Chelsea Kiwanisfest welcomes residents for entertainment day and family time – Shelby County Reporter

By Tyler Raley | Editor

Chélat – The sun shone on the residents of Chelsea as they gathered to take spring and have fun at the first Chelsea Kiwanisfest on Saturday April 26.

The event, organized by the Chelsea Kiwanis Club, took place in Melrose Park on the field open next to the city’s platform and playground.

Kiwanisfest welcomed everyone in the Midi Park at 4 p.m. for a animated music festival, taking advantage of the singer Country Tyler Holmes, with Nacho Daddy performing as a title. Nacho Daddy, a group of Rock N ‘Roll covers based in Birmingham, Alabama, has played a certain number of rock hits from various artists and groups of throughout the years.

The president of the Kiwanis Club of Chelsea Robbie Hayes expressed his enthusiasm on the way in which the event proved in his first year of existence, bringing an idea to a successful reality in a popular point in Chelsea.

“I am tickled that it was done like that,” said Robbie Hayes, president of the Kiwanis Club of Chelsea. “It was a different event because it had been fire to the buttresses. It is a bit like a risk for us to make a different event, but to have the resources we have, a step that we can get, a local radio station to broadcast, all these sellers to allow us to allow us to do this concert is a wonderful thing.

Hayes completed how musical entertainment has facilitated the process of setting up the event, expressing its gratitude to help their equipment and help announce performance.

“All we had to do was tell them what we are doing,” said Hayes. “When we told them that, they said,” Where do we register? “They were great.

In addition to music, Kiwanisfest also welcomed 17 sellers for the afternoon, including the restaurant truck of Uncle G, Doug’s Wingz ‘N Thingz and Chick-Fil-A, as well as local vendors like the Italian ice cream of Jeremiah and even funnel cakes sold by the Boy Scouts of America.

For Hayes, he had the impression that the large number of restoration options added to an event that was already well organized and run, saying that it brought more fun at a fun moment to Chelsea.

“Live music outside and a large environment is really what it is,” said Hayes. “The fact that we have all these other things with it, the food trucks … It’s just an excellent configuration to know where we can have all this. Music is what it is about and to have this event and collect funds while we do this by asking for donations and making this Chelsea community for this great event.”

Being the very first Kiwanisfest, there is a great hope that the success of this year’s festivities will continue in the next year’s edition, perhaps becoming a must in the city.

“We hope it allows us to start again,” said Hayes. “We have already reserved a group for next year potentially to do it with us. They have already agreed if we maintain it together to do it … The other thing I hope is that it shows the city how we can use this property for events of this nature. Perhaps it will have a meaning in the future to transform this area here into amphitheater and have all the events here.”

Residents of the city of Chelsea gathered in Melrose Park to hear musical acts, take advantage of food and share time with quality family during the first Chelsea Kiwanisfest on Saturday April 26 at Melrose Park. (Photos of the journalist / Tyler Raley)