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Tradition on Long Island. It is coming back to Oyster Bay this weekend, the 2024 Oyster Fest officially kicks off tomorrow and there's so much happening just beyond the Seafood Jens League is there now giving a preview of everything there is to do, Jen. We know we love this event. It's so much fun. There's so many things to do and you're gonna show us a whole lot of it today. Oh, yeah. A and there's a bunch of new things happening here that we got to talk about. You like my sweatshirt. I think we're all ready for Oyster Fest this weekend. 41 years. It's an annual event that draws in thousands of people here at Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park with me. I have Ryan Slater. You are the Chamber of Commerce President Oyster Bay East. Nor which and big title. Long title important title for this weekend. Yes. Yes, absolutely. So, tell me what can folks expect when they come down here? We've changed a lot. We have, um, seamless music that's gonna run nonstop on three stages. Um, food, more food, more food tents, more food trucks. Um, we have a bigger, better beer garden that the sands and Oyster Bay brewery knocked out of the park. This year. We have local everything, local food vendors, we concentrated on everything, local, local oysters, um, local vendors. It's going to be great. It's really something for the whole family. I know we have rides, we have music of food is very important here. And of course, the oysters and I love how you said local because local is so important. We really went out of our way this year to make sure that we did local oysters. Um, so everything's gonna be great. And most importantly, we have the weather. So we're looking forward to it. I hear the weather's gonna be nice this weekend, which is always a good thing. What's your favorite part about the festival? The beer tent? Oh, yeah. And it's bigger and better. You were saying? Absolutely. There's, uh, more space golf simulator ax, throwing corn hole. It's really gonna be great. We're gonna check it out later on this morning. So excited for that. And we're gonna stick around here at the park and send it back to you in the studio. Erin. I like that sweatshirt. Gotta bring one back for Rich and I Jan looking.

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If you were looking for something fun to do with the family. This weekend, the Oyster fest is back in Oyster Bay from all the seafood to live music. There's so much to do there. And our Jen Selig is getting a preview of it all this morning at the Oyster Fest with everything we can expect. Hey, Jen. Hey Aaron. Yeah, we could do a little bit of everything here. This weekend, we're expecting thousands and thousands of people to make their way here to Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park. And right now we are under the sands Beer Garden with some reps here from sands and you guys are super excited to be here. We are so excited to be here at the 45th Oyster Bay Festival. We're so proud to be here with supervisors Ladino and the wonderful sands team. You know, as part of the Long Island community, there's nothing better to be in the community at this festival. We're so excited to be part of the fun festival. We are thanking the Oyster Bay East Norwich Chamber of Commerce for including us today. We just can't wait to be part and walk around, drink a little beer, eat a little oysters, have some family fun. We wanna thank Supervisor Saladino and his wonderful team for including us and people can take some of the swag here behind us. You guys got a little bit of everything. The sands New York team is ready. We have all kinds of things and we're gonna be able to talk about all of the upcoming festivals, all of the things that we are doing. We are part of this community. The sands New York team is ready to go this weekend and Joe, I know it looks kind of empty here right now. We're just giving a preview, but it's bigger and better. Here at the beer garden, we're gonna have a couple of 100,000 people here all weekend long for this incredible. It's actually the biggest seafood festival in the east coast of America. We thank all of our sponsors. Of course, Optimum and Catholic Health and the sands here at the beach at Theodore Roosevelt Park. You can't have a beach without the sands. Everybody's gotta come down. It's new and improved in the garden. We will have more incredible and delicious beers like Oyster Bay Brewing Company right here in town. We'll have ax throwing and simulated golf, corn hall and music, music, music. We'll be jive to the music and shucking the oysters all weekend long from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Theodore Roosevelt Park in Oyster Bay. Don't miss it guys. He said it all. So Aaron back to you.

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News 12’s Jenn Seelig is in Oyster Bay with a preview of everything the event has to offer.

Fall Back: Oyster Fest returns this weekend in Oyster Bay

News 12’s Jenn Seelig is in Oyster Bay with a preview of everything the event has to offer.

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