This was not a project that I initially sought out. The Downtown Alliance was already partnering with The Friends of Mears Park and various Lowertown businesses (mostly(?) Big River Pizza, but also Bulldog) to do small live music events in Mears Park during the COVID Pandemic. A Lowertown musician who had played at one of the Mears events mentioned in passing (literally passing each other in Mears one day) that he would love to put on a similar event in Pedro Park.

Being a fan of Pedro Park and the idea generally, I told him I would reach out to the Downtown Alliance and let them know of the interest. I figured they would either take the idea on or say their plate was full. Either way, that my role would be done after the initial email. Instead I accepted the duties of confirming the musicians (which my original contact made pretty simple), and creating and distributing flyers to promote the events.

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