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Montclair Super Bowl Pre-Game Starts Saturday
Big Game Winter Festival will include live music, football-themed video game truck.
The Super Bowl may be happening a few miles away at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford Sunday, but the tailgate party in Montclair starts Saturday with the Big Game Winter Festival.
From noon to 5 p.m., Church Street and a portion of South Park Street will close for live music, a video game truck, ice sculptures, kids activities, food vendors, Norwegian candles and more.
Montclair’s own opera diva, soprano Mia Riker-Norrie from the Opera Theater of Montclair, will sing the National Anthem.
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State champs Montclair High School Mounties football team and cheerleaders will be joined by Pop Warner teams and cheering squads for a victory chant.
Center Stage will entertain festival-goers with a variety of music throughout the day, including pop rock band Justina Valentine & The LoveHaterz, Cajun-zydeco-country group Big Mamou, and Montclair High School a capella singers The Passing Notes.
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Some of Montclair’s top restaurants — Escape, Indigo Smoke and HLS Juice Bar and Grill — will be selling food.
For more information, visit www.Montclair2014.com.
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