KINGSTON — The Kingston Chamber Events Committee has a great lineup of bands scheduled for the fifth season of Concerts on the Cove.

Local businesses and service clubs donate funds to help sponsor the concerts, which are free to the public. Sponsors for 2012 include Columbia Bank, Kingston Kiwanis, Kingston Rotary, Kingston Stakeholders, Kingston Construction, and Marcy Anderson Johnson Insurance.

If you are new in town, the place to be on Saturday night is Mike Wallace Park at the Port. Food vendors and the Rotary Beer and Wine Garden begin serving at 6 p.m. Concerts start at 7 p.m. and last until 9 p.m. You are welcome to bring your own food or vendor food into the Rotary beer tent and sip a beverage while you eat.

Concerts on the Cove is an event for all ages. Dancing is encouraged.

Here’s the 2012 season lineup.
– July 7: Locust Street Taxi. Fifth generation ska, pop, and swing.
– July 14: Dynamite Limbo. Favorites from the 1960s and 1970s.
– July 21: Foggy Bottom Jazz Band. Bruce Cosacchi, a local favorite.
– July 28: Haywire. Denny Secor, country and western.
– Aug. 4: Danny Vernon,  “Illusion of Elvis.”
– Aug. 11: Chasing Mona, Chris Neil oldies, rockabilly, country and originals.
– Aug. 18: File Gumbo. Zydeco, Cajun fusion.
– Aug. 25: Massy Ferguson. Raucous rock Americana.

Join your neighbors for a great small-town music experience on Saturday nights — a “Kingston thing to do.”