Porchfest 2019: General Info | Performers | Schedule | Map | Street Closures
Ithaca’s 13th Annual Porchfest Coming Sept. 22
171 Performers Will Hit the Porches of Fall Creek & Northside
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 171 performers at 102 locations, primarily porches but also including Thompson Park and several local businesses and churches. 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.
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.
