Fresh produce cooking demonstrations by Northside Chefs, Fresh live music performances by Northside youth and Fresh family activities presented by neighborhood cultural institutions begins July 10 at the new Fresh Fridays Series at the Northside Farmer’s Market.

Fresh Fridays at the Northside Farmers Market is sponsored by the Charm Bracelet Project Fund through the generous support of the Grable Foundation. With support from Allegheny General Hospital, Allegheny Center Alliance Church, Elm Street/Historic Deutschtown, and CitiParks Farmers Market. Fresh Fridays at Northside Farmer’s Market will happen every Friday through September 4 from 4:30pm – 6:30pm and include activities for the entire family that will include:

• Chef’s Table
  Chefs from Northside restaurants will prepare a simple summer dish made from ingredients purchased at the Farmer’s Market that day. The Chef’s will demonstrate the preparation, and samples of the dish will be available for tasting. The recipe will be made available to visitors and also the visiting chef will provide a recipe for their signature dish for visitors totake home and try. With these weekly recipes, visitors will also have the opportunity to create a cookbook made up of the recipes provided at the Chef’s Table. Northside restaurants represented on Fresh Fridays “menu” of Chefs includes The Park House, Monterey Pub, Children’s Museum Café, Legends and many more.
  
  
• Youth Music
  Live performances will take place every Friday from 5 pm to 6:30 on the Fresh Friday’s stage. Featured on July 10 & 24 and August 7 & 14, will be The Krunk Movement (Kreating Realistic Urban New-School Knowledge). Krunk is a student lead music and health initiative that uses jazz, hip-hop, dance, recording engineering, visual art and equipment management to communicate positive messages about physical and mental health to teens and pre-teens. Each performance will showcase a different facet of Krunk’s extensive repertoire that includes rapping their original hip-hop songs, playing original jazz compositions and performing original dance.
  
  
• Fresh Fridays Family Activities
  Interactive activities of all shapes and sizes will be presented each week by cultural organizations from the Charm Bracelet Project that include Artists Image Resources, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh-Allegheny, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, Manchester Craftsman’s Guild, National Aviary, R.U.S.T. (Radical Underground SilkscreeningTeam), The Andy Warhol Museum and more.

The North Side farmers market is located at the corner of Cedar Ave and East Ohio Street in Historic Deutschtown. For further information about Fresh Fridays at the Northside Farmer’s Market email charmbraceletproject@gmail.com.