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Downtown Closure Planned for Winfield Main Street Music Crawl

The Winfield Main Street Committee of the Winfield Area Chamber of Commerce has been working on plans to improve the September 14th downtown Pre-Festival Music Crawl. In cooperation with the City of Winfield and the Kansas Department of Transportation, Winfield Main Street will close down a portion of the downtown streets for this event. The hope is to provide a safer and more enjoyable environment in which the public can experience the September music crawl.

The closure will be from 4 pm to 10 pm on Tuesday, September 14^th. The area closed will be Main Street from 7^th Avenue to 11^th Avenue, and 9^th Avenue from Millington Street to Manning Street.

The businesses/organizations that will have musicians playing at their storefronts are as follows:

• Walnut Valley Outpost (107 E. 7th Ave.) - Grody Riggins Band 7-9:00 PM

• Cutting Edge Custom Tees & The Edge PAC (721 Main St.) - Dalton City Limits 5:30-8:30 PM

• Biederman's Bistro (801 Main St. - Inside) - Tim Durham 5:30-7:30 PM

• Union State Bank (823 Main St.) - Barry "Bones" Patton with Ken Pomeroy 6:30-8:00 PM

• Eagle Nest Inc. (112 E. 9th Ave.) - Bobby Fleet 4:00 PM

• WMS Hamburger Feed (9th & Millington St.) - Mandolin Monroe 5:30-7:30 PM

• RCB Bank (900 Main St.) - Ben Jammin' 5:30 PM - Giving out free ice cream

• Graves Drug (905 Main St.) - The Billiters 5:30 PM

• Get Branded Custom Tees (915 Main St.) - Billy Ray and The Buttercutter 5:30 PM

• Gallery 1001 (1001 Main St.) - Great Plains Dulcimer Alliance 6:00 PM

• Marquee Performing Arts Center (1007 Main St.) - Rachel Baiman, George Jackson, & Old Sound 7:30 PM - Benefit concert for the Marquee, accepting donations

• Trunk N Treasures (1016 Main St.) - The Lough Brothers 5:30-7:30 PM

• Hometown Sales & Lease (1020 Main St.) - BackRhodes 5:30 PM

• First United Methodist Church (1000 Millington St.) - Justin & Anjaih Williams 5:30 PM - Giving out free root beer floats

The chamber’s Young Professionals of Cowley County organization will still be holding their annual beer and wine garden in conjunction with this event. However, this year the entire closed downtown area will be the beer garden area and the sales will take place at the intersection of Main Street and 9^th Avenue. Only alcohol purchased through the YP Beer & Wine Garden will be allowed for consumption on the closed streets.

The Winfield Main Street Hamburger Feed will still be held at its usual location at 9^th Avenue and Millington Street during the music crawl. Hotdog meals will be sold for $5, Hamburger meals for $7, and Double Meat Meals for $10. 100% of the proceeds from this event go into the Winfield Main Street Committee’s mini grant fund for downtown business improvements.