The 27th Annual Crook Farm Country Fair on Seaward Avenue will
be the place to go for simple pleasures and family fun in Bradford
this weekend.
Part of the festivities this year will be folk, blue grass and
country musicians.
The festival begins at 10 a.m. and lasts to 5 p.m. Saturday and
Sunday, but the music will continue until 9 p.m. Saturday.
The Church Street Blues band will be featured in the
entertainment tent from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday. The Doerfel Family
will take the stage Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.
Both days include an old-time round and square dance starting at
1:30 p.m. with caller Keith Blackmon, who has more than 60 years
experience calling dances. Everyone attending is invited to
participate in the dancing, no experience necessary. Those dances
will continue for about 45 minutes a session.
Curt Osgood and Annie Simpson will be in the old school house
entertaining guests. Times for their performances will be posted at
the fair.
A jam tent will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday for those who would like to bring an
instrument and their voices to add to the events of the weekend.
Music performed depends on those on hand performing which might
include blue grass, folk or country.
Sunday music includes Sunday Morning Harmony, who will be
performing blue grass gospel from 11 a.m. to noon.
There will be wandering musicians placed all around the fair and
booths both days.
Kate and Andrew Scanlan, local Irish Step dancers, will also
perform Saturday.
The Allegheny Mountain Dulcimer Players, Lucinda Durkee and
Clark Parry will be at the fair exhibiting dulcimers and giving
learning demonstrations. The duo are responsible for co-founding
and co-directing the Heart of the Alleghenies Folk Music
Festival.
A Bucktail Regiment of Civil War re-enactors will be camping at
the Crook Farm site all weekend. To accompany them, Howard
Blumenthal and Ed Hanson will be playing music from that time
period.
The food tent opens at noon with traditional foods such as
roasted corn, salt potatoes, funnel cakes, ice cream, and popcorn
offered. Hamburgers, hot dogs, fruit and soft drinks will also be
on hand.
On Saturday, a chicken or rib barbecue will be available from
noon to 4 p.m. Sunday offers a country breakfast from 10 a.m. to
noon which includes sausage, pancakes, eggs and drinks.
Also on Sunday, an apple pie contest will be held in the bank
building at 1 p.m.
A chance to win craft items will be held as well at 3 p.m.
Sunday.
Craft vendors include those with homemade soups, lotions and
creams, jewelry, lamps and candleholders, ornamental lawn stones
and unique woodturnings. Many other items will be on hand as
well.
The Crook Farm Country Fair is put on by the Bradford Landmark
Society. It is one of their biggest fundraisers.
