Despite the threatening rain, hundreds dropped by the 7th Annual Narrows Festival of the Arts held on September 9, 2007, on the city's waterfront on Water and Anawan Streets. This free event is a one day showcase of what the Narrows does all year long: fine music, fine art, and fine food. An outdoor stage featured Buckwheat Zydeco, Henry Butler and Leo Noncentelli Band, Slaid Cleaves, Cassandre McKinley while an indoor stage showcased Duncan Walters, Louie Leeman, Ryan Fitzsimmons, and Marcus Monteiro Quartet upstairs in the Narrows. A fabulous interactive children's stage at the nearby Ponta Delgada Gates featured the Big Nazo Puppet show. Vendors in the food court included the Water Street Cafe, , LePage's Seafood, and Swede's Cafe. This program was supported, in part by a grant from the Fall River Cultural Council. Click here for photos of the 2006 Festival and here the 2004 Festival For more information, contact the Narrows Center for the Arts at (508) 324-1926.

(Top row, left) Bill Brisk, who works as a security officer at the Talbot Middle School, sells his award-winning photographs at one of the boots along Anawan Street. (Top row, center) Vangy and David Auclair of Somerset look at some of their digital pictures of the event. (Famara Toumkara of Providence oversees his native products of Senegal a April Paquette looks them over. (Middle row, left) Doris Costa of Fall River and Joan Teves of Somerset look over some of the artwork on display. (Middle row, center and right) Jazz singer Cassandre McKinley performs some of her jazz ensembles for the crowd that includes Barry and Chris Brown of Warren. (Bottom row, left) Two-year-old Reilly Mullins enjoys her lunch with grandmother Kate Corkun, left, and her mother. The children's area featured an interactive area with musical performers, art projects, and a treasure hunt. (Bottom row, center) Louisa Jones, Lorna Cogswell and Judy Messenger get in some quilting while at their booth featuring products from Quilters-by-the-Sea in Portsmouth, RI. (Bottom row, right) Ann Prescott of Annie's Artifax in Somerset oversees her one-of-a-kind pieces of clay jewelry.