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Westfield New Jersey

Westfield will celebrate the 16th Annual Spring Fling on Sunday, April 25, 2010. The festival features hundreds of vendors, entertainment for kids, and incredible food. An estimated crowd of 60,000 people attend Spring Fling every year according to the promoters.  In researching the event online, there is literally no information available unless you are going to the festival to set up a booth to sell food. If you’ve ever been to the festival or know anything more about it, feel free to leave us a comment below and tell us all about it. There must be something to this celebration that I don’t know about because it couldn’t have lasted for 16 years if there wasn’t something fun or interesting going on here. Maybe the name says everything; Spring Fling, a simple but fun celebration of the coming of spring!

The festival is run by This Is It! Productions that is headquartered in Hoboken New Jersey. The company runs festivals and fairs all over the state of New Jersey. Some of the festivals that they produce are: Shad Fest, The Hoboken Arts and Music Festival, The Festival of Lights in Burlington, The Wildwoods International Kite Festival, Rhythm and Blues by the Brook in Plainfield, The Chatsworth Cranberry Festival and Kaboom: Fireworks on the Navesink in Red Bank.

Westfield is located in Union County, New Jersey in Central Jersey. It is located between Newark and Plainfield near the smaller communities of Garwood, Fanwood and Mountainside. The photo above is from Wikipedia. It was taken by Donald Siano on July 21, 2005. You can see the original photo here. We appreciate Don posting the photo.

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Warren County Fair Balloon Festival . July 31 . August 1

You’ve only got two more days to get to the Warren County Fair and Ballo0n Festival. The fair runs today, Friday, July 31st from 9:30 AM till 10:00 PM and Saturday, August 1st from 8:00 AM till  8:00 PM or possibly later.

Here’s the schedule of events for the festival for the next two days:

The fair is located in rural Warren County, east of Phillipsburg. Get more information at the festival website here.

Country Fair

The Monroe Township Mother’s Club and the Monroe Township Recreation Department will sponsor the annual Monroe Township Country Fair from noon to 6 p.m. on Sept. 13 at Thompson Park, Perrineville Road. Rain date is September 27.

The fair will feature all-day enter­tainment with DJ Wacky Wayne and the Sunset Boulevard Band; the Monroe Township Police Department Color Guard; food; games for children; crafts; a petting zoo; pumpkin painting; pony rides; the Little Miss Monroe, Town Squire and Baby Buggy contests; band and karate demonstrations; the Monroe Wolverine Flag Cheerleaders; a 50/50 raffle; and more.

EVENT NAME: 21st Annual Country Fair
EVENT VENUE: Thompson’s Park
DAY DATE TIME: Sunday, September 13, 2009 12 Noon – 6 p.m.
EVENT STREET ADDRESS: Perrineville Road
CITY STATE ZIPCODE: Jamesburg, New Jersey
EVENT COUNTY: Middlesex County
EVENT ADMISSION: Free
EVENT PHONE : (732) 723-5000
EVENT SUBMITTED BY: Cheryl Wankmueller, Webmaster for MTMC
EVENT WEBSITES:

• http://www.monroetownshipmothersclub.com/
• http://www.monroerec.com/

Jamesburg is located in Middlesex County in Central Jersey.

Downtown Hoboken NJ Arts Festival May 3

The 15th Annual Hoboken Spring Arts and Music Festival will be held on Sunday, May 3, 2009 on Washington Street in downtown Hoboken. The festival features live music, fine art, fine crafts, ethnic foods from local restaurants and live theatrical performances and children’s activities.

The art and crafts shows take place between between 2nd & 3rd Streets. Artistw will be exhibiting oil paintings, watercolors, acrylics, sculpture and mixed media pieces. The craft show will feature pottery, metalwork, wood carvings, blown & fused glass, quilts, recycled crafts, cementware, batik clothing, hand painted furniture, candles, jewelry, dried florals, soaps & lotions and much more.

The musical, “A Year with Frog and Toad”, features characters from Arnold Lobel children’s book. The show follows two great friends, the cheerful and popular Frog and the rather grumpy Toad through winter, spring, summer and fall. The show is performed by a cast of five playing over 15 different roles. Get more information on the show @ The DeBaun Center for Performing Arts. The children’s area on 3rd street features rides, games, creative activities, ponies, petting zoo, magic show, face painting, clowns, balloons and live performances.

The music festival will feature live performances on three seperate stages along Observer Highway near Newark Street. The schedule features performances by a wide range of groups: 

12:00pm – Mad Happy – www.madhappy.com
1:00pm – Wild Carnation – www.wildcarnation.com
1:30pm – Yung Wu – http://www.myspace.com/yungwumusic -
2:00pm – East of Venus – www.myspace.com/eastofvenus
3:00pm – Val Emmich – www.valemmich.com
4:30pm – The Box Tops – www.boxtops.com
with Alex Chilton
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Sixth Street Stage -
12:30pm – Bandwidth – jazz
1;15pm – The Verdict – verdictisin.com
2:15pm – 2nd Fiddles – www.secondfiddles.com
3:15pm – Clueless – www.myspace.com/clueless
4:15pm – Joe Taino – www.myspace.com/joetai
5:15pm – Somos Asi – Latin, salsa

Kidz Stage (Third Street)
11:15am Hanna Valente
12:00pm Polka Dot Pals with aka Ron Albanese -
www.myspace.com/ronalbanese
1:00pm A Year with Frog & Toad* – production by The Theatre Company,
an affiliate of DeBaun Auditorium
2:00pm Bonnie Bess the Pirate – www.after3theatre.org
3:00pm Polka Dot Pals with aka Ron Albanese
4:00pm A Year with Frog & Toad* – production by The Theatre Company,
an affiliate of DeBaun Auditorium
5:00pm Polka Dot Pals with aka Ron Albanese

Local food vendors will be scattered in locations all over town featuring great food from Hoboken restaurants set up as street cafes offering a variety of foods from all over the world. Ethnic cuisines featured during the celebration include: Thai, Indian, Greek, French, Mexican, Cajun and Italian specialties.

15th Annual Hoboken Spring Arts and Music Festival
Sunday, May 3, 2009 • 11am to 6pm
Admission is Free
Washington Street
Directions: Take Observer Highway to 7th Street

CONTACT:
Geri Fallo, Division of Cultural Affairs
Phone: 201-420-2207
www.hobokennj.com
www.myspace.com/hobokenculturalaffairs

Sponsors of the festival include: WRXP, PATH, Port Authority of NY & NJ, Optimum, The Hoboken Reporter, The Hudson Current, NJ Division of Travel & Tourism and NJ Transit. The photo above is from Wikipedia. It features the famous clock in Hoboken that appears in photographs of the city all the time. The picture was taken by Jawny80 and the original version can be seen here.

Hasbrouck Heights Street Fair

Cliffhanger Productions in association with the Borough of Hasbrouck Heights and the Mayor’s Business Community Committee, is pleased to announce that it will be producing the first annual Hasbrouck Heights Street Fair and Festival on May 17, 2009. The event will take place from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, rain or shine, along The Boulevard from Kipp Avenue to Raymond Street. The fair will showcase local merchants and organizations, plus many of the tri-state area’s premier antique and craft vendors.

The event will feature music by Anthony Liguori with Bill Turner and the Blue Smoke Band performing classic oldies rock & roll style and a tribute to the King of Rock & Roll, Elvis Presley. Other entertainment includes: a visit from an American Idol and local entertainers Other attractions of the fair include: free rides for the kids, a rock climbing wall, a trackless train, and lots of roving street performers, You can also enjoy an array of festival food including sausage and peppers, gyros, zeppoli, kettle korn, cotton candy, ice cream and much, much more. Bring your family and your appetite. For information, contact Cliffhanger Productions, 201-460-8335. Hasbrouck Heights is in Bergen County in North Jersey.

More Information Links:

Borough of Hasbrouck Heights page 

 Hasbrouck Heights community page

Anthony Liguori  website

Bill Turner & Blue Smoke Band on Myspace

Cliffhanger Productions [producer of the event]

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Folk Music

The Folk Project will hold its first full weekend festival on May14th through the 16th for their Spring Festival at their new facility at Star Lake Camp in Bloomingdale, New Jersey. The festival will feature live performances, dances, round-robin singalongs, workshops, skits, canoeing and more. For more information, visit the Folk Project Website by clicking here.

Folk Project Spring Festival
Star Lake Camp
Bloomingdale, NJ 07403

The picture used for this event is from the Library of Congress Collection posted on Flickr. Get more information on the photo here. The photo was taken by Lee Russel in 1939 or 1940 at a square dance in McIntosh County, Oklahoma.