36th Annual Heritage Festival & Craft Show

Saturday & Sunday, September 21 & 22, 2013
10 am - 5 pm
Historic Nifong Park, 2900 E. Nifong
(Hwy 63 S & AC/Grindstone Parkway exit west)
Columbia, Missouri
FREE!
For weather-related cancellations, please call our hotline at 573-874-7663.

 

• Stage schedule for 2012
• Map of the park for the 2012 festival
• 2012 flyer
• 2012 news release
• Volunteer to help with the festival

Heritage Festival is accepting handmade craft vendors and traditional artisans. Craft vendors can apply with the application at the link below. Traditional artisans, please contact Karen Chandler at klr@gocolumbiamo.com or call 573-874-6397.

• Craft Vendor Instructions and Agreement for 2013 - Booth spaces available!
• Limited spaces available for business booths! Contact Karen at KLR@GoColumbiaMo.com for information.

• Traditional tradesmen & artisans demonstrating "lost arts"
• Entertainment on two stages
• Cowboys with their chuckwagons
• Lewis & Clark outpost
• Fun for Young'uns Area (stilts, paper pumpkins, milk the "cow," rope making, candle dipping, candy in the haystack, hayrides, and much more!)
• Handmade crafts
• Saturday evening ghost stories from 8-9:30 pm
• Museum and village tours & great food!

Visitors will be taken back to the traditions of the past. Listen, learn, and see history as it comes alive. See artisans and tradesmen dressed in 19th century attire demonstrating their trades and selling their wares. A large contemporary handmade craft area will also be featured.

Enjoy entertainment on two stages including music, dancing and storytelling. Saturday Evening Ghost Stories (8-9:30 pm) are sponsored by the Mid-Missouri Organization Storytellers. Tour the Historic Maplewood Home and the Walter’s Boone County Historical Museum and Village. Great food and a beautiful park setting will make the Heritage Festival a family tradition!

Stay overnight during the Heritage Festival! For more information on overnight accommodations, visit the Columbia Convention & Visitors Bureau Web site.

The Heritage Festival is coordinated by Columbia Parks & Recreation.

Call 573-874-7460 for more information or email Festival Coordinator at KLR@GoColumbiaMo.com

Sponsors are needed to support the Heritage Festival and Craft Show. Find out how you can promote your business through a festival sponsorship.

Thank you to our generous sponsors: