A music and food festival benefiting breast cancer research returns this month to Hyde Park.
The 2022 Pink Day Notes for Hope Music and Food Festival will host a lineup of seven bands and food trucks from noon to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 16, at the Hyde Park Heritage Pavilion.
Leechburg resident and breast cancer survivor Sherry Price is the founder and organizer of Pink Day, an annual daylong festival created in 2011.
To date, Pink Day has raised more than $172,000 for breast cancer research.
Price planned the new event last year in an effort to boost donations and raise funds before Pink Day, scheduled for Sept. 17.
Hyde Park Volunteer Fire Company president and festival volunteer Jay Zanotti said the event is the perfect opportunity to utilize the multiacre park.
“It was good last year, although there was a lot of rain, but we managed to pull through,” Zanotti said.
Last year’s festival raised more than $4,000.
All proceeds benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
The fire company will be selling alcoholic beverages and snacks.
Participating food trucks include Cup and Cone, Little C’s Concessions, Lisa’s Shaved Ice, Anything Rolls Egg Rolls, Fireman’s Lunchbox, QT’s Butt Hutt and DelVecchio’s Sausage and Fries.
The price range for the food trucks are $5 to $15.
New this year is a petting zoo operated by Little Blessings Mobile Petting Zoo from 1 to 4 p.m.
Seven bands will provide live music, performing from a stage inside the park.
Participating bands will perform beginning at noon in the following lineup: Jerry B and the Bone Tones, Miss Freddye Stover and her Blues Band, Lenny Collini 4PaK, Marshall & the Deputies, Steel Mill Rising, Bill Toms & Hard Rain and King Lou Hock and his Flying Circus.
“My hope is folks come and enjoy the music and food, and relax,” Price said. “Live music has a way of soothing the soul, at least for me, and I think that’s the same for many folks.”
The event is rain or shine.
Attendees are encouraged to bring chairs.
An ATM machine will be available for the cash-only event.
No outside coolers, food or alcohol are permitted.
Price thanked the Hyde Park volunteer firefighters for their ongoing support with the festival.
“I believe we have developed a great working relationship with them, and they’re very dedicated to the event. I love working with this group — they’re hugely accommodating and very hands on,” she said.
