The three-day Celebrate Fairfax, coming up June 9-11, 2017, is already a great deal: when you buy your tickets (for one day or more) you get: A 25-acre playground of sorts for all ages with amazing concerts, family programs, carnival rides, community exhibits, and more More than 130 performances on eight stages, with an exceptional line-up of national, regional and local artists, including headliners Bush and Everclear with special Continue Reading...
Celebrate Fairfax brings back favorites, adds new features
By Patricia Hall, FairfaxFamilyFun.com It's almost here: Northern Virginia's largest community festival, a three-day celebration with an incredible amount of fun! The Celebrate Fairfax Festival, June 9-11, 2017, features dozens of concerts with local and celebrity bands, dancing and other live entertainment, kids' activities, unique fun, animals to pet and watch perform, nightly fireworks, and more. The event, celebrating its 36 year, takes Continue Reading...
Kennedy Center Open House celebrates JFK’s 100th birthday
By Patricia Hall, Fairfax Family Fun This coming Memorial Day Monday, May 29, President John F. Kennedy would have turned 100 years old. To celebrate him, his namesake concert venue is opening its doors to the community for a completely free and full day of fun. The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, is hosting an open house this Saturday, May 27, with a wide variety of performances inside and out. The event will feature live music, art, Continue Reading...
Summer fun: What’s new at Busch Gardens Williamsburg
By Patricia Hall, Fairfax Family Fun Memorial Day weekend is here! This means the unofficial start of summer, and with it, the opening of theme parks. While there are no theme parks right in Northern Virginia, there are some great ones just a short drive away, including the beautiful and world-class Busch Gardens Williamsburg. The award-winning park is always fun and with more to do in a day than there are enough hours. And still the park Continue Reading...
Tot Rock Fest & Del Ray Play Date = fun free day for kids
Grown-ups, you can keep your Coachella and other big festivals... young kids have a festival of their own, and this one -- with music, other live entertainment, and a good cause, and all free -- is right here at home! Local children's musicians Rainbow Rock have taken their annual Tot Rock Festival and joined others to host a community event that is all about local kids but also helps children in other places through music and more The free Continue Reading...
Light City Baltimore festival to set the Inner Harbor aglow
By Patricia Hall, FairfaxFamilyFun.com Baltimore always makes for fun trip. With so much to do, it's a great place for families to visit. Here you can enjoy numerous museums, historic spots, the Baltimore Aquarium, ship tours, and more. And now you have an added incentive: Light City Baltimore, a free nine-day free festival of light, music, and innovation, starting March 31, 2017. The festival, which made its debut in 2016, is the first Continue Reading...
Unwrap Christmas fun at ETAP Christmas Undercover show
By Patricia Hall, Fairfax Family Fun Another year, another great Christmas show by Encore Theatrical Arts Productions (ETAP): this past weekend we had a chance to see the latest production by this local group, and as always, the show did NOT disappoint! For 21 years now, ETAP has produced Broadway-style, high-energy shows that are so well done you almost forget this is a volunteer group starring mostly local students. These all-ages Continue Reading...
Follow your heart to Disney on Ice at EagleBank Arena
Love Disney characters and movies? Then "follow your heart" to EagleBank Arena October 19-23, 2016. That's when Disney On Ice presents Follow Your Heart, takes place! This year's tour of the hugely popular ice-skating spectacular features classic Disney friends along with characters from recent movies. As we mentioned in an earlier post, this production brings Disney•Pixar’s Inside Out to the show for the first time, together with princesses Continue Reading...
Sports and music: Washington Mystics have a great offer for both
By Patricia Hall, FairfaxFamilyFun.com Do you love professional sports? Love music? How about super-cool freebies? Then you'll definitely want to know about this: the folks at Monumental Sports and Entertainment (owners of the Verizon Center in Washington, DC) have a great offer for you. When you buy a set of group tickets to an upcoming Washington Mystics game in the 2016 season, you also will get two free show tickets (with a pre-show Continue Reading...
Ukulele festival brings the sounds of the tropics to Fairfax
By Patricia Hall, FairfaxFamilyFun.com Music can definitely "transport" you to a different place, and who, upon hearing the ukulele, doesn't magically get whisked away to a tropical island where palm trees gently sway? Fairfax County is nowhere near Hawaii and ukulele music is not something we may hear often, but we have a chance to feel like we are in the islands each year thanks to the Ukulele Festival. This event returns to Lake Anne Plaza Continue Reading...
