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Fire and Ice in Sag Harbor

Thu, 02/06/2025 - 11:15
Ice carving always draws a crowd at the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce’s annual HarborFrost.
Durell Godfrey

The Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce’s annual HarborFrost returns Friday and Saturday, bringing fireworks and winter activities like ice carving and fire dancing to Main Street and beyond.

A party at the Sag Harbor Cinema at 5:30 p.m. Friday begins the celebration, with more than a dozen local restaurants contributing to a “taste of Sag Harbor.” Tickets, which are available on Eventbrite by searching “HarborFrost,” are $60, or $50 for chamber members.

The festivities continue at the cinema on Saturday with repeated screenings of “Where the North Begins,” a 1923 silent film featuring Rin-Tin-Tin, and free samples of hot chocolate from 1 to 4 p.m. The cinema’s Green Room Bar will open early, at 2 p.m., offering chili, and then at 5:30 George Howard brings live music.

The Kidd Squid brewery on Spring Street will be another place to catch some music that day, as Woody Boley plays country and rockabilly at 2 p.m. before an acoustic set by Jon Divello at 5.

Richard Daly, a master ice carver from Ice Melodies, a Long Island group, makes his return to carve sculptures at noon at the south end of Main Street near the Civil War monument, and he’ll be back at it at 2:30 at Steinbeck Park.

On Windmill Beach, fire dancing and juggling by Keith Leaf and His Flaming Friends is set for 5 p.m. The evening’s main event, a Grucci fireworks display, goes off at 5:45.

A full list of what HarborFrost offers is at sagharborchamber.com.

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