Every year in
early October, the
Salem Apple Butter Festival
is held at Depot Park in
downtown Salem, drawing young and old alike to watch apple butter being
made in open copper kettles over slow burning wood fires. Our rapidly growing
festival has become one of the area's most exciting and anticipated events. Each
year, new activities are added
as the festival draws larger and larger crowds.
One of our newest activities is a
horseshoe pitching contest
Have
an opinion you would like to share with us about our festival? We
would like to hear from you. Check out our
Survey. Need a festival application? Our
Applications page has all our various
forms
available for download. Check out our
Little Apple Dumpling Children's Pageant and
Junior Miss Pageant, pages in the festival
HISTORY
section!
The outdoor stage, adjacent
to the restored Salem Depot,
serves as the center for festival activities. In addition to the large selection
of arts, crafts and foods, festival patrons can enjoy quilt and apple butter
judging, talent contest finals, celebrity auction, auto show, petting zoo,
bingo, pet parade, children's games, and King & Queen pageantry, as well as a the Sam Warner
5 K Run and a bicycle poker ride that take place on the adjacent North Bend Rail
Trail.
The Salem Apple Butter Festival offers
free live
entertainment
throughout the four
day event. There is no admission charge to the
festival. No matter if you are visiting to learn about us for
the first time or are here to reminisce about your favorite feature of a past
festival, keep an eye on us as this site and the festival grow. Our 2007
Friday headliner was Rick K & The Allnighters
with special guest Catch A Wave
Saturday
featured
DETOUR with a special fireworks
immediately after the show! Thursday kicked
off our evening entertainment featuring The Vaughns for some of the area's finest bluegrass music. Sunday's
theme is gospel music with Faithful Journey as the feature act. Our complete
Schedule for the 2008 24th edition of the Salem Apple Butter Festival
will be available as the opening date approaches.
