| Lake Erie Arboretum at Frontier Park |
| 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. |
LEAF Festival
Bring your family to the Lake Erie Arboretum at Frontier Park for LEAF's Annual Day of Family Fun and Environmental Learning. Special events are planned for everyone - children's games and crafts; hands-on demonstrations; Musical performances; a rubber duck race in Cascade Creek; and antique truck rides. More information can be found at www.leaferie.org. |
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| Liberty Park, Main Stage |
| Noon |
The Erie Philharmonic's Open Rehearsal
Take a sneak peak at how Daniel Meyer and the Erie Philharmonic prepare for a concert.
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| 3:00 p.m. |
Erie's Heritage Festival officially begins
The Spirituals: Then & Then & Then and Now
Charles Kennedy, Jr. and friends will present a musical history of the Spirituals. He'll start with African drumming featuring students from Pfeiffer-Burleigh School. He'll then follow the Spirituals as they moved from the fields to church to the concert hall and end the program with explorations of Spirituals in Hip-Hop and Jazz! He'll be joined by an ensemble of musicians and singers featuring Stan Bialomizy on woodwinds.
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| 4:00 p.m. |
The Dixie Doodlers
The Dixie Doodlers have believe that the Dixieland brand of jazz, born in New Orleans in the early years of the 20th century and revived by bands all over the country at mid-century, has timeless appeal—and after 53 years, they should know. The band started in Meadville and its members hail from Oil City, Erie, Corry, and Bradford, and most of them are retired teachers. Personnel include Doug Dinberg on sax and clarinet, John Kytic on piano, Bill Beggs on drums), Bill Reese on tuba and banjo. Don Haener, an Erieite and a 22-year veteran of the group, is the band leader and plays trumpet.
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| 5:00 p.m. |
The United States Coast Guard Academy Glee Club
The United States Coast Guard Academy Cadet Glee Club is a select group of men and women chosen from the Corps of Cadets by audition. This group specializes in the performance of patriotic music and songs of the sea. The Glee Club's director and musical arranger is Dr. Robert G. Newton, Director of Cadet Vocal Music at the United States Coast Guard Academy.
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| 6:00 p.m. |
The Zem Zem Drum and Bugle Corp
An Erie's Heritage Festival tradition is to open with the 'Kilties' – a Drum and Bugle Corp that entertains and raises awareness of Erie's Shriners Hospital for Children. The Zem Zem's formed as a service organization here on the shores of lake Erie in 1890. The unit's kilts (everyone asks about the kilts) were originally a simple red flannel, but today the uniform best emulates the Scottish Highlanders Royal Stewart Tartan
Mister McFeely from Mister Rogers Neighborhood officially opens Erie's 2007 Heritage Festival
Erie's Heritage Festival has always been about creating community – a big one-day neighborhood on the spot where all of our neighborhoods can trace their roots. Who knows more about neighborhoods then everyone's favorite letter carrier.
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| 7:00 p.m. |
Presentation of Daniel Meyer by Lou Porreco
Hint. Look to the water and pray that Daniel can swim.
The Erie Philharmonic's 2007 Pops Concert on the Bay
Daniel Meyer "will strike up the band" as the new music director of the Erie Philharmonic.
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| 9:00 p.m |
Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture
(and just in case you find yourself playing Jeopardy and Alex Trebek asks for the full title of the '1812' – it's "The Year 1812" in E flat major, Op. 49; French: Ouverture solennelle 1812)
The overture commemorates the unsuccessful French invasion into Russia, and the subsequent withdrawal that devastated Napoleon's Grande Armée, an event that marked 1812 as the major turning point of the Napoleonic Wars. Here in Erie we do it right with cannons, howitzers and fireworks. The '1812' is followed by Stars and Stripes Forever.
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| Liberty Park, Maritime Heritage Tent |
| 12:00-6:00 p.m. |
Sail making, knot-tying, boat-building demonstrations. Presented by Erie Maritime Museum & Bayfront Center for Maritime Studies |
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| Liberty Park, Art Heritage Tent |
| 12:00-6:00 p.m. |
Ethnic & maritime artists marketplace. Presented by Erie Art Museum Folk Arts Program |
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| Liberty Park, Eat, Drink & Be Maritime |
| 11:00 a.m.-9:30 p.m. |
Local food vendors:
Chuckles from the Flamingo Motel
Connie's Ice Cream
Cowboy Kettle Popcorn
The Pita Place
Pufferbellies
Saint Patrick's Church Fish Fry
Tri Nguyen's
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