Hartbeats & Eats

Enjoy live music, cold beer, and delicious eats from over 30 food trucks. Whether you’re craving cupcakes and country music, poutine and pop, or just looking for a lobster, lawn games and live music, you’ll find it all at our annual food & music festival.

Interested in vending at this event? Register here.

Music Schedule:

Thursday, July 16
Hartford HealthCare Community Stage
6 pm: Changes in Latitudes

Upper Plaza Stage

• 4 pm: Tweed Sugar
• 5 pm: The POSSM
• 6 pm: Belle of the Fall
• 7 pm: Tom The Suit Forst – Beyond 1969

Friday, July 17
Hartford HealthCare Community Stage

• 4 pm: Pat Stone
• 5 pm: Two Tone
• 6 pm: Modern Refuge
• 7 pm: Stars of Beyond

Upper Plaza Stage

• 4 pm: Thorne Malik
• 5 pm: Ali Kat and the Revelators
• 6 pm: Sweetiie Belle with ONESOUND
• 7 pm: Jeremiah Hazed

Saturday, July 18
Hartford HealthCare Community Stage

• 11 am: Nick Rose
• 12 pm: Free Range Humans
• 1 pm: HannaH’s Field
• 2 pm: EGG!
• 3 pm: Big Joe Blues Revue
• 4 pm: Attention Rebellion
• 5 pm: The New Brew
• 6 pm: Haunting Titans
• 7 pm: Solgyres

Upper Plaza Stage

• 11 am: Kala Farnham
• 12 pm: Brian Larney Band
• 1 pm: Sister Funk
• 2 pm: Ugoddess
• 3 pm: Ghost Tones
• 4 pm: Zully Ramos and the OG’s
• 5 pm: On the Trail
• 6 pm: Matt Kampe and the Hub
• 7 pm: Hip Hop for the Homeless

Food Trucks:
Blue Chip Creamery
Bricins Festival Foods
Chompers
Cousins Maine Lobster
Habesha Ethiopian
King Shawarma and Falafel
Lucan’s Grill
New Haven Pizza Truck
Poutine Gourmet
Request a Chef
Rustic Fusion’s Egg Roll Evolution
Scatz Twisted Phillyz
Shrimp Shack
Sweet Crunch Tanghulu
TexMex Fusion Food Truck
The Local Lemon
The Rolling Roti
Tropicana Bowls

Vendors
Beauty by AMR
Citrus Sky Boutique
FA African Boutik
Half Moon Permanent Jewelry
Leaf Guard
Luminous Candles
Moyi Glow Beauty
The Painted Smile
Total Bath Systems

Sponsors: This event is made possible by Travelers, Hartford HealthCare, Evelyn W. Preston Memorial Trust Fund, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee, Hartford Steam Boiler, Talcott Financial and the Greater Hartford Arts Council.

Parking:
Free parking for this event is available on-street on both sides of the river. Paid, convenient parking is available in the Connecticut Convention Center Garage – park on the fifth floor and use the exit on the north side of the garage, allowing direct access to the Convention Center, Connecticut Science Center, and Mortensen Riverfront Plaza.