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See Arts, Beats & Eats music schedule as Royal Oak fest will get underway

See Arts, Beats & Eats music schedule as Royal Oak fest will get underway

In 1998, the Arts, Beats & Eats pageant got here to life with three music phases, free admission and $375,000 in sponsorship help.

This weekend, the Oakland County fixture will notch its 25th version, bringing greater than 200 performers, 150 artists and 50 meals distributors to downtown Royal Oak, with a four-day climate outlook that — in the mean time — is mercifully freed from rain.

What started as a casual concept from late Oakland County Govt L. Brooks Patterson has since cemented its place as Michigan’s greatest Labor Day weekend pageant, drawing tens of hundreds every day. Formally known as Hovering Eagle Arts, Beats & Eats Offered by Flagstar Financial institution, the fest will rev up at 11 a.m. Friday and proceed by way of Monday.

The 2022 edition of Arts, Beats & Eats will mark the festival's 25th year and its 13th in Royal Oak.

On the music entrance, the newly anointed Jim Beam Nationwide Stage will characteristic headliners Fitz & the Tantrums (9:30 p.m. Friday), 311 (9:30 p.m. Saturday), Sponge (9:45 p.m. Sunday) and Flo Rida (7:45 p.m. Monday).

They’re a part of a main-stage lineup that additionally contains exhausting rock band Chevelle, a joint efficiency by rapper Rob Base and singer Montell Jordan, funk group Common White Band, nation artists Chase Rice and Jackson Dean, and Boston lead singer Tommy DeCarlo.

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