Ice Cream Sundae Fun Day!
Joyful Canvas
Penn Woods Theatre in Miniature
Across The Pond
The Celtic band Across the Pond will provide the musical entertainment to cap the Eicher Arts Center’s annual Ice Cream Sundae Day the afternoon of June 9.
Admission is free. Anyone in attendance may stop at the historic Eicher Center, 409 Cocalico St. In Ephrata Borough’s Grater Park, to get an ice cream sundae, starting at 2 p.m. and continuing while supplies last, probably till about 5 p.m. Hot dogs and other food and drinks will also be available.
The event will be held rain or shine. People may bring their own folding chairs with them.
Across the Pond will perform in a tent outside the Eicher Center from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
According to Dan Diviney of Across the Pond, “From the Burren to the Highlands to Appalachia, we find the best tunes, then add our own unique arrangements. From slow airs to driving jigs and reels, to lilting slip jigs, to soulful love songs and ballads, we aim to please.”
The group calls its music Celtic Trad - High Octane, and has performed at numerous festivals in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
The music is only part of the family fun at the Eicher’s June 9 event.
Joyful Canvas will be painting children’s faces and handing out balloon creations from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Inside the Eicher House, Penn’s Woods Theater in Miniature will be displaying impressive theatrical and puppetry skills with two showings of the play Rumpelstilskin, one starting at 2:15 p.m. and one at 3:15 p.m.
The Eicher House was built as a farmhouse for the Eicher family some 290 years ago. Four decades ago the structure had deteriorated and was threatened with demolition. The Eicher Arts Center, Inc., a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization, was formed to help transform the building into a showplace venue for public cultural and entertainment events that also is rented out for weddings and other private gatherings.
An event featuring ice cream sundaes on the second Sunday in June has become an annual Eicher Arts Center tradition, and often attracts the largest crowd of any event in the organization’s series of admission-free Sunday afternoon shows. Donations to the arts center will be accepted.
Face painting and balloon creations by Joyful Canvas were popular with youngster’s at last year’s Ice Cream Sundae Day. Joyful Canvas will be back at the 2024 event on June 9.
The group Across the Pond will play high-octane Celtic music as part of the Eicher Arts Center’s Ice Cream Sundae Day on June 9.