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Swedish Midsummer Festival in Battery Park

June 1, 2017 by Rachel Witzel

Swedish Midsummer Festival in Battery Park

The annual Swedish Midsummer Festival in Lower Manhattan’s Battery Park City is back! At this unique celebration, adults and kids come together to picnic in the grass, decorate the midsummer pole, make flower wreaths, play traditional games and dance to authentic fiddle music.

Some of New York’s finest Scandinavian restaurants and food purveyors – Smorgas Chef / Crepe du Nord, Fika, Nordic Preserves, Red Rooster and Gigino at Wagner Park – will host food stands offering Swedish picnic-style delicacies.

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Swedish Midsummer Festival

June 18, 2015 by Deirdre McAndrew

Swedish Midsummer Festival! Marking the longest night of summer, this annual event in Wagner Park will feature traditional music by Paul Dahlin and fiddlers from the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis, folk dances from Barnklubben Elsa Rix and Swedish Folkdancers of New York, and pole dancing led by Scandinavian folklorist and singer Ross Sutter. Food will be presented by some of NY’s best Swedish restaurants including FIKA, The Shop at Scandinavia House, Russ & Daughters, Nordic Preserves, Smörgås Chef/Crepes du Nord, Sockerbit Sweet & Swedish, Red Rooster as well as Gigino’s. Activities will include children’s game and flower-wreath making, as well as a parade and decorating the traditional midsummer pole.

Date: Friday, June 19th