News Brief: Celebrating 30 Years with CT Folk Fest & Green Expo

The CT Folk Fest & Green Expo returns for its 30th year in New Haven’s Edgerton Park on September 9 from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. (gates open at 10:45 a.m.). CT Folk engages, entertains and inspires through diverse folk music, while helping to foster a socially just and environmentally sustainable community.

There will be live music all day on two stages plus a Green Expo highlighting over 50 artisans and nonprofits, a Green New Haven Workshop Tent offering workshops and community resources, and multiple Connecticut food trucks. The Green Kids Village offers families workshops, eco-art projects, drum circles, magic shows, yoga, hula hooping and more.

Musicians include Southern Avenue, Maria Muldaur, Dom Flemons, Lara Herscovitch, Beppe Gambetta, The Barefoot Movement, Lizzie No, Sun Queen, Jeiris Cook, The Bargain, Afro-Semitic Experience and Isabella Mendes.

The suggested donation is $20. The CT Folk Festival and Green Expo is located at Edgerton Park at 75 Cliff Street in New Haven, Conn. There are two entrances on Cliff Street and one entrance on Edgehill Road. No parking is allowed in the park. There is on-street parking adjacent to the park, along Whitney Avenue, and in the neighborhoods both east and west of Whitney Avenue. Additional off-Site parking is available at Hamden Hall Day School. Handicapped parking will be allocated among the street parking.