Cedar Valley Settlers Celebration & Music Festival
Sunday, September 21
11 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Frostville Museum & Rocky River Nature Center
Rocky River Reservation • North Olmsted
Free!
CONGRATULATIONS!
It’s Official. Cleveland Metroparks received the official certificate honoring Cleveland Metroparks Cedar Valley Settlers Celebration & Music Festival for BREAKING the Guinness Book of World Records Largest Harmonica Play-Along. On September 23, 2007, 1,882 visitors attended the event to help us break the record by 176 harmonica players. Thanks and congratulations to all that help participate.
And, join Cleveland Metroparks as we go for another record in 2008. Join us at 4:15 p.m. to help try and break the Guinness Book of World Records largest Kazoo Play-Along.
Celebrate Ohio’s yesteryear and hear great Americana music at Cleveland Metroparks annual fall event – the “Cedar Valley Settlers Celebration & Music Festival.”
Visitors can relive the sights, sounds, tastes and smells of Ohio's frontier days with a cornucopia of pioneer crafts and life skills, storytelling, toe-tapping music and food sampling along the connecting trail between Rocky River Nature Center and Frostville Museum to explore a cornucopia of old-fashioned crafts, food, and hands-on activities for all ages.
Try a variety of pioneer skills and activities, including: candlestick dipping, basket weaving, playing with pioneer toys, rug weaving, Dutch oven cooking, butter churning, working the two-man saw, and more! Sample a potpourri of traditional foods, such as fire–roasted turkey, biscuits with freshly-churned butter, apple cider, apple butter, and more.
Pioneer–costumed folks and storytellers will also be on hand to share stories from a by-gone era. A mini-encampment of a pioneer excursion camp is also a part of the festivities.
Enjoy great entertainment with live musical performances, storytelling and square and contra dancing.
Cleveland Metroparks is proud to announce the two featured bands – The Farewell Drifters and The Biscuit Burners.
Taking the main stage at 2:30 p.m. “The Farewell Drifters.” Closing the afternoon on the main stage at 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. is one of the premier up and coming bands “The Biscuit Burners.”
From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. , visitors can listen to a great array of live entertainment from the Main Stage at Frostville Museum to Rocky River Nature Center’s Trailside Amphitheater Stage to strolling musicians, all with toe-tapping music such as blue grass, square and contra dance music, acoustic folk music, and more! Visitors can enjoy a dance tent and storytelling tent - plus, instrument-builders and ‘how-to-play’ areas will also be set-up on the grounds for visitors to discover, including a mini-seminar on harmonica playing.
The Farewell Drifters
Biscuit Burners
Frostville Stage
12 - 12:45 p.m.
Turn the Corner
1 - 2 p.m.
Rhondas
2:30 - 4 p.m.
The Farewell Drifters
4 - 4:15 p.m.
Kazoo Workshop
4:15 - 4:30 p.m.
Kazoo Play-along World Record Attempt
4:30 - 6 p.m.
The Biscuit Burners
RRNC Amphitheater Stage
12 - 12:45 p.m.
Glen & Friends
1 - 1:45 p.m.
Dan Best
2 - 2:45 p.m.
Turn the Corner
3 - 3:34 p.m.
Rhondas
Girl Scouts will be selling:
Donuts $0.75
Apple Fritters $1
Apple Cider $0.50
Apples $0.50
