‘Our link is just the creative community’: 3rd EyE Open Hip Hop Festival takes over Downtown New Bedford


If you were walking through Downtown New Bedford on Saturday, you might have been confused by what you saw. 3rd EyE Open Hip Hop Festival not only had break dancers, but also everything from graffiti artists giving demonstrations to farmers selling sunflowers to families playing miniature golf.
“Just the sight of alpacas walking around the hip hop stage is so cool to see,” Allison Faunce said.
Faunce is one of the founders of Southcoast Open Air Market (SOAM) and she teamed up with the organizers of 3rd EyE Open to host the market in Custom House Square during the festival.
While the combination of a hip hop festival and a market with alpacas; farmers; and vendors selling pottery, soaps, and other artisan craft goods may seem odd to some, to Faunce it makes perfect sense.
“I think our chain or link is just the creative community,” Faunce explained, “Creativity comes out in so many different forms.”

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