Your Full guide to first night hartford 2024

Schedule And Venues

***Schedule is subject to Change***

Hartford Union Station HQ (1 Union Place)

Button Pick-up, Volunteer Hub, Vendors, Silent Auction OPEN 2-11 PM; KIDS CRAFT ACTIVITY: Make Your Own Noisemaker 2-5 PM + DJ Ch’Varda 8-11 PM with Wine Bar Pop-Up

Main Stage (Trinity Street, Bushnell Park)

Hosted by Tang Sauce and Hydro8Sixty 2 pm to Midnight

Trinity Street (Bushnell Park)

Food Trucks & Vendors 2 PM to Midnight

Bushnell Park Carousel (Jewell STreet)

OPEN 2-10 PM

Winterfest (Elm Street, Bushnell Park)

Free Ice Skating OPEN 2-9 PM

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (600 Main Street - Use the Atheneum Square Entrance)

Family Film “it’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world” rated g 2-4:45 PM

Christ Church Cathedral (45 Church Street - Use the Main Street Entrance)

Dinosauria: a mesozoic menagerie with Organ Music 2:30-3 PM (one performance) Liam shannon, Narrator; costumes, anne cubberly; marianne vogel, organist. bYO T-rex Costume!

TheaterWorks Hartford (233 Pearl Street)

DJ Eric Otero + KIDS CRAFT ACTIVITY: Make a Tissue Paper Sparkler! OPEN 2-5:30 PM

People’s Parade Start (corner of Gold Street & Main Street)

Meet at 5 PM at Carl Andre’s Stone Field Sculpture for a procession to the 6 PM Fireworks led By Anne Cubberly’s Giant Puppets Krump & Heliodora and The Hartford Hot Several

Center Church (60 Gold Street - Meetinghouse Entrance is on Main Street at the corner of Gold)

Live Piano & Voice: Jen Allen & Leala Cyr at 4:30 & 7 PM

Connecticut's Old State House (800 Main Street)

KIDS CRAFT ACTIVITY: Make Your Own Paper Luminary 2-5 PM

Emrey's Specialty Sweets & Soda Shop (196 Trumbull Street)

KIDS ACTIVITY: Coloring Page 2-5 PM

Sea Tea Comedy Theater (15 Asylum Street)

Comedy Improv Shows at 3, 4, 8, 9 & 10 PM

Beer Garden (21+) by Bourassa (Trinity Street, Bushnell Park)

OPEN 7 PM to Midnight

Sunberry Restaurant & Bar (65 Pratt Street)

Karaoke (21+) with dj sara 10 PM to 1 AM

ONE Bar & Kitchen (70 Union Place)

Live Music: Dwayne Keith Project 7-8:40 PM; Jonathan Barber “Stay Hartford” 9-10:30 pm 

Trumbull Kitchen (150 Trumbull Street)

DJ Kasey Cortez 9:30 PM to Midnight

MAIN STAGE

Hosted by Tang Sauce & Hydro8Sixty

DJ Kasey Cortez 4:30-5:15 PM

Dwayne Keith Project 5:30-6 PM 

Fireworks at 6 PM!

Jen Allen & Leala Cyr 10:20-11 PM

Jonathan Barber “Stay Hartford” 11:25 PM to Midnight 

Fireworks at Midnight!

Celebratory Inauguration of Arunan Arulampalam, Incoming Mayor of Hartford at Midnight