3rd Friday: Art & Entertainment In Downtown Salisbury

Salisbury, MD –   This Friday October 19th, Art and Music will take over Downtown Main Street for 3rd Friday’s final outdoor event for the year: RocktoberFest!  We will be celebrating all things fall with Halloween themed Art Displays, a pumpkin carving contest, live music and more!  Artists and Crafters fill the Main Street Plaza Area, and the shops and restaurants are open with special 3F sales and events.  3rd Fridays are free to the public, so come down, and experience local art against our Downtown’s beautiful backdrop!
 
The Main Street Plaza will be jam packed and rocking.  Grateful Floyd will perform on Plaza Stage from 5:30 – 8pm, with amazing variations on all the classics from The Allman Brothers and Neil Young to The Dave Matthews Band.   This Easton-based band has performed all over the region, and is always a crowd favorite!  In the spirit of the season, several artists will be displaying special Halloween themed art projects and PLB Comics will be premiering their first ever limited-edition Halloween issue!  Carved Pumpkins will also be on display, for our first annual pumpkin carving contest.  Pre-carved pumpkins can be brought to 3rd Friday and put on display for a chance to win fantastic prizes!
 
Powell Building will also be rocking with the B&B Music Annual Rock Show from 6:30 – 7:30.  Local B&B music students will be showcasing a variety of solo and ensemble performances of songs in a wide range of genres.  So stop in and hear the next generation of local talent, as they show off their skills.

On the way in to the Powell building, be sure to stop and admire the front windows!  As a preview to the Annual CCART Show and Sale, which starts next month, the front windows of the Powell Building have been turned into a “Gallery under Glass”, a special exhibit made possible, in part, by a grant from SWAC, MSAC & NEA.  Cori Beardsley, an Eastern Shore Native, and previous CCART and SWAC scholarship recipient who has recently returned to the area after pursuing her training, will be transforming the space with “Cave Sculpture”.  “My love of the physical relationship with the material and the dram of something emerging in space is why I sculpt.” says Cori.  The installation really is amazing, and hard to miss!

The Art Institute and Gallery will have the opening reception of the Fall Members Exhibition and the Foyer Gallery Solo Exhibit of Betty Latourney.  In addition the Robinson Gallery will open an exhibit that focuses on recovery from domestic violence, as October is National Domestic Violence Month.  This special exhibit titled “Light from the Darkness of Domestic Violence” is a beautiful exhibit with powerful imagery, hoping to raise awareness and spread hope to all affected.

The Kids Activity Area on Government Office Building Lawn will also be “jumping” with Live Music from the “Tommy Buckets”, and a giant moon bounce!  Big Brothers Big Sisters will be there with sidewalk art and hoola hoops and SWAC will be doing Pumpkin Art!  
 
3F is an all-volunteer effort, a downtown economic development initiative and a project of the Salisbury Arts & Entertainment District Committee.  There is no charge for local artists to set up, only registration is required.