Downtown Summer Nights

You could feel it Thursday night along Fourth Street, blowing gently down Yakima Avenue and breezing east toward Terrace Heights: Summer isn't over, but its days are numbered. Time to fold up the tents on another year of Downtown Summer Nights...

The last Downtown Summer Nights of the season is this Thursday (Aug. 20) and you shouldn't miss it! The headlining band is amazing! Blake Noble and he has some surprises for you. Like, a didgeridoo! What the heck is that?

There's an old adage in show business that goes something like this: "Leave the crowd wanting more." This Thursday night, those who attend the final installment of the city of Yakima and Townsquare Media's "Downtown Summer Nights" street concert series -- powered in part by Washington Broadband -- will most definitely be clamoring for it to never end...

Any way you want to score it, it's been a hot summer. But this isn't the Weather Channel. We're talking about the music for the past few months at Downtown Summer Nights. This week (Aug. 13) was no exception: Afton Prater, the Olson Brothers Band and Aaron Crawford did little to cool down Yakima, playing smokin'-hot country for a crowd that could take the heat...

They seem like the kind of guys who'd fit right in around here -- quick, broad smiles, strong handshakes and suntanned faces that would look at home behind the wheel of a John Deere in an open field. And the Olson boys -- Luke and Isaac of the Olson Brothers Band -- will likely feel at home this week when they come to town to play Yakima's Downtown Summer Nights...

Anybody else's ears still throbbing after this week's Downtown Summer Nights? (OK, maybe that's just us. We were sitting right up front again.) Either way, Thursday night's three bands -- Wenatchee's Eden Moody, Ellensburg's Skyler Mehan and Seattle's Down North  -- tore it up...

Five months from now, when the wind is rattling your windows and you're snuggling in your bed, dreading when you have to get up and take a broom to the snow on your windshield, think of this night. Think of that easy breeze, a soothing glass of merlot, all that suntanned skin around you and that cool summer air...

Downtown Summer Nights has been fantastic this summer. We have had some awesome talent come through -- country, blues and rock.. I am a true rocker, but this Thursday is bringing all of it.

We are always in need of something fun to do in Yakima Valley. We have had some fun times this summer. Downtown Summer Nights has been amazing, especially the 'Van Eps' night with KATS-FM. Now 'Second Saturday' is in play. The Downtown Association is putting together 'Second Saturday' for all of us to have even more fun in Yakima Valley!

It was another night to get comfortable, kick back and have some fun -- and that's exactly what Yakima did for this week's Downtown Summer Nights. Hundreds headed to Fourth Street, and in the shade of the Capitol Theatre, enjoyed cool beverages and eats from the local vendors like HopTown Wood Fired Pizza. ...

This Thursday's (June 25) Downtown Summer Nights features some awesome sounds from Seattle rockers Van Eps, plus The Banner Days and Indigo Kidd. Van Eps has been a mainstay in the Seattle rock scene since 2006. Their sound can best be described as a “classic feel with a modern edge”, drawing influence from the Foo Fighters, ACDC, Led Zeppelin, and Jet, to name a few...

Downtown Summer Nights is a music festival downtown every Thursday at 5 p.m. Kids are always welcome to this free event and, just for them, we have free arts and crafts as well as free face painting.