{"id":7347,"date":"2016-01-15T00:18:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T05:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=7347"},"modified":"2016-01-15T01:28:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T06:28:07","slug":"summerfest-concerts-announced-food-vendors-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/01\/summerfest-concerts-announced-food-vendors-sought\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Brick Summerfest Concerts Announced, Food Vendors Sought"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7348\" style=\"width: 487px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/boat_img10.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7348\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7348\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7348\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/boat_img10.jpg\" alt=\"Summerfest (Photo: Pier 281 Marina)\" width=\"477\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/boat_img10.jpg 477w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/boat_img10-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/boat_img10-310x205.jpg 310w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Summerfest (Photo: Pier 281 Marina)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It may be winter, but summertime fun is never far from the minds of most Shore residents. Likewise, township officials are busy planning next year\u2019s Summerfest events, and recently announced the concerts that are being planned for the annual celebration.<\/p>\n<p>The concert lineup includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>June 30 \u2013 Saved by the 90s<\/li>\n<li>July 7 \u2013 The Bronx Wanderers<\/li>\n<li>July 14 \u2013 The Amish Outlaws<\/li>\n<li>July 21 \u2013 Rubix Cue (\u201cThe Galaxy\u2019s Most Original \u201880s Tribute Band\u201d).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Officials have also begun awarding contracts for food concessions at the event.\u00a0Since becoming mayor in 2014, John Ducey has pivoted the food concession from one in which local nonprofit groups would sell food as a fundraiser to a formal bidding process where private restaurants and caterers pay for a space.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the township council awarded a contract for\u00a0hot food, including sausages and cheesesteaks, to Tony\u2019s Italian Sausage for $952. Another contractor,\u00a0Johnnie and Debbie O\u2019s, had the high bids for several food items: $1,302 for grilled and fried items, $901 for ice cream, $802 for Italian ice and $902 for funnel cakes.<\/p>\n<p>Bids for pizza and deli items are being\u00a0readvertised for bid, along with the beer and wine concession, which brought in $5,600 last year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/01\/summerfest-concerts-announced-food-vendors-sought\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be winter, but summertime fun is never far from the minds of most Shore residents&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[24,1807,30],"class_list":["post-7347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","category-government","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-summer-2016","tag-summerfest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/boat_img10.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-1Uv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}