Westport Historical Society

Music and magic top marquee at garden marketplace
Veteran’s  Green ( adjacent to WHS)
June 13th,  9:00 am to 5:00 pm

The Artisan Craft and Garden Marketplace, set for the grounds of the Westport Historical Society, 25 Avery Place, and the adjacent Veterans Green on Sunday, June 13, will feature music by singer-songwriter Irena Hart and her band Heart Strings and magic by Tony Spero.

Irena Hart

Admission to the family-friendly marketplace is free.

The marketplace takes place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in conjunction with the 19th annual Hidden Garden Tour. The garden tour will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets are $35 for WHS members in advance; $45 nonmembers in advance; $50 general admission day of tour. For tickets, call 203-222-1424 or buy on-line.

The tour and the marketplace benefit the myriad programs of the Westport Historical Society, which is an educational organization dedicated to preserving, presenting and celebrating the history of Westport.

Irena Hart and her band will perform from 1:30 to 3 p.m. at Veterans Green. Not only is Hart a talented musician with an exploding career, but she also has dedicated herself to being a philanthropist with her nonprofit organization Harmony4Kidz, which seeks to feed, clothe and find shelter for homeless youth.

Her music style gives an audience the opportunity to dance or to just listen. A guitarist, she is accompanied by a violinist and cellist. Her album “Heart Strings,” also the title of her first single, contemplates love and keeps her audience on the dance floor.

Tony Spero will perform strolling magic from 11 a.m. to noon. Spero’s interest in magic began at the age of 8, and he received his formal training under British magician Derek W. Hilton, with whom he collaborated for 10 years. Spero explains strolling magic on his web site as performing “magic one-on-one in small groups of people. Some of the most mind-blowing magic is up close and personal as it happens right in the spectator’s hands.”

Catch a Healthy Habit Café of Fairfield, an organic and vegan restaurant, will be serving lunch, and among the fare will be salads, sandwiches and smoothies.

Numerous artisans and vendors from throughout the area will be on hand with a trove of garden and home treasures.

Among the artisans are:

• From Farm to Market: sustainable garden products and small home items

• RF Steelwerks: welded steel garden ornaments

• M. Saverine Decoupage: plates

• Fieldstone: floral boxes, sachets, totes, cosmetic bags

• Pam Older Designs; easy-to-wear handmade jewelry in silver and gold

• Ostilly Collections: Designer-inspired handbags, straw bags, evening bags, belt and buckles, sarongs

• Vasiliki Lagis Handbags: leather, snake skin embossed

• Cynthia Alexander: bejeweled lavender pillows, precious and semi-precious jewelry

• Buckle Bling: one-of-a-kind belt buckles, pins, necklaces

• Diamer Fine Jewelry: 14K and 18K gold with diamonds, precious and semi-precious stones

• Suzanne Saltzman: evening bags with semi-precious stones, silk and cotton shawls

• Elizabeth Stewart Designs: unique crafted items, napkin rings, silk flower pots, knitted items

• Laszlo Accessories: Fashion and hair accessories

• Jean Forte Gifts/Mixed Nuts: Vintage and new home accessories including silver, china, glass

• Oliver Green: Fabric D-Ring Belts

• Lula-Belle: sterling silver and fashion jewelry

• Anita Designs: home furnishings, accessories and gifts

• Brigitte Recchione: decoupage

• Fete: vintage inspired garden and home accessories

• The Olive Oil Factory; oils, vinegars and bread dippers

• Millie Rae’s: home and garden items

• Yumnuts Naturals: six varieties of all natural dry roasted nuts

The sponsors are BNY Mellon Wealth Management, the lead sponsor; Berchem, Moses & Devlin, Attorneys & Counselors at Law; The Fresh Market; Kowalsky Bros.; Leigh Overland Architect; Patriot National Bank; Weichert Capital Properties & Estates; Contour Landscaping Co.; Peter Romano/Robin Tauck Foundation; Fountainhead Wines & Distillations; Green Village Initiatives; Contour Landscaping Co.; HSBC; SIR Development/Westport Residential; Venture Photography; Catamount Wealth Management; Cindy and Rob Citrone; Darton Insurance; Goldman, Gruder and Woods; William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty;Izzo’s; Fat Cat Pie Co./Foun Trek Bicycles; Ruth Watson of Coldwell Banker; James Love Lee, The Edge of William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty; The Gibbons Group of William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty; David Waldman of Adams Realty; Mary Ann Laurita of Prudential Connecticut Realty; Janice Parker Landscape Design; Trillium Architects; and Plantscapes Organics. ; The Fresh Market; Garelick & Herbs; and Isabelle et Vincent. Connecticut Cottages & Gardens Magazine is the media sponsor.