HUNTINGTON â Live music is returning to downtown Huntington with the launch of â9th Street Live,â a weekly, Friday night concert series hosted by Kindred Communications.
The series, which begins May 21 with performances from John R. Miller and Abby Hamilton, will continue with new acts each week through Labor Day weekend in September.
Reeves Kirtner, vice president associate general manager of Kindred Communications, said the idea behind the concert series was building on what the City of Huntington started last summer by closing part of 9th Street for outside dining for restaurants and bars during the peak of the pandemic.
âI enjoyed the outside dining myself on 9th Street last summer and fall several times and chatted with Jeff McKay at Summit Beer Station, Allison White at Sip Downtown Brasserie and Marisa Milum and Steve Vance at Marshall Hall of Fame Cafe and asked âWhat could we do to take this to the next level?â and the overall consensus was starting a concert series,â Kirtner said.