Music:
Ricky Martin shakes his Bon Bon at Mohegan Sun Arena Sunday at 7:30pm. Tickets are $65-$1553! www.mohegansun.com
Bat Out of Helloween: Celebrating Meatloaf and Rocky Horror is tonight 8:00 in the Premier Theater at Foxwoods. This is Meatloaf’s Band performing in a new and imaginative show! Tickets are $39-$94. www.foxwoods.com
Postmodern Jukebox — the internationally acclaimed music collective famed for their signature time-twisting style, transforming some of our most loved songs into dazzling vintage masterpieces play Infinity Hall in Hartford Sunday at 8pm. Tickets are $100-$176. www.infinityhall.com
Fairs:
The Connecticut Renaissance Faire is every Saturday and Sunday through October 25th at the Lebanon Fair Grounds, 122 Mack Rd. See Knights in armor Joust live! Enjoy live entertainment on twelve stages, plus food, pubs, games, and over 200 vendors. Each weekend is a different theme. This weekend the theme is the always spooky All Hallows! www.ctfaire.com
Glastonbury brings the apples this weekend with their Apple Harvest Festival today 5-10pm, Saturday 10am to 10pm and Sunday 11am to 5pm. Enjoy tasty treats, carnival rides, live music and more! https://www.crvappleharvestandmusicfestival.com/
The 22nd Annual Pumpkin Festival is Saturday 4 to 8pm on the Prospect Town Green. Vendors, Food, Games, Pumpkins, a Hay Bale Rolling Contest and a Parade! www.townofprospect.gov/pumpkin-festival/
Events:
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Join Mike and Mary at Kloter Farms in Ellington Saturday 11am to 1pm. You can see the Hartford Healthcare Cancer Institute Mobile Mammography Van… help us with your donations to provide mammograms to women in need and pick up prizes too!
Nite of Lite Laughter Alumni, Kathleen Madigan brings her Flying Cats and Marching Armadillos Tour to the Great Cedar Showroom at Foxwoods Saturday at 7pm. Tickets are sold out but check back for late releases. www.foxwoods.com
The 90’s were a heck of a time. You can relive them this weekend at the CT Convention Center with 90’s Con! All things pop culture with a nineties flare. Autographs, lectures, photo ops and memories. Friday Admission is $58.50 Adults and $16.35 Children. Saturday or Sunday Adults are $85.13 and $26.70 Children. A weekend VIP Pass is also available for $176.10. www.ctconventions.com
If Halloween is your favorite time of year, it's time for the inaugural New England Halloween Fest Saturday 10am to 8pm and Sunday 10am to 5pm in Mohegan Sun's Expo Center. 145,000 square feet of spooky fun including an indoor Salem. General Admission tickets are $35/$40. VIP more and includes the Saturday Monster Mash Party. www.mohegansun.com
Zion Lutheran Church in Wallingford is having its Annual Scarecrow Fest, 235 Pond Hill Road Saturday from 10am to 3pm. Build your own Scarecrow, 40 craft vendors, Bounce House & kids Games, Live Music all day, Big Hayride, bake table and more! Proceeds benefitting Fostering Family Hope - a Wallingford non-profit that provides essentials and counseling to foster families.
Join the Spirits and Strays Fundraiser with Fetching Hearts Rescue and Medium, Psychic and Ghost hunter Lisa Lanno Saturday, October 17th 3-5pm at the Moose Lodge in Enfield. Doors open at 2:15pm. Tickets are $40. For more info, LisaLanno777@gmail.com
Celebrate the 60th anniversary of the “Witch’s Dungeon Classic Movie Museum” - many more figures and sets have been added this year… Including a very rare figure of King Kong created by the original 1933 sculptor of Kong, Marcel Delgado, just recently restored! Plus a life-size figure of “Ming the merciless“ from the original “Flash Gordon“ , the original ET from the film,- and so much more! Open every weekend all year round – Fridays 6 PM to 9 PM Saturday and Sunday 3 PM to 9 PM – $15 for adults – $5 for kids under 12 - located at 103 E. Main St. in Plainville CT. - 860-817-6095 – website www.preservehollywood.org – fun for the entire family!
Sunday at 1 and 4pm it’s Hocus Pocus LIVE at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts on the UConn campus in Storrs. Tickets are $35 Adults and $25 for Kids. www.jorgensen.uconn.edu
It’s the Rocky Horror Picture Show Original Cast Spooktacular with Barry Bostwick (Brad Majors) from the film and a LIVE shadow cast tonight 8:00 at the Palace Theater in Waterbury! Tickets are $35-$165. www.palacetheaterct.org
The 32nd Annual Holly Boutique Craft Fair is today 9am to 6pm and Saturday 9am to 3pm at the North Canton Community United Methodist Church, 3 Case Street. Wonderful crafts from more that 25 artisans just in time for the Holidays. Cash and Check only (No CC) Free Admission.
The push for the playoffs is on! Catch Hartford Athletic vs Brooklyn FC Saturday 7p at Trinity Health Stadium with post-game fireworks! www.hartfordathletic.com
As heard and seen on Mike and Mary, Jason Bird brings his Parlor of Impossibilites to The Delamar in West Hartford for close-up magic and mind reading in an intimate setting Sunday at 4pm and 7pm. Tickets are limited! www.parlorofimpossibilites.com
Dracula plays Hartford Stage and runs through November 1st. This bold new reimagining of Dracula delivers psychological suspense, gothic horror, and edge-of-your-seat tension just in time for the Halloween season at Hartford Stage. Tickets are $35-$120. www.hartfordstage.org or 860-527-5151
Tony Award Nominee Little Bear Ridge Road continues at Theaterworks Hartford now through November 8th. Set on the remote edge of a small Idaho town, this gripping new play reunites a razor-tongued aunt and her long-estranged nephew, when circumstances suddenly force them back into each other’s lives. With a crumbling house to sell and years of unresolved history between them, sparks fly, tempers flare, and buried wounds resurface. Bitingly funny and quietly explosive, Little Bear Ridge Road explores the complicated, deeply human urge to reach across the void that separates us, even when doing so threatens to break us open. Tickets are $25 - $70. www.twhartford.org or 860.527.7838.
The Snow Goose finishes it’s flight Sunday at Good Speed Opera House in East Haddam. Tickets at www.goodspeed.org or 860-873-8668.
Petals & Paws, Canton Creamery and P&P Power Sports are hosting an Open House this Friday–Sunday at 465 Albany Turnpike in Canton. There will be Build-A-Witch activities and a contest, homemade ice cream, equipment specials, camp fire, and free hot dogs, soda, and water for lunch each day.
The Corn Maze is open daily. The Twilight Hard Cider Maze is also tonight at 5pm at Lyman Orchards in Middlefield! www.lymanorchards.com
Phantom Fallfest has begun at Lake Compounce Saturday and continues weekends through November 1st in Bristol and celebrates its historic 180th year. Lots of scares including haunted attractions! www.lakecompounce.com
Frightfest is bringing scares to Six Flags New England weekends through November 1st. www.sixflags.com/ne
The Wallingford Garden Market runs every Saturday from 10am to 1pm at Doolittle Park, 78 South Main St. Wallingford. 3 Farmers - About 35 Vendors! Be sure to stop by for your produce, drinks, crafts and so much more!
The Newington Kiwanis Big K Flea Market in Market Square in Newington Sunday starting at 8am. It runs every Sunday till October 25th and features local vendors, crafters, food trucks and more!
Get ready to zip, climb and fly through the trees at The Adventure Park at Storrs, 2007 Storrs Road. Tickets are $47. Regular Hours Friday 3-8pm, Saturday 10am-8pm and Sunday 10am-6pm. www.myadventurepark.com
Take a ride on the Bushnell Park Carousel open for the season Fridays 1–8PM, Saturdays & Sundays Noon to 5PM.
Celebrate Fall at Miniature Golf and Ice Cream Parlor, 1048 Farmington Ave, Route 4! Family fun with a beautifully maintained course and the best ice cream around! Monday through Thursday 11am to 8:30pm, Friday and Saturday 10am to 9:00pm and Sunday 10am to 8:30pm. www.farmingtonminiaturegolf.com or 860-677-0118.
Meet Mike and Mary at Kloter Farms, Halloween and Theater too!
Meet Mike and Mary at Kloter Farms, Halloween and Theater too!
