MayFair 2007 Entertainment Schedule Announced!
The 24th Annual MayFair in Harvard Square - Admission: FREE!
Time: Sunday, May 6th 2007 - Noon - 6:00 pm
Raindate: Sunday, May 13th, 2007.
MayFair features six main performance areas, with niches of art attacks, dance distractions, and curious clowning. 200 artisans and merchants fill colorful tents with handmade, vintage, recycled, costume, antique, and sidewalk sale items – a spring shopping delight!. MayFair is the ultimate taste of event offering international cuisine, festival favorites, and food sampling galore.
MayFair is a party in six streets in the heart of Harvard Square - including
JFK Street, Brattle Street, Mass. Ave., Church Street and Eliot Triangle!
MayFair 2007 Entertainment Schedule:
Main Stage in the Cross Walk
12 – 12:40 Clarias
12:55 – 1:35 The Snowleopards
1:50 – 2:30 The Everyday Visuals
2:45 – 3:25 Witches in Bikinis
3:25 – 4:00 DJ C
4:00 – 4:40 Bon Savants
5:00 – 6:00 Bang Camaro
Stage in Eliot Triangle
12:15pm - 12:45pm Christopher Barnes
1:00pm - 1:30pm Maeve
1:50pm – 2:20pm Unstoppable Black Clouds
2:50pm – 3:20pm Kristin Cifelli
3:40pm – 4:10pm Breaking Laces
4:40pm – 5:20pm Zili Misik
BANDFEST- Holyoke Center Outdoor Stage/ Forbes Plaza
Noon – 12:20 pm Dudley House Jazz Band
12:30 – 12:50 pm After Hours
1:00 – 1:20 pm The Naked Truth
1:30 – 1:50 pm The Jazz Collective
2:00 – 2:20 pm Red Heifer
2:30 – 2:50 pm The Dharma Seals
3:00 – 3:20 pm Snake Eyes Redux
3:30 – 3:50 pm Kevin Bombino and the Popularity Contest
4:00 – 4:20 pm Petros
4:30 – 4:50 pm Zizou
5:00 – 5:20 pm Plan B for the Type A’s
5:30 - 5:50 pm The Trinity
Club Passim Stage:
Noon - 1:00pm Jason Spooner Trio
1:00pm - 2:00pm Kate Klim & Elana Arian
2:00pm - 3:00pm Ryan Fitzsimmons
3:00pm - 4:00pm Tripping Lily
4:00pm - 5:00pm Brian Webb
5:00pm - 6:00pm Edie Carey
May Fair Dance Stage: 12:00 Until 6:00 on Church Street
Hosted by Rozann Kraus
Deborah Mason School
Synergy
Collage
Boston Ballet Children's Company
Navarasa Dance Theatre -Aparna Sindhoor
Ken Pierce Baroque
Hips on Fire
New England Tap Ensemble
Boston Dance Company
Dance’n Feet
Joslyn Carter
Rainbow Tribe
Disco Brats
Sole Force
Goldee’s Chang Moo Kwan Tae-Kwon-Do Demo Team
BeatTree
Ballet Theatre
Olivier Besson
Triveni Dancers
Carl Alleyne
Deborah Mason School
Aaron Tolson
Mayfair Readers’ Ramble!
Celebrate the literary and cultural side of Harvard Square at the Mayfair Readers’ Ramble, a traveling reading series featuring five talented authors reading at five quintessentially Harvard Square locations.
Readings take place every half-hour from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Ramble organizer Harvard Book Store hosts novelist Mameve Medwed, author of How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life, the Pierre Menard Gallery hosts New Yorker staff writer Joan Acocella, author of Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays, and the famous Grolier Poetry Book Shop hosts poet Tomas O'Leary, author ofThe Devil Take a Crooked House. Additional readings will occur at the Democracy Center and the Papercut Zine Library at 45 Mount Auburn Street.
For more information, contact Harvard Book Store at 617.661.1515 or visit www.harvard.com.
MayFair also features "Chalk on the Walk" on Church Street - where Church Street is transformed into a Parisan Style Chalk Gallery - and the kids can chalk their hearts out in the special Kid Chalk area! MayFair also features free children's activities & crafts, heathy free kid-friendly snack samples, dance participation and all the usual festival favorites!
Also this year...Experience the Largest Outdoor Human Genome Project...a fun and educational way to enjoy science with the family!
Traffic Detours:
Traffic detours will be in effect for MayFair. Closed between 6am-9pm are: Mass. Ave. southbound from Garden Street.; JFK Street from Mt. Auburn Street.; Brattle Street to Story. Church Street is closed. We suggest taking the RED LINE MBTA to Harvard Station!
Hunt for Golden Shoes at MayFair!!!
If you find a Golden Shoe, turn it in for a FitKit prize,
including certificates and goodies from some of your favorite local merchants!
For more information, see www.cambridgema.gov/gogreen