{"id":31760,"date":"2022-08-11T20:51:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T00:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=31760"},"modified":"2022-08-11T20:51:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T00:51:06","slug":"downtown-aurora-all-shook-up-for-september-street-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/downtown-aurora-all-shook-up-for-september-street-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Aurora \u201call shook up\u201d for September street party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dance the night away while discovering businesses in Aurora\u2019s Downtown Core next month as the Downtown Aurora BIA hosts its annual street party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Set for September 10, this is the third street party to be hosted by the Downtown Aurora BIA, building on the success of last year\u2019s disco theme, featuring the music of ABBA and the Bee Gees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The search for this year\u2019s theme wasn\u2019t too hard \u2013 it was just under organizers\u2019 blue suede shoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLast year, we had our theme of Stayin\u2019 Alive but this year we\u2019re going with an Elvis Presley theme and doing four back-to-back Elvis bands celebrating the decades and greatest hits of Elvis,\u201d says Shelley Ware, Special Events Coordinator for the Town of Aurora, who is working on planning the event alongside the BIA team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re looking at d\u00e9cor plans, activities, photo ops, and we\u2019re hoping at least one of the downtown eateries creates a special Elvis cocktail for the night. There are so many fun things you can do with that theme.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elvis tributes are always popular, she says, referencing the ongoing success of the Collingwood Elvis Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a new resurgence with Elvis, especially with the new movie that has been released,\u201d she says, referring to the new feature film directed by Baz Luhrmann starring Austin Butler as the titular King of Rock and Roll.  \u201cIt is also the 45th<\/sup> anniversary of Presley\u2019s death so things have just lined up \u2013 not to mention that Elvis is just fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re working right now on securing the restaurants and the BIA businesses to set up their display out on Yonge Street and we\u2019re entrenched right now in logistics such as road closures, emergency planning and that type of stuff, but once we get that [finalized] we\u2019ll have more time to plan the fun side of this and [lean in] to our theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe really want to take advantage of Machell\u2019s Alley, which is already a successful concept, by taking that to a new level. Mark your calendars, do not make other plans, because this is the place to go and celebrate. Whether you\u2019re an Elvis fan or not, come on down, feel the energy, the atmosphere, and we really do promise it will be a unique and memorable experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further details will be announced soon at downtownaurorabia.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brock Weir
Editor
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dance the night away while discovering businesses in Aurora\u2019s Downtown Core next month as the Downtown Aurora BIA hosts its annual street party. Set for September 10, this is the third street party to be hosted by the Downtown Aurora BIA, building on the success of last year\u2019s disco theme, featuring the music of ABBA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-8gg","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-09 09:53:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}