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2009 VIRGINIA 2009 (see 2010 - 2008)
VIRGINIA FOOD & WINE FESTIVALS, SHOWS, EVENTS
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February 7-8, 2009 Chocolate Lovers Festival
Fairfax, Virginia
March 14-15, 2009 Highland Maple Festival
Monterey, Virginia
Take a step back in time to Highland County, "Virginia's Switzerland." Travel back roads and mountain byways to the annual Highland Maple Festival. Held on the 2nd and 3rd weekends of March, the Maple Festival has been an annual event in Highland County, Virginia, since 1958.
March 21-22, 2009 Highland Maple Festival
Monterey, Virginia
April 17-19, 2009 Virginia Beef Expo
Harrisonburg, Virginia
Virginia's best cattle, good food and experience Virginia's fine hospitality in one of the largest beef related trade shows on the east coast. Only at the Virginia Beef Expo.
April 19, 2009 Virginia Culinary Expo
Norfolk, Virginia
The Inaugural Virginia Culinary Expo will feature two live cooking demonstrations with Emeril Lagasse. Other chefs will also have demonstrations. There will be plenty of sampling and tasting of food. There will be a special Tavern with demonstrations, pairing information plus wine, beer and spirit sampling.
April 25, 2009 25th Maymont Herbs Galore & More
Maymont, Virginia
25th anniversary - will be bigger, better and greener than ever! In addition to the always popular Marketplace bursting with herb, plant and craft vendors from Virginia and beyond, this year's event will offer great new ideas for your garden and fun ways to go green -- in color and conservation.
April 25-26, 2009 The 8th Annual Virginia Beer Festival
Norfolk, Virginia
April 25-26, 2009 The Great Grapes Wine, Arts & Food Festival
Reston, Virginia
Join us this year for Northern Virginia's fastest growing wine festival – Great Grapes! Over 200 Wines and 20 Virginia Wineries.
May 2, 2009 Blacksburg Fork and Cork
Blacksburg, Virginia
A Food, Wine and Art Festival. Featuring wines from several regional wineries, culinary delights from local restaurants, cooking demonstrations from local chefs, regional art and wine lover accessories, Jazz music.
May 6, 2009 41st Eastern Shore Seafood Festival
Chincoteague, Virginia
May 9, 2009 3rd Annual Spring Town Point Virginia Wine Festival
Norfolk, Virginia
May 16, 2009 23rd Annual Virginia Wine & Craft Festival
Front Royal, Virginia
May 17, 2009 Whitetop Mountain Ramp Festival
Whitetop, Virginia
Always held on the third Sunday in May, the Ramp Festival features traditional mountain music played by local musicians, crafts, games, dancing, a RAMP EATING CONTEST and a BBQ chicken meal served with a side of (what else?) ramps!
May 23-24, 2009 26th Annual Pungo Strawberry Festival
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Don’t miss this family-oriented, fun filled, wholesome and alcohol-free event.
May 30, 2009 Beer, Bourbon and BBQ Festival
Richmond, Virginia
60 Beers, 40 Bourbons, Lots of BBQ and One Unforgettable Good Time!
May 30-31, 2009 28th Annual Vintage Virginia
Centreville, Virginia
The event now hosts more than 50 of Virginia's finest wineries, pouring from over 300 select vintages (also, www.virginiawines.org )
June 6, 2009 Ashland Strawberry Faire
Ashland, Virginia
Note: The website is not always updated and frequently shows previous years dates - the festival does take place each year.
June 10, 2009 Virginia Pork Festival
Emporia, Virginia
The world’s largest outdoor barbecue. Last year’s event attracted over 15,000 people representing 32 different states.
June 13, 2009 Chesapeake Bay Wine Festival
Oak Grove, Virginia
The best of Virginia's Chesapeake Bay Country at Ingleside Vineyards. Taste wine from the wine trail wineries along with great seafood, BBQ and live music. A great day trip from Washington DC, Maryland or Northern Virginia. Jacques said it best - Wine is food.
June 19, 2009 Virginia Chicken Festival
Crewe, Virginia
Southside Virginia's Oldest & Finest Festival.
July 4-5, 2009 Floyd Fandango Beer & Wine Fest
Floyd, Virginia
Born of a melding between the 5th annual Wine Down the Music Trail wine festival and the unique and popular Floyd Fandango Faire and Brew.
July 11, 2009 Horse and Hound Wine Festival
Bedford, Virginia
5th annual event. Come sample from local wineries, listen to live entertainment, shop from local venders all while taking in the beautiful sights of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
July 18-19, 2009 34th Annual Pork, Peanut & Pine Festival
Surry, Virginia
Pork, peanut and pine have been Surry County's cash crops for nearly 400 years.
July 24, 2009 Virginia Cantaloupe Festival
Halifax County Fairgrounds, Virginia
July 24-25, 2009 Chincoteague Island Blueberry Festival
Chincoteague Island, Virginia
July 31-Aug 2, 2009 20th Annual Bayou Boogaloo & Cajun Food Festival
Norfolk, Virginia
Norfolk's annual love-fest with New Orleans' special spirit and unique Bayou culture. This popular 3-day festival delivers the heart and soul of Louisiana to visitors to Town Point Park in true Cajun and Creole style.
August 1, 2009 Blackberry Harvest Festival
Nelson County, Virginia
Hill Top Berry Farm & Winery. Family festivities including live music and crafts. Pick your own blackberries or taste wine. Bring a picnic or purchase food. Live entertainment.
August 6, 2009 David & Prescott Gourmet Getaways
Hume, Virginia
Gourmet Getaways Author Joe David and Former PBS Chef Jill Prescott are offering a meat, seafood and desert food tasting paired with wine at the Philip Carter winery. The food will be served with, without sauce to demonstrate why non-traditional wine-food pairings are often recommended when sauces are added.
August 6-8, 2009 Virginia Peach Festival
Patrick County, Virginia
Peach Pageant, Peach Dessert Contest, Folk Festival, street fair, entertainment.
August 9, 2009 Carytown Watermelon Festival
Richmond, Virginia
Thank you to all who attended the 2008 Watermelon Festival. We had record attendance with over 110,000 people throughout the day. 2009 is going to be even better.
September 5, 2009 The Irvington Stomp
Irvington, Virginia
Celebrate the annual grape harvest at White Fences Vineyard. Your whole family will love stomping grapes…the kids especially get into it and line up to stomp again and again. And the “stomp-off” between local town officials and residents for the coveted title of “King and Queen of the Stomp” is small town America at its best.
September 11, 2009 19th Annual Bay Seafood Festival
Kilmarnock, Virginia
The KIWS Rotary Club annual fundraiser. All-you-can-eat buffet, including numerous varieties of seafood side dishes and beverages, as well as live dance music.
September 12, 2009 Annual Rockbridge Wine Festival
Rockbridge County, Virginia
Sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce is held on the grounds of Theater at Lime Kiln, a unique outdoor venue built into the ruins of a 19th century lime kiln and quarry. Come and sip wines from various Virginia wineries while enjoying live music and relaxing amid the beautiful surroundings.
September 12, 2009 Fall Wine Festival
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Join your friends by the oceanfront for an afternoon hosted by Virginia's leading vineyards. Sip and savor chardonnays, merlots, rieslings and more while you meet and greet the fascinating people who are forging Virginia's new reputation for quality wines.
September 19, 2009 32nd Annual Boones Mill Apple Festival
Boones Mill, Virginia
There will be plenty of food, fun, crafts, entertainment and fun and games for children of all ages.
September 19, 2009 Shockoe on the Halfshell
Richmond, Virginia
September 19-20, 2009 The Great Grapes Wine, Arts & Food Festival
Reston, Virginia
Join us this year for Northern Virginia's fastest growing wine festival – Great Grapes! Over 200 Wines and 20 Virginia Wineries.
September 19-20, 2009 Virginia Wine Festival
Centreville, Virginia
The Virginia Wine Festival has a new home! Celebrate Virginia’s fabulous wines with tastings and educational seminal seminars at the number one wine event of the season at Bull Run Regional Park Special Events Center in Centreville. A collectors paradise, the festival features over 50 wineries pouring from more than 350 vintage.
September 24-27, 2009 47th Annual Virginia Peanut Festival
Emporia, Virginia
Celebrate the Virginia Peanut, farmers and the fall harvesting season in southeastern Virginia.
September 25-27, 2009 2nd Annual Fall Tomato Festival
Cape Charles, Virginia
A variety of heirloom tomatoes are grown on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and will be featured. While visiting our tomato festival please try our great tasting stewed tomatoes, tomato pie, fried green tomatoes, tomato pizza and of course our tomato wine just to name a few favorites.
September 25-27, 2009 Virginia Beach Neptune Festival, Boardwalk Weekend
Virginia Beach, Virginia
The famous East Coast celebration stages events from March through September and concludes with its grand finale, Boardwalk Weekend.
September 26, 2009 13th annual Charlottesville Vegetarian Festival
Charlottesville, Virginia
One of the largest vegetarian festivals in the United States, this one day event typically draws about 6,000 visitors.
September 26-27, 2009 Smith Mountain Lake Wine Festival
Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia
Known far and wide as one of the “must attend” vintner happenings in Virginia.
October 2-3, 2009 27th Annual West Point Crab Carnival
West Point, Virginia
October 3, 2009 Central Virginia Pork Festival
Richmond, Virginia
October 3, 2009 Yorktown Wine Festival
Historic Yorktown, Virginia
This event that will showcase some of Virginia’s finest wineries.
October 3, 2009 VTRCC Oktoberfest 2009
Vienna, Virginia (no website)
Enjoy live music, food, beer garden, Free children's activities, children's entertainment stage, and a huge festival marketplace. Rain or shine, from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Deadline to apply for booth space is August 28th. Begin your day with The Vienna Optimist Club's 4th annual "Walk for Growing Hope" (to assist local children diagnosed with cancer) at 8:00am from the parking lot across from the Vienna train station. Contact Ms. Poldy: (703) 281-1333 Email: dpoldy@vtrcc.org
October 10-11, 2009 CIAO 7th Annual Italian Festival
Williamsburg, Virginia
Colonial Italian American Organization (CIAO): Walsingham Academy, Jamestown Road, Williamsburg, Virginia
October 10-11, 2009 Annual Virginia Wine & Garlic Festival!
Amherst, Virginia
Rebec Vineyards.
October 11, 2009 Taste of Culpeper
Culpeper, Virginia
Featuring the very best in local cuisine from the region's unique restaurants and caterers. 15 Virginia wineries will be represented offering tastings and displays. Other activities of the day include children's activities, live entertainment, and artist displays.
October 11, 2009 Whitetop Mountain Sorghum Molasses Festival
Whitetop, Virginia
Always the 2nd Sunday in October at the Mount Rogers Fire Dept. Hall on US 58.
October 16-18, 2009 13th Annual Hot Air Balloon, Wine & Music Festival
Shenandoah, Virginia
Shenandoah Valley.
October 16-18, 2009 29th Annual Poquoson Seafood Festival
Poquoson, Virginia
October 17, 2009 10th Annual Chili & Chowder Cookoff
Chincoteague, Virginia
October 17-18, 2009 22nd Annual Town Point Virginia Wine Festival
Norfolk, Virginia
Join us along the Downtown Norfolk waterfront for one of the state's largest outdoor wine festivals featuring more than 30 Virginia wineries providing a sampling of wines available for purchase by the glass, bottle or case. Also enjoy gourmet, made-in-Virginia food items, specialty crafts, and live musical entertainment.
October 24, 2009 7th Annual Powhatan's Festival of the Grape
Powhatan, Virginia
We are delighted to offer 23 wineries, over 100 juried arts and craft vendors, as well as a variety of live entertainment and a great selection of delicious, regional favorite foods.
October 24, 2009 Fall Festival 2009
White Stone, Virginia
Arts/Crafts vendors, take out homemade Brunswick stew, bake sale to benefit The Family Maternity Center of the Northern Neck, Inc. to open Fall 2008.
October 24, 2009 Kiwanis 38th Annual Oyster Feast & Pig Roast
Arlington, Virginia
This popular, all-you-care-to-eat, family-style dinner raises funds for youth leadership programs sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Arlington and helps to fund community youth projects and grants for other educational and non-profit organizations focusing on children in Arlington.
October 24, 2009 Blacksburg Brew Do
Blacksburg, Virginia
A brand new festival is brewing. The Blacksburg Partnership introduces the first annual Blacksburg Brew Do! Make plans to attend this new craft beer festival featuring 12 to 15 regional breweries and over three dozen different beers, ales, lagers and pilsners.
November 6-7, 2009 52nd Urbanna Oyster Festival
Urbanna, Virginia
November 7, 2009 Brunswick Stew Festival
Richmond, Virginia
Continuing a long-running tradition, the 17th Street Farmers' Market is bringing back the competition that touts some of the best Stew Crews in the Southeast!
November 7, 2009 7th Annual Smith Mountain Lake Fall Chili & Craft Festival
Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia
Enjoy a full-day event featuring music, crafts and a spectacular competitive chili cook-off. Trophies will be awarded for "Best Chili," "People's Choice," and "Showmanship."
November 14, 2009 RFM Oyster Roast
Reedville, Virginia
Important fund raiser, which supports the museum’s educational programming, features a menu of oysters – both cooked and raw-on-the-half-shell, bean soup, hot dogs, barbeque, clams, chicken wings, cheese, desserts, coffee and soft drinks. Beer and wine available for purchase. Music and dancing.
2010 VIRGINIA 2010
VIRGINIA FOOD & WINE FESTIVALS, SHOWS, EVENTS
waiting for new 2009 dates
February 6-7, 2010 Virginia Wine Showcase
Chantilly, Virginia
Virginia's artisan wineries feature over 300 locally-grown award-winning wines at the premier gourmet expo in the Mid-Atlantic.
April 21, 2010 Shad Planking
Wakefield, Virginia
May 22-23, 2010 Wine Festival at the Plains: Spring Encore
The Plains, Virginia
Tasting Rooms from every corner of the Commonwealth come together for this grand celebration of the harvest. Enjoy fine art, fancy food, culinary seminars and the wines that rarely make it out of tasting rooms as select Virginia wineries showcase over 250 award-winning artisan wines produced in Virginia, "America's most promising, emerging wine region".
June 12-13, 2010 Saint Joseph Italian Festival
Richmond, Virginia
Authentic Italian foods: Sausage, meatballs, pasta, pizza pastries, biscotti, sgogliatelle, pasticiotti, gelati, spunoi, Italian Wines, Italian beers, etc. Entertainment.
September 11-12, 2010 Wine Festival at the Plains
The Plains, Virginia
Tasting Rooms from every corner of the Commonwealth come together for this grand celebration of the harvest. Enjoy fine art, fancy food, culinary seminars and the wines that rarely make it out of tasting rooms as select Virginia wineries showcase over 250 award-winning artisan wines produced in Virginia, "America's most promising, emerging wine region".
October 9, 2010 Chincoteague Oyster Festival
Chincoteague, Virginia
This event is held to promote the seafood industry and mark the arrival of the oyster season. It is an all you can eat festival consisting of oysters prepared just about every way imaginable, steamed crabs, clam fritters, clam chowder, hush puppies, potato salad, cole slaw, hot dogs, and various beverages. There will be live entertainment for everyone’s enjoyment.
October 9-10, 2010 Old Town Alexandria Food & Wine Festival
North Fairfax, Virginia
This urban event combines all the city's best culinary experiences into one spectacular weekend. Educate your palate at one of 50+ events all over Old Town. Highlights include Vintner Dinners in the city’s best restaurants, the King Street Sip 'n Stroll, tastings of Virginia's locally-grown world class wine and culinary seminars.
2008 VIRGINIA 2008
VIRGINIA FOOD & WINE FESTIVALS, SHOWS, EVENTS
waiting for new 2009 dates
April 2, 2008 Valley Foodservice Food Show
Norfolk, Virginia (no website)
Valley Foodservice is sponsoring The 2008 Valley Foodservice Food show at Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, VA. on Wednesday, April 2, 2008. The Food Show time is 10 A.M.- 6:00PM. This Food Show will have the latest in foodservice products, technology and trends as well as having a huge assortment of vendors.
For more info: 757-461-8000
May 14, 2008 Virginia Food and Beverage Expo
Richmond, Virginia
The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services present “Great Taste 2008”, bringing together over 100 exhibiting companies featuring Virginia culinary delicacies, all in one location. This show is only open to trade buyers (no consumers) and there is no cost to attend.
August 30-31, 2008 Discover Virginia
Stanardsville, Virginia
Discover Virginia will not be happening in 2009.
September 14-20, 2008 Virginia Beach Wine Week
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Participating restaurants will offer Virginia wine specials and flights including wines both by the glass and bottle paired with menus items specially created for the event. Dinners and seminars will be held throughout Wine Week, to include evenings with winemakers from various vineyards across Virginia.
September 21, 2008 13th Annual Great Grape Wine Festival
Leesburg, Virginia
Celebrate the grape harvest With wine tastings, live bands, kite-flying demos, u-pick apples, culinary and artisans delights, the kids Grape-Escape, and wagon rides. Purchase a bottle of Tarara Wine and make a day of it!
November 1, 2008 Spiders on the Vine Wine Tasting & Music Festival
University of Richmond, Virginia
Celebrate the fall season with a new tradition! Come enjoy some great wine and music, featuring popular Richmond rock trio, the Rachel Leyco Band; renowned finger guitarist, Jeff Severson; and acoustic duo Dog’s New Clothes. Location: University of Richmond, Westhampton Green (rain location, Tyler Haynes Commons). Admission: $25 per person.
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