The first Derby Food Truck Festival is scheduled for Saturday starting at 11 a.m.
The festival, to be held on the campus of the high school and middle school at 8 Nutmeg Ave., is organized by the Derby Post Prom Committee.
The festival concludes at 5 p.m.
The Post Prom Committee is a volunteer group. They organize safe events for Derby High School students after the annual prom.
Two of the volunteers — Christina DiMartino and Jenn Moffat — were guests Sept. 28 on “Valley Navel Gazing,” this publication’s weekly radio show.
The episode is embedded below. Click the play button, then skip to the 11 minute mark to hear DiMartino and Moffat talk about the festival.
The committee will use proceeds from this Saturday’s festival to pay for an after-prom event scheduled to be held at the Sports Center in Shelton at the end of the school year. The goal is to keep kids safe after the prom.
“They just have a blast and the best thing is it is safe and off the streets,” DiMartino said of the annual post-prom event.
Saturday’s event in Derby will have 13 food trucks, more than 40 vendor tables, live music and “touch-a-truck” with emergency vehicles for the kids. Organizers announced Wednesday they’ll have a bounce house with an obstacle course, too.
Admission is free. Click here to visit the festival’s event page on Facebook.
The food truck vendors include Firedog Food Truck, The Sugar Bakery and Sweet Shop, The Green Grunion, Samba’s Cuisine, Szabo’s Seafood, Little Taste of Peru, Crazy Taco-Mex, Romy’s BBQ, Super Softy, and the subtly-named Grab Your Balls (gourmet meatballs).
Click here for links to the food trucks.
A DJ is scheduled to play tunes until 2:30 p.m., and live music will be provided by The Dixie Rebel Band from 2:30 p.m. until 5.
“It’s going to be a great time,” Moffat said.
DiMartino encouraged families to make a day of it.
“We want everybody to bring their chairs, sit down and relax and enjoy the great day,” she said.
Nutmeg Avenue is accessible from Chatfield Street and Hawthorne Avenue in Derby.
