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Virginia Pumpkin Festival

  • Venue Name: Virginia Pumpkin Festival
  • Address: Virginia, County Cavan
  • Tel: 049 854 9940
  • Email: pumpkin@virginia.ie
  • Location: View Virginia Pumpkin Festival on Google Maps

Virginia Pumpkin Festival

The Virginia Pumpkin Festival which take place on the October Bank Holiday is in it's fifth year and will be a blaze of colour and will even be bigger than 2010. A halloween weekend filled with live music and street entertainment. Fireworks display at Lough Ramor lakeshore with live music and food.

The weekend sparks off on Friday night with a bonfire at the lake shore and halloween themed festivities for children and adults alike.

 
There will be street entertainment all weekend that the whole family will enjoy and the Riverfront Hotel will host a Monster Children’s Party in the Riverfront Hotel including story telling, face painting and crafts
 
Sunday afternoon will see the ever popular pumpkin weigh-in take place when pumpkin growers from across the world will travel to Virginia in a bid to scoop the title for the heaviest pumpkin and for home-bake enthusiasts it is the chance to see the wide range of cakes, soups, and other delicacies that can be made from this multi-purpose vegetable.
 
Other events throughout the day include the soapbox derby,  samba band Masamba and Ireland’s largest fancy dress ball.

 

Classification:- Family Halloween Festival / All Ages

 

Dates / Time:-  Friday 28th – Monday 31st October, 2011

 

Virginia Pumpkin Festival Programme OF Events

 

  • The Waterboys- Making a rare Irish appearance at The Virginia Pumpkin Festival on Saturday the 29th October this is an event not to be missed.
 
  • Monster Fancy Dress Party in the Pumpkin Dome
 
  • The Rolling Drones
 
  • Massive Parade
 
  • Lake Shore BBQ and bonfires
 
  • Monster Children’s Party
 
  • Trade Stands at Church of Ireland
 
  • Historic walking tour of Virginia
 
  • Town Treasure Hunt

 

 

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