Catch it if you can: Drive-by concert Saturday night

July 17, 2020  |  By Waterbury Roundabout

Chad Hollister (left) and bandmate Primo play aboard a flatbed provided by Bourne Energy for Spruce Peak Arts’ first drive-by summer concert in Morrisville in June. The duo rolls into Waterbury Saturday, July 10. Photo by Gordon Miller.

Spruce Peak Arts takes its rolling summer drive-by concerts to Waterbury on Saturday but to find it, people will have to listen and try to follow the music. 

The concert between 7 and 8:30 p.m. will feature Vermont singer-songwriter and rock musician Chad Hollister and his longtime bandmate and guitarist Jeff “Primo” Poremski.

Think parade float, only no one else in the parade. 

Not wanting to attract a crowd however, the Stowe arts organization isn’t announcing the concert’s route or its final stop where musicians will play for a while. According to the (Morrisville) News & Citizen newspaper, it will start off at 7 p.m. from Pilgrim Park to tour some neighborhoods first.

Waterbury Rotary Club members were to distribute fliers by hand to homes along the route. 

This new Music in Motion series has come together during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to present live music in a safe setting. On June 20, the artists performed their first mobile concert in Morrisville. 

Spruce Peak Arts Executive Director Hope Sullivan described the concerts as a “new way of bringing people together.” Bourne Energy has donated the flatbed truck and generator.

Spruce Peak says it may have a live video feed of the Waterbury concert on its Facebook and Instagram social media sites. More information online at sprucepeakarts.org.