Street Festival
Chairpersons: Dave Kinney, Kiki Kinney
Friday, July 4, 2025 | 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
Bank Square, Washington Street | Lee Mansion to Old Town House
Come to the Marblehead Festival of Arts Street Festival at Bank Square!
The Street Festival is one of the most vibrant and well-attended events at the Marblehead Festival of Arts. Every year, the Festival takes over Washington Street in Old Town Marblehead for a day of festivities, street performers, music, activities, and other exciting attractions. You never know what might be around the corner!
From giant aliens to 10-foot stilt walkers, magicians, mimes, live music, and much more, the Street Festival is a can't-miss event.
This year's Street Festival features:
Bonaparte the Magician | Big Nazo Performing Aliens | Sir Mimealot the Strolling Mime | Stilt Walking
Henna | Face Painting | Balloon Making | Rock and Magnet Painting | Bubbles | Chalk Art
Wildlife Encounters by Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team | Caricatures by Josh Madruga
Live Music by The Merj
Bonaparté the Magician
BONAPARTÉ – NEW ENGLAND’S HOTTEST MAGICIAN! - Bonaparté the Magician (pronounced Bon-Ah-Part-Tay) is an award-winning Professional Magic Entertainer whose programs include Sleight-Of-Hand/Close-Up Magic as well as larger scale Concert Style Shows. A performer possessing diverse talents, Bonaparté’s skills include Storytelling, Balloon Sculpture, Origami, Juggling and Mentalism.
His dazzling, interactive style of Magic has captured the hearts and evoked the laughter of thousands of children and adults around the world. Considered a seasoned veteran in his field, Bonaparté often utilizes borrowed, everyday objects such as currency, coins and playing cards to astound an audience. On stage, Bonaparté also performs mind-blowing illusions with his friend ‘Snow’, a fluttering white Dove, and their furry companion, Frisky the Bunny.
Bonaparté is known to create these mini-miracles for audiences of all ages. He amuses as he amazes by inviting his audience to participate in the humorous by-play created by his unique brand of Magic.
Caricatures by Josh Madruga
The Merj
Roze Tyler-Malone: She's a rock n roll fiddle player, vocalist, percussionist and endless supply of energy and enthusiasm! Jim Malone plays guitar, bass and sings. Raised on rock and pop music, he puts his ADD to good use shaping the repertoire for Roze and Jim and The MERJ Maureen 'Mo' Benson sings, plays ukulele, and keeps everybody smiling. Glen Watson's got the beat! He hits the drums. David 'Big Wave Dave' Buckley would rather be surfing. He and Glen set the groove!
Big Nazo
BIG NAZO is an international , larger-than-life-sized performance group and Creature-making studio based in Providence, RI that blends a variety of mask and puppet performance techniques with improvisational audience interaction.
Their giant go-go dancing monsters, mischievous mountain trolls, bizarre extra-terrestrials, and hilarious human-animal hybrids have invaded stages and street corners in festivals and public spaces throughout Asia, Europe and North America .
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Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team
Since 1990 Cape Ann Vernal Pond Team has served the North Shore with activities and programs that protect wetlands and educate the public. We have done a tremendous amount of work to preserve vanishing vernal ponds and thereby protect the wildlife that rely on those ponds for survival. We do this by teaching and engaging people from all walks of life with presentations, exhibits, eld trips and conservation work. We inspire the local community to become active and responsible stewards of wild places. We bring people into the eld to discover creatures and habitat in ways they may not have experienced before and we encourage everyone to get outside.
Mimealot
Chris Yerlig, aka ‘Sir Mimealot,’ began his mime career on the streets of Europe. In the US, where he is now based, he has performed mime at festivals, schools and libraries and corporate events, and with Circus America at the Olympic Games in Athens, GA. He has performed in 20 countries around the world too. Hof note are performances at the Huis Ten Bosch Theme Park in Japan, and at the Kimtom International Clown Festival of Shanghai, China.
For over 25 years he has volunteered with such non-profits as Project Troubador, Magicians Without Borders, and Clowns Without Borders to spread laughter in schools, hospitals, and orphanages in many emerging countries, most recently Haïti, India Bangladesh and Brazil.
