Forage Farms and First Magnitude Brewing Company will be hosting the third annual School’s Out Local Food and Music Festival this Saturday.
The event will be held from 11a.m. to 3 p.m. at First Magnitude Brewing Company, 1220 SE Veitch St. Tickets will be sold at the door. Children’s tickets can be purchased for $5 and adult tickets are $10.
Co-founder of Forage Farms and event organizer Ana Prizzia said this is the first time the festival will be held at First Magnitude Brewing Company.
“This is a celebration of the beginning of summer, especially to celebrate the great things about our community,” Prizzia said. “The funds, particularly, will benefit the Forage Farm’s programming, especially the youth-education program and after-school garden.”
Forage is a nonprofit organization that focuses outreach throughout the community on educating and inspiring people to value healthy food and land.
The family-friendly event will supply bounce houses, arts and crafts, live music, great beer, local food vendors and activities with local organizations. There will be a variety of food available from Humble Pie, Sweet Dreams, FED Food Company, The Cookie Parlor and ChewBox Co.
“There will be a watermelon-seed-spitting contest, which is an old-fashioned idea,” Prizzia said. “It is part of our organization of seed saving as well as gardening.”
Local band Corporal Captain, comprised of Dana Myers on vocals; Tom Grant on the banjo, vocals and guitar; Hamilton Rott on the fiddle; Scott Ashcraft on guitar; and Brian Turk on the bass and percussion, will play their first-ever live show as a band that afternoon.
“Three of us in the band were in another band, and we had played in the festival last year,” Myers said.
The band identifies with Americana, alt-folk, acoustic dark, soulful and rootsy genres. Other live acts include Weeds of Eden, Boiling Oil, Endless Pools, Michael Claytor and Danny Black.
“Forage farms is such a wonderful organization and we always like to support Forage Farms and their community events,” Myers said.
[A version of this story ran on page 4 on 6/4/15]
