Think you need to secure a babysitter before heading out to a summer music festival? Not if it’s Big Tiny Love. The lakeside fest for families, launched last year by local eatery the Skinny Pancake, features kids’ entertainers — including Linda “Tickle Belly” Bassick, Ukulele Kids with Joe Beaird, the Hokum Brothers, and headliner Mister Chris and Friends — at the Burlington Waterfront on Sunday, July 28. Though the event is billed as a kid-focused companion to the four-day Lake Champlain Maritime Festival that runs from July 25-28, there’s plenty of fun for the grown-ups, too. Enjoy crepes from the Skinny Pancake, a Fiddlehead Brewing beer tent and Pingala Café‘s Carrot Cart (the vegan answer to the hot dog stand). Family yoga with Sangha Studio; make-your-own granola with City Market, Onion River Co-op; kids’ activities with Wildflowers Studio; a SunCommon bouncy house and a performance by Modern Times Theater round out the day. Best of all: admission is free.
Big Tiny Love: A Festival for Kids takes place at Waterfront Park in Burlington from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, July 28. A portion of vendors’ proceeds benefits University of Vermont Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
This article was originally published in Seven Days’ monthly parenting magazine, Kids VT.
This article appears in The Animal Issue July 2019.
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