Saturday, Oct 10

Hour two of Brian's Beat.

Brian with you on a Saturday afternoon.

Couple of things.

I talked about the Chowder Fest, and I can't emphasize.

I live in Dartmouth.

Rachel's is a lot easier place for me to get to than to come all the way down into downtown New Bedford.

Or I actually should say outside over at the pier.

But I do believe that it's New Bedford's Chowder Fest.

And if you can't have it at City Pier, there's Fort Tabor.

There's Cisco.

There are so many different places within the city of New Bedford that you could hold it if the venue in and of itself was a problem.

But what I remember reading is the fact that they couldn't get the vendors to come out on a Saturday or a Sunday.

Well, apparently they couldn't get too many vendors to come out on a Tuesday night either.

Because if you only have 12 to 14 vendors at a event where you're used to having 25, 30, 40 vendors, you got a problem getting vendors for another reason.

And then I started thinking, you know, I remember reading this week that Whaler's Tavern, is going out of business.

I think tomorrow is their last day.

They used to be at Chowder Fest.

I remember seeing them one or two times.

They're going out of business.

The Gay Bar Gallery X or Gallery, they're going out of business.

And so there have been a lot of changes recently.

in New Bedford over the past decade anyway.

And I think, you know, Freestones used to be at the Chowder Fest.

Bottom line, and I think if I'm not an active member, the radio station is a chamber member.

I would say that to the vendors, you know, they were talking about shopping the Chowder Fest around.