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Downtown to come alive Tuesdays

A downtown market will join Music in the Park each Tuesday evening beginning July 6

• By: Jason Horton  
• Published: 6/30/2010 11:31:40 PM

WOODBURN — Music in the Park is set to return July 6 in Library Park, in front of the Woodburn Public Library.
 
Joining the music festivities this year will be a farmer’s market-style event, across the street in the Downtown Plaza.
 
“We hope people attending the market will enjoy the Music in the Park and people at Music in the Park will enjoy the market across the street,” said Sandy Kinney, library program coordinator. “I think that anything we can do to promote the downtown area is a great thing. I’m thrilled something else that will be downtown as well.”
 
Kinney said the concert series this year will feature some fan favorites as well as some new bands.
 
“There are some great new acts. There’s a mariachi band out of the Hillsboro area and they will be appearing in July and they are fantastic,” she said.
 
“Woodburn’s own Billy and the Rockets is new to us, but they are well known in the community and our closing band, The New Iberians.”
 
Also returning this year, under a new name, is the Jim and Alan Show. They are an acoustic folk and comedy set. They have been in the lineup in years past under the name, The Dukes of Juke.
 
The concert series will, like in past, offer patrons two vendors to choose from: Lupita’s Mexican Restaurant and Coastal Creamery.
 
The market across the street will feature different vendors each week, said organizer Julie Chappelle.
 
“The Woodburn fire and police departments have agreed to provide a vehicle each week and the fire district will bring an antique fire truck the first week,” she said.
 
She said she’s working on getting Woodburn Ambulance out in August, too.
 
There will also be some food vendors, including hot dogs, ice cream and possibly others, she said.
 
Also, the Marion County Health Department and Curves will have booths and there will be a person who makes handbags.
 
“We have a very different group of people than I thought we would,” Chappelle said. “We are working on getting some of the berry farmers there and some local political candidates have expressed interest in having a booth.”
 
 
The Woodburn Area Chamber of Commerce will always have a table there, too, as one of the event sponsors.
 
Working with Music in the Park, Chappelle said, will make it easier to get people downtown.
 
“I thought it would be a huge selling point to vendors, since we’re already going to have a crowd there,” she said. “That’s the focus — to get more people downtown.”

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