Virginia Festivals And Trade Shows

Virginia is a place rich in festivals and trade shows dedicated to food and harvests, history, heritage, holidays, wines and beverages, antiques, music, ponies, birds, art, boats, and friends and families. Virginia festivals and trade shows are annual events where visitors are sure to not only find what they look for in trade but also enjoy the food, shows, games, rides, and exhibits.

Chocolate Lovers Festival
The festival is an annual festival for all ages that features activities for families, including the Taste of Chocolate, with chocolate vendors promoting their goods; the Chocolate Challenge, which is an art extravaganza using chocolates as the medium; Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast that features chocolate chip pancakes; as well as children’s activities, craft shows, historic re-enactments, and special events. Some of the events have an admission fee and others are free.

Every year the Chocolate Lovers Festival chooses a charitable institution to donate a fraction of the proceeds raised from the festival. The aim of the festival is to attract visitors to the Old Town Fairfax and support the public’s participation to foster cooperation among the business community, government, and local residents.

Charlottesville Vegetarian Festival
This is one of the annual Virginia festivals and trade shows that is not for vegetarians alone, but features a hundred exhibitors and six-thousand visitors every year. The outdoor festival is free in celebration with healthy and humane lifestyle, including free delicious, vegan food samples, restaurant booths, exhibitors, nonprofit and educational organizations, dog and cat adoption fair, and much more.

Savor Virginia Food and Beverage Expo
The fall event is to celebrate outstanding Virginia grown products with exhibitors and activities planned throughout the month of October, featuring Virginia apple month and Virginia pumpkin month. The event is one of Virginia festivals and trade shows that enhance the rich agricultural industry of Virginia.

Virginia Beef Expo
The trade show is hosted by the Virginia Beef Industry, featuring beef fest’s, exhibitors of various products and services for the beef industry, plus cattle displays, contests, and exhibitors who discuss cattle needs, from vaccines to equipments.



Town Point Virginia Wine Festival
The annual festival features the oldest and largest wine festival of Hampton Road, with musical entertainment while sampling over thirty vintages from the premier makers of wines in Virginia. Additionally, gourmet foods and specialty products are available throughout the week of the festival.

Puquoson Seafood Festival
The festival is an annual event that tributes the working watermen of the Chesapeake Bay, as well as the rich coastal custom of the place. The festival features outstanding national and regional musical entertainment, some savory dishes from its waters such as crab cakes, oysters, clams, shrimp, soft shell crabs, clam chowder, catfish, crab soup, and a lot of other festival favorites.

Virginia festivals and trade shows are a brilliant and fun way of attracting traders and visitors to Virginia, as well as boosting the place’s popularity and business industries.