4th of July
 

We are heading down for our Design visit the first week of July. Are there special events on or around the 4th?

SukiChu:

For a place like The Villages, there's surprisingly little acknowledgement of this important holiday! No fireworks in TV - safety and fire-prevention are usually cited - but some municipalities in the area may put on a display. That depends a great deal upon the municipality's finances!

There's not even a parade at the Squares. :-(

But, folks always have fun, just the same! All I'd ask is that every resident display at least one flag, 'though I'd prefer that your street frontage be lined with flags!

I'm guessing that you don't have any place at which to display flags, yet. Still, you can be patriotic in whatever you do!

Welcome.

SWR
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I could of swore there performances by several groups at each of the town squares last year


Chris

We were staying at Holiday Inn waiting to close on our new CYV on July 5th. So we walked over to SS and they had Rocky & the Rollers for entertainment along with a couple of groups of baton twirlers and the like, sorta the stuff you see on Fat Tuesday. It was a very hot day and it was a huge crowd, you needed to be there early to find a place.

Mt. Dora, Tavares & Leesburg all have nice events. All have fireworks over respective lakes. Mt. Dora gets my vote as it is a very cool little town.

On July 3rd at the Savannah Center the New Horizons Concert Band and the Villages Concert Band combine and put on a wonderful patriotic performance. There are 2 performances - 3:00pm and 7:00pm. Get tickets ahead of time if possible - if you have friends here.

July 3 Concert
 

We are looking forward to seeing the concert - we came down last year with every intention to go. Went to the box office about 2 weeks prior to the date of the concert and the person working told us it had been sold out for quite some time. This year, ordered tickets as soon as I saw they were available! Can't wait to hear this group in performance...I timed our LSV several years ago so I could watch a rehearsal - they were making good music and having lots of fun doing it!