Guests are invited to begin the stroll at either the First Street Community Center (221 First St. East), or at Memorial Park (311 First St. West), where both musicians and chocolate vendors will be located, and stroll down the street in either direction, sampling chocolates at businesses and storefronts along the way.

“We have definitely upped our game this year,” said Chocolate Stroll Committee Chair Trude Elliott. “Not only are we offering more chocolate vendors in more storefronts along Mount Vernon’s Main Street, but we also are offering street performers throughout the day, as well as returning headliners the Eddie Piccard Jazz Quartet and The Eastern Iowa Brass Band.”

More than 20 local and regional chocolate vendors are scheduled to take part in the event, including The Bakery, Barb’s Garden and Pantry, Chef Jenn’s’ Kitchen, Corridor Cake Bites, Divine Decadents, Kalona Chocolates, May’s 3^rd Street Bakery, Mount Vernon Confections, Polar Blair’s Den, Sweet Lauretta’s Fine English Toffee, Sweetopia and The Wright Touch Bake Shoppe.

Musicians scheduled to perform that day as part of the Chocolate Stroll include The Eddie Piccard Jazz Quartet, the Eastern Iowa Brass Band, Heart Consort Music, Heartstrings, the Iowa Goatsinger, Lincoln Highway, the Mount Vernon 6^th and 7^th Grade Band and more.

The complete music schedule includes:

Gazebo at Memorial Park                                 First Street Community Center

10 a.m.             Heartstrings                              10 a.m.             MV 6^th and 7^th Grade Band

11:30 a.m.        Heart Consort Music                11 a.m..            Eastern Iowa Brass Band

2 p.m.              Eddie Piccard Jazz Quartet       12:30 p.m.        “High School Musical” excerpts

                                                                              2 p.m.         Lincoln Highway Band

                                                                         3:15 p.m.          The Iowa Goatsinger

Applications for both vendors and sponsors are available through the Mount Vernon-Lisbon Community Development’s Web site at www.vistmvl.com.