Apple Harvest Festival Kicks Off Second Weekend
- Philip Thibodeau
- Oct 10
- 2 min read
Friday evening at 5pm the streets of downtown Southington will be closed to traffic once again as thousands of visitors flock to the Apple Harvest Festival's many attractions.
The second weekend of the festival will see ten different acts take to the main stage over the course of three days. On Friday night, the Yale a capella group Mixed Company will perform for one hour starting at 5:15. They will be followed at 7:30 by Charley T, a Nashville-based artist originally from Connecticut whose songs mix together rock and soul.
On Saturday afternoon the stage will feature three different dance acts: local studio Dance City & The Arts at noon, which performs in a variety of styles, Irish dancers from the Shamrock School at 1pm, and finally a hip hop-style show put on by the Cheshire-based studio The LAB at 3pm. On Saturday night a Beatles tribute band, Studio Two, will be performing starting at 6:30.
Finally, on Sunday there will be a martial-arts performance by Southington's Valentin Martial Arts school at noon, a Fritter Eating contest at 1pm, and a dance party hosted by DJ Greg at 3pm.
Sunday morning there will also be a 'Road Rally' - a kind of car-based treasure hunt that involves participants driving around town to find and photograph select local features. Pre-registration is required for this event - call (860) 637-0010.
The following selection of scenes from the festival was taken by Outsider photographer John McDonald last Saturday:
For more photography by CT Drone Source, see this link.