KINGSTON — Scores of skaters and hordes of headbangers and hip hoppers will unite Sunday in Kingston for an event that some hope will become a Fourth of July weekend tradition.

The second annual Kingston Sk8 Rollick drops in to the Billy Johnson Skate Park at high noon Sunday with competitions lasting four hours and live music onstage until the sun goes down. Organizers Dan McDougall, of Kingston, and Bill Mickelson, of Bremerton, say the spectacle is meant to celebrate independence and the skate-rock lifestyle while giving young folks a positive way to spend their time.

“It’s just a lot of young people stoked about something to do in the community,” McDougall said. “Realistically, that’s pretty rare around the North End, especially a free event.”

Fans pay nothing to watch the show, but skaters chip in a five-dollar bill to thrash in the competition. Cube gleamers from Kitsap and beyond will kickflip and ollie their way across the concrete in rookie, intermediate and advanced categories to see who can master the integrated ramp- and street-skating elements of the Kingston park.

“One of the designers — Scotty Yamamura — was a pioneer in park design,” McDougall said. “He used elements from ramp skating and street skating and put them together. We’re interested in seeing how people can adapt to that park design and see how well they can skate there, because not a lot of people can.”

After prizes are handed out to the top riders, six local bands will take turns in front of the mic, each jamming in 45-minute sessions. The lineup includes Bremerton punk bands Legends on Heroin and Triple Forte, which is fronted by Mickelson. Seattle bands Abadawn and Third Eye Theory will mix things up with a little West Coast hip hop, while Kingston alt-rockers Can’t Hardly Wait and Black Beat Blue keep the crowd jumping.

“It’s just jovial. It’s a ‘rollick’ atmosphere,” Mickelson said.

Last year’s inaugural event attracted 45 skaters and close to 200 fans, according to Mickelson. McDougall said he hopes to draw at least 10 more skaters this year, and would like to see the Rollick become a Fourth of July tradition to unite North End youth.

“Hopefully we can do it every single year,” McDougall said.

The duo chose the July Fourth weekend because freedom and individuality are themes central to the skateboarding and rock and roll communities.

“It’s the day after Independence Day, and that was kind of purposeful,” Mickelson said. “Independence Day is one of the things that unites us, skating is one of the things that unites us, rock is one of the things that unites us.”

The idea for the Rollick began to take shape more than a decade ago, when McDougall, as a student at Kingston Junior High, helped start the school’s Skateboard Club along with a group of friends. The club, organized by teacher Deborah MacKinnon, sought to raise money to build the skate park. After a series of fundraising events, including a Skate Jam at the Kingston Thriftway, the county earmarked $150,000 in late 2000 for the park’s construction. Shortly thereafter, McDougall and his friends started dreaming of one day hosting their own skate competition at the park they helped build.

“Now that we’re grown up, it’s like we should have a contest to see how people have become skateboarders at Kingston Park,” McDougall said.

Last year, the dream became reality as former members of the Skateboard Club judged the inaugural Rollick. This year’s edition features McDougall and longtime friend and fellow skater Kes Anderson as emcees, with skilled shredders Matt McDougall, John Perry, Peter Wickstrom and Malcolm Coble confirmed as judges.

McDougall, a second-generation skater himself, would like to eventually pass the torch to younger riders just as it was passed to him. In 1978, his father, Mike, won a silver medal in the Kingston Downhill contest, in which competitors bombed through a slalom course along a downtown slice of Highway 104.

Today, one of McDougall’s biggest cheerleaders is old-school skater Ran Hanson, a family friend whom McDougall looked up to as a kid.

“He used to be a guy that I looked up to who’s older than me, and he was into skating,” McDougall said. “It’s kind of like a ladder. Younger people are stoked that we’re doing it, we’re stoked to see support from older people.”

Though the event’s organizers faced some hurdles in bringing about the competition, they hope when it comes time for them to move on, younger skaters and rockers will be motivated to continue the Rollick for the next generation.

“Hopefully when we’re the old timers someone from that next generation will pick it up and want to do the same thing,” McDougall said.