“Wow, they were great,” Alna’s Kate Nordstrom said Thursday night after listening to Married with Chitlins inside Wiscasset Bay Gallery. She and others at the season’s first Wiscasset Art Walk dressed for rain. But most of the three-hour event had none, only wet sidewalks from the day’s deluge.

“The weather report was wrong,” summer resident Frank Barnako said, smiling, on Main Street with wife Donna and their visiting friend Marthe McGrath of Reston, Virginia. The Barnakos of Hilton Head, South Carolina are the Walk’s lead sponsors this year. They are impressed with how hard Lucia Droby works on it and they want to support that effort and the Walk any way they can, Frank explained. “It’s easy to write a check, but what really counts is showing up.”

This is the couple’s 13th summer in Wiscasset. They spend a long summer here, Donna, also smiling, said. What keeps them coming back? Looking around, she said: “It’s so relaxing, the air and the people. Crossing the bridge from Portsmouth, it’s a sigh of relief.”

From the orange on a New York license plate in a row of vehicles from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, South Carolina Rhode Island and Maine, to the yellow, purple, green, blue and red Dungeon and Dragons dice on the keychains incoming Wiscasset Middle High School junior Gabrianna Bailey, 16, of Wiscasset displayed just inside the door of a student art show and sale, colors were standing out in the night’s gray cover.

Jack Duggins of Litchfield sang and played country “with a side of rock,” as he described it, inside Ingram Art & Antiques. He grew up in Bath and wants to get more guitar and singing gigs in the area, to get back to the coast more, he explained for why he wanted to be part of the Walk. He played his Tanglewood guitar, a digit cheaper than another he could have brought, in case the performance was outside.

Next door, as Wiscasset’s Liz Von Huene-Lannon on violin and vocals, Chris Lannon on guitar and mandolin, and Fairfield’s Andy Buckman on standup bass performed as Married with Chitlins, Bailey Island’s Dennis Wilkins browsed some paintings. He rotates visits to Wiscasset’s and other towns’ art walks every year and the forecast for rain did not deter him. “That doesn’t matter to me.”

Across Main Street, Bailey and other WMHS students and staff were showing their artworks of many media and selling it to benefit Special Olympics, a Dungeon and Dragons club and the school’s art club. New WMHS graduate Lily Wagg sat with jewelry she made. She wants to go into jewelry-making and other arts as a profession she said in an interview after making a sale to Droby.

Droby said she was absolutely glad she went on with the Walk when faced with a forecast for what would have been its first rainy installment. She emailed participants that morning, confirming for them it was on. About two hours into the event, she said the day’s weather probably lessened attendance, but June can be slower than the rest of the summer, she added.

When Historic New England employee Jane Blanchard showed up to work at Nickels-Sortwell House at the corner of Main and Federal streets, a flock of signboard sheep surprised her on the front lawn. The historic home had received a flocking ahead of the Walk. First Congregational Church of Wiscasset started offering flockings days earlier to donors looking to bring cheer to people within 10 miles of the church.

“I think it’s darling,” Blanchard said of the flock.

The Walk continues July 26, Aug. 30 and Sept. 27.