45th Annual Cherry Blossom Festival | April 22 | Noon – 4:30 pm

Free On-Stage Entertainment at the Sunday Festival Includes:

12- 1 p.m. •  Neighborhood Music School Premier

Jazz Ensemble

1-2  p.m  •   Tuxedo Junction (The Sounds of Swing)

2:30-3:30 p.m. •  St. Luke’s Steel Band

3:30-4:30  p.m. •  Carlos Santiago Y Su Momento

Musical (Salsa)

plus, all afternoon throughout the Park:

• Dedicated, Expanded Family & Children’s Area with arts & crafts, face painting
• Nappy’s Puppets  (Shadow Puppets)
• activities with New Haven Museum
• Horizon Wings and
• New Haven Free Public Library Readmobile

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• Pet Friendly Area

• Local food vendors

including Pizza, Italian Ice, Ice Cream, Cheese Truck, JitterBus, and more. Full List

Plus more than 30 artists and authors,

local non-profits and display tables with Wooster Square history

Little Italy Area

Wooster Square Reunion Area

HISTORY OF THE CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL

This celebration of spring commemorates the planting of 72 Yoshino Japanese Cherry Blossom trees in 1973 by the New Haven Historic Commission in collaboration with the New Haven Parks Department and residents of the neighborhood. The Festival has grown from a modest event with a local band entertaining a handful of neighbors under lighted trees to a major New Haven all-afternoon event that draws well over 10,000 visitors. 

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