Weekend Picks: Outdoor Festivals
May 15, 2008
Festivals across the state this weekend, from big city to small town to the Shore.
The Everything Jersey City Festival is Saturday on Central Avenue in the Heights section of town. Three street stages will have music as diverse as the people of Jersey City: salsa, jazz fusion, Celtic rock, urban pop, classical Indian. Also kid-friendly rides, lots of food, plus arts and crafts exhibits.
That festival is the first annual. In Bordentown they are celebrating the 31st annual Street Fair along Farnsworth Ave. It’s two days, Saturday and Sunday, of crafters, food from the terrific local restaurants, music and fun for the kids like face painting. Local antique shops and boutiques will have displays all along the street.
A little further south on Rt. 130, another historic 17th century town on the Delaware is throwing a party: tomorrow Burlington is celebrating Burlington Day. Kids will find games, races, and rides along the riverside Promenade. For adults there’s an art show, quilt vendors, a trolley tour of landmarks on historic Wood St., plus live jazz and bluegrass. Everybody gets to munch up High Street enjoying A Taste of Burlington from local restaurants, bakeries and snack shops.
Cape May is having yet another busy weekend. Sunday is the first day of the 19th Annual Cape May Music Festival. From then until June 15 concert-goers can hear jazz, classical, ethnic folk, gospel. Also, just one week after the World Series of Birding, the National Audubon Society is sponsoring a Cape May Spring Weekend full of field trips and workshops for the bird-minded, Friday through Sunday.
Nature lovers, especially those who want their kids to grow up being nature lovers, can explore the Shore with Ocean Fun Days, sponsored by the New Jersey Marine Science Consortium. There will be student science fair projects and hands-on activities including fishing workshops, marine crafts and eco-tours to see bay and ocean environments, shorebirds and fish habitats. Two locations: Island Beach State Park on Saturday, and Sandy Hook on Sunday. Both run 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Finally, all you horse lovers will find seminars, demonstrations and more than 100 vendors of equine accouterments at the New Jersey HorseXpo, Saturday and Sunday, South County Park in Ringoes.
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