The Great Pumpkin Smash Fall Festival Featuring performance by Daisy the Great
Sun, Nov 05
|Science Museum of Long Island Great Lawn
The Science Museum of Long Island Presents: The Great Pumpkin Smash annual fall festival featuring live music by Daisy the Great!
Time & Location
Nov 05, 2023, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Science Museum of Long Island Great Lawn, 1526 N Plandome Rd, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA
About
The Science Museum of Long Island Presents: The Great Pumpkin Smash annual fall festival!
Featuring live music by American Indie Pop Band - Daisy the Great!
Why dispose of your pumpkins when you can smash them at the Science Museum of Long Islands 1st annual Great Pumpkin Smash instead!?!?!? Bring your old pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns and gourds and join us for smashing good time Sunday, November 5th, as we celebrate the fall season and raise money for the Chris Holmes Memorial Scholarship & Conservation Fund. Featuring food trucks, fall drinks by the Bubbly Bar, live music by American Indie Band Daisy the Great, pumpkin smashing stations and much, much more! All pumpkin waste will be composted after the event.
When: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 from 1-4PM.
Where: The Science Museum of Long Island 1526 N. Plandome Road, Manhasset, NY 11030
Featuring: live music by: Daisy the Great
Why: It's for a great cause! All proceeds will go to the Chris Holmes Scholarship and Conservation Memorial Fund.
Drinks: Bubbly Bar
Food Trucks: TBD
Cost: $15 per person. $10 for kids under 10. Membership discounts are available.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION -PLEASE NOTE:
■ ONLY ONE PUMPKIN PERMITTED PER PERSON. MUST BE UNDER 15"
■ THIS IS AN OUTDOOR EVENT. PLEASE DRESS APPROPRIATLY
■ PRICE INCLUDES PUMPKIN SMASHING ACTIVITIES AND OUTDOOR MUSIC CONCERT FEATURING DAISY THE GREAT.
■ ALL FOOD AND BEVERAGES ARE PURCHASED SEPERATELY. BRINGING YOUR OWN FOOD AND DRINKS TO THE EVENT IS PROHIBITED.
ABOUT DAISY THE GREAT:
As Daisy the Great, Kelley Nicole Dugan and Mina Walker make folk-inflected indie rock that spans a multitude of moods—capable of being clever, devastating, or both simultaneously, spanning harmony-laden folk pop to powerhouse indie rock balladry—and has attracted quite the following as a result. Kelley and Mina met as acting majors at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and eventually bonded during a sketch comedy class where they first connected over their mutual passion for music: “We’d both written music on our own in the past, and we ended up writing this silly song together in that class that clued us into the idea that we might want to collaborate on other projects together as well,” Kelley remembers. 2017 saw Daisy the Great make an auspicious debut with “The Record Player Song,” which quickly proved an immediate smash now boasting over 20M worldwide streams and multiple viral moments on TikTok. A full-length debut LP, I’m Not Getting Any Taller, arrived in 2019, followed in 2020 by the quarantine-born Soft Songs EP. Having now grown into a full six-piece band currently featuring Matt Lau on guitar, Bernardo Ochoa on bass, Matti Dunietz on drums, and Brie Archer on additional vocals, Daisy the Great first heralded ALL YOU NEED IS TIME earlier this year with the dazzling “Glitter." Hailed by Atwood Magazine as “a dreamy, inspiring alternative anthem to let our light shine,” the track is joined by an official music video – directed and edited by Dugan and Walker. It’s a freeing thoughtfulness that defines Daisy the Great’s music, as well as their creative mission. “Our music is generally pretty introspective, and we are often interested in the complexities or ironies we see within ourselves” she states. “That’s something we love about writing—you can say something small and delicate and true that maybe feels scary to say, but once you put it out there, it can turn into a comfort for anyone that might also be feeling that way.”