts in the community. As in the past, Celebrate Shelton’s community partner for Downtown Sounds is Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley.
Downtown Sounds Summer Concerts partnering sponsor is Liberty Bank and is sponsored by RD Scinto, Valley Community Foundation, City of Shelton, Electri-Cable Assemblies, Mutual Security Credit Union, Griffin Health, D’Addario of Shelton, Inline Plastics, Luxy, Venman & Co., Boy Scouts of America Housatonic Council, Caloroso Eatery, Peoples United Bank, Cohen & Thomas, DSA Companies, Peralta Design, and Curtiss Ryan Honda of Shelton.
Celebrate Shelton – an initiative that highlights the Shelton community by creating fun and family-friendly events – began in 2011 by small business owners and Shelton-natives: Nicole Heriot-Mikula, Michael Skrtic and Jimmy Tickey. Learn more about Celebrate Shelton at www.celebrateshelton.com.
