Lifebeat

Comments | Recommended

Aquidneck Island Arts Festival this weekend in Newport

08/21/2008 01:00 AM EDT

Singer/songwriter Mary Day will perform at the Aquidneck Island Arts Festival Saturday and Sunday in Newport.


The Providence Journal / Ruben W. Perez

The Aquidneck Island Arts Festival will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Newport Yachting Center, America’s Cup Avenue at Commercial Wharf.

Included will be artists in wearable art, pottery, woodworking, painting, photography and glasswork. There will also be live entertainment and activities for children, a food café and two full days of live music — Celtic, flamenco, folk, Caribbean-style, classical and jazz — with performers including Mac Chrupcala, Juanito Pascual (flamenco), The Boston String Quartet and Mary Day.

Admission is $2 per person. Visit www.aquidneckislandarts

festival.org or call 847-0960, ext. 56, for information. All proceeds benefit Looking Upwards, a Middletown based nonprofit agency celebrating 30 years of supporting children and adults with disabilities to live fulfilling lives.

Advertisement

Projo Video

Exercise program brings new moms together, strollers in hand
From practice to performance: An 11-year-old violin student in West End music 'community'
Veteran Cranston actor has been 'a natural' for 50 years


More Lifebeat stories

Most Viewed Yesterday

Most active surveys

Updated Thu 11.26.09

Most e-mailed in the last 24 hours

Reader Reaction