Annual Milford Oyster Festival Arrives This Saturday

The 41st Annual Milford Oyster festival will be held, rain or shine, on Saturday, Aug. 15, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Each year the immensely popular event attracts more than 50,000 people to downtown Milford.

The Oyster Festival will feature a triple bill of national acts, for the first time ever, which includes headliner Gin Blossoms, as well as Fastball and The Rembrandts. All will perform on the Festival’s Main Stage.

In addition to the music, the free admission event includes the Fowler Field Children’s Stage, the Lisman Landing Harbor Stage and Festival Car Show, Armory Square Big Toys, 200 Arts and Crafts vendors on the green, amusement rides, canoe & kayak race, and more than 30,000 oysters from the East Coast Shellfish Growers Association, according to a press release.

A map of the event is located above in a photo courtesy of the Milford Oyster Festival website.

The 35,000 oysters and clams, along with other varieties of foods and beverages, are available in two different locations at the event: Fowler Field, which is directly behind the library, and at Lisman Landing Harbor Stage, according to the event’s website. There will be 19 varieties of oysters coming from 8 states along the east coast.

“Several varieties of oysters will be sold at the Festival, representing some of the most prominent oyster growers on the east coast,” the event’s website says. “Eat one or eat a coupla’ dozen. Enjoy oysters both salty and sweet, grown from Maine to Virginia.”

Many of the oyster growers will be present at the Festival, according to the event’s website.

Oyster Eve 2015, a pre-festival tradition, will be held at the Lisman Landing and Downtown Shops on Friday from 6 to 10 p.m.

For more information please visit the Festival website at www.milfordoysterfestival.com.

Photo via the Milford Oyster Festival website.