ALPINE — The third annual Harvest Moon Celebration will be Saturday, October 3 this year with new attractions in Alley Art, including music and more. In concert with remaining concerns over Covid-19, most of the activity will be outdoors. Masks and social distancing still should be observed.

“The last two Harvest Moon events were the most successful of our events, featuring both the visual and the performing arts,” Alpine Downtown Association President Jim Street said. “We dedicated one mural nearing completion in the first year and, last year, we inaugurated a new mural by Carole Fairlie and her Sul Ross art students in an area between 5th and 6th streets now known as Alpine Alley Art.

New this year is a mural featuring several artists called ‘Postcards from the Desert,’ consisting of several individual panels for different artists to create with a desert theme. It is just east of the Pauline Hernandez mural, ‘Fab Desert Mural,’ on the south wall of Carolyn and Tom Mangrem’s Alley View Gallery, which we dedicated in 2018.”

Alley Art was created by Liz Sibley, Nancy Whitlock, Jan Moeller and others in the recently-repaved alley behind the 100 block of West Holland Avenue.

Like the last two years, music will be provided during the alley art activities, this year by Tom Griffith starting at 6 p.m.

John Ferguson’s Mariachi Santa Cruz of Presidio will perform street-side on Holland Avenue in front of the Catchlight Gallery and Gallery on the Square at 7 p.m.; both galleries will have events.

The Gallery on the Square will have a plein air art show, while the Catchlight will feature local jewelers’ art in the “Desert Resplendence” exhibition.

From 8 to 10:30 p.m., attention will shift a block west to the Holland Hotel for “All that Jazz” with the Alpine Jazz Quintet featuring Fort Worth Jazz guitarist Jim McKay, and Ferguson will join in with his trumpet.

“Our organization was created for a more vibrant and robust business climate in downtown Alpine and we have no greater draw than the many murals and art galleries that bring so many visitors to our city,” ADA President Jim Street said.

“Many people think of art as paintings and sculptures, but the performing arts are very much a part of the brand,” he said. “And Alpine has a rich abundance of all art genres.”