Vol. 4, No. 8, August 2007
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Height of the Season
There’s lots of the AC summer left to enjoy
You still have more than a month to enjoy summertime in Atlantic City. If you haven’t done so already, don’t forget to get out to Kennedy Plaza on the Atlantic City Boardwalk on Thursday nights to enjoy cool jazz under the stars during the
Chicken Bone Beach Concert Series.
Each week continuing through August, the audience is treated to two acts—a jazz headliner and an emerging jazz artist. Headliners for August include AZUCA on August 2, Plan B on August 9, Eric Frazier on August 16, Maurice Brown on August 23 and Helen Sung on August 30.
The free concerts begin at 7 p.m. and conclude at 10 p.m. Kennedy Plaza is located on the Atlantic City Boardwalk at Mississippi Avenue. For more information on the concerts, visit www.chickenbonebeach.org.
Also jazzing things up this summer is the
Atlantic City Free Public Library. They will finish their jazz concert series on Wednesday, August 1 with a concert by the Hassan Abdullah Quartet. A saxophone player and composer, Abdullah says his influence comes from such jazz greats as John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, Sonny Stitt and Dexter Gordon. The concert will take place from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the second-floor meeting room of the Main Library on 1 North Tennessee Ave. For more information, visit www.acfpl.org or call 609-345-2269.
Have a ball in Atlantic City this summer at
Great American Volleyball’s “Battle Royale.” The “Battle Royale” tournament takes place on Saturday, August 4 and Sunday, August 5 on the beach in front of Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino next to the beach bar. Admission is free for all spectators. The beach gets crowded quickly, so plan on arriving early for a good spot, close to all the action. For more information, visit the Great American Volleyball website at www.greatamericanvolleyball.com.
Featuring music, and fine arts and crafts, the
Fourth Annual Atlantic City Arts Alive! Festival hits the Boardwalk Friday, August 10 through Sunday, August 12. The Arts Alive! festival takes place at Kennedy Plaza, just outside of historic Boardwalk Hall. For more information, call 609-287-8655 or e-mail info@martywilsonartmusic.org.
On Sunday, August 12, the
11th Annual Atlantic County Puerto Rican Parade and Latin Music Festival will take place on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. The parade, which begins at 12 noon, travels the Atlantic City Boardwalk from Albany Avenue to New Jersey Avenue. Immediately following the parade, the celebration will continue with the Latin Music Festival at New Jersey Avenue and the Boardwalk. The Latin Music Festival features delicious authentic Puerto Rican food, folk music, dancers and many other attractions. For additional information, call 609-226-8183 or 609-909-0262, e-mail yvettesoto@hotmail.com or visit the website www.atlanticcityparade.com.
On Tuesday, August 14 is the traditional
Wedding and Blessing of the Sea. Before the annual blessing, a concelebrated Vigil Mass will be performed by Father Matysik, pastor of St. Michael’s Church, at 4:30 p.m. in the Adrian Phillips Ballroom of Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall. St. Michael’s Choir, along with other local church choirs, will provide music for the liturgy. After the blessing, a lifeguard will take Father Robert B. Matysik and Atlantic City Mayor Bob Levy into the surf, where they will cast a wedding ring and floral garland into the sea. The rite symbolizes the wedding of the sea and the city.
After you experience the heart-stopping feats, aerobatics maneuvers, formation flying and solo routines of the
Atlantic City Air Show “Thunder Over the Boardwalk,” presented by Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa on Wednesday, August 15, you can relive all the action with a free screening of
Top Gun, brought to you by Caesars Atlantic City.
Caesars will continue its free screenings of classic movies, which started with
Jaws in July, with the premier of
Top Gun on Tuesday, August 14 and Wednesday, August 15 on the Arkansas Avenue beach between Bally’s Atlantic City and Caesars. The film will be shown on a 19-by-35-foot screen.
There’s nothing quite like August in Atlantic City. But the warm weather won’t last forever. Make sure to get out and enjoy these events and more. For a complete listing of summertime activity in Atlantic City and the surrounding region, visit www.atlanticcitynj.com.
