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Downtown Racine offers free music Fridays and Saturdays this summer
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Incorruptibles performs in 2025. The band will be back in concert in Racine during the Music on the Monument concert series in Downtown Racine on Aug. 28. |
RACINE — The Downtown Racine Corporation has announced the return of two outdoor concert series: Music on the Monument on Fridays and Saturday Sounds on the Square on Saturdays.
They will offer free live music at Monument Square every Friday and Saturday through Aug. 29, with performances from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Seating is available, as well as room for dancing, a beer garden and food vendors.
The Friday Music on the Monument schedule includes:
- July 3: Ivy Ford Band (5-8 p.m. during First Friday)
- July 10: Rust Belt
- July 17: Kyle Young Band
- July 24: Walking Birds
- July 31: Identity Crisis
- Aug. 7: All The Kings Men (5-8 p.m. during First Friday)
- Aug. 14: Mean Jake
- Aug. 21: Route 66 Belle City Band
- Aug. 28: Incorruptibles
- Sept. 4: Alexandra Smith (5-8 p.m. during First Friday)
Saturday Sounds on the Square will include:
- June 27: Jill Plaisted Band
- July 11: Scarlet Curve
- July 18: Mathew Haeffel Trio
- July 25: Ghosts in the Gravel
- Aug. 1: Saturday June Band
- Aug. 8: Infusion
- Aug. 15: Easy-Flo
- Aug. 22: Lori Lewis
- Aug. 29: Would You Kindly
In the event of severe weather, concerts may be canceled without a makeup date. Weather updates will be posted on the Downtown Racine social media pages.
Parking is available at the McMynn Ramp, Lake Avenue Ramp, Shoop Ramp, Gaslight Point Ramp, and Festival Hall Ramp. All ramps offer all-day parking for $4.
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'I'm glad people haven't forgotten about us': Brewery reopens in downtown Racine
Holly Gilvary
RACINE — Nine months after its closure, a beloved downtown brewery has made its comeback.
Littleport Brewing Company, 214 Third St., reopened Oct. 13, according to Mark Flynn, who co-owns the brewery with his wife, Chris Flynn.
The brewery will be open 5-9 p.m. Mondays through Thursday, 4-10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and noon to 6 p.m. Sundays, “or until the Packers game is over” on Sunday nights when Green Bay plays, Flynn said.
The Flynns’ first opened Littleport in April 2021.
Littleport closed in January after original investors “decided they wanted their investment back in their entirety,” leading the brewery to put the building up for sale, the Flynns’ wrote in a Facebook post at the time.
The couple also said in the post that they were hopeful they would reopen in another location in six to 12 months.
Mark Flynn said he and Chris were “shocked” when investors turned the building back over to them, not having found success in selling it after six months.
“It’s nice that we didn’t lose the building,” he said. “Had we lost it, that would have been a loss we’d be carrying the rest of our lives.”
The feel of Littleport is largely the same as it was nine months ago, but Flynn said they will likely host more events. The brewery was just ramping up live music and open mic nights when it closed, and now, Flynn said, they’ve received inquiries about hosting dance classes or yoga classes in the space.
The brewery’s new equipment takes up half the space of their original equipment, leaving room for about 40-50 more people inside, according to Flynn. Support from the community has allowed the brewery to restock and reopen that much quicker, Flynn said.
“Customers’ reaction has been fantastic,” he said. “I’m glad people haven’t forgotten about us.”
The Flynns’ haven’t asked for donations, but customers have been giving them — including donations from a GoFundMe page that has so far raised $5,300 for the brewery.
“It was a friend of ours who set it up and I didn’t know she was doing it,” Flynn said. “It’s nice to see the community rallying around us.”
From: https://journaltimes.com/news/local/business/article_dca79299-e392-4035-85dd-ec7f95275afa.html
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