Motorcycles, Music, Family Festivities! The 23rd Annual Milford Pumpkin Festival Will Feature New Events!

Milfold, New Hampshire - The Milford Great Pumpkin Festival celebrates its 23rd year on October 5-7 in downtown Milford with music on two stages all weekend.

New This Year: Calling all Easy Riders! The first annual Pumpkin Festival Custom/Vintage Motorcycle Show will take place on the Oval on Friday, October 5 from 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM. Display your bike - prizes awarded in a variety of categories. Register online at www.milfordpumpkinfestival.org.

This year, the popular Beer Tasting has morphed into a Beer, Wine and Spirits Tasting featuring New Hampshire produced beers by Tuckerman Brewing, Bellavance Beverage and Martha's Exchange Restaurant, wine by Sweet Baby Vineyard and Labelle Winery, mead by Sap House Meadery and rum by Sea Hagg Distillery. The tasting takes place on Saturday, October 6 from 5:50-8:30 pm on the Community House Lawn, tickets $10 to taste all. Also taking place, the Chili RoundUp contest and music by popular Boston-based band The Macrotones!

Cheer on the brave souls performing in the 6th Annual Pumpkin Festival Talent Show at The Amato Center on Saturday, October 6 at 8 PM. Contestants from all over New Hampshire will sing, dance, perform acrobatic and display other unique talents for a chance to win $500 and bragging rights. Interested contestants can enter at www.milfordpumpkinfestival.org.

Pooches love Pumpkin Festival too! The Milford Lions Club will hold their Ugly & Costumed Dog Contest on Sunday, October 7 in Emerson Park. Bring your favorite furry friend in costume!

There are several returning favorites such as the Great Pumpkin Weigh In, the Pumpkin Catapult, Haunted Trail, scarecrow making and face painting all on the Oval and the Community House Lawn.  Fireworks by Atlas Pyrotechnics kick off the festival weekend at 8:45 PM on Friday, October 5 on the Oval.

Music on two stages is the highlight of the weekend. Over 30 local bands and singers will take the stages over the weekend, performing everything from award-winning country, bluegrass, symphony, folk and rock ‘n’roll.
The Milford Great Pumpkin Festival is organized on behalf of the Town of Milford by the Milford Improvement Team. Many thanks to our Primary Festival Sponsors Kokko Realty, Centrix Bank, Atlas Pyrotechnics and Custos Morum Lodge 42 and our event sponsors: Alene Candles, Amigos Restaurant, Ciardelli Fuels, Chop Shop Cycles, Contemporary Chrysler-Dodge, DGN Motorsports, Eaton & Berube Insurance, First Colebrook Bank, Granite State Credit Union, JP Pest Services, Lake Sunapee Bank, Ledgewood Bay Assisted Living, Maple Brook Dentistry, Milford Lumber, the Pasta Loft Restaurant, St.Mary’s Bank, Souhegan Motorsports, Triangle Credit Union and Toyota of Nashua.

For more information on the Festival, telephone (603)249-0676, email director@milfordimprovementteam.org or visit the website: www.milfordpumpkinfestival.org.