Street Music in downtown CdA to raise $$$ to feed hungry

Downtown Coeur d’Alene will be filled with music, jugglers and others raising money for Second Harvest food bank.

Street Music Week returns to Coeur d’Alene at noon Monday. Each day through Friday, from noon to 1 p.m., musicians will line Sherman Avenue with red buckets to collect donations. This is the fourth annual Street Music Week in the Lake City. The same event will be taking place at the same time Spokane, where Street Music Week is in its 15th year.

To date close to $150,000 have been raised to feed the hungry in the region. Along with their red buckets, performers will have badges.

North Idaho has a large hunger problem.

“Last year in North Idaho, in the five counties that Second Harvest serves — Kootenai, Bonner, Boundary, Benewah, and Shoshone — we distributed more than 3.6 million pounds of food, of which about 40 percent was fresh produce,” said Julie Humphreys, spokeswoman for Second Harvest. “We serve thousands of families in North Idaho through a network of more than 40 partner food banks and pantries in those five counties and through our mobile food markets. In Kootenai County alone, we provide food to 20 agencies, including Community Action Partnership, the Post Falls Food Bank and Lake City Community Church.”

Street Music Week was started in 2003 by Spokesman Review columnist Doug Clark. The event now has spread to Appleton, Wis., as well as the Lake City.

The Art Spirit Gallery at 415 Sherman Ave. is the headquarters for the event in Coeur d’Alene/Jim Lyons, Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.