The Enfield Fourth of July celebration returns with a three-day event

Fireworks from a past Enfield Fourth of July celebration.
Photo Credit: Enfield Fourth of July City Celebration

ENFIELD — The 2024 Enfield Town Celebration will be held July 5-7 on the Enfield Town Green, 820 Enfield St.

Friday, July 5, events take place between 5-10 p.m.; Saturday 6th July from 9am to 10pm and Sunday 7th July from 10am to 10pm

The Enfield Fourth of July Committee is a nonprofit committee of 26 volunteer directors with the sole mission of planning a three-day family event in Enfield that is free.

Marketing Director Izzy Post Ruhland for the Enfield Fourth of July Celebration said: “We strive every year to fundraise, work through sponsorships and plan this three-day event so that everyone can participate, regardless of their ability to pay. “.

There will be multiple concerts throughout the weekend, a children’s activity area, Teen Zone, beer garden, car show, K-9 demonstrations from the Enfield Police Department, basketball tournament and, for the first time, a live fights with professional fighters in the ring.

Additionally, the celebration will feature the Craft Fair, Independence Day Parade, Road Race and Fireworks Display by Zambelli Fireworks International.

“Our goal as a team is to create an event that brings the community together and makes people happy,” Ruhland said. “That’s what we really want to do. It’s our mission to make sure everyone can enjoy it. We work hard to create that community event and it has grown over the 39 years we have been an established committee.”

Although this is the 39th year for the committee, the celebration itself has lasted longer. It started as a picnic in Brainard Park with five families and has grown ever since.

In the early 1980s, he moved to Enfield Town Green. It became so big that a committee was formed to formally plan it.

Ruhland has been around this event all his life. Her grandfather was a committee member in the 90s. Then her parents were involved since the year she was born.

This is Ruhland’s ninth year as a director, and this is her way of carrying it forward. “We’ve seen tens of thousands of people come every weekend and it all culminates with that fireworks spectacular on Sunday night,” Ruhland said. “There’s nothing like it for us as a team and we love seeing the community come together and have something to look forward to every July.”

For more information on the town of Enfield’s Fourth of July celebration, visit enfieldcelebration.org for the schedule of events. For those wishing to attend for the first time, parking around the Town Green can be difficult with the side streets, so the committee has a free bus from Enfield Square Mall which will run every 15 minutes.

The 2024 music lineup is as follows:

July 5th
17:30 – Dookie
19:30 – Foo Fightaz
21:30 — Beyond purple

July 6
3:00 p.m.—Leppard
17:00 — Crazy Train
19:00 — Full Unleashed
21:30 — Kashmir Feat. Jean Violet

July 7
12:30pm — Lou Johnson Award Winner Battle of the Bands
1:30 p.m.—Sage King Band
3:30 pm — Shift
5:30 pm — Trailer Trash
19:30 – Johnny Six Gun