Wright and her band take the stage at Saranac Lake’s Riverside Park alongside an eclectic mix of music on Sunday, Sept. 1, for this free event, billed as family-friendly.

Next on the lineup is House of Waters, a Brooklyn-based trio that plays world music rooted in the hammered dulcimer.

Mosaic Foundation, from Rochester, is a reggae band playing roots, ska, dub, dancehall and other styles.

Chestnut Grove is a group of friends from Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania, who play high-energy rock and roll.

Kyle Murray, center, and the rest of Bucket Ruckus use pots, water jugs and duct tape as they pounds out a rhythmic beat at Hobofest 2017. Soma Beats, a local African dance group, performed with the percussionists in Saranac Lake’s Riverside Park. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Cerbone)

Mal Maiz is an Afro-Latino orchestra based in Burlington, headed up by Costa Rican “Brujo” Maiz Vargas Sandoval. It features both traditional and modern flair with cumbia, Latin, reggae and Afro-Caribbean sounds.

Local performers round out the schedule: Arthur Buezo, the growling guitar player of the Saranac Lake-based Blind Owl Band performing a solo act, and Soma Beats, an African dance troupe based in Lake Placid, led by Johnna MacDougall.

This lineup is still being finalized. Organizers expect to announce a handful of additions soon.

The festival replaces Hobofest, a music festival held in Saranac Lake for a decade from 2009 to 2018 on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. Organizers retired it last year and tapped in the new committee of local residents to create a new festival, based on the Hobofest model while making it their own.

For more information, go to NorthernCurrentAdk.org, @NorthernCurrentADK on Facebook and Instagram, @NorthernCrntADK on Twitter and northerncurrentadk@gmail.com by email.

Northern Current is a nonprofit event under the umbrella of the Saranac Lake Rotary Club.

This project gets funding from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, and numerous local sponsors.