Blueberry Festival & Market To Go

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It's the sweetest festival of the summer ... and you're invited. Make a plan to visit Bethlehem's beautiful Burnside Plantation July 13 & 14 for great food; live music; fresh, delicious blueberries and desserts, Colonial cooking, gardening; kids activities; and much more!

Thank you for attending the Blueberry Festival!

Blueberry Festival Overview

It’s the sweetest festival of the summer…and you’re invited. Make a plan to visit Bethlehem’s beautiful Burnside Plantation July 13 & 14 for great food; live music; fresh, delicious blueberries and desserts, Colonial cooking, gardening; kids activities; and much more!

Desserts

Choose from a delicious selection of blueberry inspired desserts available for pickup to take home and enjoy!

Desserts Include:

Blueberry Pie
Large Blueberry Coffee Cake
Blueberry Strudel
Blueberry Tart
Small Blueberry Coffee Cake
Blueberry Sugar Cookies
1/2 Gallon Blueberry Ice Cream
Blueberry Cheddar Cheese

New this year! Blueberry Tavern

The Blueberry Tavern features tastings (ticketed) and full size pours from some of your favorite Lehigh Valley producers and distributors, including some tasty selections from Banko Beverage!

Blueberry Tavern Vendors

Blueberry Festival Vendors

Crafters

Cheryl Baker, Moravian Star Maker
Whisker Biscuits
Keystone Farms Cheese
Soaps on Linden
The Bake-A-Re
Mother Nature Minerals
Country Brooms
Diedre Rose Designs
Rapha Massage Therapy
Creating Crystals (Sunday Only)
Casa de Jorge Salsa Co.
Mosaics by Audrey
Curated Aegean
Zimeray Design

Food Vendors

K’Town Pub
Heaven on a Bun
Taco Town
DonutNV
Let’s Go Coffee

Business Exhibitors

Lehigh Valley Martial Arts
LeafFilter Gutter Protection
Patient First

Demonstrations

Second Saturday Spinners
Read to Dogs
Dog Agility
Lehigh Art Alliance En Plein Air
4-H Education
Tinsmithing
Daniel Jenkins Pottery
Cider Demonstration
Lock, Stock, & Barrel

Blueberry Entertainment Schedule

Saturday, July 13

Tavern Stage

11:15 AM – 12:45 PM: Matt Miskie
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM: Sadie Pepitone
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM: Russel Mason
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM: Jeff Penque
5:45 PM – 7:00 PM: The Beautiful Distortion

Community Stage

11:15 AM – 12:45 PM: Valley Collective Band
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Moravian Music Foundation
2:15 PM: Pie Eating Contest/Adult Culinary Contest
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM: Southern Lehigh Jazz
4:00 PM – 5:15 PM: Frank Porter
5:30 PM – 6:45 PM: Mark Hannig

Sunday, July 14

Tavern Stage

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM: Andrew Lobby
12:45 PM – 2:15 PM: Achille’s Heart
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Lake of Orchards
4:15 PM – 5:45 PM: Sweet Hollow

Community Stage

11:15 AM – 12:45 PM: Tom Storm
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM: The Masons
2:15 PM: Pie Eating Contest/Youth Culinary Contest
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM: Smooth Retsina Glow
4:45 PM – 5:45 PM: Jack Murray Trio

*Entertainment Schedule is Subject to Change

Best Blueberry Dessert Culinary Contest

Contest Requirements:

Exhibitor must be 16 years or older and an amateur chef.
You are responsible for your own serving dish. No part of the entry will be returned.
If flour is required in recipe, King Arthur flour must be used with receipt of purchase included.
Entrants recipe, name, phone number, address, age, and email must be printed on an 8.5″ x 11″ sheet of paper and submitted along with their entry on the day of the contest.
Filling must include at least 1 cup of blueberries.
Recipe must include all ingredients, quantities, and preparation instructions.
Refrigeration is not available at the Blueberry Festival. If your entrée needs to be chilled prior to judging, please pack in a cooler.

Kids 15 + Under Culinary Contest

Contest Requirements:

Exhibitor must be 15 years or younger and an amateur chef.
You are responsible for your own serving dish. No part of the entry will be returned.
If flour is required in recipe, King Arthur flour must be used with receipt of purchase included.
Entrants recipe, name, phone number, address, age, and email must be printed on an 8.5″ x 11″ sheet of paper and submitted along with their entry on the day of the contest.
Filling must include at least 1 cup of blueberries.
Recipe must include all ingredients, quantities, and preparation instructions.
Refrigeration is not available at the Blueberry Festival. If your entrée needs to be chilled prior to judging, please pack in a cooler.

Judging Criteria for 15 + Under & Adult Culinary Contests:

Flavor Aroma, taste, balance of flavors. 30 POINTS.
Texture Consistency, doneness, and moistness. 25 POINTS.
Outside Characteristics Overall appeal, uniform shape. 15 POINTS.
Originality Creative use of ingredients and recipe. 15 POINTS.
Process Ease/Difficulty of recipe. 15 POINTS.

Pie Eating Contest

Join us for the annual Pie Eating Contest at the Blueberry Festival! Both Saturday and Sunday at 2:15 PM on the Community Stage there will be an adult (16 and older) and kids (15 and under) pie eating contest!

Sign ups are first come, first serve with a limit of 12 participants per contest.

Parking

Parking for Blueberry Festival will be available at Nitschmann Middle School (1002 W Union Blvd) with shuttle buses available on a continuous loop all day to take guests to and from Burnside. Please note that there are no dogs allowed on the buses, as well as they are not handicap accessible. Additional parking is available at the Moravian University “X-lot” (1150 Mauch Chunk Rd)