03/29/2025
PRESS RELEASE - FRYEBURG FAIR EXPANDING TO NINE DAYS
Fryeburg Fair has come to realize that our relationship with the carnival and food vendors that make up our midway needs to be treated as a partnership for the Fair to be a success. Midways are disappearing all over the country. Prior to the year 2000, there were over 400 carnivals running nationwide, now we’re down to less than 180. The focus of Maine Fairs is the celebration of agriculture, but we need the excitement and great fair food of a vibrant midway to be successful. In order to attract a quality midway, we need to run on weekend days. We should not leave Saturdays & Sundays unused. Those days produce revenue which is critical to keeping fairs and midways in the black. It’s a fact of life. We mean no harm to Cumberland Fair. We have gone out of our way to tell those of our livestock families and vendors who participate at Cumberland that we want them to stay at Cumberland on Saturday, and that they can move in late to Fryeburg.
Many Maine fairs have overlapping dates. Another Maine fair has already adjusted its Sunday opening to Saturday to add a weekend day to benefit the public and their fair operations. Our new opening Saturday makes good business sense for the future of Fryeburg Fair. Our opening day will include our regular program - livestock, museum exhibitions, sheep dog trials, our horse show; and, some new features - lawn mower races, a kids peddle tractor pull, a keg toss, late afternoon horse pulling, night show & fireworks.
As always thank you to our livestock families, vendors, exhibitors, employees, Maine Fair friends & especially our fairgoers. www.fryeburgfair.org
