Fire & Ice Festival set for New Brighton
NEW BRIGHTON - Believing it already resembles a scene from a Hallmark Christmas movie, organizers picked New Brighton as the spot for a brand-new Fire & Ice Festival.
The winter-themed festival will take place 2-8 p.m. Dec. 10 on closed-off Third Avenue and Townsend Park in downtown New Brighton.
"This event will transform the quaint, downtown New Brighton area into a magical winter wonderland," a press release from Everest Events Group, planners of the event, said.
Fire & Ice Festival - New Brighton will offer visitors activities such as:
• Fire-dancers and Fire-breathers show.
• Ice-skating/Ice-skating with Santa and other characters.• Horse-drawn sleigh rides.• Ice Bar – drinks served at an 8-foot bar carved out of ice.• Snow Globe Village with clear, geodesic domes that will be decorated and heated with a small fireplace heater and offering small table and chairs rented by the hour.• Candlelight Walk.• Classic holiday movies.• Holiday Marketplace.• Roast marshmallows over fire pits.• Photo Scavenger Hunt with prizes.• Strolling Carolers.
• Food vendors.• Musical entertainment featuring "America's Got Talent" contestant Ashley Marina and more.
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Admission is free.
Tickets are on sale now at eventbrite.com for the ice-skating sessions ($10) and horse-drawn sleigh rides ($25, up to six riders.)
Details will be posted today about the dome rentals and will include a link to Eventbrite where people can rent one.
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the New Brighton Volunteer Fire Department and the New Brighton Historical Society.
More details and updates will be on the Facebook page for Fire & Ice Festival
The event already is generating excitement as a first-of-its-kind in Beaver County, Carol Testa of Everest Events Group said.
As a Beaver County resident, Testa believed the first Fire & Ice belonged in the county.
"Beaver County needs more exciting new events to bring people into the county," she said. "And New Brighton is such a super quaint town, like something out of a Hallmark movie."
New Brighton already is the site of the county's first holiday pop-up bar, Jay's Jingle Juke-joint.
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Specializing in unique Pittsburgh area events, Everest Events' prior happenings include "Valentine's with a View" held annually at the West End Overlook, and the sold-out Pittsburgh Coffee & Chocolate Festival last month.
Scott Tady is entertainment editor at The Times and easy to reach at stady@timesonline.com.
This article originally appeared on Beaver County Times: First-ever Fire & Ice Festival set for New Brighton
