Great Pumpkin Festival

Sunday, October 12^th 2008
= ESPECIALLY GREAT FOR KIDS CHL = Community House Lawn
*Oval Stage Sponsor*	Community House Lawn Sponsors

All Weekend

Pumpkin Trail

Pumpkin Trail is the Mayflower Hill Town Forest Trail.
Directions: Rt. 13 (Mont Vernon St.). Turn Right on to Myrtle St. Left onto Adams St. then next right on to Shady Lane. The "Mayflower Hill Town Forest" sign will be at the end of Shady Lane., on the left side of the road. You will also see the Trail Head parking sign and dirt road.

Presented by the Milford Middle School Enrichment Program

8 am - Noon
Town Hall Banquet Room

Malted Belgian Waffle Breakfast

Join friends & neighbors for a great way start to the day! Waffles, topping, coffee, tea, juice & milk. Admission: $6 adults, $3.50 children

9am

5K & 10K Road Race— start at the high school. Benefits the track fund. For more information, visit www.milfordtrackandfield.org

10 am - 4 pm
Milford Fire Station

Fire Station Open House and Demonstrations
Ambulance Department Open House (Middle Street)

10 am - 4 pm
Town Hall Auditorium & Middle Street

Arts & Crafts Show
Artisans from all over New England exhibiting & selling their hand crafted items.

10 am - 4 pm
Community House Lawn

Kids Activities

Pumpkin Painting ($5)
Face Painting ($1)
Scarecrow Making ($15)
All the makings for a fun time & your very own scarecrow creation. Family Fun! Sponsored by Contemporary Chrysler Dodge. www.contemporarychryslerdodge.com
And many other fun activities!!

Sponsors

10 am - 4 pm

Food Sales, Middle Street
Assorted pies & goodies, refreshments. Flavored coffees from A&E Coffee.
Pumpkin Sales , Oval

Pumpkin Boutique, Oval
Unique assortment of pumpkin/fall items for sale & Pumpkin Festival
Sweatshirts - all new design!

10am - 2pm

Pumpkin Catapult

Try your hand at catapulting pumpkins at scarecrow targets, thanks to Dollars for Scholars.

10 am
Oval Stage

Seamus Conley and Shea Vacarro
play a variety of guitar covers and originals from the rock, blues and jazz traditions. Students at the High Mowing School in Wilton, they have been playing music together for three years as a duo and as part of the Gentlemen of Leisure band, which competed in Berkeley College of Music's battle of the bands in 2007. They are available for private parties and functions,
672-1744.

10am
Community House Lawn

The Sinfonietta

Classical Music Ensemble

11am
Oval Stage

Harvey's Music Musicians

11am

Community House Lawn

Music Together
Music Together of Milford & Greater Manchester, the program for early childhood music and movement, directed by Amy Conley, M.Ed. Songs and dances for children, especially ages birth to six. Guitar/banjo and special guests. www.musictogetherofmilford.com

12 Noon

Community House Lawn =

Steve Blunt

Original Music for Children

12 Noon

Pumpkin Pie Contest

Enter to win
1st Prize - $75 2nd Prize - $50 3rd Prize - $25

Come enjoy pumpkin pie - see who makes the best!

Entry Form

12 - 3pm
Library Lawn
Nashua Street

Dunk Tank
to benefit the Milford Police Benevolent Association
Try your luck at dunking members of Milford's Police Force

12 pm
Oval Stage

Rob Oxford

With his guitar in hand, Rob is a performer of grass roots music whose unique and powerful rich bass voice provides an undeniable passion and substance to even the most sentimental ballads.

http://www.roboxford.com/

1pm
52 Federal Hill Road, Milford

OktoberFest at the Mile Away Restaurant

Stop in at the Mile Away Restaurant and enjoy German Oompah music under the garden tent, delicious food, and Oktoberfest beers, wine and soda.

1 pm Community House Lawn

Fuzzy Logic

Esoteric Septet

1 pm
Oval Stage

Nate Smith

Cutting new stuff from the old folk scene cloth for many years, Nate has come up with some funny and some not-so-funny viewing angles on life today. There's a bit of old-timey banjo, some straightforward harmonica and, of course, plenty of good old familiar acoustic guitar.

email Nate

2 pm
Oval Stage

Random Acts of Harmony
performs throughout New England for large and small audiences who enjoy listening to and singing along with familiar folk tunes sung in three part harmony with acoustic guitar and stand up bass accompaniment. Rob, Dick, and Peter, from Exeter and Peterborough, New Hampshire make up the trio. They each have long musical histories. Over the years they have played and sung in groups that opened for the Beach Boys, The Lettermen, and Pete Seeger.

2 pm
CHL Stage = ESPECIAL

LY FOR

Rakes of the Milford Area
Celtic jigs, aires and reels!

The "Rakes of the Milford Area" are a group of local musicians who play Celtic, French-Canadian, NE contra dance and American Old Timey music. The "Rakes" have performed for the past several years at the PLUS Company's "Wild Irish Breakfast" and the Milford K of C's "Corned Beef and Cabbage Dinner." The "Rakes" meet at 7 p.m. at Foodee's (home of the best pizza!) on the first Wednesday of every month for a "seissun" which attracts listeners as well as musicians to join in a tune. Contact information: Seissun "Mum" is Sandy Lafleur: strumma@aol.com

3 pm

Oval Stage

Indie Music Musicians

3 pm
CHL Stage = ESPECIAL

LY FOR

River Bend Youth Company
Performing Theatre Troupe

From the era that brought the world The Rubik's Cube, Max Headroom and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comes this "totally awesome" performance in the style of movies such as Back To The Future, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Karate Kid and The Wedding Singer. Join the Riverbend Youth Company as they perform a selection that will bring you Back to the 80's!

www.svbgc.org

4:30 pm
The Oval

Drawing for the Sunday 50/50 Raffle

5 pm

Festival Closes
Thanks for visiting! See you next year!