44th Annual Roasting Ears of Corn Festival

Name: 44th Annual Roasting Ears of Corn Festival
Start: 2024-08-17T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-08-18T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Museum of Indian Culture

Schedule

Sat Aug 17 2024 at 10:00 am to Sun Aug 18 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Museum of Indian Culture | Allentown, PA

Bring your lawn chairs and blankets and join us for a weekend of live Native American drumming, singing and dancing. Crystal Shawanda, international, multi-award winning Native American country and blues powerhouse, will premiere at this year’s annual Festival. Performance times are 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. daily.
Gates open 10:00 am until 6:00 pm rain or shine. Grand Entrance is at 12:00 noon. Admission: $10 adults, $7 children 12-17 and seniors over 62, FREE for children 11 and under.
This year's festival includes activities for people of all ages: a children’s hand-on activity area where they can learn to make Native American style crafts; Atlatl and Tomahawk throwing, and primitive fire making, Other activities include face painting, pony rides, Lenape cooking demonstrations and Cree demonstrator, Katrina Fisher, will present her award-winning Plains teepee program.
Our Festival Marketplace will offer hand-crafted items such as handmade Navajo and Zuni silver jewelry, Iroquois wampum jewelry and bead work, pottery, leather clothing, moccasins and handbags, hand drums, dreamcatchers and other crafts. American Indian cuisine of Frybread, buffalo burgers, buffalo stew, Indian Tacos, blueberry wajopi, corn soup and of course.....fire roasted corn!