Palm Springs VillageFest returns to pre-COVID layout tonight

PALM SPRINGS (CNS) - Palm Springs' weekly street fair is set to return
to its pre-COVID layout alongside Fall hour scheduling today.
   This Thursday's VillageFest will extend from Amado Road to Baristo
Road on Palm Canyon Drive for the first time since its July reopening.
   The street fair will also begin an hour earlier, at 6 p.m., and run
until 10 p.m. as a part of the festival's Fall hours.
   Street closures are now expected to begin at 5 p.m., according to city
officials.
   The event reopened in July at roughly half its size, running about a
quarter-mile along Palm Canyon, rather than its usual half-mile length that it
will return to starting Thursday.

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Also returning to a pre-pandemic schedule are the Concerts in the Park in Palm Desert.

With the return of free Fall concerts in the park Thursday, locals can get out to enjoy good music, food, and the company of others. The concerts usually happen every year but have been put off like many other events because of the pandemic. Every Thursday in October there will be live music at Palm Desert Civic Center Park from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.