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5 Family Friendly Outdoor Concerts

June 30, 2015

Posted by Lindsay Thompson

Summer is upon us! That means it’s time to soak up the sun and enjoy some great tunes. Check out these outdoor concerts for a great time the whole family can enjoy.

1. Groovin’ On The Green.

Each Thursday Fairfield’s Village Green Park offers a mix of music, food, and fun with their Groovin’ on the Green Series. Visit Farfield-city.org/Green for a full schedule.

2. Free Tuesday Night Concerts

Nature Park Amphitheater, behind Blue Ash Rec Center, Cincinnati.
Bring the family for summertime tunes in the great outdoors. This month, enjoy performances from P&G Big Band (June 2); Sycamore Community Band (June 9); Cincinnati Brass Band (June 16); and Miami Steel Band (June 23).

3. Summer Concert Series at Bridgewater Falls

Grab a lawn chair or blanket and soak up the sun and the sounds of summer each Wednesday in June. This month, enjoy live music from BlueStone Ivory (June 3); The Cincy Rockers (June 10); Brass Tracks (June 17); and Leroy Ellington Band (June 24).

4. Music@BCM

Bring the kids to BCM for outdoor evening concerts! This month, enjoy performances from Wild Carrot & Their Roots Band (June 4); Beer ‘n’ Brass featuring the Mt. Auburn Brass Fellowship (June 11); Whiskey in the Jar, featuring Roger Drawdy and the Firestarters (June 18); and The Comet Bluegrass All Stars (June 25).

5. Friday Night Grill outs at Lake Isabella in Loveland

Bring the family to the Lake for an evening of fresh grilled food and local live entertainment. Dine on the patio pier or in the air-conditioned Chart Room.

Did you know?

Our highest mountain on display is over 16 feet tall.

Our Train Journey uses 1,968 gallons of scenic colored dirt and grasses costing over $26,000

Our mountains are carved out of 58,000 square feet of spray foam!

We have over 2 miles of G track with 1 mile hidden inside mountains.

There are over 100 scratch built bridges and trestles modeled after real-life structures.

Over 130 talented craftsmen volunteered over 200,000 man-hours to create our display.

EnterTRAINment Junction was conceived in 2003, train construction began in June of 2007 and opened for business in August of 2008.

The entire display is built to be historically accurate showing railroads in 3 distinct time periods.

Opening for business in August 2008, we’ve continuously added more to layouts each month.

Over 1,800 gallons of water is used with 3 storage tanks for waterfalls and rivers.

The control panels that operate each track have over 20,000 solder joints with 8,000 lines of programming to operate multiple trains on the same track.

The walkway through our exhibit is 850 feet long.

Our train display is 25,000 sq. ft. – about ½ of a football field.

Each tunnel leads you into a new time period through your journey.

Our scale is ½” = 1 ft. So, a 6 ft person in life is modeled as a 3” person in our display.

We have hidden 10 dinosaurs in our display – can you find them all?

All of our volunteers leave a personal touch on the items they work on – you can even see a photo of some in their buildings!

The seats in our museum are from Dayton train station from 1900.

We’ve had visitors from all 50 states and 37 countries!

We recently added a Bates Motel to our display – have you spotted it yet?

The tilt in our tilt room is 25 degrees.

During construction, we had to dig into the ground to build the Ames Room.

When you take a picture with flash on a camera of the steamboat, you’ll hear thunder after like it was a flash of lightning.

During your journey, we simulate night and day with 15 minutes of daytime followed by 5 minutes of night.

The switchback line has 2 trains. The one going up the hill has no logs and the train going downhill are fully loaded with logs.

The Coney Island amusement park display is a replica of Cincinnati’s Coney Island as it looked in 1965 – complete with working rides.