and then . . . .

....we were on HotShotZ. With a Z. I have nothing left to aspire for.

fest time.

Craft lovers, food lovers, music lovers and art lovers unite. It is that time of the year again for the Hoboken Music and Art Festival. It's a free event that takes place once every fall and spring. Admission is free and fun times are abundant. Really though, I went last fall for the first time and had a grand 'ol time.

This year's spring festival is Sunday May 4th from 11-6 and takes place on the Washington St. (from Oberver Highway all the way to 7th St.).

The Festival is awesome because it's such a huge outlet for local artists of every sort (candle-makers, painters, photographers, sculpers, etc) to showcase their work, and hopefully make some profit. Last year, I was able to pick up some painted pritnts from a man who was probably selling close to 500 different prints (I got a sweet neon Kurt Cobain and a more mellow fallish-tree kind of thing - which look great on my purplest walls). Everyone was so talented and there was so much art I would love to have purchased minus the fact it didnt' fit into my sweet college student budget.

The festival is also a great place for local musicians (some you many know) to come onto the scene. Here's the line-up:

Observer Highway Stage:
Noon - 12:50pm Sensational Soul Cruisers
1:10pm - 1:50pm The Fave
2:10pm - 2:50pm Krystal (Hoboken's own)
3:10pm - 3:55pm The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn
4:30pm - 5:45pm Micky Dolenz of the Monkees

Third Street Stage:
12:00pm - 12:40pm Mr. Taxi Trix - Juggling, circus comedy & more
12:50pm - 1:15pm Hannah Valente sings Hannah Montana
1:25pm - 2:10pm Mr. Taxi Trix
2:40pm - 3:10pm Fuzzy Lemons
3:30pm - 4:00pm Star Fish
4:15pm - 4:45pm Fuzzy Lemons
5:00pm - 5:30pm Star Fish

Sixth Street Stage:
12:30pm - 1:15pm Gene D. Plumber - tex-mex-a-billy
1:30pm - 215pm Michael Patrick's Ring of Fire - A tribute to Johnny Cash
2:30pm - 315pm Kate Jacobs
3:30pm - 415pm Zydecol
4:30pm - 4:45pm Save the Youth Kids - Dance performance by Hoboken's STY Academy
5:00pm - 6:00pm Ray Medina

And, but of course, there's an endless amount of festival food (cheesesteaks, zeppolis, candy apples, pickles - you know, the usual). Oh oh and there's rides!

I say you check it out!