The Weinberg Center

The Weinberg Center for the Arts is located at 20 West Patrick Street. Here you can attend performances by the FrederickTowne Players and the Fun Company as well as programs by regional and national entertainers. For information on performances and prices call 301-694-8585 or check out their website at www.weinbergcenter.org

Clustered Spires Sweet Adeline Chorus

The Clustered Spires
Chorus of Frederick Maryland performs locally and regionally, attends regional education events, and competes with other Sweet Adeline choruses in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey. Affiliated with Sweet Adeline International, a worldwide organization of women singers dedicated to advancing the musical art for of Barbershop harmony through eduction and performance. For more information call or visit their website at ... http://www.harmonize.com/clusteredspires

The Maryland Theatre Marquee

ON STAGE

Broadway at The Maryland Theatre

Purchase the series today and never hear the words sold out! Get the best seats before individual shows go on sale! Same great seats to every show! Up to a 20% discount over single ticket prices! First right to renew the same seats year after year! Never wait in line for Broadway seats again!

My Fair Lady – November 6, 2001

Titanic – January 31, 2002

Annie Get Your Gun – April 1, 2002

Cabaret – May 19, 2002

For more details visit... http://www.mdtheatre.org/marquee.htm

Movie Finder

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Local Movie Listings

Yahoo offers a listing of local movie theaters and showtimes on the Internet.

To connect to this handy movie guide visit...
http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/showtimes.html

The Rose Hill Manor Children´s Museum

The Rose Hill Manor Children´s Museum is located at 1611 North Market Street in Frederick. 301-694-1648.

The Children´s Museum of Rose Hill Manor Park was established in 1972. It is the first "hands-on" history museum in the United States designed for elementary school aged children.

The Children´s Museum is a conceptual tour program. The tour is given by trained Museum Interpreters. The exhibits at Rose Hill Manor Park are incorporated into the museum tour.

The Children´s Museum provides up to a two hour educational tour,an education resource for school groups, teachers, special populations, senior citizens, and families, pleasurable family learning experiences in a park / museum setting, hands-on experiences designed for elementary school aged children and acquaints teachers, parents, and interested adults with the techniques and methods utilized in museum participatory education and inquiry based learning.

Visit their website at...
http://www.co.frederick.md.us/govt/parks/Rosehill.htm/#children%20museum

The Frederick Orchestra

The Frederick Orchestra offers musical treats on holidays and other ocassions.

Visit their website http://www.frederickorchestra.org/

Jumbo´s Pumpkin Patch

Homestead Farms is the home of Jumbo´s Pumpkin Patch. Homestead is 131 acres nestled in beautiful Middletown Valley. This is home to some of Maryland´s most scenic countryside. Homestead Farms is a working dairy farm owned by Donald and Greta Huffer. Jumbo´s began seven years ago with a roadside wagon and 1-1/2 acres of pumpkins. They now offer 15 acres of "pick your own" pumpkins plus many other family activities. Farm visitors can enjoy hayrides to the pumpkin patch and corn maze, petting zoo, pony rides, concession stand, and country store with fall crafts. Jumbo´s offers everything you need to decorate your home for fall, including: numerous varieties and sizes of pumpkins and ornamental gourds, corn shocks, straw bales, Indian corn and farm grown chrysanthemums. The farm is located at 6521 Holter Rd in Middletown. Call (301) 371-4713 or visit their website http://www.jumbos.org

The Sounds of Summer at Baker Park

Throughout the summer months in the City of Frederick, you can listen to beautiful music at Baker Park. The Park located at 2nd St. and Carroll Parkway in Frederick, hosts a variety of shows sponsored by the City Office of Special Events and other community groups. Each Sunday at 7pm you may hear musical offerings of Jazz, Reggae, Blue Grass, Classical and more… Admission is FREE!

ERASER

Partially filmed in Gaithersburg, near Frederick, ERASER is the story of John Kruger a U.S. marshal who is assigned to protect Lee Cullen, who works for the Cyrez Corporation, a company that manufactures top secret weapons for the military. (For more information on this movie click the "products" icon at http://frederick.lifetips.com )

Schifferstadt Architectural Museum

Built in 1756, the Schifferstadt Architectural Museum located at 1110 Rosemont Avenue in Frederick is one of the country´s best examples of German architecture and is also Frederick City´s oldest extant building. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. and Sunday from 12 - 4 p.m.. The museum closes during the winter months. You can call ahead at 301-663-3885.

National Fallen Firefighters Memorial

Work is now underway to create a National Memorial Park in Emmitsburg, Maryland near Frederick, to honor all firefighters. When completed, the National Memorial Park will be the first permanent park in the United States honoring all members of the fire service. The park will include the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial designated by Congress in 1990 as the official monument to all fallen firefighters. Plaques around the monument bear the names of over 2,000 firefighters who have died in the line of duty since 1981.

The park features a brick "Walk of Honor" that will connect the monument, the historic Fallen Firefighters Memorial Chapel, and memorial plazas. Each brick on the walkway will bear a personal inscription. The first section of the walkway is now in place. Proceeds from the sale of these bricks are helping to finance construction of the Park.

phone: (301)447-1365 or visit their website at http://www.firehero.org/

Hobbytown Usa

For a variety of hobby supplies, Hobbytown Usa located at 1305 W. 7th Street in Frederick is a great place to visit. Phone: 301-694-7395 or visit their website.
http://www.htufrederickmd.com/

What´s Happening!

For more great places to visit for Family Entertainment, check out the "Calendar of Events" category on the homepage!

Here you will find great tips, arranged in a monthly order, of events and activities in and around Frederick!

If you would like to submit an event, please submit a tip on the homepage of Frederick-Tips!!!

Frederick Piano Service

Does your piano need tuning? Frederick Piano Service
Owner/Tuner, Matt Puziss has been conservatory trained in both piano tuning and piano repair. He has served the Frederick area since 1987, offering affordable rates to residential customers. Saturday appointments are available upon request.

For rates and appointments call Matt at 301-695-2530.

Choral Arts Society of Frederick County

Choral Arts Society of Frederick County provides an opportunity for members of the community to study vocal techniques and to perform fine choral music. They work to foster an appreciation of the musical arts by promoting choral group singing and by offering quality musical productions to the community. Membership in the Choral Arts Society is open to all individuals interested in choral music and willing to accept the responsibilities of membership. The Choral Arts Society is supported in part by grants from the Frederick Arts Council and the Maryland State Arts Council. They also rely on ticket sales, candy sales, paid advertisements in concert programs, and the
generous donations of funding and services from the local community.

Phone: 301-662-3218 or visit their website at...
http://justcauses.net/casf

Guarding Tess

Filmed partially in Hagerstown, near Frederick, Guarding Tess is a fictional story about a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint protecting Tess Carlisle, widow of a former U.S. President. He finds that she has requested that he not be rotated but instead return to be her permanent detail. A funny movie starring Shirley MacLaine and Nicholas Cage. (For more information on this movie click the product icon at http://frederick.lifetips.com )

The Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo

The Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo is a 30 acre park located at 13019 Catoctin Furnace Rd. in Thurmont, Maryland, that offers more ways to meet, feed, and sometimes touch exotic animals than any other place in the area and beyond. From bears to boas, macaws to monkeys, panthers to prairie dogs, you can meet over 350 exotic animals. From tiger, jaguar, cougar and bear to deer, tortoise, chinchilla and hedgehog, this zoo has it all. Lizard, alligator and python are among the reptiles you will meet and you can even hand-feed goats, sheep, donkeys, ducks and other animals in their petting area.

Privately owned here's a direct quote from their website…

"Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo is a private, family-owned and professionally operated facility. Since 1966, animals have been our extended family. We know their names, histories, and needs. And we know how important wildlife and their natural habitats are to the future. We hope that through our personal style of education and introduction, these wonderful creatures will become your extended family, too. Together, we´ll make sure they and their wild-living relatives enjoy the future they deserve." For information call 301-271-3180 or visit their website...http://www.cwpzoo.com

The Blair Witch Project

Three film students travel to Burkettsville, Maryland (near Frederick) to make a student film about a local urban legend... The Blair Witch. The three went into the woods on a two day hike to find the Blair Witch, and never came back. One year later, the students´ film and video was found in the woods. The footage was compiled and made into a movie. The Blair Witch Project. (Click on the products icon at http://frederick.lifetips.com to learn more about this movie)