Niles Riverfest returning in August By: Matt Nagy Photo Courtesy: Niles Family Fun Fair and Music Festival Facebook page
BERRIEN COUNTY, Mich. The Niles Riverfest will be hosting this year’s festival from August 5 through August 8 at Riverfront Park and Plym Park.
Rides, food vendors, and a carnival will be available at Plym Park while live music, food vendors, and crafts vendors will be available at Riverfront Park.
Admission will be free for the festival at both parks for all four days.
To view the festival s hours, learn about the musical talents, and receive a wristband coupon for the rides, visit the festival’s Facebook page.
The only live portion of the festival was piano, which began on Monday and will run through to Wednesday, March 10, all at the T.C. Douglas Centre, and the few entries for band-instrumental will be held on Wednesday evening. The piano adjudicator is Janis Smith. “Technically the piano is not a live festival. Due to COVID regulations, we cannot have an audience,” said Music Festival president Heather Sidloski, explaining how this portion of the festival will run. “Any parents who are coming to the festival will be given ‘volunteer duties’ to help produce our ‘virtual festival’. They will video their child’s performance and then if they choose will post it on their Facebook page and/or the Music Festival Facebook page. We do have a live adjudicator and everything else for piano will run as normal,” she explained.