A Covid-safe community event celebrating music, food, dancing, and public space in Orange NJ.
University of Orange’s 5th annual Music City Festival is happening from May 14-16th across three days and ten outdoor venues around the City of Orange. The festival offers an opportunity for celebration, connection, and recovery for the whole of the city of Orange, naming and uplifting each of Orange’s main civic, social, and commercial centers – Main Street, Central Ave, and the Valley. As we start to emerge from the pandemic, Music City Festival aims to safely re-make public space for us to gather, grieve, bear witness, celebrate, and imagine.
The festival will feature over 60 local musicians and is run in partnership with the following restaurants: D3Fold, Cupidos, Reddz Lounge, Sarrah’s, Tavia’s Eatery, Lando’s Bakery, La Rosa Mexicana, Four City Brewery, Benji’s Taqueria, and Hat City Kitchen.
Come out to hear and celebrate Orange’s global offerings of music and food. Bring your friends and family. Mask wearing and social distance will be required!
The festival is co-hosted by HANDS Inc. and sponsored by M&T Bank, Four City Brewery, NAACP of the Oranges & Maplewood, and Missing Link Music.
Sarrah Cafe Trinbago: 454 Central Ave
4PM: Euphony (hip-hop)
5PM Young Picasso’s (soca)
6PM Renita Persaud Quartet (classical)
Redd’z Grill and Lounge: 7 Lincoln Ave
7PM R.E.A.L. Music (hip hop)
8PM Eddie Nicholas (house)
9PM King Sykez (hip hop)
Cupidos: 143 Lincoln Ave
7PM King Sykez (hip hop)
8PM Avalon & Alex (songwriters)
9PM Freewil
D3Fold: 51 Central Ave
7PM Young Picasso’s (soca)
8PM Joshua Reserve
9PM Richard Coley (reggae)
Military Park across from Tavia’s Eatery: 169 Main Street
1PM Sonny
2PM Ray Johnston
3PM Rocard
4PM The 99 Trip
Vendors Market: M&T Bank Parking Lot on Day St
Vendors and DJ Fabb from 1-5PM
Essex Ave Stage near La Rosa Mexicana (10 S Essex Ave) and Lando’s Bakery (23 S Essex Ave)
1PM Autumn Jones
2PM Big Head Baby Blues Band
3PM Sonny
4PM Nortee Americano
5PM Viva Vallanato Cumbia
Four City Brewery: 55 S Essex Ave
1PM Freewil
2PM The 99 Trip
3PM Yaya
4PM Avalon & Alex
5PM Juice
Benji’s Taqueria: 14 Main Street (West Orange)
1PM Yaya
2PM Joshua Reserve
3PM Viva Vallanato Cumbia
4PM Jane Stuart (jazz)
Memorial Park across from Hat City Kitchen: 459 Valley Street
1PM Odie
2PM Renita Persaud Quartet
2:45PM Orange High School Mighty Marching Tornados Marching Band
3PM Joe Lombardo
3:15PM Paul Lombardo & Juliana Carr
4PM J-Read