The city’s local concert program is hanging on by a thread.

The Vicksburg Main Street board approved a motion Thursday to adopt Downtown at Dusk under its umbrella of events, pending securing an outside funding source.

“We cannot take it over on our budget because we do not have any more funds,” Kim Hopkins, director of Main Street, said.

Hopkins and members of the board discussed options for continuing the event, including changing the types of music and changing the frequency of the event along with ways to adapt it to a smaller budget.

“We’ve already started looking at ways to tweak it,” she said. “A lot of it wouldn’t always be at night. We’ve looked at several different things that we could do.”

“It doesn’t have to be all or nothing,” board member Skipper Guizeriz said.

Hopkins couldn’t pin down one particular reason the event wasn’t as successful as expected.

“The weather has not been the best during the times we’ve had it and we can’t control that, but I do think that the downtown merchants could have supported it a lot better,” she said.

Mayor George Flaggs Jr. cited a lack of interest as to why he would like to transfer the event to Main Street.

“We didn’t get the participation and the whole idea was meant to enhance foot traffic downtown and have people ultimately shop downtown,” he said.

The next step for the concert program, which began in 2015, will be trying to find a funding source for the event, whether that be a private organization or the city, Hopkins said.

If funding isn’t found, the last Downtown at Dusk event will be held Sept. 29, featuring Mose Brown and the Projekt Band.

In other business, the board expressed a need to unify downtown merchants in light of downtown businesses holding other meetings with similar goals to Main Street’s.

“I try to be there every meeting to see that Main Street is positively represented,” board president Daryl Hollingsworth said. “(But) how do we get everyone in the same meeting?”

The board expressed a desire to get everyone involved with downtown on the same page.

“If we put all our efforts at this table, we could be big,” board member Joyce Clingan said. “We need to be more inclusive than exclusive. It’s going to have to be all of us together.”