After a 12 months of canceled occasions resulting from COVID-19, a number of native teams are gearing up for a return in 2021.
Plans are within the works for New Baltimore’s beloved Fishfly Pageant, Music by the Bay and different occasions. All will comply with any public well being and security tips in place.
Right here’s a take a look at among the festivals and occasions scheduled to happen this 12 months within the metropolis of New Baltimore.
Bay-Rama Fishfly Pageant
The annual summer season Bay-Rama Fishfly Pageant will return downtown June 23 to 27.
The 2021 pageant will mark its 56th 12 months within the metropolis, as final 12 months’s occasion was canceled.
Plans are within the works to carry a halfway and carnival rides again to the town. The beverage tent will return, together with fireworks on June 24 and this 12 months’s parade on June 27. Organizers are anticipated to announce extra plans as soon as the schedule of occasions is finalized.
Organizers count on between 5,000 and 6,000 folks to attend every day.
Organized by the all-volunteer, nonprofit Bay-Rama Inc., pageant proceeds are used for numerous neighborhood tasks, scholarships and occasions.
In 2019, the pageant noticed report ticket gross sales.
For extra details about the pageant, go to bay-rama.com or facebook.com/bayramafishflyfestival.
Music by the Bay
Music by the Bay is scheduled to return to Walter and Mary Burke Park Aug. 13 and 14.
Organized by the Anchor Bay Chamber of Commerce, the occasion was canceled final 12 months resulting from COVID-19. This 12 months will mark the occasion’s eighth 12 months within the metropolis’s waterfront park.
Performers presently scheduled to seem embrace Chris Daniel, Sax Maniacs, Vavoom, Metro Rockway and Joey Vee.
Anchor Bay Idol will even return. These focused on competing will be capable of audition for the competition beginning in June.
Admission might be free, though organizers are asking for at-will donations to profit the neighborhood by the Anchor Bay Neighborhood Basis.
In the course of the occasion on Aug. 13, Coordinated Crafters Connection LLC will host a craft and vendor present on the park.
Moreover, AMVETS Publish 29 is anticipated to show Michigan’s Fallen Navy Memorial Wall through the occasion.
For extra details about Music by the Bay, go to abccmusicbythebay.com or facebook.com/abccmusicbythebay.
New Baltimore Lions Sprinterfest 2021
The New Baltimore Lions has reworked its annual Winterfest celebration right into a Sprinterfest celebration for 2021.
The occasion is scheduled to run from April 23 to 25 in downtown New Baltimore. Enjoyable for all ages is deliberate, together with stay leisure, meals and drinks, video games, actions and extra.
Highlights for this 12 months’s occasion will even embrace a extra “temperate” Polar Bear Plunge, with a portion of proceeds serving to to fund a brand new playscape at Ruedisale Park, a chili cook-off competitors, a cornhole event, a 5K run/stroll and a brand new craft beer tent.
Proceeds from the occasion will profit Lions charities and work in the neighborhood all year long.
For extra details about the occasion, go to newbaltimorelions.com or facebook.com/newbaltimorelions.
Buying Small Enterprise with Santa Sale
Coordinated Crafters Connection LLC will host a Store Small Enterprise with Santa Sale July 31 in downtown New Baltimore.
The sidewalk sale will happen alongside Washington Avenue. Customers will be capable of go to taking part places for particular offers. A Buying Small Enterprise Contest providing a $25 Visa reward card prize can be deliberate.
For extra details about the sale, go to facebook.com/ccconnectionsllc.
Meals vendor truck at Pageant Park
New Baltimore Metropolis Council members on Feb. 8 authorised a particular occasion utility from Presidential Village neighbors to permit a meals vendor truck at Pageant Park from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month from March 24 to Nov. 10.
Katelyn Larese is a Native Information Editor at The Voice. She could be contacted at 586-273-6196 or klarese@medianewsgroup.com.