ChambersFest | July 7 – July 15, 2017
ChambersFest 2017 Events
ChambersFest, an annual community celebration featuring a range of events kicks-off this Friday, July 7 and lasts through Saturday, July 15.
July 7
Celebrate the first Friday at the 3rd annual Stars, Stripes & Straws from 5PM – 8PM. You can purchase your official drink glass on the Courthouse Plaza starting at 5PM, walk around to participating businesses to sample their summer beverage, then vote for your favorite.
July 8
Saturday, July 8 begins with the 14th Annual Tim & Susan Cook Memorial 1-Mile Race. Proceeds from this race are donated to the Tim & Susan Cook Memorial Scholarship Fund, which provides scholarships to students at Chambersburg Area Senior High School.
Check out ChambersFest Bike Day on Saturday and compete in any of two bicycle events: Pump Track Race and Jump Line Contest. Adults and kids age six and up are welcome to participate.
Scoop-A-Palooza is the all you can eat ice cream festival to benefit the Greater Chambersburg Chamber Foundation held in the Cafeteria of Chambersburg Area Senior High School on July 8 from 11AM – 3PM. Once you enter the festival you can sample all the ice cream you want from a variety of area shops. Also setup at the event will be a kids’ area with a variety of fun activities. Manitowoc Cranes sponsors a crane-building contest for kids.
Chambers Fort Park will host music and dinosaurs at Second Saturday from 5PM to 8PM. Local band Pale Barn Ghosts will perform with opener Rebekah Foster. Then at dusk is a FREE showing of the classic dinosaur thriller “Jurassic Park” (1993).
July 14
The weekend kicks off with the 1864 Civil War Ball on Friday July 14, 6:30PM at Allison-Antrim Museum’s 19th century German Bank Bar in Greencastle. Participants will be guided by the Victorian Dance Ensemble, the performing troupe of the Civil War Dance Foundation, and are invited to dress in Civil War era attire, contemporary formal or contemporary business attire.
July 15
On Saturday, July 15 is Old Market Day! The annual street festival runs from 9AM to 4PM. Downtown Chambersburg will be filled with arts, crafts and food vendors as well as two live-music stages, kids’ activities and more.
“Visions of a Quilter” will take place on July 14 & July 15 at Falling Spring Presbyterian Church. The quilt show will showcase more than 200 quilted works as well as demonstrations of quilting techniques. Handmade items and quilting supplies will be available for purchase.
Other activities include a Circus exhibit and Bounce house at The Old Jail, dance performance at the Capitol Theatre by Chambersburg Ballet Theatre School, and music by Cumberland Valley School of Music at First United Methodist Church.
After Old Market Day is 1864: The Burning. Activities begin at 6PM with history exhibits, vendors, kids’ activities and the final round of a musical competition, A Cappella & Unplugged, followed by the reenactment of the Burning of Chambersburg with an exciting laser light show at dusk.
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