If you want to take your garlic goodies home with you for later, you’ll find pickles (try Gary’s: yum), mustards, dip mixes, marinades, sauces, pestos, cheese spreads, oils, jams and jellies, smoked meat, sausages, garlic fudge and garlic biscotti and much more.
Chef demonstrations will be given by our own Ric Orlando of New World Home Cooking, as well as Kevin Archer, Pat Crocker and Michael Rick. The garlic lecture speakers will include Noah Gress, Ted Maczka and David Stern. Bob Dunkel and Crystal Stewart are also on the schedule.
Musical acts on five stages will include Sundad, Jules and Rick, Fisher Kiernan, Mark Rust, Rich Bala and the Barefoot Boys, Annie and the Hedonists, Captain Squeeze and the Zydeco Moshers, the Homegrown String Band and the Mojo Myles Band. Morris dancers will be doing their thing – a form of English folkdance dating back to the 15th century – near the large pavilion. Arm-of-the-Sea Theater always puts on a dramatic and thought-provoking puppet show that appeals to both young and old, and usually throws in a couple of parades around the Festival as well. One World Puppetry and Performance Art will feature the Garlic Giant and the Garlic Fairy. Mr. and Mrs. Garlic can be seen wandering around the Festival as well; see if you can find them, as well as the “Garlic Goddess” herself, Festival founder Pat Reppert.
Gates open at 10 a.m. both Saturday and Sunday and close at 6 p.m. on Saturday and 5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $10 at the gate, free for children under 12. Trolley stops around the area will help shuttle festivalgoers in, plus there is ample parking at the site. See www.hvgf.org for a schedule of events and a list of shuttle locations.
