Connecticut's Old State House

Summer Concert Series: I Guru
2022-09-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
TODAY: I Guru …
Founded by Dennis Minott, Royal Music (I Guru) is designed to collaborate with different musicians and bands. The group performs reggae and gospel with guitar, bass and piano.
Join us for our annual FREE Summer Concert Series! Stop by every Friday at lunchtime to hear a different band play each week on the west side of Connecticut’s Old State House. Bring your lunch and enjoy the music! Concerts begin at noon and will also be live-streamed on our Facebook page and YouTube channel.
#summerconcertseries #reggae #gospel

Connecticut's Old State House Farmers Market
2022-09-02 10:00 - 14:00, 2022-08-26 10:00 - 14:00, 2022-08-19 10:00 - 14:00, 2022-08-12 10:00 - 14:00, 2022-08-05 10:00 - 14:00, 2022-07-29 10:00 - 14:00, 2022-07-22 10:00 - 14:00, 2022-07-15 10:00 - 14:00 and 2 more dates
Stop by Connecticut’s Old State House Farmers Market every Friday from 10am to 2pm between July 1st and October 28th .
In 1643, the General Court of Connecticut established a weekly Market to be held in Hartford. Come shop local and visit the current Farmers Market, established in 2011 with that original Market in mind. Our goal is to offer a variety of products from as many farmers and artisan vendors as possible. We are committed to offering a vibrant marketplace in downtown Hartford where local farmers and artisans can enjoy coming together with the community to share the best of what Connecticut has to offer. The Old State House Farmers Market runs from late spring through mid-fall, ensuring that our patrons enjoy the ultimate in seasonal variety for many months of the year!
NEW THIS YEAR: SNAP ACCEPTED
For the first time, Connecticut’s Old State House Farmers Market will accept Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) tokens. Simply bring your EBT card to the table with the sign that says “SNAP/EBT Accepted Here”. The Market Manager will swipe your card for the amount that you want.
VISIT US
Connecticut’s Old State House Farmers Market, located in bustling and historic downtown Hartford, provides local workers and city residents with access to farm fresh produce and the opportunity to experience a bit of country atmosphere right in the heart of the city! Featuring Connecticut Grown farmers, crafters, and lively music, shoppers at the Farmers Market can feel good knowing that they are supporting local agriculture and helping to build the local economy.
Connecticut’s Old State House Farmers Market is located at 800 Main Street in Hartford, on the East brick plaza near the lawn, within the wrought iron fence surrounding Connecticut’s Old State House. We are conveniently located on the city bus route and are within a few blocks of free DASH shuttle service stops. Metered parking is available on nearby side streets, and Connecticut’s Old State House will validate parking for the State House Square Garage at 55 Market Street, which reduces your cost to a flat $5 fee when you exit the garage.
While you’re here, make a trip inside Connecticut’s Old State House. Visit our restored historic Senate and House chambers, learn the stories of famous Connecticut residents, discover Connecticut’s role in history and explore our unique Museum of Curiosities. Walk the halls, hear the stories, be inspired! Connecticut’s Old State House is open from noon to 5:00 pm, with the last admission at 4:00 pm.

#farmersmarket

Summer Concert Series: Red & Yellow
2022-08-26 12:00 - 13:00
TODAY: Red & Yellow …
The acoustic duo of Danny Reilert and Debra Argosy harmonize beautifully as they share seven decades of the most beloved popular music.
Visit Red & Yellow’s website
Hear a sample of Red & Yellow’s music
Join us for our annual FREE Summer Concert Series! Stop by every Friday at lunchtime to hear a different band play each week on the west side of Connecticut’s Old State House. Bring your lunch and enjoy the music! Concerts begin at noon and will also be live-streamed on our Facebook page and YouTube channel.
#acoustic #summerconcertseries #harmony

Hartford Live: Free Outdoor Concert
2022-08-25 18:00 - 21:00
The City of Hartford and GoodWorks Entertainment present FREE outdoor concerts at Connecticut’s Old State House on Thursday nights through the summer. Come enjoy live local music, food trucks, a beer garden, local vendors and more!
Tonight’s Artist: Jose Paulo & Friends Present: The Rio Samba Show!
#freeconcert #outdoorconcert #hartfordlive #hartfordhasit

Connecticut History Day 2022: Students in Conversation
2022-08-25 12:00 - 13:00
Online event … Meet some of the sixty-one Connecticut middle and high school students who represented our state in the recent National History Day competition and hear about one student/teacher team who traveled to Hawaii to participate in the Sacrifice for Freedom Student & Teacher Institute.
Team CT students joined almost 3,000 students from across the United States and beyond who advanced through the gauntlet of school, regional, state, and affiliate contests to reach the national stage. Students presented their research in one of five formats: documentary, exhibit, paper, performance, and website. Students’ projects all related to this year’s theme of Debate and Diplomacy: Successes, Failures, Consequences. Enjoy hearing from these award-winning students about their experiences.
We will also be joined by Regina Lee from Vernon Middle School who participated in the Sacrifice for Freedom Student & Teacher Institute with her former student, Nicolas Angeli, and John Smith-Horn, a teacher at Timothy Edwards Middle School and CT’s 2022 nominee for the Patriciate Behring Teacher of the Year Junior Division.
Moderated by CT History Day State Coordinator, Rebecca Taber
Register for FREE here: https://bit.ly/CHD2022Conversation

Conversations at Noon on the CT Freedom Trail: Lasting Legacies: The Story of Adam Jackson
2022-08-23 12:00 - 13:00
Online Event … Join Lynette Fisher and Nicole Thomas, the Hempsted Houses staff, for a conversation where they navigate the legacy of slavery in the Connecticut Colony. The discussion will focus primarily on the story of Adam Jackson and how his experience intersects with the Hempsted family. They will discuss the landmark court case in which Adam’s parents, Joan and John Jackson, fought for freedom. Also included in this talk will be a short overview of the Hempsted Historic District and the inclusion of the new Black Heritage Trail within the district.
There are 142 structures in the Hempsted Historic District, with the earliest dating from 1678. This urban neighborhood developed in the mid 19th-century from the subdivision of lands owned by the Hempsted and Holt families. Part of the land was developed by local abolitionists to provide housing for free Black residents.
Please register here: https://bit.ly/CFTHempstedHouses

Summer Concert Series: Stanley Maxwell
2022-08-19 12:00 - 13:00
TODAY: Stanley Maxwell …
Stanley Maxwell returns for their first live performance in over three years, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of their first concert at Connecticut’s Old State House in August 2002 with a free summer concert at the Farmers Market from Noon to 1pm.
The band had also performed as part of the venue’s annual free lunchtime summer concert series in August 2003.
Stop by at lunchtime to hear the Stanley Maxwell quartet play their brand of modern jazz on the west side of Connecticut’s Old State House. Bring your lunch and enjoy the music! Concert begins at Noon and will also be live-streamed on both the venue’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. Tickets or reservations are not needed to attend.
The Summer Concert Series at Connecticut’s Old State House is sponsored by the Richard P. Garmany Fund of the Hartford Foundation of Public Giving and the Evelyn Preston Memorial Fund.
Stanley Maxwell also previously performed at the fourth annual Connecticut Brewfest at the Old State House in July 2005, presented by the Connecticut Historical Society Museum and Library and sponsored by the Hartford Advocate.
Hear a sample of the Stanley Maxwell band’s music
Join us for our annual FREE Summer Concert Series! Stop by every Friday at lunchtime to hear a different band play each week on the west side of Connecticut’s Old State House. Bring your lunch and enjoy the music! Concerts begin at noon and will also be live-streamed on our Facebook page and YouTube channel.
#stanleymaxwell #summerconcertseries #jazz

Hartford Live: Free Outdoor Concert
2022-08-18 18:00 - 21:00
The City of Hartford and GoodWorks Entertainment present FREE outdoor concerts at Connecticut’s Old State House on Thursday nights through the summer. Come enjoy live local music, food trucks, a beer garden, local vendors and more!
Tonight’s Artist: Neighbor & Neil Francis
#freeconcert #outdoorconcert #hartfordlive #hartfordhasit

Summer Concert Series: Jake Kulak Band
2022-08-12 12:00 - 13:00
TODAY: Jake Kulak and the LowDown Band …
Come enjoy this rocking blues band as you eat lunch on the lawn! Jake Kulak and the LowDown Band won the CT Blues Society Band Competition in 2018, and performed at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in 2019. They have also been nominated for a New England Music Award in the “Best New Act of the Year” category and were one of 6 Boston-area bands to win the the House of Blues emerging artist competition.
Visit Jake Kulak’s website
Hear a sample of Jake Kulak’s music
Join us for our annual FREE Summer Concert Series! Stop by every Friday at lunchtime to hear a different band play each week on the west side of Connecticut’s Old State House. Bring your lunch and enjoy the music! Concerts begin at noon and will also be live-streamed on our Facebook page and YouTube channel.
#jakekulak #rock #blues #summerconcertseries

Hartford Live: Free Outdoor Concert
2022-08-11 18:00 - 21:00
The City of Hartford and GoodWorks Entertainment present FREE outdoor concerts at Connecticut’s Old State House on Thursday nights through the summer. Come enjoy live local music, food trucks, a beer garden, local vendors and more!
Tonight’s Artist: West End Blend & Bella’s Bartok
#freeconcert #outdoorconcert #hartfordlive #hartfordhasit

Hartford Live: Free Outdoor Concert
2022-08-11 18:00 - 21:00
The City of Hartford and GoodWorks Entertainment present FREE outdoor concerts at Connecticut’s Old State House on Thursday nights through the summer. Come enjoy live local music, food trucks, a beer garden, local vendors and more!
Tonight’s Artist: announcement coming soon
#freeconcert #outdoorconcert #hartfordlive #hartfordhasit

Summer Concert Series: Jeremy Haddad
2022-08-05 12:00 - 13:00
TODAY: Jeremy Haddad …
An acoustic performer by heart, this friendly, bearded bard finds his musical calling in the simple arrangement of guitar and vocals. His songs and lyrics reflect an ever-changing landscape of emotionality, derived from common themes of love, anger, curiosity, and the indescribable task of being human. Living happily as just a drop in an ocean, every melody and note uttered is a tribute to the passing tides of his imagination — as many of his songs portray fabrications of people, thoughts and situations.
Visit Jeremy Haddad’s website
Hear a sample of Jeremy Haddad’s music
Join us for our annual FREE Summer Concert Series! Stop by every Friday at lunchtime to hear a different band play each week on the west side of Connecticut’s Old State House. Bring your lunch and enjoy the music! Concerts begin at noon and will also be live-streamed on our Facebook page and YouTube channel.https://fb.me/e/mjQJY3SbV
#jeremyhaddad #singersongwriter #summerconcertseries

Hartford Live: Free Outdoor Concert by Burning Spear
2022-08-04 18:00 - 21:00
The City of Hartford and GoodWorks Entertainment present FREE outdoor concerts at Connecticut’s Old State House on Thursday nights through the summer. Come enjoy live local music, food trucks, a beer garden, local vendors and more!
Tonight’s Artist: Reggae legends Burning Spear
#freeconcert #outdoorconcert #reggae #hartfordlive #hartfordhasit

National Votes for Women Trail: Author Susan Campbell Speaks
2022-08-04 12:00 - 12:45
Join us to celebrate Isabella Beecher Hooker, an early women’s suffrage activist, as her legacy is added to the National Votes for Women Trail!
At 10:00am, Isabella and her husband John will be honored with a trail marker plaque at their former home at 140 Hawthorn Street in Hartford. (details here)
At noon, the celebration moves to the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center at 77 Forest St Hartford, where Susan Campbell, author of “Tempest Tossed: The Spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker,” will discuss the 1877 Married Women’s Property Law, and Isabella and John Hooker’s work for women’s rights.
This joint program with the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center is part of the Legislative Landmarks Series.Please register here

Summer Concert Series: Inner Groove
2022-07-29 12:00 - 13:00
TODAY: Inner Groove …
Bring your lunch and enjoy Inner Groove as they play an eclectic mix of popular rock and classic rock, pop and country. Their covers include only the best mix of vocally-rich hits from past and present.
Visit Inner Groove’s website
Hear a sample of Inner Groove’s music
Join us for our annual FREE Summer Concert Series! Stop by every Friday at lunchtime to hear a different band play each week on the west side of Connecticut’s Old State House. Bring your lunch and enjoy the music! Concerts begin at noon and will also be live-streamed on our Facebook page and YouTube channel.
#innergroove #summerconcertseries

Conversations at Noon: The Importance of Venture Smith
2022-07-26 12:00 - 13:00
Join a lively panel of Connecticut-based historians as they discuss the fascinating life and legacy of Venture Smith, one of the very few enslaved people who left behind a first-person account of their experience.
Venture Smith’s autobiography, “A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa: But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America. Related by Himself ” was published in New London, Connecticut in 1798. Venture Smith was freed in the 1860s, and went on to become a successful Connecticut landowner and businessman.
Today’s panel will include Elizabeth Norman of CT Explored, Elizabeth Wood, Executive Director of the Stonington Historical Society, and Dr. Karl Stofco, East Haddam town historian and expert on the Venture Smith family genealogy.
Dr. Stofko will describe how he started Venture Smith Day more than 25 years ago, and how the annual fall event in East Haddam has grown each year to include new scholarship and newly discovered descendants.
Elizabeth Wood will discuss the new permanent exhibition about Smith at the Lighthouse Museum in Stonington, which incorporates new research and findings from an archaeological dig at a site nearby where Smith was enslaved.
Elizabeth Norman will talk about making Smith’s published life story (1798) accessible to teachers and elementary and middle school students, so they may engage more honestly in the history of the founding of Connecticut.
Free Event
Please register here: https://bit.ly/CFTVentureSmith

Summer Concert Series: Snowhaus
2022-07-22 12:00 - 13:00
TODAY: Snowhaus …
Calling themselves a Millennial power trio, this party punk band brings the energy to every show.
Hear Snowhaus on YouTube
Join us for our annual FREE Summer Concert Series! Stop by every Friday at lunchtime to hear a different band play each week on the west side of Connecticut’s Old State House. Bring your lunch and enjoy the music! Concerts begin at noon and will also be live-streamed on our Facebook page and YouTube channel.
#snowhaus #punk #summerconcertseries

Summer Concert Series: Nu Haven Kapelye
2022-07-15 12:00 - 13:00
TODAY: Nu Haven Kapelye …
Come hear the biggest klezmer band in New England play traditional folk music that draws upon the history of Ashkenazi Judaism and Eastern European melodies.
Nu Haven Kapelye can include up to 30 musicians at a time, much like the Big Bands of the 1940s. Featuring large string and horn sections, the group welcomes both professional and amateur musicians.
Visit the Nu Haven Kapelye website
Hear a sample of their music
Join us for our annual FREE Summer Concert Series! Stop by every Friday at lunchtime to hear a different band play each week on the west side of Connecticut’s Old State House. Bring your lunch and enjoy the music! Concerts begin at noon and will also be live-streamed on our Facebook page and YouTube channel.
#nuhavenkapelye #klezmer #summerconcertseries

Summer Concert Series: Nelson Bello Jazz Trio
2022-07-08 12:00 - 13:00
TODAY: Nelson Bello Jazz Trio …
Fronted by Nelson Bello, this eponymous Latin Jazz Trio enjoys performing their Afro-Cuban and Caribbean-flavored jazz. A well-known Latin percussionist and Hartford native, Nelson began his musical studies at the Hartford Conservatory Jazz Summer Program at the age of 13 and the Performing Arts Academy in Hartford. At the age of 15 he traveled to Cuba for the International Jazz Festival (with Latin Flavor, now better known as Insight) and invited guest pianist Chucho Valdez.Over the years, Nelson performed with the likes of Andy Gonzalez, Cheo Feliciano, Ismael Miranda, Tony Vega, Charles Flores, Zaccai and Luques Curtis, among others.
Hear a sample of Nelson Bello Jazz
Join us for our annual FREE Summer Concert Series! Stop by every Friday at lunchtime to hear a different band play each week on the East Lawn of Connecticut’s Old State House. Bring your lunch and enjoy the music! Concerts begin at noon and will also be live-streamed on our Facebook page and YouTube channel.#nelsonbello #jazz #summerconcertseries

Summer Concert Series: Fiesta del Norte
2022-07-01 12:00 - 13:00
TODAY: Fiesta del Norte …
Come hear Connecticut’s first mariachi band, Fiesta del Norte perform the traditional folk and popular music of Mexico. Dressed in traditional sombreros and “charro” outfits, their repertoire spans from the Mariachis of Jalisco to the Nortenas of Chihuahua, to the harp music of Vera Cruz, down to the Marimba music of Chiapas. All this played on authentic instruments such as guitar, vihuela, guitarron, violin and trumpet, with beautiful singing throughout. Song translations, storytelling and cultural insights are interwoven between musical numbers.
Visit the Fiesta del Norte website
Hear a sample of Fiesta del Norte’s music
Join us for our annual FREE Summer Concert Series! Stop by every Friday at lunchtime to hear a different band play each week on the East Lawn of Connecticut’s Old State House. Bring your lunch and enjoy the music! Concerts begin at noon and will also be live-streamed on our Facebook page and YouTube channel.#summerconcertseries #mariachi

CT History Day 2022: Students in Conversation
2022-06-30 12:00 - 13:00
On June 30th at noon, virtually “meet” some of the sixty-one middle and high school students who represented Connecticut in the prestigious National History Day competition this month. This hard-working cohort joined close to 3,000 other students from across the United States who advanced through the gauntlet of regional and state contests to reach the national stage.
Tasked with generating original research relating to the 2022 theme, “Debate and Diplomacy: Successes, Failures and Consequences,” the students submitted their work in one of five formats: documentary film, website, exhibit, paper or performance.
Hear fascinating first-person stories from these award-winning students about their challenging projects and the impact Connecticut History Day has had on them, along with commentary from our featured speaker, teacher John Smith-Horn, Connecticut’s nominee for the Patriciate Behring Teacher of the Year and current instructor at Timothy Edwards Middle School in South Windsor.
This online event is sponsored by Connecticut’s Old State House, home of the Connecticut History Day program.
Find all the details here:
https://fb.me/e/1tRQzmFzA
﻿#cthistoryday #nationalhistoryday #conversationsatnoon #ctoldstatehouse
