Salem Area Chamber of Commerce, Salem, WV

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SALEM AREA CHAMBER

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WV ASSOCIATION OF FAIRS & FESTIVALS

We look forward to seeing you at next years festival! Congratulations to our 2011 Queen Chelsy Nazelrodt & Teen Queen Haley Mariah Thomas !

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.

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 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, bingo, pet show-off, 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 2011 evening entertainment started on Thursday with 23 Special featured as one of the area’s finest bluegrass bands. Friday’s headliners were country artist Natalie Stovall and pop/rock group Band of Gold performing ‘60s-‘90s oldies music. Saturday afternoon featured oldies rock and roll songs delivered by Ryan Cain and the Ables and the evening wrapped up with the “doo wop” oldies magic of The Holidays followed by a majestic FIREWORKS display! Sunday’s theme was Christian and gospel music with featured group Eternity’s Crossing. Our schedule for the 2011 27^th annual Salem Apple Butter Festival shows the variety of entertainment we offered at our most recent festival..