Despite the chance for early spring showers, several downtown shops will be open for this season’s installment of Hit the Bricks and Adjoining Streets.

“We sure are going to be open,” Frederick’s Shoe Store owner Norma Massey said. “We have models in the fashion show.”

Live music by Osgood & Blaque will accompany sales and offerings at the event, which lasts from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Shoppers will take advantage of the extended hours for participating businesses. A spring fashion show features dresses, shoes and other apparel offered by clothing merchants along Washington Street.

Highs will be 69 degrees during the day on Thursday, giving way to 50 percent chance of rain by the evening. Chances for rain lessen to 30 percent by midnight.

Refreshments, tastings of hors d’oeuvres and dessert offerings will liven up the experience for shoppers.

“We will be open,” Willingham’s employee Andrea Newman said. “We always have food and everything.”

Foot traffic downtown is expected to be brisk heading into Thursday’s Bricks event.

On Thursday, the Mississippi Organization of Associate Degree Nursing kicks off a three-day meeting at the Vicksburg Convention Center. The annual event returned to the River City in 2014.

Later, a trivia challenge begins at KJ’s Rivertown Grille as part of a Thursday night series of games with teams of five.