Come visit CLF at our MayFair booth this year, and partcipate in fun events and free concerts!
The 26th Annual MayFair in Harvard Square Schedule of Merriment!
Sunday, May 3rd 2009 from Noon until 6:00pm.
(Rain date - Sunday, May 17th 2009)
For Immediate Release: April 23, 2009. Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA.
The 26th Annual MayFair in Harvard Square features: CHESTER FRENCH LIVE from the Super Crosswalk; Grilling with the Pros; Beer Gardens; Chalk on the Walk; A Dance Stage; Roaming Railroad Train Rides; Hot Air Balloon Rides and at least one hundred thousand happy vendors and festival goers.
New Events this year:
- Grilling with the Pros featuring Linebacker Adalius Thomas and friends in a heated competition with Harvard Square's Pro Grill-Team Chefs!
- A Harvard Square Cut-A-thon featuring Harvard Square salons!
In addition to five stages of live music and dance, MayFair features over 200 artisans and merchants with colorful tents displaying handmade clothing, art, jewelry, and sidewalk sale items. MayFair is the ultimate "taste of" event, offering over 40 booths featuring international cuisine, festival favorites, delicious desserts and free samples!
Main Stage in the Super Crosswalk
12pm: Sarah RabDAU and Self-Employed Assassins http://www.myspace.com/sarahrabdau
1pm: Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys http://www.myspace.com/armyoftoys
2pm: Zili Misik http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=27259505
3pm: Jenny Dee and the Deelinquents http://www.myspace.com/jennydeemusic
4pm: The Luxury www.myspace.com/theluxury
5pm: CHESTER FRENCH www.chesterfrench.com
HOT AIR BALLOON RIDES - 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm, in the Cambridge Common. The RE/MAX Destiny will offer Hot Air Balloon rides to benefit the Cambridge Housing Assistance Fund. Cost is $10 Children and $20 for Adults. For more info:http://blog.insidedestiny.com/?p=54
SPRING HAIR CUT-A-THON!
Get a new spring 'do for $20 at the MayFair Cut-a-Thon where our very own Harvard Square award-winning salons: Plan B; Le Pli; Salon Bella Mar; and Floyd's Barber Shop have joined together to spring-up everyone's look with a new charitable 'do! All of the proceeds go to The Hoffman Breast Center at Mount Auburn Hospital. Anyone who wishes to donate long braids to Locks of Love with not have to pay entry fee!
GRILLING WITH THE PROS: Church Street Parking Lot
Grilling with the Pros featuring New England Linebacker Adalius Thomas' Pro Team in a heated competition with Harvard Square's Pro Chefs to benefit Mass Mentoring and Community Servings. Once inside the Grilling with the Pros enclosed Grid Iron, you are an intimate part of the intensely competitive cooking and eating action as each team Flips, Bastes, Smokes, and Batters it's "hottest" grilled creations.
On the Pro Football Grill Squad "Team Thomas," Captain Adalius Thomas and his friend Ty Warren and other Surprise Guests stand firm with Celebrity "Meat Coaches": Ron Savenor and Trey Goodwin from Boston's Famous Smokehouse and the Savenor pro-meat team.
The Chef Home Team is led by Paul O'Connell (Veteran of the Taste of the NFL and Chez Henri Owner and Chef) and features Chef Steven Brand, Chef Susan Regis, and Chef/Owner Deborah Hughes from UpStairs on the Square; Chef Michael Scelfo from Temple Bar; Chef Peter Davis from Henrietta's Table; Chef Dave Punch from Ten Tables and Krista Kranyak Owner of Ten Tables; and John Schall owner of Fire & Ice. Tickets are available at the HSBA office 617-491-3434 and on-site that day! Adults - $30, Kids under twelve (must be accompanied by and adult) $10! Times: 1pm-2:30 and 3:00pm-4:30!
Club Passim Stage on Brattle Street
12pm: TBA
1pm: - Chris O'Brien - www.chrisobrienmusic.com
2pm: Mieka Pauley - www.mieka.com
3pm: Anne Heaton - www.anneheaton.com
4pm: David Wax Museum - www.davidwaxmuseum.com
5pm: Margaret Glaspy - www.myspace.com/margaretglaspy
KIDS FESTIVAL on CHURCH STREET offering face painting, KIDS CHALK ZONE, Roaming Railroad Train rides, and Matchbox car racing.
CHALK ON THE WALK: Stroll Church Street when the entire block becomes a gallery of Chalk Art. Sponsored by the Cambridge Rotary and local businesses.last year's business sponsored artworks raised over $25,000 for local literacy programs!
http://www.cambridgerotary.org/2008PHOTOS.cfm
May Fair Dance Stage: Featuring over 20 Local Dance Groups produced and organized by Deborah Mason, Founder of the Cambridge Youth Dance Organization.
12:30pm - Rhumba tappers www.deborahmasonschoolofdance.com
12:35pm - Hard Knock Life www.deborahmasonschoolofdance.com
12:40 - Imagine www.cambridgeyouthdance.org
12:40 - Rockablilly Music www.cambridgeyouthdance.org
12:45- Country Boy www.cambridgeyouthdance.org
12:50 -Tap Suite www.cambridgeyouthdance.org
12:55 - Teen Hip Hop www.cambridgeyouthdance.org
1:00 - Youth Hip Hop www.cambridgeyouthdance.org
1:10 -- Snap2 www.myspace.com/snapp02
1:30 - Studio 3 Flamenco with Sabrina Aviles
1:45 - Polynesian Dancer Arts - www.polynesiandancearts.com
2:05 - Melissa Gendreau - Perceptions Contemporary Dance Company http://www.myspace.com/perceptionsdance
2:15 - Dancedge www.myspace.com/danceedgeboston
2:30 - Cambridge Rindge & Latin Dance Company
2:45 - Melanie Smithers - Derrick Davis Dancers
3:00 - Dance'n Feet
3:15 - Kate Nies
3:30 -IMAGINE - www.cambridgeyouthdance.org
3:35- Tap Suite www.cambridgeyouthdance.org
3:40 - Country Boy www.cambridgeyouthdance.org
3:45 - Teen Hip Hop www.cambridgeyouthdance.org
3:50 - Youth Hip Hop www.cambridgeyouthdance.org
4:00 - Stonehill College Dance Co
4:15 - Triveni Indian Classical Dance www.trivenidance.org
4:30pm - Anna Mayta Ruhe Modern Dance Fusion
4:45 - Jamnastics www.jamnastics.org/
5:00 Peggy Wacks - Dance'n Feet
5:15pm - Sue Eaton - Improv www.sueaton.com
5:30-discobrats www.honeyblonderdance.com
BANDFEST- Holyoke Center Outdoor Stage/ Forbes Plaza (an Art's First Stage!)
12: 00 - 12: 20pm Disband
12:30 - 12:50 pm Ben Kultgen http://www.myspace.com/thebenkultgenband
1:00 - 1:20 pm Straight Communist
1:30 - 1:50 pm Stealth Foxx http://www.myspace.com/stealthfoxx
2:00 - 2:20 pm Chas Gillespie
2:30 - 2:50 pm Dan Masterson
3:00 - 3:20 pm Retroactives
3:30 - 3:50 pm Start, Go! http://www.myspace.com/startgomusic
4:00 - 4:20 pm RecKlez http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/recklez/
4:30 - 4:50 pm Clint Miller Band
5:00 - 5:20 pm The Truth
5:30 - 5:50 pm Kelsey Quigley and Jesse Soursourian www.kelseyquigley.com/index.php?page=homepage
BUSKERS FESTIVAL STAGE! Location TBA
MayFair is Sponsored by: Dunkin Donut's, Sam Adams, Nantucket Nectars, Corona Beer, Re-Max Destiny, Jet Blue, Boston's Weekly Dig, Yelp, Newbury Comics, WZLX, Renewal by Anderson, Owens Corning, Boston Event Specialists, Zipcar, Grafton Street, The Border Cafe, Café of India, Savenor's, The Irving House, Sonic Bids, Pilgrim Parking, and the Harvard Square Business Association.
MayFair is free and open to the public!
For more info: (617) 491-3434 www.harvardsquare.com
Pictures Available upon request!
http://www.harvardsquare.com/Home/Slideshows/MayFair-2007.aspx
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