The Historic Owego Marketplace (HOM) continues their ArtWalk on the first Friday with a full line up of art, entertainment, and dining options for First Friday.
The very popular Art Walk Passport continues as a walking guide around the Village beginning at the Front Street Deck with live entertainment, and concluding with the Art Mingle with a prize drawing using a stamped Passport turned in for the chance to win art and gift certificates.
Openings, shows, receptions, demonstrations, and entertainment are free and the public is invited.
The Front Street Deck (200 Front St.) presents the Panigma Steel Band from 6 to 8:30 p.m., bringing a taste of the tropics to this outdoor venue.
The band has been one the hottest steel bands in the northeast for the past seven years. The Deck will be filled with sounds of the Caribbean and will echo through the streets of the downtown historic village.
The Black Cat Gallery (190 Front St.) will host multi-talented artist Susan Szczotka from 5 to 8 p.m., presenting her metal smith jewelry design, pottery, weaving, lamp work glass and hand painted silk scarves. The duo Tracey Steincamp Cucci and Drew Minson known as DnT will be performing a harmonizing vocal mix of blues, folk and original tunes accompanied by guitar, mandolin and harmonica.
Gallery Forty-One (41 Lake St.) will have an opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. of “Capturing Nature’s Beauty Through Art” by artists Joan Silvestri-Pencek, Barbara Shope and Janice Wood. Special musical guest is harpist Meredith Kohn Bocek.
Las Chicas Taqueria (208 Front St.) will present musical guest Daphne Braden from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Daphne Braden is a local guitarist and vocalist, with a wide variety of musical styles, and often creates a fun “variety show” atmosphere with sing-alongs and other audience interaction.
Lily Style Loft (32-34 Lake St.) presents the demo “Twenty Ways to Tie Your Summer Scarves” from 5 to 8 p.m. and will be serving light refreshments.
Riverow Book Shop (187 Front St.) will host “Youth Expression Uncensored” from 5 to 8 p.m. This is a unique opportunity for art students who have had their artwork removed, rejected, or otherwise deemed inappropriate and too controversial to be included in many shows. Without censorship these local talented high school students will present a variety of mediums and expressions of art.
The Tioga Arts Council (179 Front St.) will host artwork created by Achieve Tioga Day Habilitation from 5 to 8:30 p.m. These pieces were made during a series of workshops at the Tioga Arts Council during the months of February through July 2015. The exhibition will be on display Aug. 3 through Aug 14.
Tioga Trails Café (50 Lake St.) will host guitarist and vocalist Greg Neff from 6 to 9 p.m. Neff will be performing folk and rock hits from the 60’s and 70’s. Neff is new to the Finger Lakes Region and performs regularly in the area.
