What’s Gazebo-Palooza? It’s a day of food and music!

Enjoy food, music and fun at Gazebo-Palooza, a benefit bash on October 2, noon- 6 p.m. just behind the Old Town House, One Grafton Common.

Sample food donated by the area’s best restaurants including Bushel ‘N Peck, The Cake Shop, Cancun’s, Grafton Grill & Crust, The Grafton Inn, Pepperoni Express, Post Office Pub, Reunion Table & Tap and Town House Tavern while listening to live performances from local favorites like Josh Briggs, Old Tom & the Lookouts, Dave Rivers, Jesse Garcia & Belit, Pallet House and The Half Wits — all of whom are volunteering their time and talent!

Emceed by father and son team Josh and Nate Briggs, live music will play all day on the Old Town House rear patio while people sample food, enjoy a beverage, and stroll the silent auction items donated by local businesses including Ace Ticket, The Bread Guy, The Cake Shop, Grafton Country Store, Highfields Golf and Country Club, Houlden Farms, Jubilee Chocolate, Pecorino Artisanal Cheese and Fine Wine, Quite Fetching Barkery & Pet Boutique, Touchstone Crystal, and Wicked Twisted.

Be sure to brush up on your Grafton Trivia, because more than $1000 in gift cards donated by our restaurant partners will be given away. Admission is $15 a person, and all proceeds benefit the Small Stones Festival of the Arts and Grafton Art’s Inc.  Children 10 and under are free with an adult. Soft drinks, wine and locally crafted beer are available for separate purchase. (Photograph ID required for wine and beer.)

Sponsors include: Anytime Fitness, Gaudette Insurance Agency, Highfields Golf and Country Club, Homefield Credit Union, JCSI, Jubilee Chocolate, Roney Funeral Home, Mathieu Newton Sotheby’s International Realty, Theroux Dentistry Associates, Touchstone Crystal, and The Town House Tavern.

 The Small Stones Festival of the Arts, a juried fine art painting and photography exhibit accompanied by music and literary programs, juror and artist talks and an art collection presentation, runs Oct. 15-24. The exhibit is at the Great Hall, One Grafton Common and programs will be held there as well as the Grafton Public Library and Congregational Church of Grafton.For more information about the Festival, visit https://www.smallstonesfestival.org or contact Ken Crater at ken@graftonarts.org

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