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🎄❄️ Holiday Happenings in & around Fairfield County: Dec. 4 – 8, 2024
Get ready to soak up the seasonal cheer with these amazing events happening near you! Here’s your guide to festive fun:🎅🎄🎁
🎉 Thursday, December 5, 2024
- ✨ Bridgeport: Glow Wild Lantern Festival @ Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo 🏮🐾
🎅 Bridgeport: Christmas Village hosted by Bridgeport PAL - Darien: Merry Meadowlands Holiday Market
- Danbury: Mingle & Jingle Holiday Bash at Charter Oak Brewing
- Fairfield: A Christmas Carol Experience at the Burr Mansion
- ❄️Fairfield: Candance Bushnell - True Tales of Sex, Success, and Sex and the City in The Warehouse
- Greenwich: Reindeer Festival & Santa Workshop at Sam Bridge Nursery
- Hartford: Hartford Glow
- 🎵 Newtown: The Yale Whiffenpoofs at Edmond Town Hall
- New Canaan: Deck the Walls Party & Wreath Auction at Carriage Barn Arts Center
- 🎸 Norwalk: Joni & John LIVE at Music & Industry
- Shelton: Nights of Lights Holiday Hayride at Fairview Tree Farm
- 😂Stamford: Matty Chymbor at New York Comedy Club Stamford
- Stamford: Holiday Market Sip & Shop at Stamford Museum & Nature Center
🎉 Friday, December 6, 2024
- Bethlehem: Christmas Town Festival
- ✨ Bridgeport: Glow Wild Lantern Festival at Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo
- Bridgeport: Christmas Village hosted by Bridgeport PAL
- Fairfield: A Christmas Carol Experience at the Burr Mansion
- 🎸Fairfield: Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes in The Warehouse at FTC
- 🎸Fairfield: The Alternate Routes- Night 1 Acoustic Set on StageOne
- Greenwich: Reindeer Festival & Santa Workshop at Sam Bridge Nursery
- Hartford: Hartford Glow
- Milford: Lamplight Stroll – Downtown Milford
- Milford: “Dorothy’s Christmas in Oz” playing at Milford Arts Council
- New Milford: Holiday Arts & Fine Crafts Show at Gallery 25
- 🎸 Norwalk: The Bar Hounds at Music & Industry
- Shelton: Community Tree Lighting & Holiday Market in Vets Mem Park
- Shelton: Nights of Lights Holiday Hayride at Fairview Tree Farm
- Sherman: Winter Wonderettes at The Sherman Players
- 😂Stamford: Tyler Fischer ("America's Got Talent") at New York Comedy Club Stamford
- Wilton: Holiday Stroll – Town Green at Wilton Center
🎉 Saturday, December 7, 2024
- Bethlehem: Christmas Town Festival
- 🏮Bridgeport: Glow Wild Lantern Festival at Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo
- Bridgeport: Christmas Village hosted by Bridgeport PAL
- Brookfield: Brookside PTO Winter Market Festival
- Danbury: Holiday Pops at WCSU
- Danbury: Handel’s Messiah at First Congregational Church of Danbury
- Danbury: Pancake breakfast w/Santa at Miry Brook Fire Dept.
- Danbury: Santa Trains at Danbury Railway Museum
- 🎄Danbury: Light the Lights – Winter Festival at City Center Danbury
- Darien: An Old Fashion Holiday at Tilley Pond Park
- Darien: Holiday Night Market at Tilley Pond Park
- Derby: Breakfast with Santa at the Sons & Daughters of Italy
- Easton: Breakfast w/Santa at Easton Community Center
- 🎸Fairfield: The Rock & Rock Playhouse – Music of the Beatles at The Warehouse
- 🎸Fairfield: The Alternate Routes – Night 2 Electric Set in The Warehouse
- Fairfield: A Christmas Carol Experience at the Burr Mansion
- Fairfield: Winter Whimsy Tree & Menorah Lighting at Town Hall Green
- Fairfield: Holiday Express Train Show at Fairfield Museum & Nature Center
- Fairfield: CT Symphonic Winds Christmas Festival at Roger Ludlow MS
- Fairfield: Festival of Lights at Hope River Farm
- Greenwich: Reindeer Festival & Santa Workshop at Sam Bridge Nursery
- Greenwich: Arch in Bloom’s Flurry Fest – 201 Pemberwick Rd, Greenwich
- Hartford: Hartford Holiday Market
- Hartford: Hartford Glow
- 🎅 Mashantucket: Breakfast w/ Santa at Foxwoods
- Milford: “Dorothy’s Christmas in Oz” playing at Milford Arts Council
- 🎄Mystic: Home for the Holidays Mystic Aquarium
- New Canaan Holiday Stroll
- New Canaan: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever playing at The Powerhouse Theatre
- New Fairfield: Breakfast w/ Santa at New Fairfield Middle School
- New Milford: Holiday Arts & Fine Crafts Show at Gallery 25
- 🎄Newtown: Flagpole Radio Cafe Presents: Christine Lavin at Edmond Town Hall
- Newtown: Holiday Market at Reverie Brewing
- 🏠Newtown: Let's Build a Gingerbread House at Aquila's Nest Vineyards
- 😂Newtown: Comedy night with Salma Zaky at Aquila’s Nest Vineyards
- Norwalk: Pancake Breakfast w/Frosty at Norwalk City Hall Community Rm
- Norwalk: Christmas Market at Rowayton Community Center
- Norwalk: Norwalk Garden Club’s Christmas Fair
- Norwalk: Christmas Craft Fair at St. Peter Lutheran Church
- 🎅 Norwalk: Shark-Diving Santa at The Maritime Aquarium
- 🛍️Norwalk: Holiday Extravaganza on Washington Street
- 🎸 Norwalk: Chris Donahue & the Shennan Agains - LIVE at Music & Industry
- Norwalk: Snowflakes in the Air
- Orange: Lighted Tractor Parade & Tree Lighting Festival
- Old Greenwich: Old Greenwich Merchants First Light
- Redding: Holiday Market & Poutine Shack at the Farmhouse
- Ridgefield: Ridgefield Holiday Stroll
- Sandy Hook: Tree Lighting & Festivities
- Saybrook: Saybrook Starlight Festival
- Shelton: Nights of Lights Holiday Hayride at Fairview Tree Farm
- Sherman: Sherman Artists Open Studios at Sherman JCC
- Sherman: Holiday Open House & Barn - A Timeless Treasures Holiday
- Sherman: Winter Wonderettes at The Sherman Players
- Southbury: Breakfast w/ Santa at Southbury VFA Center Firehouse
- 🌌 Stamford: Holiday Wish Express at Stamford Town Center
- Stamford: Santa Con at Town Parlor Pizza
- 😂Stamford: Tyler Fischer ("America's Got Talent") at New York Comedy Club Stamford
- 🎭 Stamford: The Hip Hop Nutcracker at The Palace Theater
- Stratford: Holiday Winter Market & Tree Lighting at Two Roads Brewing Co
- Westport: Holiday Stroll in Downtown Westport
- Westport: Holiday Special w/ Kristen Young and Joe Bush at MOCA
- Westport: All-Star Tribute to the Legendary Duke Ellington at The Westport Library
🎉 Sunday, December 8, 2024
- 🌌 Bridgeport: Glow Wild Lantern Festival at Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo
- 🛍️ Bridgeport: Holiday Market at Metro Art Studio's
- Bridgeport: Christmas Village hosted by Bridgeport PAL
- Bridgeport: Fairfield County Children's Choir presents: Best of the FCCC Winter Concert at The Klein
- 🎭Danbury: The Edwards Twins at The Palace Theatre Danbury
- Danbury: MAGPIE - LIVE - Music at the Ridge - Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Danbury
- Greenwich: Reindeer Festival & Santa Workshop at Sam Bridge Nursery
- Fairfield: Holiday Express Train Show at Fairfield Museum & Nature Center
- Fairfield: Festival of Lights at Hope River Farm
- Fairfield: A Christmas Carol Experience at the Burr Mansion
- Hartford: Hartford Holiday Market
- Hartford: Hartford Glow
- Milford: “Dorothy’s Christmas in Oz” playing at Milford Arts Council
- Mystic: Home for the Holidays Mystic Aquarium
- New Milford: Holiday Arts & Fine Crafts Show at Gallery 25
- 🛍️☕🎅Newtown: Holiday Market & Festival on Main Street
- 🎭 Newtown: The Nutcracker Suite at Edmond Town Hall
- 🎅🍷 Newtown/Sandy Hook: Sip & Sleigh Santa Con at Aquila's Nest Vineyards
- 🎅Norwalk: Shark-Diving Santa at The Maritime Aquarium
- Norwalk: Holiday Pops presented by the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra
- Norwalk: The Aimee Mann & Ted Leo Christmas Show at District Music Hall
- Redding: Holiday Market & Poutine Shack
- 🎻Ridgefield: The Ridgefield Chorale Holiday Pops Concert at the Ridgefield Playhouse
- Shelton: Nights of Lights Holiday Hayride at Fairview Tree Farm
- Sherman: Sherman Artists Open Studios at Sherman JCC
- Sherman: Holiday Open House & Barn - A Timeless Treasures Holiday
- Sherman: Winter Wonderettes at The Sherman Players
- 🎅Stamford: Holiday Wish Express at Stamford Town Center
- 🎅 Stamford: Heights & Lights - Stamford Downtown – Landmark Square
- 😂Stamford: Big Jay Oakerson at New York Comedy Club Stamford
- Torrington: Christmas Village in Torrington
- Wilton: Great Trains Holiday Show at Wilton Historical Society
- Weston: Winter Market at Lachat Town Farm
- Westport: Breakfast with Santa at St. Luke's Westport
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