If scooping out a pumpkin and decorating it with a particularly menacing face is your favourite part of Halloween, then look no further than the Virginia Pumpkin Festival. Now in its 8th year, the festival takes place over Bank Holiday Weekend and is the pumpkin party of the year.
Gather all the family to this magical festival with its biggest and best programme ever this year. Join in the frightful fun commencing with a haunted forest walk on Friday, The Kilkenny’s and a tribute to Luke Kelly to entertain you on the Saturday night in the Virginia Show Centre and a monster fancy dress ball on the Sunday night, this festival is an essential for everyone who loves Halloween. There is a full programme of day time entertainment for all ages and tastes.
There are competitions to partake in: Pumpkin Pie competition and the Alternative Pumpkin Competition taking place over the weekend.
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Fireworks Image by Bob Lynch