Block party on Truro’s Prince Street

A stretch of Prince Street will be shut down to vehicle traffic this Saturday for an afternoon of family fun and an evening of good music, good drinks and good food.

The NovelTea Bookstore Café, the Clay Café, the Salty Dog Brewery and the Nook and Cranny brewpub are hosting a block party from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Truro’s main thoroughfare between Pleasant Street and Louise.

Derek Forsythe, owner of the Nook and Cranny and board member of the Downtown Truro Partnership, says the success of the first block party last year for the One Horse Town concert made this one an easy decision.

“That event was such a huge success, we’re thinking we should try and do it two or three times a year,” says Forsythe.

“This is the kind of event the town is looking for, something to bring people to Truro, to bring them in off the highway, bring them downtown, something special.”

The street will close at 2 p.m. and NovelTea Bookstore Cafe and Clay Cafe Truro will hold family fun activities like Italian sodas, fun pottery and Balloons Galore doing balloon twisting from 2:45-4:45 p.m.

At 5 p.m. the beer tent on Prince Street will open with a new band taking the stage every hour on the hour and beers from Salty Dog Brewing on tap. Coldstream Clear Distillery of Stewiacke will also be serving locally-made spirits and mixing cocktails.

Food trucks will set up for the event too.

Forsythe’s new restaurant Sauced will also be serving wood fired pizzas.

Admission to the afternoon events and the foodtrucks is free and it costs $20 for tickets to the music and beer tent.