FIREFEST 

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 Downtown New Haven's signature event, Firefest is a one-of-a-kind, one-day event. Starting off it's second decade, Firefest is an ever-growing street fair with stages of performance, music, arts, crafts, demonstrations that involve fire, civil war camp, children's activities, canon firing & more! When mother nature dims the lights, Fire Dancers will set the riverfront ablaze. Sunset marks the ever-popular House of Fire & Ice, Burning Man, River Dragon Boat, Sky Laterns & More! Stay tuned for more about 2019!

2019 FIREFEST

2019 SHUTTLE LOTS

Event Schedule

Events & Times for 2019:
NEW: SHUTTLE LOT & STREET CLOSURES

ALL DAY EVENTS:

Craft Vendors

• Rings of Change* - Custom rings from coin
• Madhouse Paints* - Facepainting & Airbrush Tattos
• Kobiwon Soaps – Handmade soaps, bath boms, lotions, scrubs, perfumes etc.
• Whimsical Wood LLC – Wood signs, reverse canvas, mugs, window signs, vinyl crafts and more!
• Crafted4You – Flags, quilts, dog clothes and more! All Handcrafted with Fabric!
• Usborne Books – childrens books & readings
• LNCR Creative-Painted Clocks, Tree Jewels
• Country Cottage Boutique – Clothing by Peggy King
• Hall of Making* - Woodcraft items, leathercrafting and specialty Firefest branded items.
• Eve Smith Hand Strung Jewerly – Natural stone, hand strung beaded jewelry with freshwater pearls & crystals
• STL Lampworkers Society* - torch sculpted glass
• Coleen’s Creations – handmade clothes and more
• Franka Pottery*- handcrated, wheel-thrown pottery
• Mikaelynn Frank – Crochet & Knit Crafts, clothing as well as watercolors, photography prints for your nursey
• Natural Charm General Store – Natural products for home and body, jams, breads, home decor
• Paparazzi – adult jewelry

Food & Beverage Vendors

• Town Hall – Smores, Fried Twinkies, drinks & more!
• Jack’s Kettle & Fruit Drink – Pork Rinds, Fruit Drinks
• Old Thyme Funnel Cake Food Truck – a funnel cake lovers dream come true
• Adkins Kettle Corn – Traditional Kettle Corn, Water & Soda. A Firefest Tradition!
• 2nd Shift Brewing – Craft Beer
• Swiss Meats – A Firefest tradition with Best of Show Brats, Pork Burgers, Hotdogs & Chips and Soda.
• Hermann UMC Church – Ice Cream Bombs, Kabobs and non-alcohlic beverages
• NOTO Woodfire Pizza Truck – 11’ Personal Size, woodfired Neopolitan Pizza
• Ronni’s Cooke Dough Diner – Safe-to-eat cookie dough in a variety of flavors & dips.
• Washmo Snow Cone – Mixed Espresso, Ice cream sandwiches, Fresh Squeezed Juice, walking Tacos & Frito pies, roller-grilled hot dogs & of course – SHAVED ICE!
• HorsePower Dessert Pies Food truck -Stone Baked & Fried Dessert Pies – Apple, Cherry, pumpkin, chocolate and more!
• Chimney Cake King – Baking traditional Hungarian Kurtoskalacs (Chimney Cakes!) Sweet bread baked over a wood cylinder on coals. Comes in a variety of toppings such as cinnamon sugar, cocoa, sprinkles or dipped in vanilla or chocolate icing.
• Samuel Berton Distilling – Craft Cocktails & Samplings from Labadie’s Distillery
• Hazel’s Back Porch – Meat by the pound, BBQ Nachos, Tacos, Loaded Potatoes, Cobbler
• Augusta Brewing – Craft Beer
• MonkeyBus – 

Demos

• STL Sheep Dog Show
• Civil War Reenactors & Canon Firing (all day)
• Game of Fire Interactive Art Installation
• Stone Lion Roaming Puppets
• Earth’s Classroom – with “Fire Races”
• Willie The Clown Balloon Animals
• BlackSmith’s
• Firedancers
• Raku Pottery
• Burning Man (930pm ish)
• Burning Swiss Logs (all day)
• House of Fire & Ice (Sunset)
• River Boat Dragon (before burning man)
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  MUSIC


• Mainstage Music (Located on Front Street)


• 12-4pm PauloSmall Band
• 430-5pm Stonelion Puppet Theatr
• 6pm-10pm DJ Brittany Smith

Stage 2 (Located at Pinckney Bend Disitllery)

• 12-4 Friends of Aaron
• 430-7pm Woodshine
• 730pm – 1030pm Wild Horse Creek

Stage 3 Accoustic (Located at RCS Greenspace)

• 12-3 Brianna Brown Band
• 330pm - 7pm Fatlighter

​Shops Open Late 

• Elizabeth's Antiques
• Astral Glass
• New Day Mercantile & Coffee Shop
• Pinckney Bend Distillery (Tastings Offered every 30 Minutes)
• Lancito's Pizza
• Zia's Gallery
• The Walt (open for self-guided tours)
• New Haven Vistor's Center
• Paddle Stop New Haven
• Lizzy Lu's Custom Wreath & Woodworking

EVENING/TIMED EVENTS: 

House of Fire & Ice: (At Open Lot on Main St by Post Office) At Sunset (estimated 6:04pm)

Sky Latern Launch: (on River Walk) When ice house crumbles (estimated time 7:15pm)

Dragon Boat & Crane Launch:  (Down river, Can be seen from River Walk) 15 Minutes After the Ice House crumbles (estimated 730pm)

Burning Man Lighting: (located on Boat Ramp - can be seen from River Walk, Main St)  After Boat Launch (estimated time 9pm)



STREET CLOSURES, PARKING & SHUTTLES:
Street Closure Information:

• Saturday Nov 2, 2019 there will be no "thru" traffic past the railroad tracks after 7am without a vendor or demo parking pass. There will be no parking on Miller or Front Street after 5pm on Friday, Nov 1st.
• Olive St., past the railroad tracks, is temporary 2-way traffic on Nov 2, 2019.
• There is no thru traffic on Front, Main, Cottonwood or Miller street.
• Public Boat Dock Access is limited and will be monitored due to the size of the event and location of events. Public parked cars using the boat dock will be required to check in at the "check-in" booth located on the Miller side of the railroad tracks.

Handicap parking located off Miller/Front St. by Lion's Club Utilities. Small carts available to bring you to event, but not move you around event.
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Extremely Limited Public Parking available off Olive Street Only. No street parking past Railroad tracks, on Olive St. Bridge or in or around Union Pacific Railroad Access.


Shuttle Lots Available starting at 11am.

• Shuttle Lot A: New Haven Lumber Lot
• Shuttle Lot B: New Haven Pool/City park
• Shuttle Lot C: UCC Church

Please make sure you are standing at the designated pickup/drop off location for your lot. They will be marked by signs. Buses will not drive around to pick up other than at designated spot. 

Donate

Please Consider a donation to Firefest.
​You can donate in advanced with one of the forms below or you can donate day of with many of the donation boxes around.

SPONSORSHIP LEVELS COMING SOON!
You can always donate to Downtown New Haven Inc. please visit our contact page for more.  

VOLUNTEER

This entire event is a free event that cannot run without our dedicated volunteers. Please think about singing up to be on one of the committees or volunteering for a variety of shift options Day of!  please contact tara at Tara@pinckneybend.com for more information. Service Hours available for high school students.  Groups/Organizations who sign up for shifts can receive discounts on booth registration!

We need volunteers for:
Vendor Check in/Traffic Stops (Shifts available from 5am-10pm

Info Booth (Shifts available from 11am-8pm)

Electric/Setup Crew (8am-11am)

General Staff Event (shifts available from 10am-10pm)

Sunday Cleanup (shift 9am-2pm)

Pyro Crew (must be 18 or older. Shifts from 3pm-10pm)

Parking Lot (shifts from 2pm to 9pm)

Vendor/Demo

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED

THANK YOU 2019SPONSORS

INFERNO SPONSORS

Pinckney Bend Distillery
Pepsi Bottling of New Haven
​Fred & Nancy Lee

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BONFIRE SPONSORS

YHTI (Now Whisper) Internet
Citizens Bank
New Haven Lumber
Fidelity Communications
Reliable Plumbing
KFAV 99.9 FM Today’s Hot Country

SPARK SPONSORS

• Bank of Franklin County
• Citizens Bank
  
• Bank of Washington
  
• People's Savings Bank
  
• C&S Tool & Die LLC
  
• American Family Insurance Curtis Boyer Agent
• New Haven Chamber of Commerce
  

ICE HOUSE SPONSORS

​The Central Hotel • Astral Glass Studio  • Wiemann & Pues Insurance Agency • New Haven Care Center, INC. • Pratt's Healthmart Pharmacy • New Haven Vet Clinic • Boeuf & Berger Mutual Insurance • Unnerstall & Unnerstall CPAs • Richers Tire & Auto • Michael Maczuk • Pinckney Bend Bed & Breakfast • Staatmann Toyota • New Haven Dental • New Haven Hospice • New Haven Save a Lot • Home oil of New Haven • Cedar Creek Conference Center • Cornerstone Financial  • Marlen Textiles • Andrew Clary, Edward Jones Advisor

SPECIAL THANKS
Pinckney Bend Distillery Staff, Tara Steffens, Astral Glass, Angie Scheer, Paddle Stop New Haven, Peter Otten, New Haven Parks Dept., City of New Haven, Joe & Charissa Coyle, Don Bolte & Alan & Carol Bell
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NO THANK YOUS
Snow on Halloween, Frozen Grounds & T-posts, High Water, No-Shows, empty batteries, people who don't pickup their trash, broken buses