The Silver Line Music and Food Truck Festival will feature more than 20 food trucks from the D.C. metro area. Tysons Partnership
Tysons Partnership will ring in another inaugural festival with music and D.C.’s tastiest food trucks.
The first Silver Line Music and Food Truck Fest will take place on Saturday, Sept. 13 in Lerner Town Square, bringing people together with a day of bands and more than 20 food trucks from the area.
“The festival is about educating people on how different this place has become,” said Tysons Partnership Executive Director Michael Caplin.
Previously named the Tysons World Music Festival, the name was changed over the summer to celebrate the Silver Line finally running in the urban center.
“It’s the first time we’re going to have metro service at the site, so I’m very excited to welcome the people of D.C. to their first Tysons party,” said Caplin. “We decided the wide array of 20-plus food trucks would be visually and aromatically exciting.”
He said the idea for the festival was born from a conversation between the Tysons Partnership partners to craft a welcome party for the Silver Line.
Tysons has four Metro stations within its boundaries, but the Tysons Corner stop will be the closest to the festival grounds.
“The location is the star,” said Trigger Agency Founder and President Greg Nivens. “The Town Square is literally directly between Tysons Corner and The Galleria Malls. It is on the Metro stop. So if you take the Metro, you will just walk down the ramp, cross the street and you are there. It is truly the little hidden gem that should be what we are promoting.”
Food trucks will include popular D.C. Empanadas, NaanStop and Crusty Dog D.C. Seven bands, including Green River Ordinance from Fort Worth and Charlottesville’s Love Canon will play from 12:30 to 9 p.m. on two stages on the festival grounds.
“Getting the acts for this event proved to be a little challenging in the beginning because of the genre of music we wanted to offer,” said Nivens. “We want to bring Tysons a mixture of genres and up and coming national acts.”
He described Green River Ordinance as an American Mumford and Sons with a down-home twist.
Because this was a first time experience, the festival organizers ran into an unexpected problem when scheduling bands for this year.
“Early on in the planning we reached out to other larger acts – but they already had booked gigs close by at one of the many other outlets like Merriweather Post and Wolf Trap,” said Nivens. “So, I think that was our first challenge.”
Additionally, the opening of the Silver Line was essential to the festival. For Tysons Partnership, it was the key piece in getting outsiders and people who only come to the urban center for work to venture back in on the weekend.
“We hope people will jump on the Silver Line, ride out to Tysons and discover the fun and happiness here,” said Aaron Georgelas, Georgelas Group developer and Tysons Partnership member.
For more information, visit: http://tysonsmusicfest.com.