The Lyn Lake Street Festival Returns Sunday, May 17!

It’s been a long time coming! The Lyn Lake Business Association is reviving an annual tradition for our neighborhood and visitors in partnership with the Blaisdell YMCA, the Lake Street Council and Hennepin County. The event will celebrate the completion of the Lyn Lake Streetscape Project and raise funds for the Blaisdell Y’s annual Y Partners Campaign. Lyn Lake restaurants, retailers and other business owners will offer specials and fun events to welcome back the public to an intersection that has been under construction for two years.

The day will kick off with a 9 a.m. bike rally that will leave the YMCA at 34th Street and Blaisdell Avenue and return before the noon festival kicks off. Event bicyclists will cover a 17-mile route at a leisurely place with surprise “event stations” that will take them west on the Midtown Greenway to Hopkins and return on the Cedar Lake Trail to a designated “bike corral” at Lyn Lake. Further details and registration forms for the bike rally are available at the Blaisdell YMCA, 3335 Blaisdell Ave S., currently celebrating the completion of a $6.5 million expansion and renovation of a first-class fitness facility in the Lyndale Neighborhood. All proceeds from the bike rally will go toward the volunteer-driven Y Partners fund that provides discounted family memberships, after-school programs, and summer camp scholarships that make the YMCA available to all. 
The rally requires a $45 registration fee. For more info, click on the Bike Rally link.

The festival kicks off at noon, and features a 2 PM ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of the massive Lake Street Reconstruction Project. The Lyn Lake Street Fest will feature a musical lineup of bluegrass with the Middle Spunk Creek Boys, rhythm and blues legends the TC Jammers, local hip-hop artists Kredentials, and the hottest indie talent in Minnesota, Solid Gold.

Family activities include a small bikes race course for kids and parents on tricked out Strider bikes; Summit Beer and Peace Coffee stations, food booths from Galactic Pizza and Fuji Ya, and a hair extension booth from Hair Police. High Point Center for Printmaking will be hosting a Live Ink demonstration in their new location on Lake Street. A late addition to the festival is Jamison the Juggler, a home grown flame throwing comedian.