The main stage at the Bremerton Blackberry Festival will rock from start to finish for this year’s Labor Day weekend to-do, including sets from a number of acts familiar to Kitsap audiences and a seemingly annual visit from venerable Seattle rockers Jr. Cadillac.
Things get started on Sept. 5 with the National Anthem, flag presentation by the USS Nimitz Honor Guard and an official welcome from Mayor Patty Lent, all starting at 10:30 a.m. The music kicks in with Pop Cycle at 11 a.m., and doesn’t shut down until local cover band Payday Daddy (pictured below) blow out their last amp at about 5 p.m. on Sept. 7.
The whole lineup for the weekend goes a little something like this:
Saturday, Sept. 5
10:30 a.m. — USS Nimitz Honor Guard, National Anthem, welcome from Mayor Patty Lent
11 a.m. — Pop Cycle (rock)
1 p.m. — Clave Con Jazz
3 p.m. — Afton Prater (country)
Sunday, Sept. 6
10:30 a.m. — Bremerton Police Honor Guard, National Anthem
11 a.m. — Scott Cossu (jazz-blues piano)
12:30 p.m. — Fingertips (funky R&B)
2:30 p.m. — Fabulous Roof Shakers (rock, blues)
4 p.m. — Navy Band Northwest “Puget Sound Machine” (brass show band)
Monday, Sept. 7
10 a.m. — National Anthem, followed by Carrie Kay (Motown)
11:30 a.m. — Mark Lewis Quartet (jazz)
1:30 p.m. — Joy Mills Band (country)
3:30 p.m. — Payday Daddy (rock)
Information: blackberryfestival.org
— MM