Join us for a Free, family-friendly celebration of Ocracoke's summer bounty!
The 11th annual Fig Festival will take place at the Berkley Barn on Ocracoke Island. The festival features live music, traditional Ocracoke square dancing, children’s crafts, talks by local fig experts, and vendor booths offering fig preserves, fig cakes, fig trees, local cookbooks, and other fig-tastic items. The weekend's finale will be a dance with the Ocracoke Rockers!
Schedule:
Vendor Booths: 10 am-5 pm
Beer & Wine: Noon-11 pm
Noon-2:45 pm: Acoustic music on Manor porch (rain location inside Barn)
Noon: Aaron Caswell & Jackie Willis
1:30pm: Kim France
3-5pm: Martin & Friends acoustic on Barn stage
4-6pm: Fig BBQ sauce tasting contest - proceeds benefit John Simpson scholarship fund
4-6pm: Fig Preserves Tasting Contest
5:30-7pm: Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" on Manor porch
7-8pm: Ocracoke Square Dance with Philip Howard (caller) and live accompaniment by Molasses Creek
8-11pm: Live music with Raygun Ruby on Barn stage