Montgomery Hot Tickets
Mummers parade
Brookside Gardens' 40th anniversary tribute Chrysanthemum Display is on view through Nov. 29 in the Conservatory, 1500 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton. A compilation of elements from the past four decades features fanciful forms like the Dragon from 2000's Victorian display, 2004's phoenix and 2008's dolphins. Brookside is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Admission is free. Call 301-962-1400 or visit www.brooksidegardens.org.
A Fall Festival and Emancipation Day Celebration is set for Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Button Farm Living History Center, 16820 Black Rock Road, Germantown. Tours of the 19th century farm, museum garden, slave quarter and cemetery, craft demonstrations and games, spirit bottle making, cider pressing, farming workshops and campfire storytelling are planned. Concerts in the Country will present Marianne Ross and Nadine Bloch's historic installations and Sarah Stour's Underground Railroad-commemorative mosaic as well as performances by the Asbury Methodist Men Gospel Choir, roving fiddler Anthony Hyatt, puppeteer Schroeder Cherry and singer-songwriter Luci Murphy. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted. Call 301-229-6690 or visit www.concertsinthecountry.org.
In the right kitchen
Loving Frank
The Washington Performing Arts Society brings pianist-singer Michael Feinstein to the Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, at 8 p.m. Thursday. Known as the pioneer of the American songbook for his performances of the Gershwins, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, Feinstein
Songbirds of a feather