Love-In Music Competition involves Greynolds Park on October 16

Greynolds Park will come alive with music on Sunday, October 16, when Love-In Music Competition returns with a full day of live shows and actions. This family-friendly out of doors competition – celebrating the music and period of the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s – is introduced by the Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Areas Division and Miami-Dade County District 4 Commissioner Sally A. Heyman.

Followers of legendary rock bands the Beatles and Queen will admire this 12 months’s band lineup of nationwide and native bands. Yesterday – The Beatles Tribute Present, the one Beatles tribute present endorsed by Sir Paul McCartney, shall be performing Beatles classics, and offering followers with an unforgettable expertise. Additionally headlining this 12 months’s Love-In, for the primary time within the occasion’s historical past, is Celebrating Queen, the foremost Queen tribute band. Additionally performing shall be native rock band Fireplace Brigade, a Love-In Music Competition fan favourite performing rock classics spanning the final 4 many years.

Patrons also can take pleasure in Octoberfest with German meals and beer, meals vans, artwork and craft distributors, a ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s-themed costume contest, basic automobiles, and different competition favorites. As well as, the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Arsht Basis Resilience Pod will return this 12 months to distribute plant seedlings. Memorialize the occasion with a commemorative t-shirt or create your individual tie-dye shirt.

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Competition goers also can discover the 249-acre Greynolds Park, a delegated heritage park, the place they will expertise the hardwood hammock and mangrove forest – one of many final well-protected pure areas of northern Miami-Dade County.

Gates open at 10:00 a.m. Admission is $20 per particular person and free for kids ages 12 and underneath. Now by means of October 14, make the most of a particular purchase one, get one free ticket provide utilizing low cost code LoveInEarlyBird. Go to miamidade.gov/lovein to buy tickets.

Since its inception in 2004, Love-In Music Competition has been held at Greynolds Park, famously identified for its sixty’s peace motion historical past as the placement the place Miami’s “flower baby” staged “love-ins” had been held to protest in opposition to the Vietnam Conflict. The occasion has grown in scale and recognition ever since and has hosted many nationwide artistes together with Joey Molland’s Badfinger, The Basic Rock All Stars, The Guess Who, Chuck Negron, and Ritchie Havens to call a number of.