The Live After Five concert series kicked off its season of free concerts Friday, and city officials say it doesn’t show any sign of slowing down.
The downtown concert series, produced by the Downtown Business Association, has been around for 10 years and consists of shows from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. every Friday night until Oct. 28.
The series’ slogan is “Clock Out then Rock community.”
This season’s lineup features Satisfaction – A Rolling Stones Experience, V-Tones, Terrance Simien and the Zydeco Experience, Chasing Scarlett, Flow Tribe featuring Troy Turner, The Chris LeBlanc Band with Big Luther Kent, Ernest Scott and the Funk Children and Brandon Giles.
Satisfaction set the bar for this season last Friday, and the band’s executive producer, Chris LeGrand, said it was “a great honor” to open the series.
“There was great weather and a fantastic crowd,” he said. “It was positive all