BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport hosted the Barnum Festival's Wing Ding Parade for Kids on Saturday morning. Parents pushed strollers, pulled wagons and carts and helped their children join the parade as they dressed up in their favorite costumes. The parade also included free face painting, tattoos, arts and crafts, street performers, clowns and ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- The 67th edition of the Barnum Festival in Bridgeport concludes with a wide range of events from Friday, June 26 through Sunday, June 28. The fun begins with the Barnum Skyblast ‘n (Clam)Bake on Friday, June 26, at Seaside Park. Tickets are $50 a person. A pre-concert with Steve D’Agostino begins at 6:15, followed by a free concert by the Greater Bridgeport ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- Bridgeport’s Breiana Campbell and Monroe’s Matthew Winkler share center stage for the Barnum Festival as the Queen and King for the month-long Bridgeport-based festival. Anthony Gonzalez of Derby and Victoria Fatovic of Stratford are the Prince and Princess for the court. The “Royal Family” was selected from 34 candidates who were nominated from schools in ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- “The Greatest Voices on Earth” were announced Saturday during the third annual Barnum’s Got Talent singing competition at the Downtown Cabaret Theatre in Bridgeport Winners were chosen in five categories including an opera division in a nod to P.T. Barnum’s Swedish Nightingale Jenny Lind. Jacqueline Mate, 14, of Trumbull won that division with her rendition of ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- The Barnum Festival in Bridgeport holds a special place in the heart of Gigi Chamberlain. After this weekend, it will hold special memories for her daughter as well. Alyssa Chamberlain, 19, will be one of four contestants in Saturday’s Barnum’s Got Talent opera competition at the Downtown Cabaret Theatre in Bridgeport. Her mother’s Barnum Festival highlights came ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- When she’s off stage, Charlotte Masi is a throwback girl. On stage, as fans will find out at Saturday’s Barnum’s Got Talent show at the Cabaret Theater in Bridgeport, the 10-year-old is a singing powerhouse on the fast track toward a bright performing career. Masi, the daughter of Bridgeport chiropractor Jennifer Lynne, is one of eight finalists in Saturday’s ...

STAMFORD, Conn. -- Like Whitney Houston, Stamford’s Vonetta Booker started singing with her church choir. On Saturday in Bridgeport at the Barnum’s Got Talent competition, Booker plans to wow the crowd with a favorite Whitney rendition. Booker, a realtor with Keller Williams in Stamford, plans to sing “I Have Nothing,’’ Houston’s award-winning hit from “The Bodyguard” movie, in which ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- Like the man for whom the Barnum Festival is named, Fred Hall’s roots in Bridgeport run deep. Hall is the Ringmaster for the month-long Barnum Festival, named after P.T. Barnum, the renowned entrepreneur and co-founder of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus. Barnum was also a generous philanthropist, newspaper publisher, showman, philosopher, ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- The Barnum Festival offers dockside dining and a date on the water with Barnum Sails The Sound on Saturday, May 30. Dining begins at 5:15 and the cruise leaves at 7:15 p.m. Guests will dance the night away with the WhatUp Funk Band. Tickets are $50. Click here to purchase tickets. Any ticket buyer who shares an email address with The Barnum Festival will also ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- Ringmaster Fred Hall receives his symbols of office for the 67th annual Barnum Festival at noon on Thursday, May 21, at the Holiday Inn in Bridgeport. The Whip, Whistle and Watch Luncheon serves as the kickoff event for the festival, a monthlong event created to build community spirit and honor Bridgeport’s most famous resident, P.T. Barnum. The renowned ...