If you love an old fashioned Independence Day weekend filled with fireworks, food, music and fun then the Village of Glendale is the place for you and your family.

Village officials expect a crowd of more than 50,000 to show up for Glendale's spectacular fireworks display when it gets dark on Saturday, July 5. The fireworks show has long been reputed to be the biggest and best on the Front Range. The fireworks site is in Creekside Park and families will be viewing at the Park, on office building lawns, in parking lots and from local streets.

But that won't be all.

Glendale is the home of Infinity Park - on Tennessee Ave. just east of Colorado Blvd.- the nation's only municipally-owned rugby stadium. Starting at 4:30 pm Saturday, Infinity Park will be the site of "Experience Glendale and Infinity Park," a food festival (and much more). These events will be free of charge. This also marks the Grand Opening of Glendale's new Sports Center at Infinity Park, a true 21st century fitness facility.

At 6:30p.m. (On the Infinity Park "pitch" what a field is called in Rugby speak) Denver's favorite Lannie Garrett will kick off her Swingin'Big Band Show, a rockin' 10-piece ensemble of some of Colorado's finest musicians. Lannie and her band showcase a selection of beloved standards from the Big Band Era. Swing and sway to Benny Goodman's " Don't Be That Way," Chick Webb's. " Play Me a Swing Song" jump and jive to Louis Prima's " Oh Babe" and Big Joe Turner's driving boogie woogie classic, " Roll 'Em Pete" Latin/Swing/and Jump all delivered with Lannie's inimitable stage presence and sense of humor. Tickets for Lannie Garrett are $8 per person, kids 12 and under are free. Glendale residents are free with valid ID.