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Alive @ Five

Summer nights are heating up in Mill River Park

Summer + music + park + friends = BIG FUN!  The kind of fun that feeds your gypsy soul. Let yourself go as the rhythm of the night fills you. 

Summer nights are meant for dancing under the stars. At Stamford Downtown's Alive @ Five Music Series, you'll run into old friends and meet new ones. Danced up an appetite? No problem. Food trucks offer scrumptious choices from little bites to a full meal. And, alcohol is served to those 21 and older.

You can personalize your experience in a number of ways. General admission starts at $25. Arrive early to secure your spot up close to the stage or relax further back in your chair or blanket and let the music wash over you.

Elevate your experience with a VIP pass. Special entrance and viewing area to get you closer to the action, access to VIP bathrooms and bar - the first drink is included! Prices start at $100.

General admission for all four shows for one person is $80 - a $20 savings!

The series kicks off July 13th with Lil Jon. For the last twenty years, the words “Yeah,” “Ok,” and “What” have been synonymous with multi-platinum, Grammy award winning artist Lil Jon. He has been one of the most prominent figures in music and pop culture alike, performing for hundreds of thousands of fans with Usher & Ludacris, Afrojack, Steve Aoki, Pitbull, TLC, Yandel, LMFAO and Sydney Samson just to name a few.

All Time Low hits the stage on July 20th. Throughout a catalog streamed nearly half-a-billion times and highlighted by multiple gold and platinum certified singles / albums, All Time Low have continually raised the bar for both pop and punk. Since 2003, the group has notched five straight Top 10 entries on the Billboard Top 200, spanning the gold-certified Nothing Personal [2009], Dirty Work [2011], Future Hearts [2015], and Last Young Renegade [2017]. In 2021, the band released new singles “Once In A Lifetime” and “PMA” (Feat. Pale Waves).

Multi-platinum artists Fitz and The Tantrums have energized popular music and culture. Their catalog spans fan favorite records such as Pickin’ up the Pieces [2010], More Than Just A Dream [2013], the gold-certified Fitz and The Tantrums [2016], and All the Feels [2019]. Along the way, they’ve impressively tallied just shy of 4 billion streams and counting powered by enduring hits such as the triple-platinum “HandClap,” platinum “Out of My League” and “The Walker,” and gold “Moneygrabber.”

Grammy Award-winning singer/ songwriter, actor and author Ashanti burst onto the music scene with her smash hit, self-titled debut album, Ashanti. It landed the #1 spot on both the Billboard Top 200 and R&B album charts, Over the span of her 20-year career, Ashanti has released six studio albums and received a number of illustrious rewards including eight Billboard Awards, a Grammy, two American Music Awards, two Soul Train Awards and six ASCAP Awards.

Elgin Baylor Lumpkin, better known by his stage name Ginuwine is an American singer and performer. Signed to Epic Records since the mid-1990s, Ginuwine has released a number of multi-platinum and platinum-selling albums and singles, becoming one of R&B's top artists during the 1990s heyday of hip-hop soul.

Mill River Park is the place to be on Thursday nights!

Gates open at 5p. DJs get the party started and the event features some of the area's best, up-and-coming talent as opening acts. Mill River Park is a Non-Smoking venue. 

For more information and tickets, visit Stamford-Downtown.com

Summer nights are meant for dancing under the stars.