The Hootenanny On Hunter Street, the annual summer street party and music festival, is back for its fifth year. On August 8, Hunter Street in the Cafe District (Aylmer to George) will be shut down for a full day of free music, food, vendors, patios, and good times.

Here’s what’s coming:

This is a killer lineup – mostly local, and pretty much entirely great live acts.

Headliners are “the baddest band in the land,” The Weber Brothers, who will be playing with their newly expanded 8-member lineup, including poet/rapper Prufrock Shadowrunner, who adds a whole other thing to the band’s classic rock’n’roll sound, and guitarist Emily Burgess, who is badass.

It will be a homecoming show for The Burning Hell, hopefully repeating last year’s Peterborough Folk Fest performance with old faces returning to the stage (Ferrio? Staveley?). The Hell just got back from a European tour, including playing Glastonbury.

Norman Blake is best known as frontman from iconic 90s indie band Teenage Fanclub (“The Concept,” “Everything Flows“).

The Hoot will also feature a bunch of well-loved local folks, like Washboard Hank, Ben Rough, and Melissa Payne; plus some newer faces on the scene, like rising garage rock stars The Lonely Parade and country singer Kayla Howran. Plus: face-melting metal from Mokomokai and Western swing from The Double Cuts.

See you August 8!

Read our reviews of Hoot 2014 and Hoot 2013.