eighth annual 8/10/2024
Always the Second Saturday in August!
9:00am - 3:00pm
Celebrating community & culture!
You’re guaranteed to have a great time at our annual family-friendly, Gray Wild Blueberry Festival celebrating all things wild blueberry! Enjoy the day at Gray’s largest outdoor party filled with: Live Music, Food Trucks, Fire Truck, Wild Maine Blueberry Pie Eating Contests, Wild Maine Blueberry Dessert Bake-Off, Spelling Bee (for 1st to 5th graders only), Master Beekeeper, ‘Made in Maine’ Arts & Craft Vendors, Swing Band, Community Expo, Gentle Yoga on the Lawn, Lawn Games, Corn Hole Tournaments, Chain Saw Carving Demo, Caricature Artist, Inflatables, Dunk Tank, Sprinklers (if it’s hot enough out), 1/4 Mile Fun Run, Face Painting at the Kids Tent. Activities may change each year and a few more get added every year!
Booths
Kids Activities
contests
Food & Music
Our History
We started spring of 2016, as grass-roots committee to bring back Gray’s annual summer festival which debuted just 3 months later. In 2017, the festival was rebranded as the ‘Gray Blueberry Festival’ – in honor of wild blueberry barrens/farms located in Gray and the surrounding towns – where youngsters once hand-picked wild Maine blueberries as their summer job. We also started partnering with the Wild Blueberry Commission of Maine.
We learned more about the heart & brain health benefits of adding wild Maine blueberries to your diet and importance of native & wild bees to pollinating our (nation’s) crops.
So, in 2022, we went ‘wild’ – rebranding this awesome annual event as the ‘Gray Wild Blueberry Festival’, with special thanks to UME’s New Media Department who created this dedicated website for our Festival. As you can probably tell by now, we try to outdo ourselves every year to make the Gray Wild Blueberry Festival a better experience for local residents and visitors. We can’t wait to host our next Gray Wild Blueberry Festival, always held on the second Saturday in August
