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Shifting lights -- red, blue and green -- bathed the Harbor Hotel as part of Harbor Lights.

Music, lights highlight festival

WATKINS GLEN, June 15 -- The annual Watkins Glen Waterfront Festival Friday night featured a Harbor Lights show, food vendors, merchandise vendors and musical performances along Seneca Harbor Park -- all in pleasant weather that left behind the rain of recent days.

The festival featured musical performances by The Usual Suspects on the Seneca Harbor Patio, Tru Bleu at the Pier House, the 43 Main Street band on the Hazlitt's 1852 Waterside Stage, Puka Inti at the Pier House, and Meads Creek at the Village Marina Bar and Grill.

Harbor Lights, produced by Pro Audio Consulting of Painted Post, illuminated the mast of the True Love schooner and the wall of the Frosted Food Locker building, and bathed the Harbor Hotel in red, blue and green colors. Dozens of boat owners also affixed colored lights to the masts of their vessels at rest in the marina.

The festival continues today (Saturday) with the annual Cardboard Boat Regatta, which gets under way at 2 p.m. after visitors get a chance to interact with boat captains and crews in the staging area -- the parking lot behind the Village Marina Bar and Grill.

There are more than 70 entrants set to test the seaworthiness of their boats on the regatta course that goes from shore to breakwall to pier to finish line.

Photos in text:

Top: Lights in the shape of a Watkins Glen logo played on the wall of the old Frosted Food Locker building.

Bottom: Among the many Waterfront Festival visitors were Tiffany Koziatek and her fiance, Steve Testanoski, both of Horseheads, who were enjoying the music of The Usual Suspects on the Seneca Harbor Patio.

The Ithaca-based trio Tru Bleu performed Friday at the Pier House.

Mark Stephany, left, and Tom Bloodgood of The Usual Suspects performed on the Seneca Harbor Patio.