Cedar Valley Settlers Celebration & Music Festival September 20, 2009

Visitors can relive the sights, sounds, tastes and smells of Ohio's frontier days with a cornucopia of pioneer crafts and life skills, storytelling, toe-tapping music and food sampling along the connecting trail between Rocky River Nature Center and Frostville Museum to explore a cornucopia of old-fashioned crafts, food, and hands-on activities for all ages.

Try a variety of pioneer skills and activities, including: candlestick dipping, basket weaving, playing with pioneer toys, rug weaving, Dutch oven cooking, butter churning, working the two-man saw, and more! Sample a potpourri of traditional foods, such as fire–roasted turkey, biscuits with freshly-churned butter, apple cider, apple butter, and more.

Pioneer–costumed folks and storytellers will also be on hand to share stories from a by-gone era. A mini-encampment of a pioneer excursion camp is also a part of the festivities.

Enjoy great entertainment with live musical performances, storytelling and square and contra dancing.

Taking the main stage at 2 p.m. Bradley Walker. Closing the afternoon on the main stage from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. is Alecia Nugent.
From 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. visitors can listen to a great array of live entertainment from the Main Stage at Frostville Museum to Rocky River Nature Center’s Trailside Amphitheater Stage to strolling musicians, all with toe-tapping music such as blue grass, square and contra dance music, acoustic folk music, and more! Visitors can enjoy a dance tent and storytelling tent - plus, instrument-builders and ‘how-to-play’ areas will also be set-up on the grounds for visitors to discover, including a mini-seminar on kazoo playing.

Official Website: http://clevelandmetroparks.com