Music filled the riverfront at the Center Street landing Sunday evening as the Friends of Ironton put on its first Memorial Music and Fireworks Festival getting the community ready for Memorial Day.

“In the past we’ve just had fireworks,” Jane Griffith of the Friends of Ironton, said. “Last year everyone talked about expanding it with more to do before the fireworks. This was the route we decided to go this year.”

This year marked the third for fireworks, but the first for the music and pre-fireworks activities.

Hye Water kicked off the music on stage at 4 p.m. followed by Tailgate, Saturday’s Battle of the Bands winner Down in Round Three, Rich Blankenship and Derailed before fireworks began.

103.3 TCR Country was also there to help put things together for the bands as well as give announcements.

Food, both craft and domestic beer, and other refreshments were available for purchase along with Ironton Memorial Day Parade T-shirts and 2015 Rally on the River koozies with all proceeds going toward the restoration of the Ro-Na theater and the fireworks.