Annual Taylorsville Apple Festival

From Annual Taylorsville Apple Festival Website:

The Taylorsville Apple Festival is a charity (501c3) and all proceeds above operating costs go to The Needy Children's Benevolence Fund at our 11 Alexander County Schools.

The Taylorsville Apple Festival is the largest event in Alexander County for the year hosting all of these wonderful events...

The festival boasts 3 entertainment stages: The Main Stage on the courthouse lawn, the Gospel Stage at the west end of the festival, and the Childrens' Stage on the east end of the festival. The Kid's Korner is the biggest draw for our younger attendees.

The Kid's Korner has hosted in the past, pony rides, camel rides, mechanical bucking bull rides, pitching booths, numerous professional inflatables, puppet shows, music and much more.

Food vendors surround the courthouse emitting some of the most wonderful smells and best tasting food you'll find in the Carolinas. One can find, chopped barbeque, eggrolls, hamburgers and hotdogs, barbeque chicken, Italian sausages, and the list goes on.

And don't forget dessert. Items here include: homemade ice cream, cakes, cookies, and of course fried apple pies.

And don't forget the hundreds of craft vendors lining many blocks of our town that day. There is also a Professional area at the west end of the festival.

The Festival Director and volunteers work many hard hours during the course of a year to put this large event on. During the day of the festival they man an Information Tent in the center of the festival to assist vendors and attendees alike in many ways.

Our History:
The Apple Festival was started in 1988 by the Sugar Loaf Community Association. The Taylorsville Hometown Development Association took it over in 1996 with approximately 35 exhibits that year. In 2003 The Taylorsville Apple Festival Committee took charge of running the festival which has now evolved into The Taylorsville Apple Festival Inc. (a 501c3 charity) and has steadily grown to the stage it is today with an estimated 30,000 attendees. The festival now hosts over 300 exhibit booths.

In honor of the Apple in our Apple Festival title, our festival always hosts the apple peeling contest, the apple desert contest, a booth apple theme decorating contest, and of course lots of apple vendors from which to buy cider, a large variety of bagged apples, etc. Apples are very important to Alexander County which currently ranks #3 in North Carolina apple production.

But through it all, our Taylorsville Apple Festival is a festival of clean fun for the whole family! And the proceeds raised from the festival go to a good cause.