DILLONVALE — Curtis Prince isn’t a Dillonvale native.

You’d never know that by talking to him.

He moved to the Jefferson County community in 1995 and in that span has developed a passion for helping out in his community.

Prince — a village councilman since 2016 — is doing his part in helping to energize the community. He’s focusing his efforts on that through supplying “something to do” this summer and fall.

“I just wanted to see what I could do to help make a change,” Prince said. “I decided to try to organize something for the elderly to help get people out, and this has been very well received.”

For the second consecutive summer, Dillonvale City Park Gazebo is hosting free weekly concerts, on Wednesdays, through the month of August with a myriad of artists and genres represented. Today’s performance, which features “Light Touch Duo” playing a mixture of light 1960s and ’70s rock, is the fourth of the summer.

“The crowds were pretty good last year, and they’re starting to trickle back in this summer,” Prince said.

Prince scheduled all of the performers, who aren’t paid, himself.

“The performers don’t charge us, but we do take up a collection and he or she receives the entire amount collected,” Prince said. “All of this is set up and based on donations.”

Prince has also gotten different nonprofit groups in the community involved. A different one is welcomed to set up a concession stand each week and keep all of the profits. Because of that, the events go on rain or shine.

“If it’s raining, we hold the show in the basement of the city building,” Prince said. “We don’t want the different groups to spend money and take time preparing the food and have the show be canceled and that money go to waste.”

Last summer, Dillonvale’s concerts ran through September, but Prince has decided to trim the schedule back a month.

“We had such a good response, we decided to extend it, but in September it starts getting darker earlier, school’s back in session and different activities are going on, so we just decided to end in August,” Prince said.

The only two Wednesdays of the summer when there isn’t a show are July 19 and Aug. 16.

The balance of the schedule includes:

June 28 — Light Touch Duo; July 5 — Roz and Lynn; July 12 — Chrisagis Brothers; July 26 — Honky Tonk Sweethearts; Aug. 2 — Vic Wrobel; Aug. 9 — Matt VanFossen; Aug. 23 — Ron Retzer Trio; Aug. 30 — Dan Jones.

“I had a few people give me names of performers last year and I just started calling them,” Prince said. “We added some new (performers) this year. Surprisingly, it’s not that tough to put the schedule together. Finding an open date that works for both us and the performer is probably the biggest challenge, but it’s worked out.”

Along with the summer concert series, Prince also organized a fall fair, which had some 500 people attend, and the village’s first Christmas parade last year.