Hometown Holidays Headliner Announced
May 3, 2010 16:50 - 2 Comments
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I just ran down to the basement to grab my Soul Asylum cassette tapes! They’re playing the 22nd annual Hometown Holidays on Memorial Day weekend. As you can tell, I’ve been a fan for many years. Although the Grammy-award winning band is known for such hits as “Runaway Train,” “Somebody to Shove” and “Black Gold.”, my favorite albums were “While You Were Out” and “Hang Time” and now I’m going to listen.
Here’s a description of my absolute favorite event from the City of Rockville:
The Hometown Holidays festival takes place from 1-10 p.m. Saturday, May 29 and Sunday, May 30, 2010. Each year more than 60,000 people descend on Rockville’s downtown to celebrate summer with more than 40 bands and entertainers performing on 10 stages, children’s activities, a green festival and Taste of Rockville.
The list of activities is impressive with some new twists this year:
- An Arts and Craft Festival with over 50 artisans
- A freestyle dance stage open to all
- A living history stage for Rockville’s 150th anniversary, and
- A teen dance on The Rooftop.
A highlight of the weekend is Monday’s Memorial Day Parade at 10:30 AM. This will be the 66th year for the parade as we remember and honor those who died serving our country. My Cub Scout Pack 928 is busy at work building a float on our family’s trailer. Rockville comes out in full community spirit each year for the parade and it’s always a moving experience. United States Army Nurse Corps Col. Richard Ricciardi will serve as the parade grand marshal along with Brian van de Graaff, the morning weather forecaster for Good Morning Washington, ABC 7 News, who will be the emcee.
This is going to be a great one! Check out the complete schedule here.
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Cindy, thanks for getting the word out about Soul Asylum headlining Hometown Holidays on Sunday night. Jah Works will open the show.On Saturday night’s Main Stage, New Orleans is coming to Rockville! Bands are Bruce Daigrepont, Tab Benoit, and Papa Grows Funk. All were featured at last week’s N.O. Jazz Festival. If you like blues, funk, and cajun music, be sure to come out on Saturday night, too. New this year is a Teen Dance on the Rooftop for high-school aged teens on Sat. from 7 to 10 p.m. with a DJ, Wii games, Dance Dance Revolution, and Xbox 360. This is going to be a fabulous weekend. See you there!
I’m one of the artist vendors at this years Hometown Holiday Festival. I’ll have lots of offbeat artwork featuring an assortment of crazy characters and some even reveal surprise special effects when viewed under a blacklight If you are looking for a fun way to brighten up your home be sure to stop by my “Arty4ever” tent and say hello.