New Milford's Full Weekend Guide: Live Music, An Apple Festival, Art And Two Brunches

NEW MILFORD, CT — New Milford is playing host to just about everything this weekend, whether your idea of a good time is a folk duo in an intimate barn, a green full of apple pie, or a brewery stage that swaps genres a night at a time. Here's the full rundown, arts and appetite both covered.

This Weekend's Arts & Entertainment

• Hildaland: Scottish & American Traditional Music — Saturday, 7:30 p.m. A duo that treats geographic borders as points of exploration rather than boundaries, blending Scottish and American folk traditions into what they call a "contemporary collage." Merryall Center, 8 Chapel Hill Road.
• Summer Camp Gallery Show — Saturday, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. Village Center for the Arts puts its summer campers' work on display at this rescheduled show, held at the town's historic farm-turned-culinary-and-arts venue. Village Center for the Arts at The Silo, 44 Upland Road.

This Weekend's Restaurants & Bars

• The Outcrops — Friday, 7 to 10 p.m. Original blues-infused rock 'n' roll on the brewery's stage. $10 cover. Housatonic River Brewing, 30 Kent Road.
• Strange Souls: A Tribute to The Doors — Saturday, 7 to 10 p.m. A Jim Morrison tribute act built on "vocal and physical camaraderie" with the late frontman. $25 cover. Housatonic River Brewing, 30 Kent Road.
• New Milford Apple Festival — Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. A baking contest, food vendors, kids' amusements and entertainment take over the green for the festival's fifth year running. Free admission. New Milford Town Green, 25 Main Street.
• Live Music on the Patio & Sunday Brunch — Saturday evening, live music on the patio; Sunday, brunch 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. A standing weekend tradition here — full bar, big beer and cocktail list, and an outdoor scene that carries from Saturday night into Sunday morning. The Abbey Restaurant & Bar, 132 Danbury Road.
• DJ Brunch — Sunday. A guest-favorite weekly tradition on the historic green: a global menu, bold cocktails and a DJ keeping brunch moving well past the usual pace. Zaza's on Main, 7 Main Street.

Between a folk concert in a converted barn, a green full of apple pie and pie-eating contests, and a brewery stage running two completely different tribute acts back to back, New Milford has built a weekend that rewards staying local from Friday night straight through Sunday brunch.