Alternate routes will be needed to get around downtown Taylor Saturday
On June 25, the Taylor PRIDE Music & Arts Festival will be from 2 to 10 p.m. at Black Sparrow Music Parlor, Texas Beer Company, Xchange Nightlife and outside along Second Street from Main to Vance streets and on half of a Talbot Street block north and south of Second. Road closures will be set up around the event.
“We are actually having a street festival with vendors and food and a little family friendly area,” said Red Bailey, Taylor PRIDE member. “There’s going to be an outdoor stage as well as things happening in the venues like last year. There’ll be as much happening last year but also more.”
After an hour of cleanup following the festival, streets are scheduled to reopen at 11 p.m.
Speakers will include city, county and state leaders and others. Live musical performers such as Venus Loves Mars, The Revengers, Brooke Ashley Eden, Kelly McRae, Spooky Juke, Jay Satallite, Carbon Love, Midnight Butterfly, Crystal Skulls, Worm Suicide, Marla Strange and Vestite will be in attendance. Last year’s event
Last year’s event attracted a group of people that stood on the opposite side of the majority of activities on Second Street that sang songs, read Bible verses and displayed signs of concern for the event and reasons behind it. The Taylor Area Ministerial Alliance, a network of some local churches and ministries, announced June 15 that they had accepted an invitation from Taylor PRIDE co-founder Denise Rodgers to attend the event as they did last year.
In addition to a police presence, the event will be attended by a local chapter of the Parasol Patrol, an organization of people who use umbrellas to shield perceived negative impacts from protestors at events.
For more information, visit https://www.taylorpride.org.
