By JAMES BELL
Hays Post
After skipping 2020, Rockalooa will return to Municipal Park in Hays from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, capping off a busy weekend for downtown.
This year's free and family-friendly event will be the seventh Rockalooa, but somewhat abbreviated than previous years, said organizer Matt Isley.
"It's a smaller event this year," he said. "In 2018 and 2019, we had two stages running all day with lots of vendors through Municipal Park. This year, (we're) kind of just easing back into it."
"It's right after Brews on the Bricks, so check out Brews on the Bricks, and right after that, walk on down to the park."
While this year's event might be shorter than previous iterations, it will still feature a mix of local and regional bands performing an eclectic mix of musical styles.
"We want to have a free, accessible event, and hopefully, a lot of people can make it out," he said.
Kicking off the night will be Hays local Jordan Rome, performing alternative county, he said.
Headlight Rivals, a rock group from Manhattan, will perform next.
Another local band, Company 11, will then take the stage to perform alternative rock.
Isley's band Dangerously Biased is also slated to perform, followed by Lincoln, Neb.-based The Fey.
"That's going to be our sort of change-it-up band," Isley said. "It's kind of a fusion, R&B, blues, rock kind of band."
Wrapping up the evening, another local band — Miles On End — is set to perform.
"I like to stagger them, local, regional, local regional," Isley said.
For more information about the event, visit Rockhays.com, or the Rockalooa Facebook page.
"Rockhays.com is the main place. You will find everything," Isley said. "We have the lineup, all the information. ... Also on there you are there are links to information about the bands."