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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