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5 Labor Day Festivals You’ll Want to Attend!

August 27, 2017 By Lisa Grigsby

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There’s no doubt the Miami Valley likes a festival and September is jam packed with them! It can truly be overwhelming trying to keep up with them, heck there are 5 Oktoberfests in Sept that we know of, not to mention celebrations of Greek, Italian and  Egyptian culture. (Check out DMM’s Calendar and filter to festival to see them all.)  But let’s just take this one week at a time and look ahead to next weekend:

Kettering Holiday at Home: Saddle Up

Lincoln Park Commons

September 2- 4 

Holiday at Home is an annual celebration in Kettering, Ohio. It is held the Sunday and Monday of Labor Day weekend. Activities include a 5K, Arts & Craft and Auto Shows, Children’s Activities, Parade, Entertainment and more!

Annual Gala:
 Saturday, Sept 2, 6:00 PM to 11:00 PMArts & Crafts: Sunday, Sept 3, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM and Monday, Sept 4, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PMAuto Show: Sunday, Sept 3, 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM and Monday, Sept 4, 11:00 AM to 5:00 PMChildren’s Zone: Sunday, Sept 3, 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM and Monday, Sept 4, 11:00AM to 5:00 PM5K Race: Monday, Sept 4, 8:00 AMParade: Monday, Sept 4, 9:55 AM to 12:00 PM

Kettering Holiday at Home Parade

The Fair at New Boston

George Rogers Clark Park

September 2 & 3  @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm     $8 – $10

Step 200 years back in time at the Annual Fair at New Boston! All of those that exhibit at the fair, including vendors and artisans will be in character, meaning they will interact with you as if you were an 18th Century visitor. They may even question that cell phone, or newfangled camera you might be carrying wondering exactly what it might do.

Enjoy music and period entertainments, sample hearty foods of the past and shop juried artisans and craftspeople.

AlterFest: Alter’s Family Fun Festival

Alter High School
Friday, Sept 01, 2017   7:00 PM – 11:00 PM 
Saturday, Sept 02, 2017   12:00 PM – 11:00 PM 
Sunday, Sept 03, 2017   1:00 PM – 11:00 PM 
Monday, Sept 04, 2017   12:00 PM – 5:00 PM 
AlterFest features fun for the whole family, rides and games for the kids, Blackjack, Texas Hold’em, Big 6 & Showdown for the adults, lots of great food and of course, a full line-up of the best bands in Dayton entertaining the masses.

River Blast

Riverfront Park
Saturday, Sept 2 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm  Fireworks 9:05pm

Enjoy an evening of fun for the whole family in Miamisburg. Enjoy entertainment, live music, FIREWORKS and more. Children’s entertainment includes giant inflatable play zone, face painting, crafts, caricature artists, puppet shows and games.

Dayton Reggae Festival

RiverScape MetroPark
September 3 @ 1:00 pm – 8:00 pm  Free

Groove with the beat and live in the reggae moment! Enjoy this concert festival with host/emcee Niki Dakota.  Bring a blanket or lawn chair.

1pm – Jonny Dread
2pm – Johnny Payne and The True Believers
3pm – One Love Reggae Band
4pm – Demolition Squad
5pm – Seefari
6pm – All Star Reggae Jam (featuring Scales of Justice Reunion)

This is just a warm up for a month full of festivals, stay tuned for the round up for the rest of the month soon!

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Filed Under: Community, The Featured Articles Tagged With: festival, Kettering Holiday At Home, labor day, reggaefest, River Blast

About Lisa Grigsby

Lisa Grigsby is a Special Events Director with over thirty years experience in promotions, event coordination and public relations.

Owning Jokers Comedy Cafe for 20 years taught Lisa to maintain a sense of humor under pressure. She credits Leadership Dayton for exposing her to the amazing assets of the region and Clothes That Work for being her reason she stayed in Dayton. Her proudest accomplishment as a past president of the Miami Valley Restaurant Association was creating Restaurant Week, a twice a year tradition that continues to grow and benefit local charities as well. As a foodie, it's only natural that she continues to promote local restaurateurs with DaytonDining.

As a Dayton Catalyst, her desire to have ONE community calendar and advocate for the amazing assets of the region helped create the vision for the relaunch of DaytonMostMetro, now Dayton 937.com


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