Hastings Waterfront Festival

Saturday, August 15, 2026 (date to be confirmed)

Hastings, Ontario (on both sides of the bridge)
hastingsfestival.ca

If you are interested in helping to organize the 2025 festival, email info@hastingsvillage.ca.

2025 SCHEDULE:

Activities are planned throughout the village, with the always-popular SHOW & SHINE Car Show at the Hastings Field House and  a VENDOR VILLAGE street sale on Front St. E.  This is in addition to the usual festival activities at the Hastings Village Marina including AXE THROWING, BLADES OF GLORY, lots of kids activities, live music and a beverage pavilion.

9 AM

• Show & Shine Car Show Opens at the Hastings Field House (Sponsored by Jayne Porter, Ball Realty)

10 AM

• South Marina Opens
• Kids Zone, Community Zone (fun for the kids includes: bouncy castle and inflatables, face-painting, kids’ axe-throwing, and the chance to win a kids’ fishing kit!)
• Food Zone, Environment Zone
• Kids Dance Party at the main stage
• Downtown Eastern Quarter Opens
• Entertainment, Vendors

11 AM

• Beverage Pavilion Opens

12 PM

Eastern Quarter Musical Performances (downtown Front St. East)

• 12 – Lindsay Glover (fiddler)
• 1:05 – Hastings Ukulele Band
• 2:10 – Rich Stewart (acoustic)
• 3:15 – Jeffery Holmes
• 4:20 – Ariana Eagleson

12-4 PM

• Axe Throwing
• Kids and Adults Axe Throwing

1 PM & 3 PM Knights vs Pirates – Blades of Glory

4- 11 PM

Marina Stage Performances

• 4 – Whiskey Wildflower
• 8 – The Detention Club

5-7 PM

• Famous HRA Fish Fry (Sponsored by Batavia Developments)