The Glastonbury Apple Harvest Festival and 5K Race in Riverfront Park runs Friday through Sunday, Oct. 16 to 18, and features more than three dozen live bands (including the all-female quintet Run Jenny, Seth Adam, Frank Critelli, Sarah LeMieux, Lys Guillorn, Michael Cleary Band and other top Connecticut-based performers) spread over three stages, more than a hundred booths in the “Vendor Village,” food, rides, a petting zoo, pony and amusement rides, a Harvest Pub, nighttime screenings of silent movies, Saturday-night fireworks and a “bicycle scavenger hunt.”
The Angry Orchard Apple Harvest Festival 5K race (and related 1K and Kids Fun Run events) occur Sunday morning at 8 a.m. The registration fee for the 5K is $30 and $5 for the 1K. Festival admission is $3 on Friday night, when the fest is open from 6 to 10 p.m.; and $5 on Saturday (10 a.m. to 10 p.m.), and Sunday (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.). Shuttle buses leave from Glastonbury High School, 330 Hubbard St., Glastonbury. The park is at 300 Welles St., Glastonbury. Information: glastonburychamber.com.
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