Hanover Tomato Festival returns for its forty eighth 12 months with meals, music and household enjoyable

HANOVER COUNTY, Va. (WWBT) – The Hanover Tomato Festival returns July 10–11 for 2 days of meals, reside music and household enjoyable at Pole Green Park.

The free, family-friendly occasion marks the pageant’s forty eighth 12 months and can characteristic leisure on two levels, practically 100 distributors, youngsters’s actions, tomato-themed contests with possibilities to win prizes, and loads of Hanover’s well-known tomatoes.

The pageant runs Friday, July 10, from 5 to 9 p.m., and Saturday, July 11, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

On Friday, the Main Stage lineup consists of The Fifes and Drums of Yorktown at 5 p.m., Gone Country Band at 5:30 p.m. and seven:30 p.m., and DJ music by Random Play Productions starting at 7 p.m.

On the Children’s Stage, guests can catch DJ music at 5 p.m., The Fifes and Drums of Yorktown at 5:30 p.m., Silly Bus Music at 6 p.m., Jonathan the Juggler at 7 p.m., and DJ music once more at 8 p.m.

On Saturday, Love Story: The Unofficial Taylor Swift Tribute Band performs on the Main Stage at 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., and tomato-themed contests start at 11 a.m.

Saturday’s Children’s Stage schedule consists of 804 Dance Place at 9:30 a.m., Drew Dunbar at 10 a.m., Silly Bus Music at 11 a.m., and Barefoot Puppet Theater at midday.

Visitors can get pleasure from tomato-inspired dishes resembling tomato basil cupcakes, spicy Thai Hanover tomato salad, lobster BLTs and rooster salad stuffed tomatoes, together with conventional pageant favorites together with bundt truffles, kettle corn and ice cream.

Local distributors will provide recent produce, honey, tea, desserts and pet treats, and artisans will showcase handcrafted jewellery, candles, hand-stitched journals, leather-based items and extra.

The pageant is pet-friendly with leashes required, cooling stations will likely be out there all through the occasion, and admission and parking are free. Learn extra at hanovertomatofestival.com.