Sep 26-Oct 4, 2011: HONK Festival, Salem Renaissance Days, Stargazing, Blacksmith Fest, and New England’s Largest Lists of Halloween Attractions and Corn Mazes!
I spent 40 hours this week researching events beyond a 90-minute drive from Boston. If you care about Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, or Rhode Island, please email johnny@eventsINSIDER.com and let me know!
This week you are really missing out if you don’t click through and scroll down to the bottom. As well as 7 giveaways, I list more Halloween attractions than anyone — more than 150, including haunted corn mazes! Cornfield mazes are great fun and I list more of them (42) than anyone else in New England also. Check it out and please tell your friends!
I hope you are having an awesome week. Now get out there and do something fun!
-Johnny
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| Starry Starry Night at Davis MegaMaze – ticket giveaway | Worcester
Thu 8/11 – Sun 11/13 |
 My favorite corn field maze is across the street from a big petting zoo with hayrides, go carts, and apple picking. It’s the best!! They have night mazes with telescopes and Halloween nights with monsters! Best of all, I have tickets to give away! Email johnny@eventsINSIDER.com. 145 Redstone Hill, Sterling, MA. |
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| Honk Festival – Concert & Cruise tix giveaway | Boston Metro
Fri 9/30 – Mon 10/3 |
 This spectacular music fest with brass instruments has an enormously fun parade (Sun 10/2), 7 music stages, and I’m giving away 2 pairs of tickets for the kickoff concert at Johnny D’s, Friday 9/30 at 10pm, and 2 pairs of tix for the HONK on the Water Boston Harbor Cruise, Sun 10/2 at 7:30pm! Johnny D’s Uptown Lounge, 17 Holland St, Somerville, MA.617-491-3434. |
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| Young Frankenstein – tix giveaway | Worcester
Fri 9/30 – Sun 10/2 |
 The Mel Brooks movie has been transformed into an award-winning Broadway musical! And yes, I have 2 pairs of tickets to give away for the Friday, September 30 show at 8pm. Email johnny@eventsINSIDER.com! 554 Main St, Worcester, MA. |
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| The King & I – tix giveaway | North Shore
Tue 9/27 – Sun 10/9 |
 Speaking of movies turned into musicals, in The King & I, an English schoolteacher tutors the royal son and the Thai king as well. Email johnny@eventsINSIDER to win a pair of tickets and tell me which show you want: Wed 9/28 at 7:30pm, Fri 9/30 at 8pm, or Fri 10/7 at 8pm. 62 Dunham Rd, Beverly, MA.978-232-7200. |
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| King Richard’s Faire – ticket giveaway | South Shore
Sat 9/3 – Sun 10/23 |
 I have more tickets to give away for King Richard’s Faire, good any weekend through Oct 23! Find 4 stages of music, comedy, theatre, and street performers, plus jousting! Twist my arm by emailing johnny@eventsINSIDER.com with how eagerly you’ve been urging friends to join Events INSIDER. (And thanks!). 235 Main St, Carver, MA.508-866-5391. |
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| Twelfth Night – tix giveaway | Boston Metro
Tue 9/27 – Fri 9/30 |
 Twelfth Night is a Shakespearean comedy about a shipwreck, mistaken identity, and two identical twins. I’m giving away a pair for each of the following shows: Tue 9/27, Wed 9/28, and Thu 9/30. Email johnny@eventsINSIDER.com to win tickets and say which shows would work for you! Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA. |
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| Terrorthon & J. Cannibal’s Feast of Flesh | Boston Metro
Sat 10/1 |
 Halloween is coming on strong now. Scroll down each week for New England’s largest list of Halloween attractions — more than 150! This is a zombie movie classic preceded by live music, burlesque, and a costume competition. I’ve been and it’s tons of creative, gorey fun. 12am. Somerville Theatre, Somerville, MA. |
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| Fitchburg Forge-In and Blacksmith Festival | Worcester
Sat 10/1 |
 Out west, you can see blacksmiths compete to make the best metallic stuff. They’ll have lots of arts vendors, and pumpkin carving after dark, too. 10am-4:30pm. Riverfront Park, Fitchburg, MA. |
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| Salem Village Renaissance Days | North Shore
Sat 10/1 – Sun 10/2 |
 Salem Village is a re-enactment attraction with live actors, just like Plimoth Plantation, and they’re going renaissance this weekend, with human chess games, tug of war, birds of prey, storytelling, live music, and “wench” auctions. Pioneer Village, Salem Park, Salem, MA.978-867-4767. |
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| Annual Yankee Steam-Up | Rhode Island
Sat 10/1 |
 How about trying something old? Also 19th century, before they had gas engines, they used steam. Can they bring steam engines back to solve global warming? Probably not since all that steam came from coal. This festival showcases working steam engines of every kind. 8am-4pm. New England Wireless and Steam Museum, 1300 Frenchtown Rd., East Greenwich, RI.401-885-0545. |
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And a lot more this week at Boston Events Insider, the most popular events blog in New England, including:
And the Largest List of Cornfield Mazes and Halloween attractions in New England, tracking 130 ongoing attractions and dozens of one-shot events!
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