Jay & Molly at School St Bistro Music Hall

The School St Bistro and Westfield on Weekends are proud to present the outstanding duo, Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, to Westfield as the second presentation of the School St Bistro Downtown Music Hall Concert Series. The show will be held on October 17 at 7:00PM with dinner and drinks available before the show and during the show. Doors open at 6:00PM. Tickets are available beforehand for $20 and can be purchased at the School St Bistro or online at Tix.com by clicking here. Tickets will also be available at the door for $25 on a first come, first served basis.

For more information go to www.westfieldonweekends.org

34 Broad Street       413-572-6330

The Westfield Fire Department invites all to their annual Broad Street Station Open House. It will be held on Saturday, Sept 26 from 10AM until 2:00PM. Come see the inside of the station, the fire trucks up close and more! This is all happening at the same time as Colonial Harvest Day…so come downtown and have some fun!  For more info, contact the Westfield Fire Department.

18 Broad Street413-568-2833
The Sunday concert will feature chamber music by the Blue Door Trio: Amanda Burr, violin, Arthur Cook, Cello, and Deborah Gilwood, piano.
This will be an all-Beethoven program, a rare opportunity to hear some of his most powerful music. Concert begins at 4Pm hope you can join us!

29 South Broad Street           413-574-0414

The Amelia Park Children’s Museum presents their “Second Annual Touch a Truck Event” for all to enjoy. The evnt will be held on Saturday, Sept 12, from 11:00AM until 3:00PM. The event is free and all are encouraged to attend. For more information go to www.ameliaparkmuseum.org/

Hear Ye, Hear Ye!

The Sixth Annual WESTFIELD COLONIAL HARVEST DAY will take place on Saturday, September 26th in downtown Westfield on the North side of Court Street From the Athenaeum up to Lydia’s Gathering Place at 51 Court Street, Westfield. (Rain date: September 27th).
There will be arts and crafts dealers, live demonstrations by a variety of colonial craftspeople located at Lydia’s Gathering Place, colonial games and crafts for kids, a booth with information about the third annual Scarecrow Contest, a Revolutionary War encampment with colonial re-enactors, horse-drawn haywagon rides, pony rides for the kids, a Food Court featuring delicious food, home-baked pies, apple cider, hot dogs and hamburgers, hot soups, ice cream, Italian ice and more!
Back by popular demand, the Berkshire Brewing Company Beer Garden will be open for business across from the Performance Stage, where BBC will be pouring some of their delicious microbrews, including a Westfield Colonial Harvest Day brew that is sure to please! For detailed information go to http://www.westfieldonweekends.org/ .

The Downtown Planning Group for Westfield will make a presentation to the community at the Westfield Athenaeum on Tuesday, Sept 8 from 7:00PM until 8:00PM. All are welcome to attend. Over two thousand people responded to the Downtown planning survey…come hear what they had to say! Presentaion beginns at 7:00PM. There will be a period at the end for questions and comments from the audience. For a copy of the final report go to http://www.westfielddowntownplan.com/

The Farmer’s Market returns to the Westfield City Green every Thursday afternoon from 2:00PM until 6:30PM. With the summer in full swing, theres are veggies and fruits galore so come on down and check out what our local farmers and growers are up to this year.

Join us as we welcome our new additions…
…fresh, delicious organic products from Berkshire Mountain Bakery     …Sweet Pea Farm has added Goat’s Milk to her List of market favorites, goat cheese and yogurt!Speaking of additions we have Barnum & Buckley Farm offering up free samples of her newest offerings Goat Sausage!If all that wasn’t enough we have invited Chef Anthony to come and prepare some recipes and samples to our market goers, providing them with great ideas for eating healthy!

The Farmer’s Market is brought to you by the new Westfield Business District. For more info, go to the Westfield BID web site or call Lisa at 413-572-1260.

Celebrate the end of summer with the 6th annual Westfield Arts on the Green festival. Running all of Labor Day weekend on the Westfield City Green, the festival will feature the best of local art and music.
        Visit the Tea Pot Gallery website http://www.teapot-gallery.com/
for updates all summer long!

Applications for the 2009 Westfield Arts on the Green Festival are now available. To download the 2009 Vendor Application in pdf format, click here.

The  WESTFIELD GOOD OLD SUMMER TIMES events will take place all summer long on the Green in downtown Westfield and other locations around Westfield, including:

• vintage baseball games including the Lumberjack Classic at Bullens Field on Aug 8
• Thursday and Saturday Concerts on the Green
• fireworks at Stanley Park on July 3 along with Stanley Park’s summer long 60th Anniversary Celebration
• Summer Sounds 2009 Concerts on the Green every 2nd Thursday of the summer months at 7:30 pm
  
• Theatre Downtown at Piccolo’s with “A Walk in the Woods“ and more!
• the Big Band Concert/Dance Series at the Bistro’s Music Hall comes for the first time as a monthly series on the fourth Thursdays of the summer months!
• the 82nd annual Westfield Fair at the Fairgrounds and the 6th annual Westfield Arts on the Green on Labor Day weekend.
• the Farmer’s Market on the Green, every Thursday afternoon, 2 – 6:30 pm
• the Friday and Sunday shows at Stanley Park
• Musical Moments at Amelia Park every Tuesday evening at 6:30pm
• and the Athenaeum’s Wild Reads and First Thursdays events.

Come celebrate summer with WoW, the WBID and your neighbors along with some of the best entertainment in the Pioneer Valley! Things will be kicking off with the Make Space for Healthy Summer Fun Day on June 20, a great family event… we hope to see everyone there!