Free Friday: Music Festival, Frozen Custard

Each week we're telling viewers about events, activities and items that are free. That's right! No money required.

This week's free list:

1. J&R Music is hosting the 2009 Downtown MusicFest. Free performances from various artists starting Friday, August 28 to Saturday, August 29 in Manhattan

2. Spoon City is giving away free frozen custards for the first 100 PIX viewers today, Friday, August 28 in Manhattan

Spoon City
Location: 339 Fifth Avenue, between 33rd and 34th Street

They are giving away free Frozen Custards to the first 100 PIX viewers. There are two basic flavors--chocolate and sweet cream. there are 24 additional flavors that get mixed in with the sweet cream to create vanilla, mint, raspberry, peach mango, cookies & cream, maple walnut and a zillion others

For more information, visit www.spoon-city.com.

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J&R'S MusicFest Kick-Off
Wednesday, August 26th at 6pm
Location: J&R Music and Computer World, 23 Park Row, New York, NY

MusicFest is one of several efforts J&R has made since September 11th to revitalize lower Manhattan and encourage people to keep returning to the downtown area. As always, the highly anticipated weekend of free music will give fans the opportunity to see, hear and meet some of the biggest names in R&B, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Latin, Pop and more.

During MusicFest, J&R will also host Tech Expos in its specialty stores. The Tech Expos will be filled with free classes, seminars, and new product demonstrations presented by leading high-tech companies.

J&R MUSICFEST LINE-UP
August 26, 23 Park Row
Air Supply

August 28, City Hall Park
5:00 pm Melinda Watts
5:45 pm J Moss
6:30 pm Clipse
7:00 pm Mario

August 29, City Hall Park
1:00 pm KRS-One & Buckshot
2:00 pm LeToya
3:00 pm Nikki Yanofsky
4:00 pm Roberta Gambarini
5:00 pm Roy Hargrove

For more information, visit www.jr.com.