Tickets to the annual Taste of Cambridge are now on sale! This year’s Taste will be held 5-9pm, Saturday, July 9 in downtown Cambridge. Entry to the festival is free; if you buy a ticket you’ll enjoy sample-size tastings of the 15-20 different crab dishes in the competition. Tickets cost $25. Get your tickets early because this event usually sells out! Buy tickets…
• in person (cash or check) at the Dorchester Visitors Center (2 Rose Hill Place, Cambridge), the Chamber of Commerce (528 Poplar St., Cambridge), or A Few of My Favorite Things (414 Race St).
• by credit card by calling the Dorchester Chamber of Commerce at 410.228.3575. (Note: No physical tickets will be mailed. Go to the Taste Will Call the day of the event.)
In addition, Taste of Cambridge tickets will be available during the Second Saturday festivities on June 11, 5-9 pm. Cambridge Main Street volunteers will be selling tickets from a table in Cannery Way, the small park across from Jimmie & Sook’s in the 400 block of Race Street.
AND there will be a load of entertainment too.
The annual Taste of Cambridge on Saturday, July 9 (5-10pm) will feature live music, jugglers, dance troupes, drum corps, and more. The biggest event of the year in downtown Cambridge, the street festival is centered around a competition among local restaurants to see who makes the best dishes using Chesapeake Bay blue crab in five different categories. (See story below for ticket info.) The entertainment lineup includes:
• Blackwater, a rising-star Eastern Shore band that performs a mix of originals and covers in the blues, rock, and funk genres;
• Jeff Calder, an award-winning singer/songwriter performing a mix of popular tunes and originals;
• Evan Button, a teenaged guitarist from Virginia Beach who has become a crowd favorite at Taste since making his debut at the event at the age of 12;
• DJ Groundhog (aka Erik Higgins), spinning popular tunes and running the hula-hoop and limbo contests;
• Cascading Carlos (aka Carlos Mir), a popular juggler and Delmarva Jefferson Award winner. Cascading Carlos will be teaching juggling skills as well as performing.
• The Ragin’ Unstoppables, a popular African-American drum corps based in Cambridge.
• Students from the Eastern Shore Dance Academyperforming at the Taste awards ceremony.
Learn more about Taste of Cambridge.
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