Delmarva Chicken Festival reduces fees for vendors, food trucks

Sponsors, food trucks, marketplace vendors and community service exhibitors can still sign up to be part of the Delmarva Chicken Festival, a beloved public event returning in 2023 to celebrate 100 years of growing chicken on Delmarva.

Free and open to the public, the festival will take place from 1 to 7 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 7, at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium in Salisbury, Md.

DCA has reduced the fee for commercial food trucks to $100 per 15-by-15-foot space and $75 for an additional space, and trimmed the fee for nonprofit food vendors to $50 per 15-by-15-foot space, and $25 for an additional space. For the marketplace at the festival, commercial exhibitors can pay $75 per 10-by-10-foot space, and $50 for an additional space; nonprofit exhibitor fees in the marketplace are now $40 for the first space and $25 for a second.

For more information for prospective vendors or exhibitors, go to dcachicken.com/festival.

In addition to food trucks and vendors, attractions will include historical and educational exhibits, and children’s activities. Live music will be performed throughout the day by The Jones Boys, Jimmy Charles, and Mike Hines & The Look.

The Chicken Capers contests, which pit teams of employees from Delmarva’s five chicken companies against each other in field day-style games, will return for the 2023 event. A fireworks show will round out the festival at 7 p.m. All five chicken companies – Allen Harim Foods, Amick Farms, Mountaire Farms, Perdue Farms and Tyson – are presenting sponsors of the 2023 Delmarva Chicken Festival.

“The Delmarva Chicken Festival offers food trucks, small businesses and nonprofit organizations an opportunity to serve thousands of customers while being part of chicken’s history,” said Holly Porter, Delmarva Chicken Association executive director. “We’re encouraging sponsors, exhibitors and vendors to reach out and sign up now for this milestone event, and we’re excited to make it even more accessible to them.”