Kipona Festival...

Downtown Harrisburg’s Riverfront Park is the setting for the Kipona Festival. The festival is held on Labor Day weekend, by the Susquehann River and the festival gets its name, ‘Kipona’, from the American Indian name that means ‘Sparkling Waters’. Activities include the Kipona Canoe races, and juried ArtFest, the Rubber Duck Regatta, dragon boat races, and the Pennsylvania State Chili...

Chile Pepper Food Festival...

Bill Delong Memorial Park in Bowers, PA is home to the Chile Pepper Food Festival, held on the the Friday and Saturday after Labor Day. The festival runs from 9am to 6pm each day and offers plenty of opportunities to taste, sample and purchase all kinds of chile peppers. Think you can eat the most chile peppers?  Then participate in the chile pepper eating contest.  You may want to take a shot at the chile salsa eating...

Lyons Fiddle Festival...

In mid to late September, young and old fiddles get inspired to come out and jam at the Lyon’s Fiddle Festival. In 1983, with a borrow hay wagon, the first festival attracted approximately 1,200 attendees. The festival was not held in 2006, but many people showed up and jammed anyway – persuading the continuation of the festival in 2007. As of 2010 – the festival is struggling with volunteers, so if you can...