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Preview of Coming Attractions
There will be lots of excitement Friday night when for the first time ever PDP Productions will bring to the Heath Fair a Battle of the Bands. Come hear several young bands strut their stuff and vie for first place under the Heath Fair Music Tent. Down at the show ring, John Miller of Goat Rising Farm in Charlemont, is organizing the first ever Goat Show, complete with Goat Cheese Tasting where you can sample some of the areas fine products. The Antique Tractor Pull will be back by popular demand and we’ll start off the evening with the first ever Antique Tractor Parade.
As always, there will be a Pony Pull (Friday night) and Horse Pull (Saturday) and an Ox Pull (Sunday). New this year will be a Truck Pull on Saturday at 5:00PM. We’d like to have a Kids Pedal Tractor Pull on Saturday morning. If you have a pedal tractor in good working condition that we could borrow for the event, call Pam Porter at 337-5525.
We are reviving an old Heath Fair tradition this year by adding a speakers tent. In keeping with our Fair theme, Local Harvest, Annie Cheatam, retired Executive Director of Community Involved in Sustainable Agriculture (CISA), will speak on buying local all year around. Bob Barkley, Heath apple grower, will share what he has learned about choosing, growing, pruning and maintaining apple trees in our hill town climate. Tom Ricardi will be at the Fair on Sunday afternoon to bring us his up close and personal introduction to local birds of prey. Kevin Fox is returning with his popular demonstration of hand sheep sheering and ferrier, Randy Hemminger also returns with his demonstration of horse shoeing.
Heath Fair Music will just deep coming all weekend long. After the Battle of the Bands on Friday, Heath’s honey-voiced Karen Brooks leads off on Saturday morning. Saturday afternoon includes Northern Lights and The Dave Sammarco Band. Saturday night you can join Doug Wilkins and the Country Friendship Band for square dancing down at the barn, (Heath’s tribal dance), or opt for Dixieland energy with Primate Fiasco under the music tent. Or enjoy a bit of both! On Sunday the phenomenal Zoe Darrow and the Fiddle Heads return to the Fair with their wild Celtic rhythms. In addition there will be barber shop harmonies and rumor has it Morris Dancers may show up to dance down the midway.
We are grateful to the Cultural Councils of Ashfield, Buckland Charlemont, Colrain, Hawley, Heath, Rowe and Shelburne and our many music underwriters for helping to make Heath Fair Music possible.
And That Ain’t All! Of course, along with the many new attractions, you can expect to enjoy many of our beloved stand bys;
· Kid’s Games, Saturday and Sunday, expanded this year with some competitions of strength and agility for grown ups,
· Fire works on Saturday night,
· The Heath Fair Parade, Sunday at 1PM. The theme is Local Harvest.
· Sheep, Poultry, Rabbit and Cattle shows. The Adult Cattle judging is being brought back after a year’s hiatus.
New speakers and attractions are still being added so stay tuned.
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