ESCANABA — A new music festival and celebration the area’s logging history is coming to Escanaba June 28. According to Escanaba Downtown Development Director Craig Woerpel, the LogJam Music Festival will be the first time a music festival has come to downtown Escanaba and the first time an event will take advantage of the newly-formed social district.

“It’ll be the first time that we’re hoping that we can get things to go with the social district. Hopefully, it will be a blast,” Woerpel told the Escanaba City Council during the council’s regular meeting Thursday.

Ludington Street from 10th Street to 14th Street will be closed down for the event, including the alleys on 11th, 12th and 13th streets. The main stage will be setup in front of Highline with a second, smaller stage set up at Center Court. In between the two stages, a Great Lakes Lumberjack Show performance will take place near T&T Hardware, featuring Escanaba-native Bruce Belanger, and a lumberjack competition with chainsaw and crosscut saw challenges will take place nearby.

“We’re going to create some wood chips and a little bit of water,” said Woerpel, explaining the cleanup that will take place after the event’s lumberjack competitions and log rolling demonstrations.

Music at the main stage will include Sit Down Francis, of Escanaba; Sky Pilots of Munising; Stonewall, of Escanaba; and Them Pesky Kids, of Minneapolis, Minn., which features Woerpel’s brother Mark, also of Escanaba.

“My brother Mark is playing in that band. He’s always wanted to play here in Escanaba, and this is the band that plays with Ricky Matlock from Lynyrd Skynyrd,” said Woerpel.

The festival will also feature food trucks and vendors, some of which will be donating proceeds from the event to the Bonifas Arts Center.

The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on June 28, though road closures will extend outside that period for setup and clean up.

Because the event is taking place inside the newly-formed social district, attendees will be able to purchase alcohol from bars and restaurants that are participants in the district and walk around freely within the district’s boundaries. The alcohol must be in a special cup featuring the logo of the business and the logo of the social district itself.

During Thursday’s meeting, the council approved two applications for establishments seeking to participate in the district, Mugshots and Cat-Man-Do’s. More applications are expected to be reviewed by the council before the LogJam Music Festival.

In other business Thursday, the council:

— held the fourth public hearing on the city’s budget. The fifth and final hearing was set for May 15.

— held a public hearing on the removal of Patrick Connor from the city’s planning commission. Connor was removed by the council because he had missed an excessive number of planning commission meetings. It was noted that if his personal situation changed, Connor was welcome to reapply for a possible seat on the commission.

— took no action on a proposed nature trail in Ludington Park, effectively rejecting the proposal put forward by the non-profit Enhance Escanaba.

— Approved a special event application for the partial closure of North 9th Street, between 1st Avenue North and Ludington Street for Mugshots’ 10th anniversary party on June 7.