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Sponsored by the Bridgeport Arts and Cultural Council<\/a>, the free event will run from 5-9 p.m. and will include live bands, music and vendors, according to the council’s promotional material. Pangea Worldbeat, a “genre-bending” group with afrobeat, space-funk and soul influences, and West Hill Road, a Stamford band recently spotlighted on NPR’s DeskOfTheDay segment<\/a>, are listed as the headlining live music acts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The bands will begin playing at 6:15 p.m., with attendees having the option to bring lawn chairs or other seating options, according to event organizers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n For those looking for a replacement to the recently-cancelled Soundside Music Festival<\/a>, Downtown Thursdays is also collaborating in the first annual Park City Music Festival in Bridgeport<\/a>, which will kick off at 2 p.m. at Seaside Park. Bronx-born KRS One, a recognizable figure in the early New York hip-hop scene who was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2007 BET Hip Hop Awards, will feature at the event alongside Bridgeport rap group The Skinny Boys.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The once-weekly event will run through Aug. 24 at McLevy Green, according to the City of Bridgeport. Next week’s event will take on more of a rock-and-roll tune, spotlighting Greg Sherrod & Band alongside Jake Kulak & The Modern Vandals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.ctpost.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sponsored by the Bridgeport Arts and Cultural Council, the free event will run from 5-9 p.m. and will include live bands, music and vendors, according to the council’s promotional material. Pangea Worldbeat, a “genre-bending” group with afrobeat, space-funk and soul influences, and West Hill Road, a Stamford band recently spotlighted on NPR’s DeskOfTheDay segment, are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1976758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[353295],"class_list":["post-1976757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-connecticut-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Downtown-Thursdays-return-to-Bridgeport-sponsor-music-festival.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1976758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}