Downtown Live Event, Free or a Rip-off

from the Discover Downtown Event Series on Facebook,

Is it possible that Downtown Live! is only a little over a month away! I don't know about y'all, but it won't be long before we are hearing great music and watching lots of line dancing. Below is the info and schedule, just in case you missed it before!

Concerts start at 6:00 pm and end around 8:30 pm. Bring your lawn chair or blanket to the lawn of the Imperial Centre at 270 Gay Street. Concessions will be available for purchase. No coolers, please.

May 15 – Band Of Oz
May 29 – Jim Quick & Coastline
June 12 - The Voltage Brothers
June 26 - Fantastic Shakers
July 10 - The Legacy Motown Revue
July 24 - Fantasy
August 7 - Hip Pocket
August 21 - The Tams
September 4 - Liquid Pleasure
September 18 - The Embers

It is going to be a great summer to be in Downtown Rocky Mount!

So, you can go to a free event paid for, via your tax dollars, but they don’t want you to bring your own drinks or food.. Yes, they want you to buy over price junk food, drinks and if you are legal age, beer. I know the last time I went to one you had two vendors, the Boy Scout selling Pizza by the slice via (I think) pizza hut, and church group.. I don’t remember what group was selling the alcohol..

What happens if you do bring a cooler?? Will the local Thugs in RMPD uniforms force you to leave. MMM it makes one think doesn’t it..

Downtown Live Line up for this year.

Parks and Recreation for the City of Rocky Mount has announced the Downtown Live! dates and bands for 2014.
May 15 – Band of Oz
May 29 – Jim Quick & Coastline
June 12 - The Voltage Brothers
June 26 - Fantastic Shakers
July 10 - The Craig Woolard Band
July 24 - Fantasy
August 7 - Hip Pocket
August 21 - The Tams
September 4 - Liquid Pleasure
September 18 - The Embers

 

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Beer sales at event

Ok so for the downtown live event you can drink almost all you want, however you can't drink it out of the. They want you to use plastic cups creating more waste. Cans are 100% recyclable why most plastic cups aren't. This event is not earth friendly I can only guess the city hasn't gone green yet. What a shame
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The beer station

Seen to the money maker at downtown live
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More and more

People still pouring in to the city sponsored Downtown live event here at the Imperial Center.
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Downtown Live

Today's downtown live attendance was larger then the last. Families flock to this free event to socialize and relax.

However the selling of beer is still wrong for this type if venue.
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Booker T Theater before

The Booker T Theater opened as the Savoy Theater around 1926

This is how this building look for many years before they (city) decided to redo the Douglas Block..

Downtown Live

yes no recording, Why? after all this event is at taxpayer expense.. and in public,

most of the peopleby the gray building and many on the lawn was drinking, and I'mnot talking about pepsi or coke..

Over all it seem that everyone was having a great time