Farmers Market to Host Old Fashioned Independence Day Celebration

A“Good Old Fashion Independence Day Celebration” will be held on Saturday June 30th at the Ellington Farmers Market from 9-12 in Arbor Park. Kids can make a patriotic hat and join the Patriotic Hat Parade at 10:30 courtesy of Rise Above, an Ellington student leadership group who will also be providing face painting and a variety of free games and kids activities. Connecticut’s Bristol Old Time Fiddlers club will be providing the live musical entertainment.

Bring a chair to relax under the trees to enjoy the foot stompin' music of CT Bristol Old Tyme Fiddlers, a perfect match for a Good Old Fashioned Independence Day celebration. The club's mission is to preserve and promote the art of the old time fiddling that has been passed down from generation to generation by ear. Along with fiddles, the club includes instruments such as mandolin, guitar, bass, banjo, spoons, washtub, piano, button-box, harmonica, accordion, bones, jaw’s harp and wood block percussion instruments. 40 vendors will be on hand with a wide variety of local farm products, baked goods specialty foods and artisan wares.