Music and Festivities
Milford has a wide variety of parades and festivals but one in particular stands a top the rest known as the Portuguese picnic. One of Milford's biggest annual events, with an expected 10,000-person draw from surrounding towns usually in or around Worcester county and starts around noon on Saturday-Sunday, it includes an open-flame grilling of traditional Portuguese food, traditional dancing, and live Portuguese music going well into the night. The roughly 75 year old tradition, starting as a way for the immigrants living in the Prospect Heights, who at the time all worked for Draper Mill in Hopedale, to celebrate and preserve their cultural heritage. The following Sunday after the first night of the picnic their is a 2 mile long parade congratulating the new found mayor of project heights. Heights is where the festivities take place and is made up of small town houses usually housing Brazilian residents or Portuguese. The music is rich in a variety of Hispanic music or Portuguese, Live bands perform on a stage set up at the opposite side of the entrance to perform. Usually the performers are are local town citizens getting their chance to get some recognition on their music and bands.