The Elmwood Festival of the Arts says it has never lost a day to rain in 16 years and yesterday didn't threaten that record, with heat and blue sky for the party in the Elmwood Village.
The theme for this year's parade was The Phoenix, with kids and a marching band parading the length of the event near the end of the affair. The festival has long had food trucks as part of the event.
"Now that people know the food trucks are out there, I do believe that maybe the trend is dying out but I feel that people are always going to come out, no matter what," said Tyler Kurtz with the Black Market Food Truck.
"The summer months, they bring a whole bunch of people, to Larkin, to anywhere. It gets people outside. It gives people something to do."
Kurtz says people ate and drank yesterday, with a large business demand for anything cold and wet.
The Festival also offers local cultural organizations a way to recruit new members or performers or let new residents find out about them. Andy Newbert is a baritone section leader for the Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus although he was looking to recruit tenors. Newbert says many visitors hadn't heard of them before.
"That happens a great deal. We have information which we're handing out to people. We're giving away free CDs today and we want people to know about our Christmas concert in December," Newbert said.
Merchants reported business was good.
