Downtown Summer Nights

Assuming you have a pulse, there's no way you went home bored after this week's Downtown Summer Nights street party. The Robbie Walden Band and Slings and Arrows put on one of North Front Street's most energetic evenings of the season Thursday...

We promise: It won't rain this week! Get ready for a perfect evening this Thursday (July 14) when the Robbie Walden Band, plus Slings and Arrows, perform at Downtown Summer Nights on North Front Street. The Robbie Walden Band hails from the west side, but they've played Yakima before -- they were at DSN just last summer...

Baseball has rainouts. And sometimes, so do concerts. For the first time in anybody's memory, Downtown Summer Nights had to fold up its tents, unplug the electronic equipment and let Mother Nature take center stage as a summer squall settled in and shut down Thursday night's show on North Front Street.

I took a quick video of people dancing, having a good time, but couldn't post the video because of the music so, instead, I added my own. Enjoy! And never mind my 'royalty free' music from this video, see and hear live music with your own ears each and every Thursday night on Front street in Yakima with Downtown Summer Nights...

This Thursday, July 7, will be another great day for a live, free concert on Front street in Yakima as Polyrhythmics perform at Downtown Summer Nights.

Kick back with a cold beverage and enjoy Yakima favorite Blake Noble (and some special friends) -- along with Yakima's own Indigo Kidd -- at this week's (June 30) Downtown Summer Nights concert on historic Front Street. As usual, a range of on-site vendors and restaurants will have excellent food and drinks starting at 5:30 p.m.

Funny how the weather always seems to straighten out juuuust in time for Downtown Summer Nights each week, isn't it? Fine. We'll take it. Obviously someone well beyond us is a fan ... And speaking of fans, what a great crowd this week...

It's only our second week in our new North Front Street location for Downtown Summer Nights, but with more room, more vendors and more people, we're figuring the rest of this summer will be more fun than ever. So make yourself at home Thursday (June 23) from 5:30-9 p.m. and enjoy this week's two musical guests: Yakima's Sophia Tilley and the Olson Bros Band.

There are plenty of events that state the usual stuff to get people out of the house. Stuff like live music, beer garden, food vendors -- and they're all very important. What caught my eye about this year's Downtown Summer Nights was the fact that US Cellular is providing a cellphone charging station. It's exactly what you think it is. A place where you can charge your phones so you can take more

"Change," the late President John F. Kennedy once said, "is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." We're not sure which way you were looking Thursday night, but wherever we looked during the first Downtown Summer Nights event at our new North Front Street location, we saw smiles...

Here we go! Starting this week, another season of Downtown Summer Nights is set to fill your Thursday evenings with music and laughter all summer! The food will be excellent and so will the drinks! It all starts again this Thursday (June 16) from 5:30-9 p.m. at our new location -- Front Street.

It might not seem like it just yet, but it won't be long until we'll all be chilling on another one of those Downtown Summer Nights that help make Yakima such a great place to be. And this year, the annual summerlong event will be even better -- it's moving to Front Street!