Porchfest – Ithaca, NY

Ithaca’s 13th Annual Porchfest Coming Sept. 22

174 Performers Will Hit the Porches of Fall Creek & Northside

September 4, 2019 — Ithaca’s 13th annual Porchfest will bring live music to the porches of the Fall Creek and Northside neighborhoods on Sunday, September 22, from noon until 6 PM. This year’s edition will feature 174 performers at 102 locations, primarily porches but also including Thompson Park and several local businesses and churches. See page 3 for a full list of performers. Porchfest is sponsored by INHS.

Porchfest will also feature PorchFEAST, a lineup of local food trucks and vendors. PorchFEAST will have two locations:
• Silo Food Truck (fried chicken, mac & cheese and more) and The Good Truck (tacos, rice bowls, salads, more) will be located at Thompson Park (corner of Cayuga + Marshall streets).
• Luna (inspired street food), Eat the Foood (gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches) and Casca Deli (pierogis) will be located at Auburn Park (corner of Auburn + Dey streets).
Additional vendors may be added.

Streets will be closed throughout most of Fall Creek for this year’s event, with an area bounded by Cayuga, Lincoln, Linn and Court streets closed to motor vehicles for all six hours (except Tompkins Street, which will remain open to motor vehicles). Additionally, West Marshall Street and West Lewis Street will be closed, along with portions of Auburn Street, Willow Avenue and Adams Street. See page 2 for a map of street closures.

Porchfest’s official artwork has, since the beginning, featured an original painting or illustration by a local artist each year. The 2019 artwork was created by Lily Armstrong-Davies. Her original illustration, along with most other years’ original works by Nina Widger, Jim Garmhausen, Rosemary Adelewitz, and Anneke van Renesse, will be displayed starting September 6, and throughout the rest of the month, in a gallery show at Ithaca Coffee Company at Gateway Commons (311 E Green St).

Porchfest requires a signficant number of volunteers to staff street closure barricades, and more are needed for this year. Volunteers receive a $5 voucher for either PorchFEAST food vendors or Porchfest t-shirts, which are screen printed on-site by Muckles Ink. Anyone interested in volunteering for part of Porchfest is strongly encouraged to sign up at porchfest.org/volunteer.

The first Porchfest was founded in Ithaca in 2007 by Fall Creek neighbors Lesley Greene and Gretchen Hildreth. The idea has since spread to more than 130 other cities around North America, with new events in 2019 in Chicago, IL; Kansas City, MO; Hartford, CT; South Buffalo, NY; Reading, MA; Henderson, KY; Callicoon, NY; Oak Park, IL; and Swampscott, MA. Porchfest also expanded outside North America for the first time, with the inaugural Porchfest in Morpeth, Australia taking place on August 31. Andy Adelewitz joined the Ithaca organizing team in 2013, and Hildreth amicably stepped away from her role in Porchfest after the 2018 event.

About INHS
Founded in 1976 as a partnership between residents, funders, and local government, INHS is a nonprofit community development corporation affiliated with NeighborWorks® America. The INHS mission is to help people of modest incomes obtain affordable housing on a long-term basis. INHS is committed to creating energy-efficient housing and sustainable communities that benefit residents of all income levels and occupations. Its service area includes Tompkins County and its six contiguous counties.

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Porchfest 2019 Street Closures:

• Utica, Tioga and Aurora streets, from Lincoln St to Court St as well as all cross streets in this area except Tompkins
• W Marshall St & Willow Ave from Marshall St to Yates St
• Auburn St from Dey St to Jay St
• W Lewis St from Auburn St to Cayuga St
• Adams St from Dey St to Auburn St

Cayuga St, Tompkins St, Hancock St and Lincoln St will all remain open to motor vehicle traffic.

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Porchfest 2019 Performers:

18 Strings of Love
Abby Sullivan
Acoustic Rust
AfterMarket
Ageless Jazz Band
Alan Rose
Alec James
Alex Cano
Alex VanTassel
Alexander Bradshaw Band
Alison Wahl
The Analogue Sons
Auntie Emo’s ‘Ukulele Showcase
Auntie Emo’s Ukulelese as a Second Language
The Auroras
Bagelomics
The Bemus Point and Witch on Horseback
Better Weather String Band
The Big Picture
Bird-In-Hand Stringband
Bob Keefe and the Surf Renegades
Bob Roberts Calamity
The Catscratchers
Cerebral Vortex
Chickenwire Parachute
The Chipped Beef Trio
Choroes do Ithaca
Cielle
Cisco Large and The Soul Benders
Corner Soul
Cozmic Theo
Cumbia Amazonica
Damn Yanquis
Daniel Kaiya
Dapper Dan
The Darts
David Graybeard Band
Dean’s Kids
Devinne Meyers
Dex & Liam
DFLT and Rob Snyder
Diana Leigh Trio
Dickie Starfish Allstars
Djug Django
Dom Cicchetti
Doolin O’Dey
DQ Rhythm ‘n Improv Crew
Dylan Pakkala / Electric Lines
Elisa S. Keeler
Ella / Tryggvi
Erin + The Backwoods Blues Project
Fall Creek Brass Band
Fall creek string quartet
Fall Crickers Jug Band
Feed the Fire!
Flight Performing Arts
FLUNK SCHOOL with Friends.
Flute Song
The Flywheels
Glitter Skulls Techno
Good Áine
The Grady Girls
Grassanova
Guardians of The Glade
Gunpoets
Gus Lucas
Hal & Addy
Hannah Ruth
Hanzolo
The Hot Flashes
ICO Brass Quintet
The ilium works
Insolent Cur Acoustic Duo
Isaac Sharp – Guitarist
Ithaca Gay Men’s Chorus
Ithaca Shape Note
J Gibson
Jake and the Nowhere
Janet Batch
JazzHappensBand
Jen Cork
Jen Rafferty
Jesse Collins Quartet
Jim Wells and Reka Wells
Jody Kessler
Jon and Shelly Pargh
JP and The EasyTigers
Julia Felice and the Whiskey Crisis
Justice and Shamanpoor
Kai Kasian and The Big Brother
Kitestring
La Llorona
Lady Borderhop
Laila Belle TRIO w/ Amy Puryear, Ward Puryear & Jason Shegogue
Leo and the Maydays
The Littlest Birds
Lloyd’s Boys
The Long Now
The Love Me Backs
Lucky Old Sun
Luke G.
Mad Cow Tippers
Madden/Waterman
Mama Rabwa
Martha Armstrong and friends
Metasequoia
Mighty Jet Band
Mijail Martinez & The Cantina Ramblers
Modern Instincts
Mosaic Foundation
Muse Loops
Naomi Sommers
NEO Project
Nobody et al.
Noon Fifteen
Northside Stringband
Not From Wisconsin
OA
Odyssey Choir
Off the Rails
Oh Yeah
One Heart Community Drumming
Original Cornell Syncopators
Our Lord’s Temple Choir
Patchwork Down
The Pelotones
Pine Box
PIPERVENTILATORS
Quail
Quiet Wanderer
Rachel Beverly
Rats With Bats
Rebel fire with Akuma Roots
Rena Guinn
Richie Holtz and friends
Richie Stearns and Friends
Richie Stearns with Long John and the Tights
Road Man
rose et al.
Rose Fritzky-Randolph and Friends
The Rudiments
Rustic Lace
Sabbathwind
Samba na Varanda
Sandbox
Seneca Street Recorders
Shinichi and the ITEs
Singing Notes and Slinging Jokes
SingTrece
The Small Kings
Sonic Rust
Spy Donkey
Stone’s Throw Creek
Strange Heavy
Strong Maybe
The sunny weather
Taksim
That Silvery Vagabond
There’s Always Room for Cello!
Thom Dunn and the Roland High Life
The Three Ravens
Thru Spectrums
Timothy Weber
Travis Knapp Band
Trillium
Tru Bleu
Tyranical Vegetable
Uncommon Wine – The Hybrid Grape Show
Unitarian Universalist Ukulele Union (UUUU)
Vee Da Bee
¡Viva Mayhem!
Wells
Wildflwr
Wonder(Solo)Monday

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Forgot to sign up your band? Didn’t get it around to it yet? Just formed a band yesterday and wanna debut it at Porchfest?

Well, you’re in luck, friend: We have extended the Porchfest 2019 performer deadline through August 7 to allow a few more acts to get in on the action.

Signup to play here:
http://www.porchfest.org/2019-signup/

And hey, while we have you: sign up for a volunteer shift here:
http://www.porchfest.org/volunteer/

That’s all. Stay cool, Ithaca.

– Porchfest

Hello, neighbors & noisemakers,

The City of Ithaca is requiring that Porchfest (Sunday, Sept 22) work a bit differently this year, and we’d like your thoughts on the changes.

The city’s Special Events Team is concerned about pedestrians and audiences congregating in streets that are open to traffic during Porchfest. It’s their #1 safety concern, and ours as well. We’ve had some close calls with reckless drivers over the years, and it’s a scary thing. So, the Special Events Team has required that we make some changes to the layout of Porchfest, or else we’d be denied a permit for this year.

The plan is to close a large section of Fall Creek to vehicular traffic, bordered by E Lincoln Street on the north, Cayuga and Aurora streets on the west and east, and Farm Street on the south. This will ensure that crowds are free to move through the streets throughout the busy core of Porchfest, along Tioga and Utica Streets and all cross streets between Lincoln and Farm (except Tompkins). (If you live in that zone and need to get your vehicle in or out during Porchfest, we plan to have volunteers available as always to escort you.) We will also, as we have the last couple of years, close two blocks of Auburn Street, from Hancock to Jay; and W Marshall St / Willow Ave around Thompson Park, to accommodate food trucks and busy nearby performances. (See map below.)

Meanwhile, Cayuga, Aurora, Lincoln and Tompkins streets will be open to traffic, and closed to performances. This will ensure that the main thoroughfares through the neighborhood are open to traffic, and especially emergency vehicles, without crowds of stationary music lovers standing in the streets. We realize this will affect many performers who live on these streets or have had a long-standing porch to play on there. But as Porchfest’s popularity has grown, so have the crowds, and it has become too dangerous to continue allowing this mixture of audiences and vehicular traffic on the busiest streets.

This is where you come in. Our neighbors in Fall Creek, and our Porchfest performers, all have a huge stake in Porchfest. Do you love these changes? Do you hate them? Do you have ideas or thoughts that we should hear? We’re all ears. Please visit our survey here.

We really need your feedback, because this is a big change for Porchfest.

(Oh, and because many of you will be wondering: we expect to open performer signups on July 1.)

Here’s what this year’s tentative map looks like:

Save the date! Porchfest returns to Ithaca’s Fall Creek and Northside neighborhoods on Sunday, September 24, 2017.

Performer signups will open on August 1.

More soon!

Ithaca’s 10th annual Porchfest is this Sunday, September 18, from 12-6 PM. Here’s everything you need to know!

* Who’s performing, where and when?

Performer list + descriptions
Schedule by time
Interactive map

We will also, as always, have printed map + schedule booklets available for free at Thompson Park, as well as our volunteers around the neighborhood.

And you can check the schedule on your phone! Go to http://porchfest.org/m for a mobile device-friendly version. (It’s not up just yet, though, so don’t panic if you still see last year’s schedule there in the next day or two.)

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* Will there be an opportunity to paint a giant Porchfest mural in the middle of a Fall Creek street?

Glad you asked! To celebrate Ithaca’s 10th annual Porchfest this Sunday, we’re painting the intersection of Auburn, Lewis and Adams streets with a lovely Porchfest mural. It was designed by the wonderful Nina Widger, whose paintings were the official Porchfest artwork for our first seven years.

We hope many people will help make this happen. From 8 AM to 11 AM, we’ll be using tiny rollers to paint the outlines, and then from 11 AM – 4 PM we’ll be filling them in with many beautiful colors.

We need painters of all ages to help with both portions of the project! Send an email to ninawidger@gmail.com to sign up to paint. Or, if you forget to sign up, just come over to Lewis and Auburn on Sunday and join in. Wear clothes that you don’t mind getting paint on, and bring knee pads if you’ve got ’em.

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* Will there be anything to eat?

Yep! There will be food trucks and vendors at various locations around the neighborhood, especially near Thompson Park. Additionally, the Fall Creek Elementary School PTA will have a roving bake sale all afternoon, and there will be a lemonade stand and bake sale at 102 Franklin St with proceeds benefitting the Cancer Resource Center of the Finger Lakes. And the Unitarian Church at 306 N Aurora St will serve ice cream from noon until 2 PM.

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* What about restrooms?

There will be port-a-johns at the following locations:
– Thompson Park (corner of Cayuga + Marshall)
– Auburn Park (corner of Auburn + Adams)
– Fall Creek Elementary School (corner of King + Linn)
– Northstar House (202 E Falls St)

Additionally, Tabernacle Baptist Church, at the corner of Cayuga and Lincoln streets, will make its restrooms available to the public for the duration of Porchfest. And the Unitarian Church at 306 N Aurora St will make its restrooms available to the public from noon until 2 PM.

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* What streets will be closed?

The following sections of street will be closed to traffic from 12-6 PM on Sunday:
– Auburn St between W Lincoln St and Dey St
– Auburn St between W Tompkins St and W Yates St
– from Willow Ave and W Yates St to W Marshall St and N Cayuga St
– Cascadilla Ave from N Cayuga St to N Tioga St
– N Tioga St from Cascadilla Ave to Farm St
– Utica St from E Lewis St to E Lincoln St
– Jay St from N Cayuga St to N Tioga St
– Linn St from King St to E Tompkins St

You can see a map of these street closures here.

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* Where can I buy a t-shirt?

We’re doing something new and super cool this year: Muckles’ Ink will be in Thompson Park screen-printing t-shirts right on the spot all afternoon! You can buy a blank shirt from them, or bring your own.

And hey, while we’re on the topic: donations are welcome too. Porchfest’s expenses include insurance, permit fees, map printing, t-shirts for volunteers, truck rental to set up traffic barricades, painting supplies, and more. Nobody involved in organizing Porchfest makes a dime, and in fact, there have been years where we’ve wound up making up the difference when Porchfest comes up a little short. So if you’ve got a few extra bucks to throw in the hat, we’d very much appreciate it. There will be a donation jar at the info table, or you can pay with a credit card or bank account via PayPal.

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* Where can I listen to Porchfest artists’ music before the big day (and during, and after)?

Listen to some of the 185 artists on a special “Ithaca Porchfest 2016” station on MegsRadio.fm before your wander around our neighborhood streets on Sunday afternoon. MegsRadio.fm is a locally-focused, personalized streaming radio player for Ithaca. It is similar to Pandora with customizable stations from artists and genres, but it mixes in music by local Ithaca-area artists. It is free to use, commercial-free, and being developed as a not-for-profit community project by students at Ithaca College and Cornell.

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* Hey, is the Ithaca College Founder’s Day Concert in the Park happening at the same time as Porchfest again this year?

Sure is! BUT, please note, they’ve moved the location from DeWitt Park to Ford Hall on IC’s campus, so it will no longer be walkable from Porchfest. More information here.

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* Whom can I contact if there’s a problem during Porchfest?

Is someone playing too loudly? Playing outside their scheduled time, and conflicting with other performers? Issues with traffic barricades? If you need to reach us during Porchfest, you can email info@porchfest.org or call or text this number: 607-269-5106. Any method will reach all three of us, and we’ll respond as soon as possible. (Texting often works better than calling, as we’re out enjoying the music too, and sometimes it’s hard to hear or speak during a performance.)

ITHACA, N.Y. — The tenth edition of Porchfest, an annual music festival celebrating the vital creative community of downtown Ithaca, NY, will take place on Sunday, September 18, 2016. Performers wishing to sign up can do so now through August 21 at porchfest.org/perform. Volunteers are also needed to help on the day of the event; sign up at porchfest.org/volunteer.

Founded in Ithaca in 2007 by Fall Creek neighbors Lesley Greene and Gretchen Hildreth, Porchfest has grown from 20 performers the first year to 180 in 2015. And following Ithaca’s lead, there are now at least 55 other Porchfests around the U.S. and Canada, including new events this year in Lafayette, LA; Bristol, VT; Niagara Falls, NY; Lincoln, NE; Philadelphia, PA; and several other cities.

The colorful illustration for this year’s Porchfest artwork was created by Rosemary Adelewitz (mother of Porchfest co-organizer Andy Adelewitz). It will be used in all Porchfest promotions and merchandise this year.

Porchfest 2015 is sponsored by longtime partner Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services, a non-profit community development corporation whose mission is to revitalize Ithaca’s neighborhoods, encouraging stability and diversity, and to help people of modest incomes obtain affordable housing on a long-term basis. INHS has recently partnered with Better Housing for Tompkins County, and together they are increasing quality housing opportunities for Tompkins County and beyond. More information at ithacanhs.org and betterhousingtc.org.

Howdy, neighbors!

Happy new year from Porchfest HQ. We just wanted to share a little save-the-date with you: Ithaca’s TENTH annual Porchfest will take place on Sunday, September 18, 2016.

Yep. TEN. Hard to believe, right? Ten years of being amazed by this wonderful thing we’ve built with our incredibly enthusiastic neighbors and Ithaca’s wealth of great musicians.

Put it on your calendar now, and we’ll see you in September.

Lesley, Gretchen & Andy

Everything you need to know about Porchfest 2015:

Porchfest, as most of you know, is tomorrow, Sunday, Sept 27, from 12-6 PM. We wanted to make sure everyone has all the information they’ll need to have a great time! Please share this with anyone you may know who’s coming from outside the neighborhood.

* Who’s performing, where and when?
Performer list + descriptions: http://porchfest.org/2015-musicians/
Schedule by time + interactive map: http://porchfest.org/2015-schedule/

We will also, as always, have printed map + schedule booklets available for free at Thompson Park, as well as the former Neighborhood Pride site at 210 Hancock Street.

And you can check the schedule on your phone! Go to http://porchfest.org/m for a mobile device-friendly version.

* Will there be anything to eat?
You bet! See the many options here: http://porchfest.org/food

* What about restrooms?
Tabernacle Baptist Church, at the corner of Cayuga and Lincoln streets, will make its restrooms available to the public for the duration of Porchfest. Additionally, there will be port-a-johns at the following locations:
– Thompson Park
– 210 Hancock Street
– 920 N Cayuga St (at Jay St)
– 202 E Falls St (provided by Northstar House)

* What streets will be closed?
We’re closing all of Utica Street this year, so it can act as a thoroughfare for pedestrians and bicycles. We strongly encourage all Porchfest attendees to use Utica to walk/bike through the neighborhood as much as possible, to ease congestion on Cayuga, Tioga and Aurora streets. (And if you normally park on Utica Street, we suggest moving your car Saturday night; volunteers will be available to escort vehicles out of the closed areas, but it’ll be slow going.)

Additionally, the following sections of street will be closed to traffic::
– E Jay Street, from Cayuga Street to Tioga Street
– Linn Street, from King Street to Tompkins Street
– E Marshall Street, from Utica Street to Tioga Street and from Tioga Street to Aurora Street (Tioga will remain open in between)
– Cascadilla Avenue, from Cayuga Street to Tioga Street
– from Lake Ave and Yates Street to W Marshall Street and Cayuga Street
– Auburn Street from Tompkins Street to Yates Street

You can see a map of these street closures at http://porchfest.org/street-closings-2015/

* Where can I buy a t-shirt?
T-shirts — which include the names of all performers, as well as this year’s lovely Porchfest artwork — will be available at our information booth in Thompson Park. We don’t make a ton of them, so get yours while they last! All profits go back into making Porchfest happen.

And hey, while we’re on the topic: donations are welcome too. Porchfest’s expenses include insurance, permit fees, map printing, t-shirts for volunteers, truck rental to set up traffic barricades, supplies for sign painting, and more. Nobody involved in organizing Porchfest makes a dime, and in fact, we’ve wound up making up the difference when Porchfest falls short. So if you’ve got a few extra bucks to throw in the hat, we’d very much appreciate it. There will be a donation jar at the info table, or you can pay with a credit card or bank account via PayPal at http://porchfest.org/donate

* Whom can I contact if there’s a problem during Porchfest?
Is someone playing too loudly? Playing outside their scheduled time, and conflicting with other performers? Issues with traffic barricades? If you need to reach us during Porchfest, you can email info@porchfest.org or call/text this number: 607-269-5106. Any method will reach all three of us, and we’ll respond as soon as possible. (Texting often works better than calling, as we’re out enjoying the music too, and sometimes it’s hard to hear or speak during a performance.)

HERE WE GO!

Andy, Gretchen + Lesley

Ithaca’s ninth annual Porchfest on Sunday, September 27, will feature 176 performers around the Fall Creek and Northside neighborhoods. Annual favorites like The Gunpoets, Not From Wisconsin, Mosaic Foundation, Anna Coogan, NEO Project and many more will return, as well as a number of new faces, including two dance troupes, a live performance of the music from Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. video game arranged for saxophone trio, and a self-explanatory act called 1 Hour of Knock Knock Jokes (with upright bass accompaniment, naturally). See the full performer list here.

FOOD TRUCKS AND BAKE SALES: Food options will abound during the festival this year. Porchfest sponsor Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services / Better Housing for Tompkins County is organizing a food truck round-up in the parking lot at 210 Hancock Street, featuring a variety of cuisine from The Good Truck (tacos), Star Truck (vegetarian comfort food), Gabriella’s Farm To Fork, Silo Truck (fried chicken), Alexander’s (homestyle cuisine), and Bici Cocina (authentic Colombian street food). Additionally, the Fall Creek Elementary School PTA will host a bake sale during Porchfest, with proceeds going toward a new sound system for the school gymnasium/auditorium.

SIGN PAINTING PARTY: The annual Porchfest sign painting party will take place on Sunday, September 20, as part of the Streets Alive! event on Ithaca’s Southside. Stay tuned to Porchfest’s website, email list and social media channels for exact location. The decorative wooden yard signs at performers’ houses are a beloved tradition of the event.

STREET CLOSURES: All of Utica Street will close to vehicular traffic this year, so the street can function as a pedestrian and bicycle thoroughfare during Porchfest. All pedestrians and cyclists are encouraged to use Utica Street to move north and south through the neighborhood between performance locations, to ease overcrowding on Cayuga, Tioga and Aurora streets. Other small sections of street will be closed as follows:
• E Jay Street, from Cayuga Street to Tioga Street
• Linn Street, from King Street to Tompkins Street
• Cascadilla Avenue, from Cayuga Street to Tioga Street
• from Lake Ave and Yates Street to W Marshall Street and Cayuga Street
• Auburn Street from Tompkins Street to Yates Street
• E Marshall Street, from Utica Street to Tioga Street and Tioga Street to Aurora Street (Tioga remains open in between)

See www.porchfest.org for a map of street closures.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: Additional volunteers are still needed for Porchfest, to help ensure pedestrian safety and reasonable performance volumes during the event. Volunteers are encouraged to sign up for a two-hour shift now at porchfest.org/volunteer. Perks for volunteers include having their name in the printed Porchfest program book and a free Porchfest Volunteer t-shirt, as well as the soul-warming knowledge that they’ve made an important contribution to a beloved community event.

A GROWING PHENOMENON: The number of new Porchfests around North America has grown by at least ten in 2015, including new upstate New York entries in Binghamton and Oswego. See the full list of more than three dozen known Porchfests in other cities at porchfest.org/porchfests-elsewhere.

Ithaca’s Fall Creek/Northside Neighborhood Music Festival Returns for Ninth Year as Concept Continues To Spread Internationally

Performer Signups Open August 1

July 24, 2015 — Porchfest, the annual music festival in Ithaca’s Fall Creek and Northside neighborhoods, will return for its ninth year on Sunday, September 27, 2015. Local musicians of all ages and genres will take to the porches of Fall Creek for an afternoon celebrating Ithaca’s wealth of local musical talent. Performer signups will open at www.porchfest.org on August 1 and continue through August 31; all who wish to perform are welcome.

The first Porchfest took place in Ithaca in 2007 after Fall Creek neighbors Lesley Greene and Gretchen Hildreth created the idea. (Third organizer Andy Adelewitz joined the team in 2013.) The number of performers has grown steadily by about 20 per year, growing from 20 that first year to 160 in 2014. Additionally, the Porchfest concept has spread throughout the U.S. and Canada, with more than 30 similar neighborhood festivals sprouting from Portland, Maine to Jacksonville, Florida to San Francisco to Vancouver and beyond — including at least four new events in 2015. See a full list of known Porchfests here.

Ithaca’s Porchfest is growing its volunteer corps considerably in 2015, in order to ensure pedestrian safety during the busy event. Volunteers are encouraged to sign up for a two-hour shift now at porchfest.org/volunteer. Perks for volunteers include having their name in the printed Porchfest program book and a free Porchfest Volunteer t-shirt, as well as the soul-warming knowledge that they’ve made an important contribution to a beloved community event.

This year’s original Porchfest artwork was created by local illustrator Carmel Rome, and can be seen at porchfest.org and on Porchfest’s social media sites. The artwork will also be featured on Porchfest’s printed program booklets and merchandise.

Porchfest 2015 is sponsored by longtime partner Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services (ithacanhs.org), a non-profit community development corporation whose mission is to revitalize Ithaca’s neighborhoods, encouraging stability and diversity, and to help people of modest incomes obtain affordable housing on a long-term basis. INHS has recently partnered with Better Housing for Tompkins County (betterhousingtc.org), and together they are increasing quality housing opportunities for Tompkins County and beyond.

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www.porchfest.org

facebook.com/porchfest

twitter.com/porchfestithaca

For more information on Porchfest, please contact
Lesley Greene, Gretchen Hildreth and Andy Adelewitz | info@porchfest.org