Mark your calendars for a small-town festival that will be just the cure for spring fever. The Belle Plaine Downtown Festival (formerly known as the Tulip Festival) is ON for April 2021.
This spring weekend event attracts visitors to Belle Plaine every year to enjoy activities, live entertainment, a car & bike show, vendor fair, parade and more.
This year, the Downtown Festival also helps celebrate the 150th anniversary of Belle Plaine. For the health and safety of all visitors, events are being moved outside, and a few events had to be put off until future years. It still looks like there will be plenty of fun! You can see all the planned events for the 2021 Belle Plaine Downtown Festival at the website or Facebook page.
Activities generally begin on Friday night, followed by the official opening of the festival on Saturday morning.
Admission is a $3 festival button. The button is your ticket to the fun and required for several activities.
Belle Plaine Downtown Festival Events
The festival begins Friday night, April 9 at 5 p.m. and continues until Sunday, April 11 at 4 p.m. Here are some of the events happening around the festival!
Golf Tournament – April 3
Friday night:
- Talent Show at 6 p.m.
- Street Dance at 7:30 p.m.
- Glow Run at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday:
- Basketball tournament at 8 a.m.
- Live music: The CarTunes at 8 a.m.
- Pet show at 9 a.m.
- Vendor fair at 9 a.m.
- Car & Bike show at 10 a.m.
- Parade at 12 p.m. (noon)
- Sand volleyball tournament at 2 p.m.
- Kids Power Wheels races at 2 p.m.
- Live music: The Wonderers at 2:30 p.m.
- Live music: The Farnum Family at 5:30 p.m.
- Live music: Mountain Deer Revival at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday:
- Festival poker run at 10 a.m.
- Vendor fair continues at 10 a.m.
- Farnum Family Gospel Show at 12 p.m. (noon)
- Live music: Merilee Voth at 2 p.m.
Throughout the festival they’ll have various contests, activities, and fun things to do. There’s a Decorated Wheels contest, a photo contest, a Facial Hair Face-Off, Kids Fest, food courts, inflatables and obstacle courses.
Check out the full schedule at the Facebook page or the Belle Plaine Festival website.
During the Tulip Time Festival, the Bartlett Arboretum will be hosting the annual Art at the Arb. A Tulip Festival button does not cover admission to this event, which has a suggested donation of $10 per person (free for kids). Art at the Arb is a weekend-long celebration of springtime that features local artists, musicians, catering from local restaurants, and the arboretum’s about 30,000 tulips.
Thank you Carolyn for doing all the legwork and letting us know what’s happening. Since we are new to Wichita, KS your research is a great help to us. We have already attended several events that we found out about here.
Thank you so much for your kind words, Patricia. <3 I'm so glad you are finding it useful. And welcome to Wichita!!