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Old Lyme Midsummer Festival
July 25 - July 26
Free
Old Lyme’s Midsummer Festival celebrates the town’s artistic heritage with two days of festivities on July 25th and 26th!
It starts Friday night, July 25th with an outdoor concert featuring the Mighty Soul Drivers from 7-9pm. Bring your chairs or blanket and get ready for this favorite party and dance band. Bring a picnic or enjoy food vendor fare.
Then on Saturday, July 26th enjoy town-wide activities, starting with a mid-summer run at 8am. Don’t miss the Lion’s Club annual Classic Car Show celebrating the classics, the antiques, and the exotic. Register your dog to compete in the Parading Paws Dog Show. Throughout the day enjoy art exhibitions and sales, food trucks, musical performances, nonprofit organization fairs, artisan fairs, book signings, talks, and sales, and hands-on kids’ activities.
End the day with town-sponsored fireworks! The Old Lyme Town Band will start playing at 7:30PM on the field between the Old Lyme Middle School and Old Lyme High School, and the fireworks will begin shortly after 9PM. A shuttle bus will run, starting at 7PM, from the Old Lyme Marketplace parking lot (by The Bowerbird) to the Lyme-Old Lyme High School Bus Lane, and back shortly after the conclusion of the fireworks. Their last run will be at 10:15PM from the school campus.
Rain Postponement date for the fireworks is Sunday July 27th if necessary and would be announced by Saturday morning.
Old Lyme’s Midsummer Festival is produced by the Old Lyme Arts District.
