Event: Our fair comes once a year for 6 days! We try to put on the best fair possible with food, entertainment, and rides/games! Hope to see you at our fair each year!
Back to School Bash
Event: The public is invited to a “Back to School Bash” at Alexander County Courthouse Park. The 4th annual event is sponsored by Alexander Funeral Service. Activities will include free book bags with supplies (first-come, first-served), a free hot dog meal for the family, waterslides, music, and a treat for all the kids. Grand Prizes will be awarded every 30 […]
Blackberry Festival 2025
Event: The North Carolina Blackberry Festival is a celebration of blackberries, cobbler, and fun! Held in Lenoir, North Carolina, the festival offers tons of family-friendly events. This is a free two-day event. There’s music, vendors, food, kids’ activities, and a blackberry-eating contest. We have delicious blackberries for sale as well as some scrumptious blackberry cobbler for sale, while it lasts! […]
Blackberry Festival 2025
Event: The North Carolina Blackberry Festival is a celebration of blackberries, cobbler, and fun! Held in Lenoir, North Carolina, the festival offers tons of family-friendly events. This is a free two-day event. There’s music, vendors, food, kids’ activities, and a blackberry-eating contest. We have delicious blackberries for sale as well as some scrumptious blackberry cobbler for sale, while it lasts! […]
Winter Carnival 2025
Event: Join us in the heart of Downtown Morganton for the Winter Carnival, ice carving and lighting of downtown! About: Downtown Morganton is the heart of the City. The City of Morganton sits on the Catawba River in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Morganton is blessed with scenic rural landscapes, abundant outdoor adventure venues, wonderful shopping and […]
Historic Morganton Festival
Event: The 43rd Annual Morganton Festival is set for Friday, September 5th, from 12:00-11:00 pm and Saturday, September 6th, from 9:00 am-10:00 pm in downtown Morganton, North Carolina. The festival features 3 stages with free music each evening on the Courthouse Square Stage, dancers, acrobats, and theater talents on the Pepsi Stage, and wonderous amazements on the Kid Zone stage. […]
Historic Morganton Festival
Event: The 43rd Annual Morganton Festival is set for Friday, September 5th, from 12:00-11:00 pm and Saturday, September 6th, from 9:00 am-10:00 pm in downtown Morganton, North Carolina. The festival features 3 stages with free music each evening on the Courthouse Square Stage, dancers, acrobats, and theater talents on the Pepsi Stage, and wonderous amazements on the Kid Zone stage. […]
Halloween Spooktacular 2025
Event: Trick-Or-Treat give all the kids something good to eat! Downtown Businesses will give out candy to all the witches, superheroes and characters before everyone joins on the Historic Burke County Courthouse for the costume contest and other scary activities! About: Downtown Morganton is the heart of the City. The City of Morganton sits on the Catawba River in […]
6th Annual Downtown Hickory Cookie Crawl
Event: Tickets for the Cookie Crawl will be available closer to the date! Be sure to check back! Once you’ve purchased your ticket, bring your receipt to the HDDA tent on Union Square, December 6, from 2 to 3 pm, to receive your Cookie Crawl Passport & Map! Follow the crumbs to collect different holiday-inspired cookies! It’s the perfect way […]
Oktoberfest
Event: The annual Oktoberfest is the second weekend of October. Having been co-founded by a German, Adolphus “Dolph” Shuford, Hickory has a long, proud German heritage. Home to the United States headquarters for several German companies and sharing a region-to-region partnership between Altenburger Land, Germany, and the four Greater Hickory Metro counties of Alexander, Burke, Caldwell, and Catawba, our connection […]
