52nd Annual Strawberry Festival, Craft and Fine Art Show

Get ready because the quintessential New England church fair is coming soon! Since 1972, the Monroe Congregational Church has celebrated an Annual Strawberry Festival on the Monroe, CT Center Green on Father’s Day Weekend. Join us for an old-fashioned church festival with modern twists that your entire family will love! Sample our homemade strawberry-flavored items, including jams, pies, smoothies and shortcakes. Walk the green and visit over 100 juried crafters of handmade items, enjoy the live entertainment, eat in our food tent, tire the kids out with a bounce house, children’s games and face painting, and so much more! Hours are 10am-5pm Saturday and 12pm-5pm Sunday.

Joining the Saturday, June 15^th entertainment lineup is country band Gunsmoke from 11-1 “7 albums, 29yrs playing together, 1 family” (www.gunsmokeband.com). At 1:30, the Stratford Community Concert Band will be playing jazz and swing music with their 35 piece ensemble (www.stratfordccband.org/). On Sunday, June 16^th, the Award-Winning Silver Steel Band will play from 1-3. Come enjoy your favorite Caribbean favorites as well as Soca and Calypso styled music from Trinidad and Tobago. Based in Bridgeport, directed by Jim Royle of Jim Royle Drum Studios and entering their 13th year together, Silver Steel delights audiences with infectious rhythms resulting in spontaneous dancing, uncontrollable joy, and perpetual smiles wherever they play! (www.silversteelband.com)