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.

Women took to the streets on Saturday not in protest but in celebration for the fifth annual Ladyfest music festival.

Ladyfest, the female-centric music festival, is expanding from performances on just the lower half of Circuit avenue to the whole block. That means more acts and more vendors.

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.

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.

On Sunday, Lucinda Williams plays Beach Road Weekend, beginning at 4:15 p.m., picking up after her friend Emmylou Harris finishes her set.

The Oak Bluffs select board discussed diverting ferries in late August to accommodate Beach Road Weekend, but stopped short of endorsing or condemning the idea.

The Tisbury select board has approved a three-year agreement to host the annual Beach Road Weekend music festival in Veterans Memorial Park