showcases nearly three-dozen Long Island-based musicians and songwriters, will take place at the Chapin Rainbow Stage in Heckscher Park (off Prime Avenue and Route 25A). Each act will perform its own interpretation of a song by the late Grammy award-winning songsmith and anti-hunger activist who called Huntington home. Although the concert is free, attendees are asked to bring donations of nonperishable food to support Long Island Cares, Inc., the regional food bank founded by Chapin in 1980 — the year before his tragic death in an auto accident. Other performers in the show include Gathering Time Judith Zweiman, Martha Trachtenberg, Karen Bella, Roger Silverberg, Debra Lynne, Patricia Shih & Stephen Fricker, Roger Street Friedman, Media Crime, Lisa Ann & Akiva Wharton, Judy Merrick, Christine Solimeno, Grand Folk Railroad, Robinson Treacher, Gerald Bair, Wonderous Stories, Toby Tobias, Mara Levine and Matthew Ponsot, in various ensembles. Long Island Cares’ staff and volunteers will collect donations of non-perishable food at a tent near the entrance to the Chapin Rainbow Stage, where t-shirts and Harry Chapin CDs will also be available — along with literature about the nonprofit organization’s programs and services.

Concertgoers are advised to bring their own lawn chairs or blankets to Hecksher Park for the show that will be held rain or shine, precluded only by thunderstorms.