Friday Night Market offers shopping, entertainment – Times-Standard

Bando Loko plays to a large crowd gathered at Clarke Square across from the historical Clarke Museum building near the heart of Old Town Eureka. Live music at several locations is a Friday Night Market staple. Humboldt Made, sponsoring the Friday Night Market excitement, has live bands lined up every Friday this summer.

(Jose Quezada, HUMEDIA/For the Times-Standard)

Friday Night Market has grown to cover several blocks in Old Town. Every food vendor has lines, music can be heard everywhere. Art, jewelry, artist creations, veggies, fruits and plants are together every Friday becoming the largest gathering of local makers in one place on the North Coast. Sponsored by Humboldt Made, Friday Night Market is a summer boon of local goods and services. (Jose Quezada, HUMEDIA/For the Times-Standard)

Al Matis and Danny Green check out a variety of different colored pitcher plants on sale at the Eureka Friday Night Market. Pitcher Perfect sells the plants. Megan and Jonathon Szecsei have been owners of the unique plant for six years.

Pitcher plants are carnivorous plants known as pitfall traps — a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive liquid. (Jose Quezada, HUMEDIA/For the Times-Standard)

Dakota Cannon, visiting from San Diego, orders some tacos from Kekis The Home in Spanish. “I learned Spanish working for a construction crew in San Diego.” Kekis The Home joined dozens of food vendors feeding a large and hungry crowd at Friday Night Market last week.

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Pawel Gago is in professional pizza-maker mode as he slices up one of countless pizzas prepared right on E Street across from the Clarke Museum. The Pizza Gago booth had a line for the savory pie for nearly the entire run of the hours-long Eureka Friday Night Market.

(Jose Quezada, HUMEDIA/For the Times-Standard)

Opera Alley stands beside the Clarke Plaza and E Street and F Street featuring access to local vendors and offering established culinary and fine spirit offerings of its own during Friday Night Market in Old Town Eureka. (Jose Quezada, HUMEDIA/For the Times-Standard)

Grace Grimes handles three torches of fire performing with Humboldt Fire Dragons partnering with the Humboldt Circus in visual and percussion highlights with a large crowd watching in front of the Gabriel Romano Garden plaza. The permanent display of the local folk artist, maintained by the Humboldt Arts Council, is one of the main venues for music and dance for Eureka Friday Night Market.

(Jose Quezada, HUMEDIA/For the Times-Standard)