City Hosts Spring Festival This Weekend

It's looking to be a sunny day—in the seventies with plenty of sunshine—for the annual Spring Music and Arts Festival. 

The City has announced the line up for the event. Local artists will also have their work on display. See more information from City Hall below: 

ADMISSION IS FREE • Rain or shine

Washington  Street - between Observer Highway and 7th Street

Featuring over 300 artists, sculptors, photographers and local crafters,
as well as rides, games, face painting, local businesses, restaurants, 
food vendors and much more.

The festival has 3 Stages of live music with performances by:
The dB's, Freedy Johnston, The Front Bottoms, Demolition String Band, Stephie Coplan & the Pedestrians, Outside the Box, The One & Nines, and more. 

Music for children on the 3rd street stage:
Pre-School of Rock, Little Club Heads, Garden St. School of the Performing Arts, Chrissy Roberts and much more
 
Performance Schedule:
Observer Hwy Stage:  (bet. Newark & Observer Hwy)
11;45am – Wyldlife
 12:30pm – The One & Nines
 1:15 pm -   Demolition String Band
 2:00 pm -  Freedy Johnston
 3:15 pm -  The Front Bottoms
 4:30 pm – The dB’s

Sixth Street Stage
12:30pm  Bandwidth
1:10pm    Hannah & the M&MS
1:35pm    Outside the Box
2:25pm    Stephie Coplan & the Pedestrians
3:15pm    Funkaphonics
4:00pm    Emily Turonis
4:40pm    Alexandria Potosnak
5:10pm     Orchestra C2 

5:15pm to 6:00pm - Orchestra C2 

Children’s Stage
(in the Capital One Bank parking lot on 3rd St.)
12:00pm – Chrissy Roberts
 12:40 pm -  Monroe Movement Space
 1:00pm -  Chrisy Roberts
 1:45pm – Hudson Dance & Movement
 2:15pm – Hoboken School of Music
 2:45 pm -  Pre-School of Rock
 3:30 pm -  Garden Street School of the Performing Arts
 4:15 pm – Little Club Heads
 5:00pm – Pre-School of Rock
 
Special features include:
 •         Fine artists are located between 2nd & 3rd St. 
and 5th to 6th on the west side, so if you are an art collector, 
these are the places to be. Oil paintings, watercolors, acrylics, sculpture, mixed media, etc.

•      Crafters will be displaying / selling throughout: handmade: pottery, metalwork, wood items, furniture, blown & fused glass, 
quilts, household items made from recycled materials, batik clothing, hand painted furniture, candles, jewelry, dried florals, soaps & bath salts and much more

•   Children’s activities on 3rd street with rides, games, creative activities, face painting, sand art, balloons, live performances and much more:

•      Car dealers will be displaying new models on 1st Street bet.
Washington & Bloomfield. Check out the new Toyotas, BMWs & more

•    Food: Lots of great food throughout offering an eclectic variety of international foods such as: Thai, Indian, Greek, French, Mexican, Cajun and Italian
 
How to Get Here
Located just 3 blocks from all public transportation: PATH, NJ Transit Trains & buses, NY Waterway Ferries & the Hudson Bergen Light Rail. For details, visit: http://www.hobokennj.org/visit/how-to-get-here
 
Sponsors
Supported in part by a grant from New Jersey Department of State, 
Division of Travel and Tourism.  www.visitnj.org
United Water, Walgreens, WKTU, Yelp.Com,
The Hoboken Reporter, Capital One Bank, 
PATH & Port Authority of NY & NJ

For more info call 201-420-2207 or email gfallo@hobokennj.org.
For updates, visit: http://www.hobokennj.org/departments/human-services/cultural-affairs/arts-music-festival/