Longfellow Street Fest features local, worldwide artists and performers

    Where can you tantalize your tastebuds, excite your eyes and ears with music and dance from worldwide cultures, get your blood pressure checked, learn how to adopt a pet or help save the Mississippi River, purchase a one of a kind, locally handcrafted gift, form a block club, and then create your own work of art, all in one place, and on a Sunday?
    You can do all this and much more at the Third annual Greater Longfellow Street Fest on Sun., July 15 at the intersection of East Lake Street and Minnehaha Avenue South from noon to 7 p.m.
    Longfellow Community Council and the Longfellow Business Association, along with scores of businesses, organizations and neighborhood volunteers, created Street Fest to celebrate the end of storefront prostitution in the neighborhood in 1999. The first year’s attendence of 350 neighbors grew to over 3,000 last year, and this year’s Street Fest will have even more to see and do and learn about!
    Street Fest highlights this year include an outdoor stage with popular local bands, an air-conditioned indoor stage at Patrick’s Cabaret featuring multicultural dance performances, art for sale by local artists, information tables and booths from a wide variety of nonprofit communty organizations and schools, great food from area restaurants, outdoor tile mosaic making and an art activity area for people of all ages.
    The Longfellow community invites everyone to join the fun at this free celebration. For further information about this and other events in the greater Longfellow community, visit Longfellow’s website www.longfellow
communitycouncil.com, or call LCC at (612) 722-4529.