Columbus will have its first Porchfest on May 2, a day of free live music, local art, food vendors and community activities in the Columbus Historic District.
Presented by Uptown Columbus, the family-friendly event will turn neighborhood front porches into stages from noon to 6 p.m., with performances scheduled in roughly hourlong sets spanning genres, including rock, jazz, country, folk, R&B, classical, singer-songwriter and blues.
“Porchfest is about more than music,” Melody Kiser, the event’s producer, said in a news release. “It’s about seeing a neighborhood come alive. It’s neighbors welcoming neighbors, musicians sharing their art, families walking from porch to porch and the whole city experiencing Uptown in a new way.”…