ValleyFest

ValleyFest 2024

Outdoor Concert

Friday, April 26 | 8 p.m. | Practice Field (rain location: Leedy Theater)

Join us for an outdoor concert featuring country musician Cooper Greer and our VALE Artist of the Year. The first 150 students at the concert will get a free ValleyFest t-shirt.

Festival

Saturday, April 27 | 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. | Sheridan Avenue

Come out on Saturday to enjoy the ValleyFest festival! There will be food trucks, craft vendors, music, games, activities, and prizes.

Vendors

ValleyFest brings a variety of food vendors to campus each year.

2024 food vendors include:

Auntie Anne’s (Friday & Saturday)
PA Dairymen’s Milkshakes (Friday)
Philly Cheesesteak Co. on the Roll
Walk-O-Taco
Health Check
Bala Saahas
The Grilled Cheese Cafe
Noel’s Cafe

ValleyFest brings a variety of craft and merchandise vendors to campus each year.

2024 craft and merchandise vendors include:

HeadStart Lebanon
Cleona Coffee Roasters
Origami Owl
L Squared Permanent Jewelry
Ginger Scents
Throw Fire Pottery
Kelly Lee Soaps
SLPeach Shop
& some student craft vendors

Students enjoy food trucks at ValleyFest 2023

What is ValleyFest?

ValleyFest combines a carnival-like atmosphere complete with games, inflatables, artisan food vendors, activities for children, and groups from the community. ValleyFest, usually held in April each year, includes a concert and outdoor festival.

With the continued tradition of music, ValleyFest has brought national recording acts like Emerson Drive, Eve6, the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Everclear, Tyler Hilton, Aaron Carter, Jon Belion, and Sammy Adams to the Lebanon Valley as part of the main-stage lineup. Attracting visitors from around the region, the festival sponsors local arts and craft vendors, exhibits such as the Juried Arts Show, theatrical and dance productions, local and regional music acts, food vendors, and much more.

Lebanon Valley College, like other colleges and universities around the country, has had its share of campus traditions. The campus is rich with traditions, from Hot Dog Frank to Dutchmen Day, many of which live on today.

ValleyFest is one of those traditions. First started in 1971 by former LVC student, Don Frantz, as the Spring Arts Festival, this annual celebration brings together the Lebanon Valley community and fills the campus with art and cultural exhibits. Attracting visitors from around the region, the festival sponsors local arts and craft vendors, exhibits such as the Juried Arts Show, theatrical and dance productions, local and regional music acts, food vendors, and much more.

The Spring Arts Festival continued until 2002 when the name of the annual festival weekend was changed to the Cherry Blossom Festival. The theme of the festival was changed to celebrate the beauty of the campus just in time for the cherry trees to bloom.

ValleyFest Begins: Fall 2004

Seeking to rekindle the College and community interaction that seemed to be missing from the festival weekend in recent years, students came together and changed the name and mission of the annual tradition to ValleyFest: A College and Community Festival.

Held during the end of April, ValleyFest has become the time when campus and community can join together to celebrate the return of spring and an appreciation for the arts.