Christmas In July at the 2025 People’s Choice Festival
This year, at the People’s Choice Festival, we’re bringing holiday cheer to summer with a magical Christmas in July celebration! Get ready for an unforgettable experience packed with festive fun – including SANTA and SNOW in July! Visit the Magical “Christmas in July” tent– every day during the festival!Decorated and sponsored by Christmas Décor by […]
The 2025 Festival Guide is coming soon!
With so much to see, eat, drink, and do at the People’s Choice Festival, the festival guide is the perfect companion for your weekend! Visit our online guide to find a festival map, entertainment schedules, tasting guides, vendor lists, and more!
Celebrating our 30th Year!
We take immense pride in the evolution of the People’s Choice Festival, showcasing artists and crafters from across Pennsylvania, offering scrumptious festival fare, wineries, children’s events, and continuous top-notch entertainment. Join us in commemorating our 30th year with these unique celebrations: Special 30th Anniversary Memory Tent – full of photos and memorabilia from the past 30 […]
Free Parking at the Festival!
We are offering FREE PARKING and asking attendees to bring a non-perishable food donation instead. (optional, of course). It will benefit our local food banks. It’s our small way of giving back to celebrate our 30th anniversary. This is brought to you by Bath Fitter and Kitchen Saver.
The People’s Choice Festival: A Look Back, and a Look Forward
Frankly, we were a bit concerned. Worried even. After nearly 30 years, the People’s Choice Festival abruptly stopped for two years while we all sat out the pandemic. As with many other things during the Age of COVID, we really didn’t know what was going to happen, but we were determined to have a festival this year […]
Camp at the Festival!
Make the Festival a Mini-Vacation! We now offer camping for vendors and visitors! Grange Park Camping reservations can be made by calling 814-380-1893. Camping guidelines can be found at grangefair.com
Tim Bradford: Professional Blacksmith
Would you enjoy standing out in the sun on a hot Pennsylvania July day, spending hours and hours by a forge hammering red hot iron? No? We’re lucky, though, that Tim Bradford enjoys just that – and puts his blacksmithing skills on display at the People’s Choice Festival. Those skills are pretty rare in today’s […]
Me & My Dog Pet Bakery
(This is one of a series of articles about our Specialty Food vendors) (Boalsburg) – The People’s Choice Festival is fortunate to have many specialty food vendors, with scrumptious treats for people of all ages. And, for that matter, for dogs of all ages. Me & My Dog Pet Bakery is one of two specialty […]
Sauces with Beer & a Kick
New to the Specialty Food Tent: Dan Hibbard is a native of Punxsutawney, now a resident of Elk County. As the founder and owner of Hibbard Distributing, LLC, Dan distributes and sells a variety of sauces and condiments which include a Habañero Hot Sauce, Habañero Ketchup, Apple Bar B Q, Sweet Hot Pepper Mustard, Buffalo […]
Honey Wine Tastings
New this year: Stonekeep Meadery is bringing their hand-crafted meads (honey wines), created only from fresh fruits and juices and raw honey from Pennsylvania. Based on traditional recipes from times long past with some modern twists, Stonekeep Meadery offers mead and wine drinkers something just a little extraordinary. Stonekeep produces a variety of hand-crafted meads, […]
