Celebrate Gloucester Sponsored by National Grid is the first ever concert and celebration on the property known as I4-C2 at 65 Rogers Street, Gloucester, MA USA, which was recently purchased by the City of Gloucester.

Rain or Shine

In case of bad weather, the celebration will be held next door (63 Rogers St.) at The Gloucester House.

Entertainment Presented by

Grammy-Award winning Charles Neville of the Neville Brothers joins local singer, Henri Smith and his band New Orleans Friends and Flavours.

National recording artist Roomful of Blues "swings as convincingly as it rocks" (Washington Post) and "makes for a rollicking good time" (Chicago Sun Times).

Local singer/songwriter Allen Estes will introduce new songs.

KBMG (Dan King, Dave Brown, Dave Mattacks and Wolf Ginandes) will perform a rare electric set.

More of Gloucester's best local musicians TBA.

Fresh Local Food & Seafood Throwdown with Local Celebrity Chefs

Freshly cooked local lobster. Local restaurants and vendors will provide an array flavors for sale. Popular local chefs will compete in a Seafood Throwdown cooking a mystery fish selection provided by local fishermen.

Tickets will be available later TODAY

General Admission Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the gate. A limited number of VIP Packages are available for $95. VIP Packages include exclusive access to the VIP tent, meet & greet with performers, free on-site parking, free food, and a few surprises. Tickets will be available later today at this Web site as well as various Gloucester locations.

Benefit to Revitalize Downtown Gloucester

Net proceeds will be donated to The Gloucester Fund earmarked for downtown revitalization. The Gloucester Fund will award grants based on input from the public. Beginning August 1, anyone can come to this website to nominate an existing project or charity dedicated to revitalizing downtown Gloucester. Beginning September 1st, people can vote for one of the nominated projects or charities. Voting ends September 30th. The Gloucester Fund will divide the proceeds equally among the top 3 vote-getters.

A few sponsorships are still available

Much of the costs are being covered by National Grid, BirdsEye, the Gloucester Daily Times and our supporting sponsors BankGloucester, Circle Consulting, M.B.T. Electric and RMD, Inc., with emergency services provided by Beauport Ambulance. These generous donors make it possible for more proceeds to be available for The Gloucester Fund. A few sponsorships are still available. Sponsors will be heavily promoted in traditional and new media. Interested sponsors please call Peter Van Ness at 978.525.9093.

Celebrate Gloucester 2007 - a Resounding Success

Click here to see how much fun we had in 2007.

Photos from the juried art exhibition here.