2025 Newport Agricultural Fair - Day One
Venue: Newport Community Center, Newport
Organizations: Eight Point Star
Date: Friday, August 8, 2025
Time: 4:00 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Food, Sports, Miscellaneous, Family Friendly, Arts & Theatre
Cost:

Description:
The 90th Newport Agricultural Fair will be held on Friday, August 8, 2025 and Saturday, August 9, 2025 on the grounds of the Newport Recreation Center in Giles County, VA.

Friday Schedule:
• 4:00-8:00 PM: Exhibit Entries
• 5:00 PM: Livestock Show
• 6:00 PM: Pet Show
• 6:30-7:00 PM: Line Dancing
• 7:00 PM: Newport Pageant
• 8:00 PM: Draft Horse Pull
• 8:00 PM: Judging of Exhibits
• 8:00 PM: Live Music from Eight Point Star

The Newport Agricultural Fair will celebrate its 90th birthday this year making it the oldest continuous agricultural fair in the state of Virginia, blending a touch of the past with the present. Bring your family and friends and enjoy food, fun, music, vendors, free face painting and other traditional fair activities that you won't want your family to miss!

There are lots of traditional agriculture fair contest categories to enter including produce, baking, sewing & fancy work, flower show, arts, crafts & hobbies and lots more.

Eight Point Star is a New River Valley-Roanoke collective gathered around old-time and improvisational fiddler Mike Gangloff and bluesy fingerstyle guitarist Matt Peyton that draws on traditional and international roots to create a sound all their own.

With hardanger fiddle, hurdy-gurdy, banjos, gongs, singing bowls and lots more, this is a mostly acoustic sound, but with Matt's theremin and other electronics occasionally rising to the surface sometimes from the Golden Age jazz or Great American Songbook classics that Cara grew up singing, sometimes from the urgent, raw blues that Matt has pursued and sometimes from pure, free improvisation aimed at creating an in-the-moment symphony. This is extended Appalachian music with a story of its own to tell.

Solid, bluesy fingerstyle guitar and soaring, scratchy hardanger fiddle combine for duo explorations; a search for beauty.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/Eight-Point-Star-Band-2115905332014152/

Admission to the Fair is $5.00 for adults, $4.00 for kids ages 6-12 and ages 5 & under are free. Only cash accepted at the gate.

All exhibits will be located downstairs and in the Rescue Squad Hall.

The Newport Pageant will be held in the Community Center Auditorium featuring contestants from ages 3-18. Admission to the Newport Pageant is $3.00 for adults and $2.00 for children ages 6-11. Children under the age of 6 are free.

The Pet Show is for any child 18 & under featuring a wide variety of animals including dogs, cats, rabbits and more under a variety of categories. Prizes awarded.

There will be a shuttle bus running from the First Christian Church to the Newport Ball Park on Friday from 6:00 PM until midnight and Saturday from 9:00 AM until midnight. There will be limited handicap parking at the Rec Center. There will be additional handicap parking at the Ball Field.

In case of rain, only individual outdoor events may be affected, everything else will proceed as scheduled.

All pets entering the fairgrounds must be caged or leashed.

To view the Saturday event listing, visit: http://www.nextthreedays.com/FeaturedEventDetails.cfm?E=853030.

To view the 2025 Fair Book, visit: https://www.newportagriculturalfair.com/fair-book.html.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/SKnSZHT1/image.png or https://i.postimg.cc/MZV0Tp05/image.png.

For more information, visit: http://www.newportagriculturalfair.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/newportagriculturalfair/.