It’s a pick your holiday weekend in Youngstown.

Cinco de Mayo arrives a few days early as the theme for May’s First Fridays Youngstown event at the Phelps Street Gateway downtown. The Calvin Center at 755 Mahoning Ave. will host a three-day May Day Festival starting Friday, and Penguin City Brewing Company, 480 E. Market St., partners with Dead Ink Apparel for its Halfway to Halloween Horror Fest on Friday and Saturday.

The Cinco de Mayo event from 5 to 8 p.m. includes a community art mural that will be completed. The project is overseen by artist Gabriela Mottino Fernandez, an Argentina native who now lives in Columbiana. Her murals can be seen throughout the Placentia-Yorba Linda school district in California, where she lived and worked for more than 30 years.

The city’s Live Music Initiative brings Andy Timko to The Federal from 5 to 7 p.m. and the Feral Company Band from 4 to 6 p.m. at Twisted Roots, followed by Romero Norteno, a Hispanic band from Columbus.

In addition to participation from downtown restaurants, there will be food trucks on site and a vendors market.

Youngstown SkatePark Association will set up its SkatePark Pop Up. A children’s fun zone is planned on North Phelps Street, and art activities will be provided by the Butler Institute of American Art and SMARTS.

Admission is free. For more information, go to firstfridaysyoungstown.org.

The 6th Youngstown May Day Festival runs from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday and noon to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at the Calvin Center.

The keynote speaker at 6 p.m. Friday will be Vince Shivers on “P. Ross Berry, the African American who built Youngstown.” From 1860 to 1890, Berry and his crew played a major role in the erecting of city structures, which included major buildings in Youngstown’s government, religious, educational and business district. Berry also was an inventor and abolitionist who played a role in the early political and social activities in the city.

The program will be followed by a fire performance by Bryce Gaetano.

Activities on Saturday and Sunday will include talks and workshops, a vendors market, food trucks, maypole dancing, music and crafts.

The entertainment lineup includes Adele Pickle, Indig0Forest, Mixxie and Mike Stout on Saturday and Kari Ratushin, Death Mattress, Abbey Rose and Humbles County on Sunday.

New this year is an after party from 6 to 11 p.m. Saturday at the Wickyards, 711 Wick Ave. The free event will include a vegan meal, a solidarity sing along led by Jonathan Blackshire and performances by Krystal Yvette, the Evening Smoke and Wednesday Demonstration.

All May Day Festival events are free. For more information, go to youngstownmaydayfestival.com.

The Halfway to Halloween Horror Fest is for those who don’t need Jack-o-lantern season as an excuse to embrace the spooky and the macabre.

More than 40 vendors will be selling a wide range of clothing, collectibles and other merchandise.

The featured guest will be Miko Hughes, whose first screen role at age 2 was playing a toddler killed in a car-pedestrian accident in the adaptation of Stephen King’s “Pet Sematary” who is resurrected as a killer himself.

He’s equally creepy as a boy under Freddy Krueger’s spell in the very meta horror movie “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare.”

Non-horror credits include “Kindergarten Cop” with Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Mercury Rising” with Bruce Willis and a dozen episodes of “Full House.” He’ll be posing for photos for $30, signing autographs for $40 ($50 for the combo and an additional $10 to sign Funkos).

Other attractions include Lenora’s Midnight Rental LIVE!, a live version of the YouTube series with host Lenora sharing obscure movies and providing commentary, at 8 p.m. Friday. DJ Ju$tberg Thin spins music from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday and 2 to 7 p.m. Saturday, and the alt rock/metal/hip hop band Normal Creatures performs at 8 p.m. Saturday.

Halfway to Halloween Horror Fest runs from 5 p.m. to midnight Friday and noon to midnight on Saturday with the vendors market open from 5 to 11 p.m. Friday and noon to 7 p.m. Saturday.

Admission is $5. Children ages 11 and younger are admitted free, but the content is suggested for mature audiences.

Andy Gray is the entertainment editor of Ticket. Write to him at agray@tribtoday.com