Join us for the 99th Annual Italian Festival at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Enfield CT!
August 1, 2, & 3 2025
🗓️ Thursday Night 7/31/25:
Opening Ceremony & Prayer
🕯️Candlelight🕯️procession beginning around 8:15pm/dusk. Refreshments and desserts to follow
🗓️ Friday Night 8/1/25:
Feast hours: 5:00pm-11:00pm
Italian accordion player at 5:30pm
🎶NIGHTTIME ENTERTAINMENT🎶
⭐️Johnny Six Gun⭐️
🗓️ Saturday Night 8/2/25:
Feast hours: 5:00pm-11:00pm
Italian accordion player at 5:30pm
💃🏻Traditional Italian dance troupe
🎶NIGHTTIME ENTERTAINMENT🎶
⭐️Brass Attack⭐️
🗓️ Sunday 8/3/25 Morning:
~9:09am: Traditional Italian Catholic Mass celebrated outside in the Chapel, followed by desserts & refreshments, then a procession of Our Lady through Enfield and Thompsonville with live Italian band. All are welcome to walk with us!
🗓️ Sunday 8/3/25 evening:
Feast hours: 5:00pm-10:00pm
Italian accordion player & Italian singer at 5:30pm
🎶NIGHTTIME ENTERTAINMENT🎶
⭐️Frankie Valle Tribute⭐️
Stay tuned for further entertainment updates!
We hope to see you there!
Important Information & Details
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Important Information & Details 〰️
🎟️ADMISSION: $3
🎟️CHILDREN 12 AND UNDER ARE FREE
🚫NO COOLERS
🚫NO OUTSIDE FOOD OR BEVERAGES
🚫NO PETS (Properly trained and certified service animals welcome)
🌧️ RAIN OR SHINE ☀️
There is a large tent with picnic tables on site
Parking available on side streets and Enfield Square
Our History
Good Italian food, prayer, and family come together each year in August to celebrate Our Lady of Mount Carmel's aid. On July 16, 1892 a terrible, 19 month-long drought ended in Italy. Its end was no ordinary event, though. It came on the Feast Day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel; Mary, the Blessed Mother of Jesus, ensured the answer of her people's prayers for rain. Since 1892, Italians around the world have come to celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in thanksgiving for her help to end this deadly drought.
Enfield's Mount Carmel Club has always reserved the weekend of the first Sunday in August for our own "Festa," an annual gathering of family and friends that gives thanks to the Blessed Mother and celebrates our club's Italian heritage. Starting with a candlelight procession, members of the community pray the Rosary together. Then, as the hard work and fun of cooking and sharing great Italian food, entertainment, and community comes to a close, we all gather at our Chapel to celebrate an outdoor Mass and parade through the old Italian community of Enfield. This annual Feast is the culmination of what it means to be a member of our club: working hard together, sharing good food, and celebrating our heritage and Faith.