![]() In 2011, the Council created a decentralized music festival-Porchfest. Special Thanks to Kirk Isreal and Moses Blumenstiel for their combined web work on Porchfest. In late April we will announce a charity for this year's PorchFest in addition to encouraging you to support the local bands participating see their own ways to support them on their pages. **If you are in need of a public restroom we have placed portajohns around the city of public property. We strive for this to be a family friendly event, please help us keep it that way. ![]() Please respect neighboring property NO public drinking stay on sidewalks, not in roadway. The intent is to showcase Somerville's musical talent.Īs bands begin to register, go to the 2023 PorchFest map for update to band participation. This event is a decentralized effort among bands, neighborhoods, and community-this is not a festival per se. We are moving back to our traditional approach with bands performing on local porches, while guests move through the city. Create a new page, with the new year, by "Register for Porchfest." Do not revise your prior year page, this will override that year. Login with your user account and follow items 3-4 above. If you have forgotten the password or even your prior user name go to user login here (or always at the footer of our site) and request to reset via the email address you used in setting up your account.Ģ. Again, login, click on your band posting, click edit up top, edit, and be sure to hit save at the bottom.ġ. You can always go back to your band listing and make edits. Additions made without address or address outside of Somerville will be deleted.Ĥ. You must secure a performance "porch" location first to registered. (We are currently having problems with Google Maps so don't despair.) This is a Somerville based event. Your registration will appear on the 2023 map page. You must put in a location (address) and zone for it to appear on the map. After you have logged in Register for PorchFest here. Once you receive a confirmation that your user account has been approved, you will login as a user (or always at the footer of our website.ģ. In order to register you must sign up for a user account first. Prior to registering please review this PorchFest guide to performers/hosts.ġ. If you are performing for a shorter duration in that time slot, use the "time" field to qualify that specific time. Similar to prior years, to ensure guests can move orderly through the city and view the music, porches located West (west of Willow) will perform during the slot from 12-2 Central (from Willow to Central) from 2-4 East (east of Central) from 4-6. You are performing on your own private property not public streets or sidewalks. It is the responsibility of the host (or the band) to ensure you are being neighborly and respectful by informing neighbors of your intent to perform. If you submit and there is no address, it will be deleted. You should not register to "find" a place or host. **************************************************Īs a reminder, the Arts Council does not provide match making, bands should be performing on their own porches or porches of invited hosts. We will continue with the structure of staring in the West zone at noon and ending East at 6 p.m. I'd strongly encourage not bothering with the permit unless, again, parking within a 2 house radius of your place is unlikely to be available around the time they're coming.PorchFest Somerville 2023 will take place on Sat. Having the sign there may seem like a deterrent in and of itself, but a LOT of people don't notice them or ignore them entirely (this happened to me).Į: I just re-read your post and saw you said moving van. If you don't do that, the city won't enforce the permit if someone decides to park there and you try to call it in. You need to post it X number of days in advance, and more importantly, you need to notify Somerville you posted it by a certain number of days in advance (forgot if it's 24 or 48 hours. If you're on a street where parking tends to be tougher, you may wanna consider it, but just make sure you follow allll the instructions when you get the permit. Even if they have to park the truck a house or so down, it isn't gonna add that much time/effort for them. You can park your car there if you have one or throw in a cone or something an hour or two before the truck is supposed to come to save the space. If there's a good chance a space will be available around the time you're moving, probably don't bother. I'd say make the call based on how easy parking is close to your front door. I'm kinda torn on this b/c I've moved to Somerville twice, and away once.
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