Kids young and old ‘dance all night’ at Plaza Jam

Crowd cozies up to Jim Quick and Coastline

Kevin Spradlin | PeeDeePost.com
This is the first season, and second concert, during which volunteers with the Richmond County “Leathernecks” Marine Corps League Unit 1252 solicited donations of unwrapped toys and cash to benefit Richmond County children.

By Kevin Spradlin
PeeDeePost.com

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ROCKINGHAM — Beach music is where it’s at. Just ask Erin Brumwright and Colt Jenkins.

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Colt Jenkins, in green, and Erin Brumwright dance to the rhythm of Jim Quick and Coastline. Whether or not they were in sync with the beat is another issue, but they sure had a lot of fun.

Erin, 4, of Rockingham, and Colt, 2, of Ellerbe, couldn’t stop themselves from dancing to Jim Quick and Coastline Thursday night at Plaza Jam, a free monthly summer concert series coordinated by the city of Rockingham. Good thing for both youngsters is that neither wanted to stop — and neither did.

“Oh yeah, they love it,” said nanna Georgia Cagle. “They’ll dance all night.”

Colt was there with his parents, Ashley and Justin Jenkins. Erin was there with her mother, Jennifer.

Between 200 and 300 people — young and old, black, white and everything else —attended Thursday’s performance by Quick, a North Carolina native. Thursday’s two-hour set was the second of six performances scheduled for each first Thursday of the month. The next concert is scheduled for July 3, again at Cole Plaza sandwiched between City Hall and Leath Memorial Library.

Kevin Spradlin | PeeDeePost.com

This is the first season, and second concert, during which volunteers with the Richmond County “Leathernecks” Marine Corps League Unit 1252 solicited donations of unwrapped toys and cash to benefit Richmond County children.