45th Annual Roasting Ears of Corn Festival

Name: 45th Annual Roasting Ears of Corn Festival
Start: 2025-08-17T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-17T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 2825 Fish Hatchery Rd, Allentown, PA

Schedule

Sun Aug 17 2025 at 10:00 am to 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

2825 Fish Hatchery Rd, Allentown, PA | Allentown, PA

The Museum of Indian Culture in Allentown, PA, invites the public to its 45th Annual Roasting Ears of Corn Festival, Pennsylvania’s oldest Native American Indian Festival, on Saturday & Sunday August 16th and 17th, 2025. 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.

Bring your lawn chairs and blankets and join us for a weekend of live Native American drumming, singing and dancing. This year’s entertainment includes host drum “Youngblood Singers” from Shinnecock Indian Nation, NY, and guest drum “White Buffalo Singers” from the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, South Dakota. Featured performers include Inca flutist, Sicanni Purizaca; Aztec Dancing by the Salinas Family from Mexico City; and Social and Pow-wow dancing by Native Nations Dance Theater.

Headlining this year is Crystal Shawanda, international, multi-award winning Native American country and blues powerhouse, will perform at 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. daily. Crystal is from Wiikwemkoong First Nation on Manitoulin Island in Ontario. She became the first full blood Indigenous woman to appear in the Top 20 on the American Billboard Country Music chart, selling over 300k records, and to sing at the Grand Ole Opry, as well as the first to win the CCMA for Female artist of the year in 2009; and the first Indigenous woman to win a Juno award for "Blues album of the year" in 2020, and the first to appear in the Top 10 of the American Billboard Blues chart in 2022.

The festival includes activities for people of all ages, including: a children’s hand-on activity area where they can learn to make Native American style crafts such as “wampum’ bracelets, gourd rattles, and drums, and help paint our Roasting Ears of Corn Festival mural. Other activities include face painting, pony rides, lifeskills demonstrations including Atlatl and Tomahawk throwing, flintknapping, primitive fire making, flutemaking, and Native Cooking demonstrations; and artifact displays by the Indian Artifact Collectors Association of the Northeast; and Cree demonstrator Katrina Fisher will present her award-winning Plains teepee program.

Vendors will offer hand-crafted items such as handmade Navajo and Zuni silver jewelry, Iroquois wampum jewelry and bead work, Kachina dolls, pottery, leather clothing, moccasins and handbags, hand drums, soap stone carvings, dreamcatchers and other crafts. American Indian cuisine of Frybread, buffalo burgers, buffalo stew, Indian Tacos, blueberry wajopi, and of course…. fire roasted corn.

The Museum of Indian Culture is a non-profit, member supported organization dedicated to presenting, preserving, and perpetuating the history and cultural heritage of the Northeast Woodland Indians and other American Indian Tribes.