This week in Central New York we celebrate Pride, our immigrants and refugees, the Polish community, strawberries, and more. Clinton Square is home to the annual Polish Festival from Friday through Sunday, featuring food, music and dancing. Pride Month is commemorated at the Inner Harbor on Saturday with a parade and festival.
Also on Saturday, Schiller Park in Syracuse is devoted to World Refugee Day and Navarino Orchards will be hosting its first ever Strawberry Festival. If that was not already enough, country music superstar Lainey Wilson will perform at an almost sold out Lakeview Amphitheater on Friday night. More live music this week occurs at the Jazz in the City event at Skiddy Park, the Custom Taylor Band performs at a “Night Market” at the CNY regional Market on Thursday, and there are Juneteenth concerts on Wednesday.
From Wednesday to Sunday, you can get an up close look at vintage World War II airplanes at Hancock Airport. Tribute musical acts, history talks, outdoor events and more fill in the rest of the calendar in this jam-packed first week of summer. Know of an event you would like to see on this list? Email us at least two weeks in advance at features@syracuse.
com . Syracuse Hancock International Power will be roaring this week as famous planes from aviation past come to Syracuse. Running each day from Wednesday through Sunday at 9 a.
m. to 5 p.m.
, the tour includes cockpit tours of a B-29 and a chance to get a close-up look at many World War II era air.
