16th Annual Community Mosaic Street Painting Festival (5/27)

John Mitty Sunday, May 6, 2012

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Live Music & Performance Acts Announced

At East End Arts’ 16^th Annual Community Mosaic Street Painting Festival

Sunday, May 27, 2012 

(RIVERHEAD, NY, May 4, 2012) –– East End Arts is pleased to announce the musical performances to be showcased at the 16^th Annual Community Mosaic Street Painting Festival to be held Sunday, May 27, 2012, from 12PM to 5PM in downtown Riverhead, NY. In addition to a traditional opening ceremony to kick-off the daylong arts celebration, a number of musical and performing acts will be featured on the Riverhead Town Show Mobile, including:

• Mambo Loco, an Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican influenced salsa band
• East End Arts’ High School Student Classical Chamber String Ensemble
• Pierson High School Theatre Group, performing a medley from this year’s production of Anything Goes
• East End Arts’ Music Masters Fellowship High School Jazz Vocalists, led by renowned singer/songwriter and international recording artist, Lauren Kinhan
• F.R.E.E. Family Residences’ Jazz Choir
• Show Mobile Stage Emcee Gerard Lane, performing song and spoken word
• C. Chris Peters, demonstrating physics and math through music

·And more…!

Musical performances are just one aspect of this beloved annual fun-for-the-whole-family festival, with many other activities including street painting on Main Street, a fine arts & crafts market of local artists and artisans, storytelling, face painting for children, a drum circle, a Polka dance troupe, hoop dance demonstration, festival food, various arts, crafts, and music activities for the whole family, and more. In addition, Long Island’s Creative Vortex will be presenting “Shifting Realities Across Long Island”, a traveling, collaborative piece of artwork, where festival attendees will be invited to leave their mark and become a part of this unique experience. The 16^th Annual Community Mosaic Street Painting Festival is sponsored by Bridgehampton National Bank.

For more information about the event, visit: http://eastendarts.org/events/CommunityMosaic.html.

This festival draws over 5,000 local residents and tourists to downtown Riverhead for this Memorial Day Weekend tradition where families and friends, artists, musicians, and lovers of the arts, young and old, enjoy the creative spirit together. All activities take place in downtown Riverhead on East Main Street, between Roanoke Ave and East Street, and on the grounds of East End Arts (133 and 141 East Main Street.) In the case of rain, the event will be held on Monday, May 28, from 2PM to 5PM.

For more information contact Liza Coppola, Event Coordinator at 516-429-5795 or lcoppola@eastendarts.org, or stop by the East End Arts Gallery located at 133 East Main Street in Riverhead.

East End Arts, established in 1972, is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit arts organization, and operates a School of the Arts, an Art Gallery, and presents a variety of events and programs to promote the arts year-round. Proceeds from all events, sales, classes, donations, and memberships benefit the mission of bringing the arts to everyone and inspiring communities through service, advocacy and education.

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