Veterans Memorial Park in Tisbury, the home of the Beach Road Weekend music festival, needs its own stewards to ensure the grass and other park facilities are maintained consistently, town officials say.
Mumford & Sons, Bon Iver and Leon Bridges will headline Beach Road Weekend this summer. Festival organizer Adam Epstein said this year's lineup was the culmination of all his effort since he founded the event back in 2018.
Beach Road Weekend opened Thursday evening with a Jaws screening, and then switched over to three days and nights of music that saw more than 30 acts travel to the Island to play back-to-back sets on two stages.
Following 1.42 inches of overnight rainfall in Vineyard Haven, the Beach Road Weekend schedule for Saturday, August 27 has been delayed and reduced to allow the field at Veteran's Memorial Park to dry out.
The Oak Bluffs Select board held a special meeting on August 24 to discuss with Beach Road Weekend proprietor Adam Epstein a schedule of nighttime water taxis from Oak Bluffs to transport festival attendees.
On Friday, thousands of concert-goers are expected to descend on Veterans Memorial Park in Vineyard Haven for Beach Road Weekend, the three-day music festival returning in full for the first time since its debut in 2019.
