Since 2005, Glenwood’s Downtown Market & Music Series has set up every Tuesday in Centennial Park during the summer months.<\/p>\n
This year, the market will carry on but with noticeable adjustments for COVID-19 \u2014 no live music or artisans and food and non-alcoholic beverages only.<\/p>\n
“It’s going to be more shop and go, no lingering and we’ll have to limit the crowd that comes in,” board member Cindy Svatos said. <\/p>\n
Booths will be positioned at least 6 feet apart and hot food vendors will only be allowed to serve their offerings to-go.<\/p>\n
Historically, Glenwood’s Downtown Market & Music Series has operated out of Centennial Park at the corner of Ninth and Grand Avenue. <\/p>\n
This year, the market will relocate to its new home on Seventh Street; a move that had been in the works since before the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n
Svatos said vendors will set up along Seventh Street between the elevators and Cooper Avenue. <\/p>\n
“It was a hard decision,” Svatos said of the relocation. “I think it’ll work out really (well).”<\/p>\n
With an opening date of June 23, Glenwood’s Downtown Market & Music Series will begin two weeks later than usual this year. <\/p>\n
Like years past, though, the market will still be open from 4-8 p.m. every Tuesday until Sept. 15.<\/p>\n
“I know we have three good produce growers coming in,” Svatos said. “We’ve never been really big.”<\/p>\n
Frank Martin, a local musician who has been performing at Glenwood’s Downtown Market & Music Series for nearly a decade, said he always looked forward to the market’s open-air and casual audiences.<\/p>\n
“I’ll miss playing,” Martin said. “I really don’t know what’s going to happen for performing artists.”<\/p>\n
Kitti Sanderson and her husband Bobby Sanderson, who co-own Aspen Mini Donuts, had mapped out a busy festival season prior to the pandemic. <\/p>\n
“This year was going to be a banner year for us,” Kitti Sanderson said. <\/p>\n
Several festivals, including Strawberry Days<\/a> and Glenwood’s Fourth of July celebration<\/a>, have already canceled due to health and safety concerns as a result of the pandemic.<\/p>\n “We’ve had at least 10 events cancel,” Sanderson said.<\/p>\n The Sandersons still plan on serving as many donuts as they can at Glenwood’s Downtown Market & Music Series this summer. <\/p>\n “This unfortunate situation has impacted any vendor that’s in this line of work greatly,” Sanderson said. “We’re all hoping and banking on these farmers’ markets to kind of save us.”<\/p>\n