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The Children’s Museum of NH will hold its annual Family Mardi Gras Celebration on Sunday, Feb. 14 from noon – 5 p.m. This colorful cultural celebration features entertainment and activities for all ages, and is generously underwritten by Laconia Savings Bank. The Family Mardi Gras Celebration will include live Cajun music by The Fiddling Thomsons at 1 and 3 p.m., regional foods of New Orleans to sample, and children’s parades through the museum led by museum mascot Albert The Costumed Alligator. Children can make Mardi Gras masks and jester hats, and each visitor will receive a strand of colorful Mardi Gras beads to wear and take home. All Mardi Gras activities are included in regular paid admission to the museum: $8 for adults and children, $7 for seniors, and no charge for museum members and children under age one. Featured entertainers The Fiddling Thomsons are a father-and-son duo from Newmarket who have performed their lively Cajun music at festivals throughout New England. Dad Ryan is a music and dance professional who has been honored by inclusion in the traditional and touring artists rosters of the NH State Council on the Arts. He teachers fiddle, banjo, flute, piano, and other instruments. Son Brennish has been performing for many years of his young life and plays fiddle, wooden spoons, zydeco rubboard, and the pennywhistle. For more information on the Family Mardi Gras celebration, please call (603) 742-2002 or visit www.childrens-museum.org.
Photo caption: Father and son Ryan and Brennish Thomson will entertain families with Cajun tunes at the Children’s Museum of NH Mardi Gras Celebration on Sunday, Feb. 14. (Courtesy photo)
The Children’s Museum of NH will hold its annual Family Mardi Gras Celebration on Sunday, Feb. 14 from noon – 5 p.m. This colorful cultural celebration features entertainment and activities for all ages, and is generously underwritten by Laconia Savings Bank. The Family Mardi Gras Celebration will include live Cajun music by The Fiddling Thomsons at 1 and 3 p.m., regional foods of New Orleans to sample, and children’s parades through the museum led by museum mascot Albert The Costumed Alligator. Children can make Mardi Gras masks and jester hats, and each visitor will receive a strand of colorful Mardi Gras beads to wear and take home. All Mardi Gras activities are included in regular paid admission to the museum: $8 for adults and children, $7 for seniors, and no charge for museum members and children under age one. Featured entertainers The Fiddling Thomsons are a father-and-son duo from Newmarket who have performed their lively Cajun music at festivals throughout New England. Dad Ryan is a music and dance professional who has been honored by inclusion in the traditional and touring artists rosters of the NH State Council on the Arts. He teachers fiddle, banjo, flute, piano, and other instruments. Son Brennish has been performing for many years of his young life and plays fiddle, wooden spoons, zydeco rubboard, and the pennywhistle. For more information on the Family Mardi Gras celebration, please call (603) 742-2002 or visit www.childrens-museum.org.
Photo caption: Father and son Ryan and Brennish Thomson will entertain families with Cajun tunes at the Children’s Museum of NH Mardi Gras Celebration on Sunday, Feb. 14. (Courtesy photo)
