The Amherst BID is excited to announce the return of the AMHERST BID BLOCK PARTY! Thursday, September 15th from 5-9 PM the BID will be closing North Pleasant Street with the help of the Town of Amherst, the DPW, and the Amherst Police!

What is EXCITING and NEW???

• FULL STAGE at the top of N Pleasant PRESENTING

o   6-time GRAMMY Award winner MISTER G from 5-6 PM

o   The AMAZING one and only SOUL MAGNETS 7-8:30 pm

• KIDs PLACE at the Realignment Park/1 East Pleasant (S of Kendrick Park)

o   Face painting w Nikki

o   Balloon Animals w Ollie the Clown

o   Yo-Yo arts w YoYo People

• SHOW CIRCUS – returning but BIGGER

o   Aerial acrobatics

o   Stilt walkers

o   Jugglers “in a box”!

o   Contortionists and MORE!

• Local dance and Kung Fu demonstrations!

o   Center Dance

o   Duffy Academy

o   Shaolin Kung Fu

And more!!!

• Downtown Global Cuisine featuring Hazels Kitchen, Arigato’s, Taste of India, Momo’s, Bistro 63, Coronation Café, Antonios, The Humble Peach, and MANY MORE!!!
• White Lion Brewery Beer Garden
• THE DRAKE “open house” with Frozen Corn, Spectre Folk, Wes Buckley, and DJ Chris Dooley

This event is wonderfully and generously sponsored by Amherst Innovative Living and the BID!