A huge thank you to all the businesses, organizations, entertainers, and sponsors who made last year’s LebFest such a success! We’re excited to bring the community together again for another incredible celebration this year—mark your calendars and stay tuned for exciting updates!
LebFest 2025
Saturday, September 20, 2025 from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm at Colburn Park in Lebanon, NH.
LebFest is a family-centered, FREE community event for all ages with over 90 booths of activities, games, crafts, raffles, local vendors, music, food vendors, and a Mac & Cheese competition featuring local restaurants. LebFest celebrates the Upper Valley community as a great place to live and raise a family! (Food and drink will be available for purchase.)
Presented by Upper Valley Business Alliance and Lebanon Recreation, Arts & Park
LIVE ANIMAL PRESENTATION
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Join us by the stage at LebFest in Colburn Park for this live-animal educational presentation by the Wildlife Encounters Ecology Center and meet a diverse selection of animals in this “imaginary safari around the world”!
Meet animals whose ancestors lived in a variety of habitats and discover their amazing adaptations and environmental contributions - while considering how we can positively affect our human impact and become positive environmental stewards.
LIVE ENTERTAINMENT
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
In addition to the Wildlife Encounters animal presentation, check out the live music line up happening in front of or on the bandstand at Colburn Park during LebFest!
- 11:00am - 11:45am: Lebanon High School Band in front of the bandstand
- 11:50am - 12:00pm: Lebanon Ballet School in front of the bandstand
- 12:30pm - 1:30pm: Wildlife Encounters: Interactive Animal exhibit in front of the bandstand
- 2:00pm - 3:00pm: Never Too Late on the bandstand
MAC & CHEESE COMPETITION
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM Or Until Samples Are Gone
5th Annual LebFest Mac & Cheese Competition!
Sample homemade mac & cheese, made by local restaurants and then vote for your favorite! The winner will receive bragging rights and the coveted “Mac & Cheese Bowl”. (Samples are free so get to the tent early to taste them all!)
Who’s got the cheesiest, gooiest, most mouthwatering mac in the Upper Valley? We’ll find out soon!
Here's the official line up of the Competitors for 2025:
- Chef Adam Parker with PINE at the Hanover Inn
- Chef Josh Tuohy with Salt Hill Pub
- Chef Baron with Revo Casino
- Chef Chris Roberge with The Karibbean
- Chef Akeliyah Robinson with K&P Catering Service
- Riverbank Church
FOOD VENDORS
Still hungry after the LebFest Mac & Cheese Competition? Check out these tasty food vendors!
Yao Thai BBQ
VENDOR BOOTHS & ACTIVITIES
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
LebFest is all about community and family fun! Check out all the local business booths for crafts, activities, games, raffles, giveaways and more!
*We are currently full with vendor booths for 2025, but please contact Nicole Follensbee, Member Relations Coordinator with UVBA, to be added to the waitlist.*
All Weather HVAC: Modified race car show and tell.
Alyssa Hughes Life Coaching: TBD
Alzheimer's Association MA/NH: Coloring pages, word puzzles and memory games.
Ava Gallery: CAOS Art Making tables for kids
Bar Harbor Bank & Trust: SPONSOR
Berkshire Hathaway HS Verani Realty: Coloring pages and temporary tattoos.
Budget Print: Coloring pages, giveaways, games.
Canaveral Candles: Kids will be able to take out a sculptured candle from molds.
CCBA: TBD
City Center Ballet: TBD
Claremont Savings Bank: SPONSOR
Co-op Food Stores: SPONSOR Milk bottle toss and/or coloring activity
Cota & Cota: Cota Truck Coloring Sheets and/or Kid Sized Truck Photo Op
Cover Home Repair & Store: TBD
Dartmouth College: SPONSOR; Media & Health Behaviors Lab
Dartmouth Health - Women's Health Resource Center: TBD
Visiting Nurse and Hospice for VT and NH: TBD
DB Lights: TBD
Domino's Pizza: Cornhole game to win slices and other food items.
Dynamic Natural Advantage: TBD
Early Care & Education Association: Plinko
Fine Artist: Basic painting techniques
Flanders Steam Clean & Cleaning: TBD
Flora Primary Care: Mindfulness Coloring for Kids
Fresh Air Solutions: Clean the mini-split game for kids
Girl Scouts of the Green & White Mountains: TBD
Great Eastern Radio/River 93.9 Broadcasting: SPONSOR
Hanover Plumbing & Heating: Kids Activities
Hopkins Center for the Arts: TBD
Jessica Dunn: Your Medicare Girl: TBD
Junction Arts & Media (JAM): TBD
Kate & Co Real Estate: Bean bag toss with prizes and temporary tattoos.
Lebanon Boy Scouts: Geocaching
Ledyard Bank: SPONSOR Cornhole
Ledyard Charter School: Fall themed kids craft.
Legacy Mortgage: Decorate Your Own Birdhouse.
Listen Community Services: Giant Jenga.
Mascoma Bank: SPONSOR
New England School of the Arts: Karaoke.
North Country Community Theater: Dress Up with our Costumes & Props
Northern Stage: TBD
OSHER Lifelong Learning Institute: TBD
rePlay Arts: Creative reuse artmaking activity
Revels North: Sing-a-longs and costumes for dress-up.
Revo Casino: SPONSOR
Riverbank Church, Students, and Kids: Ski-ball & Kids Craft Space
Rose of the Wood: Kids garden rock painting.
Running Water Recreation: Hover ball - shoot balls floating in the air with bows and arrows, mini golf.
Service Credit Union: SPONSOR
Strong Rabbit Designs: Color your sticker or button.
Sweetland Farm: Name the vegetable game or an apple activity.
Systems Plus Computers: Installing a hard drive into a Mac Pro Desktop
Team Sunshine Solar: A fun "How Solar Works" interactive game
TLA Creations: TBD
Transformative Aesthetics: TBD
Upper Valley Aquatic Center: TBD
Upper Valley BIPOC Network: TBD
Upper Valley Business Alliance: Co-Host
Upper Valley Educators Institute: Postcards for children to illustrate and write a thank-you to teacher, which will be mailed!
Upper Valley Family Child Care Network: Sensory bin & games.
Upper Valley Music Center: Instrument Petting Zoo.
Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS): Biofact Discovery
Visions for Creative Housing Solutions: TBD
Vital Communities: Farm animal mask-making for kids, Upper Valley trivia game for adults.
Waypoint: TBD
West Lebanon Feed & Supply: Temporary tattoo booth for kids, guess the kibble in the jar for adults.
THANK YOU TO OUR LEBFEST SPONSORS!
