Eats & Beats returns for summer

Bi-weekly festivities come back to Bryan offering family fun, food, live music

By Nadia Abusaid @NadiaAtTheBatt

Eats & Beats, Lake Walk’s summer concert series, is held every other Saturday in Bryan with free live music and catered food trucks.

On June 3 from 7 - 10 p.m., Lake Walk hosted the first Eats & Beats of the summer in its pavilion with food trucks such as Fusion Peru Restaurant, Raging Bull Street Tacos, Sweet Pops and Three Sweet Pops stationed nearby.

The Leslie Lugo Band, a Grammy Award-winning cover band, began their performance at 8 p.m. as part of the event’s Latin-inspired theme.

Lake Walk’s Marketing and Events Director Kate Chapman said guests are encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets and prepare for a night outdoors with free live entertainment, local food and a bar.

“The musical lineups are very diverse, each lineup has a different genre,” Chapman said. “I love when we have blues artists, they really just rock and jam out.”

Blues, Americana and classic rock are some of the genres to look forward to at this summer’s concert series, Lake Walk’s Special Events Coordinator Tristan Estrada said.

“The thing I like most about the Eats & Beats event is that it brings music to the area that you wouldn’t typically find,” Estrada said.

The next Eats & Beats events will be on June 17 featuring the Sue Foley Band, July 1 featuring Sun Valley Station, July 15 featuring Jack Thweatt and July 29 featuring Lindsay Beaver & Brad Stivers, according to Lake Walk’s website.