Cherry Hill Arts & Music Festival in Baltimore on July 4

By Nyla AdamsAFRO Intern

The annual Cherry Hill Arts and Music Waterfront Competition will return to Appeal Metropolis on July 4. Now in its ninth 12 months, the pageant is thought for bringing folks collectively from throughout Baltimore to rejoice their shared tradition and historical past.

This 12 months, this occasion will coincide with different celebrations deliberate by the Metropolis of Baltimore for the Fourth of July weekend. 

“This 12 months, we’re partnering with considered one of my favourite festivals, the Cherry Hill Waterfront Competition, bringing collectively these two nice occasions for one massive celebration. Between fireworks on the Interior Harbor and a drone present on the pageant, this guarantees to be our most enjoyable July 4 but,” mentioned Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott in an announcement.

The Competition shall be held in Center Department Park from 1-10 p.m. The Interior Harbor Amphitheater will act because the occasion stage to function native performing artists. 

Mayor Scott will proceed his kayaking custom within the Interior Harbor to supply vacation greetings to the Baltimoreans attending the pageant.The celebration within the Interior Harbor is scheduled for 6-10 p.m..

“Each summer time, Baltimoreans sit up for the Fourth of July on the waterfront, which at all times delivers a number of the greatest fireworks within the nation and leisure for the entire household,” mentioned Scott.

This 12 months’s festivities will embody a fireworks present which is greatest seen from the Interior Harbor, Federal Hill and Harbor East. 

The cultural arts organizers from Cherry Hill and the Youth Resiliency Institute have collaborated to develop an aerial present that merges expertise and artwork. Attendees of the pageant can take part in a customized drone present at 9:30 p.m., which launches from West Covington Park in opposition to a background of the Patapsco River, making a extra sustainable various to fireworks. 

“This 12 months’s inaugural Independence Day customized drone present on the Cherry Hill Arts and Music Waterfront Competition is the result of a partnership with the Workplace of Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, whose dedication to arts and tradition all through Baltimore Metropolis continues to impression communities in profound methods,” mentioned co-founder of the Youth Resiliency Institute and co- director of the Competition, Navasha Daya. 

For the final 15 years, the Institute has devoted itself to researching, growing and implementing culturally responsive group arts applications in Baltimore. YRI particularly focuses on the historic Cherry Hill group. YRI has managed The Cherry Hill Arts and Music Waterfront Competition for the final seven years.

Admission to the Cherry Hill Arts and Music Waterfront Competition is free, courtesy of lead sponsor, South Baltimore Gateway. 

“We’re actually appreciative of [its] assist of the Cherry Hill Arts and Music Waterfront Competition over time,” mentioned Daya. 

Daya shall be one of many performers this 12 months. The pageant additionally options arts and crafts, a youngsters’s village, historic reenactments and extra.

For extra data, go to: https://cherryhillfest.com/