By Daily Press staff
Main Street is planning a party to celebrate the summer soulstice. The Third Annual Main Street Santa Monica Summer Soulstice is scheduled for June 15, featuring live music, an art show, fashion shows, a scavenger hunt with big prizes and children’s activities.
A Beatles tribute band, a petting farm, and the chance to win a couch from Ashland & Hill, or a meal for two at Chinois in a scavenger hunt are just part of the fun.
The Main Street Merchants Association in Santa Monica will sponsor the celebration and sidewalk sale, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Main Street between Pico Boulevard and Marine Street.
Many Main Street merchants will be offering items on sale as part of the sidewalk sale, and businesses including Baci, Splash, Gioia, LaVecchia, O’Brien’s, Trendy Sunglasses, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Bhutan and Amelia’s will also be having customer appreciation open house specials and activities.
From noon to 6 p.m., there will be a variety of live music including jazz, folk-rock, Latin, rock n roll, Indian-Brazilian fusion, soul and more. Three tribute bands, Forever Fab (The Beatles), Highway 61 Revisited (Dylan), and Peace Frog (The Doors) will play on Kinney, across from Joe’s Diner, located at 2917 Main Street.
Joe Gaeta’s jazz trio will play after the farmers’ market in front of the Victorian, located at 2640 Main Street, and the Tom Nolan R&B Revue, the Nancy Luca Band, and Sara Bareilles will play on Pier Avenue. Tanpura, a jazz-Indian classical- Brazilian fusion band will play in the Edgemar Courtyard and there will be live music at the First Federal lot.
For the kids, there will be pony rides, a petting zoo, games and a hands-on sea life exhibit called “Window On Our Water.”
There will be a fashion show featuring items from various Main Street merchants.
New this year is the scavenger hunt. It’s an opportunity for participants to win big prizes. Contestants can win a host of different prizes from area merchants.
Sign-up tables will be at the First Federal lot, located at 2812 Main Street and at the Soulstice “playground” lot on the corner of Main and Marine. Entry is free.
Parking is available in the Main Street municipal lots and all-day parking is available at the beach lots only two blocks away for $6.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 16, 2003. Read the original PDF.