Raleigh Wide Open 5 - The Extremely Entertaining Schedule

The yearly Summer and Fall street festival circuit returns to downtown. Returning for its fifth year, Raleigh Wide Open 5 will go down on Saturday, July 31st on Fayetteville and adjacent streets in Downtown Raleigh. This year, the day long festival, which runs from 11am-11pm, has an extreme sports theme and will feature BMX, Motorcross, a Fire Circus, a Beer and Wine Tasting Festival, tons of local vendors and 21 bands on four stages (oh, and Barenaked Ladies).

The Cherry Bounce Fest will again be a part of the festivities that day as well as Thursday and Friday. While we still wish that the reopening of Hillsborough Street (which will be happening very soon, September 25th) was the main focus of this year’s RWO, this looks like another great day full of fun and pedestrian traffic for downtown businesses.

Download an event map here.

RALEIGH WIDE OPEN 5 SCHEDULE

11:00 am - Parade down Fayetteville Street
From Morgan through the City Plaza with marching bands, floats, and local celebrities!

Noon - Festival Opens
Food and art vendors, street performers, 4 stages throughout Fayetteville Street

RebBull Motocross Mayhem with Geoff Aaron
*Fayetteville Street between Hargett and Morgan St. Performance times are 2:45; 5:00; 7:15

King BMX Stunt Show
*Salisbury Street in front of RCC. Performance times are 1:30; 3:30; 5:00

Cherry Bounce Wrestling
*Hargett and Fayetteville St. Performance times are 5:15 and 7:30

Fire Circus
Flames and high flyers set City Plaza ablaze. Performance times are 8pm and 10pm

Eating Contests
*Free Spirit Stage. Krispy Kreme Donuts at 3:00; Lumpy’s Ice Cream at 5:00

** Music Stages - Performance Schedule **

Cherry Bounce Stage

Jews & Catholics 12:30-1:15pm
Cherry Bounce SPECIAL Guest 1:45-2:30
North Elementary 3:00-3:45
Lake Inferior 4:15 – 5:00pm
I Was Totally Destroying It 6:00-7:00
Bomba Estereo 8:15-9:15
Javelin 9:45 – 10:45pm

World Stage

Crucial Fiya (reggae) 12:15 -1:45pm
Shana Tucker Trio (soul) 2:15 – 3:30pm
Mel Melton & The Wicked Mojos (blues / americana) 4:00pm – 5:00pm
The Barn Burners (country) 5:30 – 7:00pm
Old Habits (bluegrass) 7:30 – 8:45pm
Rubberband (funk / hip hop covers) 9:15 – 10:45pm

Raleigh Rocks Stage

Adam Pitts and the Pseudo Cowboys 12:30 – 1:15pm
Will McBride Group 1:45 – 2:30pm
Big Mama E & the Cool 3:00 – 3:45pm
Wax Planet 4:15 – 5:00pm
Sleep Control 5:30 – 6:15pm
Airiel Down 6:45 – 7:30pm
Design 8:00 – 9:00pm
Nigthshift 9:30 – 10:30pm

Free Spirit Stage

Kappa Xi Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi (stepping) 12:15 to 12:30
D.LIV(E) (spoken word/hip-hop) 12:45 to 1:05
Schizophrenic Octopus (breakdancing) 1:30 to 2:00
Sabrosa (spoken word/hip-hop) 2:15 to 2:35
Krispy Kreme Donuts (Eating Contest) 3:00 to 3:30
Spotlight Creative Studios (Bollywood Dance) 3:45 to 4:00
Dasan Ahanu (spoken word) 4:15 to 4:45
Lumpy’s Ice Cream (eating contest) 5:00 to 5:30

Raleigh Amphitheater

Barenaked Ladies 9:15 – 10:45pm (ticketed event through www.LiveNation.com and also avalable at the Amphitheater box ofice.)

10:45pm - Fireworks

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