Nearly 8,000 attended the “Rock the Valley” event at Ansonia’s Nolan Field Saturday (Aug. 20), the city announced in a prepared statement.
“This was our most successful year yet!” Mayor David Cassetti said in the statement.
The cast of Beatlemania headlined the festival.
The mayor said the event was also a success for the various local organizations who came hoping to raise funds for community causes and programming — including Valley Save Our Youth, Ansonia Football, Cheerleading, and the Ansonia Fire Department.
Cassetti himself sat in a dunk tank to benefit the city’s cheerleaders.
The mayor thanked Rich DiCarlo, the chief organizer of the event, as well as the cultural commission, “for running such a tremendous program and drawing so many to our city.”
Cassetti also thanked the Farrel-Pomini Corporation for sponsoring the event.
