“Music Madness” Comes to Eastoke Corner!

- Sun 21st Jun 2009

The Hayling’s BEST M.T.I’s 2009 season of ‘Playing on the Plaza’ free live music events continues on Sunday 28 June between 3pm and 5pm, when local youth musicians “Music Madness’, take to the seafront stage on Eastoke Corner’s ‘Liveability Plaza’. The third of six open air Sunday afternoon concerts, ‘Playing on the Plaza’ is certainly living up to its remit to give a shot in the arm to Hayling tourism, and increase the number of visitors to local Island businesses.

Already the first two of this year’s concerts have seen Eastoke Corner traders as diverse as Mr T’s Amusements, the Terracotta Pot Shop and the Hayling Seaside Railway, all report exceptional and at times unprecedented ‘footfall’. Local Authority coffers have also received a welcome boost with adjacent Council car parks often full to overflowing, while queues for fish and chips, ice cream and candy floss have at times stretched across the pavements, in scenes reminiscent of Hayling’s 1950’s tourist heyday.

With the effects of the credit crunch leading so many families to rediscover the lost delights of ‘The Great English Seaside Holiday’, Hayling traders are hoping that the fine weather that has characterised the first few weekends of the 2009 holiday season, is merely a foretaste of things to come. And with ‘Playing on the Plaza’ and sister Hayling’s BEST projects such as the Scarecrow Festival and ‘Discover Hayling’, fast becoming a catalyst to a number of exciting new initiatives reported to be in the offing, Hayling Island is gearing up well to make the good times rock n’roll!

By forum user, Playing on the Plaza

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