We’ve got live music, the quirkiest parade you've ever seen, a fashion show, pie contest, and hilarity all day long! The festival is free and fun for all ages!
Where - Adamant Co-op (corner of Haggett and Center Roads)
BFF schedule:
10:00 Pre-madness meanderings, with local naturalists Richard Czaplinski, Nora Estrin and Charles Taylor — a walk along the shores of Sodom Pond (the source of the blackflies, well, sort of).
10:00 Live Music: Rick Winston and Franklin Heyburn
10:30 Live Music: Bliss Hill: Lizzy Mandell, Christine Malcolm, Rudy Dauth
11:00 General mayhem begins:
• Grill opens - jumbo hot dogs, chicken sausage, salmon burgers, black bean cakes, delectable salads and baked goods
• Silent Auction opens - ooh la la, more great stuff than you can shake a bottle of bug dope at
• Test your knowledge of the insect world with Blackfly Jeopardy
11:30 - Live music: Pitz Quattrone and The Freelancers: Michael Giammusso on Djembe, Norman Carter electric Bass, Chris Robertson electric slide guitar
12:00- Live music: Girls Night Out: featuring Nancy MacDowell, Carrie Cook of Jeffersonville and Debbie Yacovone of Morrisville
12:30 - Blackfly Fashion Show with commentator Burr Morse.
1:30 - Live music: Carol Hausner and Danny Coane - offering a blend of traditional and contemporary Bluegrass and Americana
2:00 Blackfly Parade. Get out your best marching shoes and dust off your kazoo. The parade features eclectic costumes, a marching band, synchronized bug zappers, local tractors, and livestock floats with four-legged fertilizers. Past parades have been described as “campy,” “a whole lot of fun,” and “the Macy’s Day Parade of the Insect World.”
2:30 - Live music: Ezra Miller - a 14 year old from Hardwick. He has been studying fiddle with Sarah Hotchkiss since he was 8. He is featured in this year's Young Traditions Showcase.
Silent Auction ends
2:45 - Blackfly Pie Contest. Enter as a solo cook, or create your confection as a family! Hungry judges award entries for Taste, Blackfly Homage, and Artistry.
3:30 - Live music: State and Main - a barbershop quartet featuring Brooke Pearson, Ed Hutchinson, Eric Oberg, Bill Pelton

Jan 28, 2025, 6 to 8:30 PM

Jan 31, 2025, 7:30 to 9:30 PM

Feb 1, 2025, 9 to 11 AM