2011 INDIANA - SEPTEMBER 2011
Food & Wine Festivals, Shows & Local Events
events waiting for new dates
September 2-5, 2011 Marshall County Blueberry Festival - Plymouth, Indiana
Over 400 craft booths, 15k Blueberry Stomp, live entertainment, over 100 food booths, bicycle cruise, parade, fireworks and hot air balloons.
September 2-5, 2011 Annual Indianapolis Rib America Festival! - Indianapolis, Indiana
Indy's original outdoor music & BBQ festival.
September 2-5, 2011 Marshall County Blueberry Festival - Plymouth, Indiana
Blueberry products like Blueberry Pie, Blueberry Brats, Blueberry Ice Cream, Blueberry Donuts or just plain fresh Blueberries! Family-friendly atmosphere and Midwestern hospitality that attract over 500,000 people every year to blueberry country.
September 3-5, 2011 59th Annual Ligonier Marshmallow Festival - Ligonier, Indiana
The Labor Day weekend festival celebrates marshmallows, one of Noble County's major products. Activities revolve around the marshmallow theme. Parades, arts and crafts, contests, rides, entertainment, car show and lots of delicious festival food.
September 3-5, 2011 Steam Harvest Days - Rockville, Indiana
Annual event celebrating antique agricultural equipment.
September 3-5, 2011 Billie Creek Village Harvest Days - Rockville, Indiana
A long-running fall festival with vintage agricultural machinery, demonstrations, tractor pull and parade.
September 8-10, 2011 Tipton County Pork Festival - Tipton, Indiana
Enjoy our famous pork chop dinners and experience a carnival, two parades, entertainment and more.
September 8-10, 2011 Tipton County Pork Festival - Tipton, Indiana
Art show, pageant, entertainment, parades, and a mouthwatering menu featuring (what else?) PORK!
September 8-11, 2011 Montgomery Turkey Trot Festival - Montgomery, Indiana
The festival recognizes turkey processing in Daviess County, where over a million turkeys are raised each year. Carnival, entertainment, and turkey races.
September 9-10, 2011 37th Annual Indianapolis Greek Festival - Indianapolis, Indiana
Authentic Greek cuisine, live music/dancing, bazaar, cooking demonstrations, church tours, and more!
September 9-10, 2011 Brownstown Melon Fest - Brownstown, Indiana
Celebrate the harvest of watermelons with an ongoing variety of stage entertainment, craft and food vendors, an art show, and games. Activities include a watermelon steal, eating, seed-spitting and carving contests.
September 10, 2011 33rd Annual Valparaiso Popcorn Festival - Valparaiso, Indiana
Celebrating Valparaiso native son Orville Redenbacher and popcorn. Popcorn Parade, Popcorn Ball, Hog Roast, Popcorn Queen, Popcorn Panic 5 mile run, kids' activities, entertainment, and over 200 arts & crafts booths.
September 10-11, 2011 Mansfield Village Cornbread Festival - Mansfield , Indiana
Share your favorite cornbread recipe with others and enjoy homemade cornbread & beans the second weekend of September. Cornbread Bake-off.
September 10-11, 2011 Bridgeton Milling & Craft Demo Days - Bridgeton, Indiana
Live demonstrations at the Mill grinding flour and cornmeal on 200-year-old French burr stones. Pioneer craft demonstrations, fiber arts.
September 15-18, 2011 Nappanee Apple Festival - Nappanee, Indiana
Apples! Apple peeling contest, apple bake-off, apple festival queen, pie eating contest, frog jumping contest, scarcrow contest, farm tractor show, entertainment, carnival and the world's largest 7' baked 600 lb. pie! Attendance: 72,000.
September 16-17, 2011 Rotary Bands & BBQ Contest - Greenfield, Indiana
Live bands, beer/wine garden, kids' zone, People's Choice & KCBs BBQ Contest, and food booths--charity event.
September 17, 2011 Hoosier Hops and Harvest - Story, Indiana
A festival that will feature virtually every craft beer produced in the Hoosier state, paired with food grown locally and prepared by renowned local chefs.
September 17, 2011 33rd Annual Brookston Apple Popcorn Day - Brookston, Indiana
Celebrate the local popcorn and apple harvest with races, crafts, food, apple bobbing, pancake and sausage breakfast, pizza eating contest, apple dessert contest, pedal tractor pull, and special events.
September 17, 2011 Indiana State ICS Chili Cook-Off - Vincennes, Indiana
International Chili Society's Indiana State Cook-Off. Musical entertainment, tube race on the Wabash River, chili sampling, children's games and entertainment.
September 17-18, 2011 Johnny Appleseed Festival - Fort Wayne, Indiana
A two-day period festival with an array of food, crafts, antiques and music. Fun for the whole family!
September 17-24, 2011 65th Annual Persimmon Festival - Mitchell, Indiana
Celebrate the persimmon - not the Japanese hybrid import variety, but the native American tree that grows in the wild in southern Indiana. Pageant, road rally, parade, carnival, car show, fun run, entertainment, food tents and much more!
September 21-24, 2011 Versailles Pumpkin Show - Versailles, Indiana
The 109th annual festival will feature a large parade on Saturday, giant pumpkin contest, carnival rides, live entertainment, and contests of all kinds.
Attendance: 15,000.
September 23-25, 2011 42nd Annual Cory Apple Festival - Cory, Indiana
Antiques, flea market, parade, fish fry, hog roast, chicken and noodles, carnival, helicopter rides, entertainment and, of course, apples.
September 24-25, 2011 Batesville Applefest - Batesville, Indiana
Food and fun to celebrate the apple harvest in Batesville.
September 24-25, 2011 Feast of the Hunters' Moon - West Lafayette, Indiana
Reenactment of life during the 18th century--French, British & Native American trading post, crafts, demonstrations, live music and over 50 different foods adapted from original recipes.
September 30-Oct 2, 2011 Popcorn Festival of Clay County - Brazil, Indiana
The festival promises to bring you "the corniest time ever" with free popcorn, entertainment, and events for children and adults such as the Redenbacher look-alike contest, popcorn eating contest and popcorn recipe cook-off.
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