Garlic Festival
The 13th Annual MDI Garlic Festival
PARTICIPATING VENDORS and RESTAURANTS:
Watch for 2010 Vendor and Restaurant List
MUSIC and ENTERTAINMENT:
Watch for 2010 Music and Entertainment Lineup
Read the Bangor Daily News Garlic Festival article coming soon!
Live WNSX@97.7 radio broadcast from the festival!
Local garlic farmers including Frank Pendola from Nostrano will share their garlic growing secrets!
Check back soon for more MDI Garlic Festival 2010 Details!
Each year we strive to make the MDI Garlic festival an event that the whole community can participate in and enjoy. We are very grateful to the support of the SW Harbor Chamber of Commerce, the Ark Animal Shelter, The Bangor Daily News, Smugglers Den Campground and all the participants and volunteers that make this event possible.
Do you know the history of the Garlic Festival? In the fall of 1998,
Frank Pendola and a few friends gathered to celebrate the harvesting of
his garlic crop......garlic was baked, meat was smoked, "Garlic
Festival" t-shirts were worn...... and the garlic festival was born.
The following year, the festival was opened to the public. Frank and
friends cooked for 100 people and 350 people showed up for the event.
Since then the garlic festival has grown into a gathering of numerous
local restaurants, musicians, brewers and garlic growers, drawing more
than 800 people to the event. Most importantly, the festival has raised
thousands of dollars for local non-profit organizations.
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