AMHERST — Kendrick Park and Sweetser Park, downtown Amherst sites, will be the locations for a series of free concerts this summer sponsored by the Amherst Business Improvement District.
Beginning July 19 and continuing through Aug. 9, the concerts at Kendrick will run from 6 to 8 p.m. each week.
The first evening next week begins with performances by In the Nick of Time and Mister G.
Ann Tweedy, marketing director for the Amherst BID, said this is the fifth season of the summer concerts
She anticipates the site will be better than it was in 2017, when the area around Kendrick was a construction zone as the roundabout at Triangle and East Pleasant streets was being completed, and the One East Pleasant project was just getting underway.
The concert will be sharing space with a ValleyBike Share stand and the XTCA Cross Town Contemporary Art exhibit, which features a bocce court. But Tweedy said there should be sufficient room for people to put blankets.
During the concert, cookies, while supplies last, will be provided by Insomnia Cookies, water will be offered by TD Bank and Ed Popielarczyk’s “Magical Moments” will be on hand.
The concerts continue July 26 with Rebelle and Shokazoba, Aug. 2 with Flathead Rodeo and Colorway and Aug. 9 with Carinae and a special guest.
Sweetser Park, along Main Street, will host the Amherst Community Band July 20 at 6:30 p.m. The selection of music, under the banner “The Moon and the Stars,” is timed to the 49th anniversary of the moon landing by Apollo astronauts. Its final concert at Sweetser comes Aug. 17, when the band will pay tribute to Leonard Bernstein on the centennial of his birth.