Photo from Facebook The Rally in the Valley will come to Warren starting Thursday, Aug. 16.

If you like bikes, blues and barbeque, you’re going to want to go to Warren’s inaugural Rally in the Valley.

The event is being brought to Warren by a partnership of area bike, blues, and barbeque enthusiasts. The team of Jeff and Michelle Frailey, Alan and Elaine Robbins, and Otis James wanted Warren to be a major stop along what Jeff Frailey said is already a popular destination for motorcyclists in Pennsylvania’s Route 6.

“We wanted to bring awareness to Warren,” said Frailey, who goes to motorcycle events with the other five on the event’s committee and knows what sorts of things are of interest to the target market. “We plan on drawing people from near and far with this event,” said Frailey, who added that four bands are already slated to play and around 30 vendors are planned with everything from food to motorcycle and outdoor-related merchandise.

With plenty of background as to what’s popular with the motorcycle crowd, said Frailey, “we just felt that this was the perfect place for an event.”

The event kicks off with concessions opening at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 16, at the Midtown parking lot, with entrances from Second and Third Avenues in downtown Warren. The kick-off ride will leave at 6 p.m., assembling at the Warren Mall parking lot at 5:30 p.m. and heading through Warren to reach the Midtown lot for the beginning of the Temple Gray Concert, which begins at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Midtown lot.

On Friday, Aug. 17, concessions open at 11 a.m., with The Sinners, The Duke Sherman Band, and the Jeff Jensen Band taking the sage at 4, 6:30, and 9 p.m., respectively.

On Saturday, Aug 18, the rides begin. Concessions again open up at 11 a.m. on Saturday at the Midtown lot. From 8 to 10 a.m., registration for the Thank-a-Vet Dam Run will open there, although anyone interested in pre-registering for that ride can do so online. Links to do so are available from the event’s website at www.bikesbluesnbbq.com under the “rides” tab.

Staging for that ride will begin at 10 a.m. on Second Ave. in Warren, and kickstands go up at 10:30 a.m.

The ride arrives at the Kinzua Dam at 11 a.m. and crosses the structure, before heading down Hemlock Road. At the conclusion of that ride, a second ride will begin, with the American Legion Riders of Youngsville Post 658 Dice Run.

The first roll happens at 11:30 a.m. at the Eagle’s Club on Warren’s east side, and riders will be arriving there on their way back from the dam run already. The last bike in for the second ride will be at 6 p.m., arriving again at the Midtown lot. Winners will be announced at 7 p.m.

Saturday bands include: The Shiners, from 3 to 5 p.m.; The Riffriders, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.; Mick Hayes from 8 to 9:30 p.m.; and Bryan Lee, the “Braille Blues Daddy,” from 9:30 to 11 p.m.

Schedules, a full list of vendors, and more information about Warren’s first Rally in the Valley are available at bikesbluesnbbq.com, or by searching for Rally in the Valley on Facebook.