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Mystic Seaport celebrates summer’s end with Fish & Ships Seafood Festival
By Mystic Seaport
Aug 18, 2008 - 7:50:15 AM

Fresh Seafood, Live Jazz and Family Fun Featured at Labor Day Weekend Event

Jazz conductor Martin Piecuch and his quartet will highlight Fish & Ships, Mystic Seaport’s first Labor Day Weekend seafood festival held August 29-September 1.

Piecuch, joined by keyboardist Rufus Davis, bassist Jim Hunter, drummer Randy Cloutier and a percussionist, will perform a two-hour concert from the Museum’s Gazebo beginning Sunday at 3 p.m. Visitors are invited to lounge on the Village Green and look out on the historic Mystic River while listening to the band perform many rhythms of jazz including swing, rumba, samba, salsa and romantic ballads.

The four-day festival features a variety of fresh seafood which will be served Friday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Monday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Steamed lobster, grilled fish, New England clam chowder and a raw bar featuring clams, oysters and jumbo shrimp from local docks will be available for purchase on the Village Green. Hamburgers, hot dogs and other grilled items, as well as beer and wine will also be available.

Throughout the weekend, visitors will have the opportunity to meet fishermen from Stonington and Noank wharves to learn about the importance of sustainable aquaculture. Seamen’s Inne Executive Chef Tim Quinn and Chef Dennis Young will also provide educational seafood seminars on the Village Green Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m.

Additionally, children can spend the last official weekend of summer taking part in 19th-century games on the Green, climbing aboard tall ships, acting in a participatory play about whaling and making their own wooden toy boat through the Museum’s new Hand-On History program.

For more information, visit www.mysticseaport.org.

Mystic Seaport is the nation’s leading maritime museum and features a working preservation shipyard, a re-created 19th-century coastal village, exhilarating exhibits and a planetarium. The Museum is located one mile south of exit 90 off I-95 in Mystic, CT and is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $18.50 for adults and $13 for children ages 6-17. Children 5 and under are admitted for free. For more information, visit www.mysticseaport.org.

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