Arlington County Fair

Live Performance: Inspira Line Dance Team
2025-08-15 19:00 - 19:45 (America/New_York)
Location: Tennis Courts

Live Performance: Calico Cloggers
2025-08-15 19:15 - 20:00
The Calico Cloggers are a percussive dance group based in Northern Virginia. We perform at festivals, retirement communities, schools – pretty much anywhere possible! Our repertoire includes traditional and modern clogging, Irish and Canadian step dancing, tap dancing, swing, and set dancing. We dance to bluegrass, country, Celtic, pop, swing, and hip-hop music.

Location: Indoor Stage

Live Performance: Elsa and Jose
2025-08-15 20:15 - 21:00
Location: Indoor Stage

Live Performance: Continental Jazz Congress
2025-08-15 20:30 - 21:30
Location: Main Stage

Children’s Entrepreneur Market
2025-08-16 10:00 - 14:00
The Children’s Entrepreneur Market is an award-winning program that teaches young people about the power of entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership through experiential learning. Join us to shop from over fifty vendors all under the age of 17! To see if there are still spots available to participate or to join another market, check kidsmarkets.com.

Location: Upper Field

Vienna Princesses Glam Tent
2025-08-16 10:00 - 14:00
The Vienna Princess will bring the royal treatment to kids of all ages at the glam tent, offering a fun face painting experience.

Location: Upper Field

Go Bananas Dancing Performance & Family Dance Party
2025-08-16 11:00 - 11:45
Kids, join Go Bananas Dancing for exercise, learning, and fun! All ages welcome.

Location: Children’s Stage

Family Arts & Crafts Fun
2025-08-16 11:00 - 14:00
Taking a break from all the fair’s outside fun? Meet our Competitive Exhibits staff and teachers at Art House 7, an art studio in Arlington, VA. Art House 7 will offer FREE, family-friendly arts and crafts activities. It’s a great opportunity to tap into your creative side and learn more about how to enter your talents in next year’s Competitive Exhibits, as well as learn more about the classes, camps, and workshops offered at Art House 7 for ages 2 to adults

Location: Near Indoor Stage

T.E.A.M. Bounce Houses
2025-08-16 11:00 - 18:00
Get your bounce on again this year with the inflatable obstacle course, sports, and bounce houses. Provided by Arlington County T.E.A.M., these inflatable wonders offer endless free fun for kids of all ages.

Location: Upper Field

Portable Planetarium Dome
2025-08-16 11:00 - 21:00
Come see a planetarium show at the Arlington County Fair! The Friends of Arlington’s David M. Brown Planetarium, in cooperation with Marymount University, are pleased to provide Arlington County Fair attendees an exciting opportunity to view free planetarium shows at the Fair in a Portable Planetarium Dome! Explore the cosmos in this unique viewing experience suitable for all ages.

Friday: 4 pm – 10 pmSaturday: 11 am – 9 pmSunday: 11 am – 8 pmLocation: Indoors

Walking Tour of TJ Pollinator Garden with the Arlington Regional Master Naturalists
2025-08-16 12:00 - 12:30, 2025-08-16 14:00 - 14:30, 2025-08-16 16:00 - 16:30
Discover low-maintenance, eye-catching plants that support local pollinators and thrive in Virginia’s climate. Join a certified Master Naturalist for a tour of the native plant demonstration garden at Thomas Jefferson Middle School to see how easy it is to grow natives in your yard—or even on a balcony!

All tours begin at the Arlington Regional Master Naturalists Indoor Exhibit (located at the Virginia Cooperative Extension section of the fair).

Tour Times:

Saturday, Aug 16 – 12:00 PM, 2:00 PM, 4:00 PM

Sunday, Aug 17 – 12:00 PM, 2:00 PM

Pizza Eat-A-Slice Contest
2025-08-16 12:00 - 12:50
Who doesn’t enjoy a delicious slice of pizza? Bring your appetite and competitive spirit to the Pizza Eat-A-Slice Contest. Be the first to finish in your age category and win a prize! Kids under 5 years old compete with Twinkies instead of pizza. Sign up for this FREE event at the Indoor Event Stage starting at 11 am on Saturday. This event is brought to you by Team Showalter and Troy’s Italian Kitchen.

Location: Indoor Stage

Live Performance: Rocknoceros
2025-08-16 12:00 - 13:00
Rocknoceros has entertained tens of thousands of fans around the country, performing at Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, and the Kennedy Center. Since its inception in 2005, Rocknoceros has won ten Washington Area Music Awards and has found its way into the hearts and homes of music-lovers of all ages.

Location: Children’s Stage

Live Performance: Grass Fed
2025-08-16 12:45 - 13:30

Burrito Eating Contest
2025-08-16 13:00 - 13:45
Who loves Burritos – we do! Competitors will eat one chicken burrito, and the fastest eater wins a prize. Sign up for this FREE event at the Indoor Event Stage starting at 11 am on Saturday. This event is brought to you by Team Showalter and Los Chamacos Mexican Restaurant.

Location: Indoor Stage

Live Performance: Drew Blue Shoes
2025-08-16 13:30 - 14:00, 2025-08-16 14:30 - 15:00, 2025-08-16 15:30 - 16:00
Back by popular demand, Magician Drew Blue Shoes will entertain audiences with family-friendly magical illusions and surprises that will knock your socks off!

Location: Children’s Stage

Pie Eating Championship
2025-08-16 13:30 - 14:30
Everyone LOVES pie and, in this competition, participants eat one slice of Triple Berry Pie – no hands or utensils allowed – as fast as they can! Winners in each age category will receive a special prize. Online registration is encouraged – $10 per person for a t-shirt and a slice of pie. The Pie Eating Championship is brought to you by Team Showalter, Livin’ the Pie Life, and TriVista USA.

Location: Indoor Stage

Live Performance: Arlingtones Barbershop Chorus
2025-08-16 14:00 - 14:45
Founded in 1957, the Arlingtones Barbershop Chorus is the Arlington, VA chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society (BHS) which has 700 chapters in the US and Canada with combined membership of over 30,000. The Arlingtones seek to preserve the art of 4-part a cappella music by offering performances in the barbershop style, and endeavor to further develop Arlington as a Community of Harmony through its performances and support of the musical life of the community.

Location: Main Stage

Container Gardening Demonstration
2025-08-16 14:45 - 15:45
Want to learn how to get your plants and flowers looking like our prize winners? Join Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia for a container gardening presentation and workshop!

Location: Indoors

Action Jaxx
2025-08-16 15:00 - 18:00
Cool off from the summer heat in the Foam Party by Action Jaxx—a fan favorite! It’s like swimming without the pool. If you forget a dry change of clothes, buy an Arlington County Fair t-shirt.

Location: Upper Field

Live Performance: Holding a Grunge
2025-08-16 15:15 - 16:00
Holding a Grunge is a 90’s pop punk and rock cover band that plays in the NOVA/MD/DC area.

Location: Main Stage

Live Performance: Matt Lyttle
2025-08-16 16:00 - 16:45

Live Performance: 5th of Four
2025-08-16 16:30 - 17:00
Formed in Washington, DC in 2022, 5th of Four has quickly built a loyal following with their combination of heavy guitar riffs, jazzy melodies, and catchy lyrics.

From power chord driven pop-rock to acoustic-based power-ballads, there’s something for everyone in every show. 5th of Four’s influences include the 90s/00s rock of Foo Fighters and Taking Back Sunday, the second wave punk of Rancid, the 80s prog rock of Rush, the heavy metal of Metallica, and the British new wave of The Police.

Location: Main Stage

Live Performance: Groovy Nate
2025-08-16 16:30 - 17:30
Groovy Nate is a performance and teaching artist who creates exciting educational shows and workshops using funky grooves, electric guitar, exotic musical instruments such as the mouthbow and talking drum; laced with comedy, creative play, and puppet skits— a la Sesame Street meets Parliament/Funkadelic. He is also a 2022 Grammy nominee with the One Tribe Collective.

Location: Children’s Stage

Live Performance: Old Dominion Cloggers
2025-08-16 17:15 - 18:00
Old Dominion Cloggers is a percussive dance performance team based in Arlington, Virginia, since 1977. They dance to old country favorites, pop, and rock, bringing a foot-stompin’ good time to their performances.

Location: Indoor Stage

Live Performance: Joshua Luongo
2025-08-16 17:45 - 18:30
Joshua Luongo a Charlottesville, VA-based Indie-folk music project that begin in December 2024 when Joshua Luongo uploaded a few original songs to Youtube. Since then the Joshua and his band have performed at Breweries, Wineries, Farmer’s markets and more all throughout Virginia and surrounding states

Location: Main Stage
