Right. Al, thank you so much,
so much happening here in town this July.
Wow. So this weekend you can
head over to New Lou for the
first ever New Lou Summer Fest.
You and the family can enjoy everything
from live music, delicious food,
They have sprinklers out there and
sidewalk chalk for the kids as well.
Big family event.
Joining me now with more on all the
fun is Lauren Hendricks and Paige
Toby with the Craftery, Right.
It's you guys are kicking this off early.
We've been building up to the big event,
So I mean.
It's it's coming up this weekend,
Lawrence, so take us through
all the things we can enjoy.
There will be a lot.
It is this Saturday.
It's on Market Street.
We're shutting down the street again.
Between the 600 and 800 blocks,
it's noon to seven.
Lots of activities for kids,
family, drinks, food.
Lots of summer activities.
I mean everything from a
watermelon eating contest to
build your own sandcastle and.
Yeah.
How to barbecue things. Yeah, right. To
be out there with their big smoker,
to be quite, quite the site.
There's something
fascinating about watching that. Right?
And I love that you've incorporated it.
And I, you just know it's going to be fun
when you all shut down that area of Nulu.
There's just something. Right?
Just to be able to walk around something
in the air, something here in Nulu.
It's going to be a great, great time.
All right, Paige,
this we've been talking about.
We had you guys on,
actually a couple weeks ago,
talked about the cocktail competition.
We're in the voting rounds now, right?
Yes, that's right.
We have.
The judges have
made their decisions, but we are
still in the the fan favorite,
fan favorites element of the competition.
So that's where we're at, right?
You've brought your entry. I have,
yeah. So this is.
I'm with the craftery.
This is the Tokyo Disco.
We did a spin on a Margarita.
Did some lychee and some ginger
and then after all and the
reposado Teramana tequila.
So I'm going to go into a competition like
where do you even begin to think, OK,
I got to blow everybody out of the water.
I got to be the most creative,
you know, like that's Nerf Racky.
Yeah, it's it's.
But it's fun when you enjoy
doing it. And I've always had a good
time just kind of experimenting
and playing with flavor behind the
bar at the crafter. We've we've got
some incredible cocktails there.
And so this just kind of gave me
an opportunity to play with some
ingredients that I haven't used.
Before. So go ahead and shake a shake.
This sound of great day and
life, always a good sound.
That's what it is. You could
trademark a sound with the show.
That would be it. Where are you
guys located? We are in the newly
marketplace. Yeah, we are the craftery.
We are a DIY studio and a full bar,
so you can join us for drinks,
crafts. Because the crafts
are always better with the drink they are.
And you get more creative as you.
You know what I love what
you did with that little.
What is that little.
Yeah, this is a lychee
right here. So that gorgeous,
this fruit in, you know, it's real form.
It's a common candy flavor in Japan.
So that was kind of where the
Tokyo Disco name came from.
But it's super bright, super fun.
And we did a salted lychee
Pop Rock rim on that.
So there's a lot going on in here.
There is a lot going on.
It's pretty Tokyo,
the Tokyo Disco, The Tokyo disco.
I want to go, you are going to invite,
I want to go, I want to go.
And so that voting goes on.
The People's Choice voting
goes on through through
Thursday. Yes. So we had 10 competitors from
different new Lube bars and restaurants.
They all gathered. Last Tuesday at
Lulu on market for the competition,
as Paige said, judges voted.
But now we're in the People's Choice Awards.
So just make your way down Market Street,
try all of them.
And then there's just a little
QR code that each of the bars,
restaurants have and you can vote
for your favorite there and then
try them out at Summer Fest.
You
know, there's one thing you've kind
of planned all these great things
for us to come enjoy in opening up,
kind of closing off the street
so we can walk around freely.
I always love to like with all the
businesses, how they jump in to like
offer like different things that,
you know, it's just everybody gets excited
about something like this whenever.
However, you have Bach Fest,
but for something like this,
are you feeling that too?
Like all the businesses are like,
yeah, here we go.
We get to roll out like our best.
Oh, absolutely. I mean that is
just one of the things that makes
new such a great neighborhood.
Yeah, it's so special is just the
block after block of local businesses,
boutiques, restaurants,
bars and so it's really nice to.
Be able to have everyone come together.
People from all over Louisville and tourists
you know love to come down to Newloo.
But whenever we host an event,
you know it's it's even bigger.
It's a must attend event.
All right ladies, thanks so much
for stopping by once again,
it's happening this weekend.
For the complete list of everything
that you can enjoy there and all
the events that are happening,
you just have to go to
newloo.org/summer.