Elmwood Arts Festival Is Great Way To Celebrate What’s Left Of Summer

A Brief from Doug Draper, Niagara At Large

It is one of the last great festivals of summer in our binational Niagara region.

File photo of Elmwood Arts Festival in Buffalo, New York

The 16^th Annual Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts- so rightfully branded by its organizers as a “celebration of creativity community” and held in the heart of Buffalo, New York’s thriving Elmwood Village – takes place this Saturday, August 29^th from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and this Sunday, August 30^th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The festival features hundreds of artists, crafts people, musicians and food vendors to a stretch of Buffalo’s Elmwood Avenue lined with unique cafes and shops and cut off to traffic for the occasion for several blocks between St. James Place and West Ferry Street.

The only thing you have to do is be prepared to walk as you join the flow of thousands of people attending the festival. And that includes the walk from your car which you’ll have to park somewhere along the streets in the neighbhourhoods bordering Elwood Avenue. It is a walk that gives you a good chance to check out the classic architectural features of the late 19^th and early 20^th century homes in the area.

If your into enjoying the arts in the sunlight, surrounded by tree-lined Frederick Olmstead streets and boulevards and and beautiful old homes, there are a couple of very good days here.

For more information about the festival click on – www.elmwoodartfest.org .

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