NJIB’s Top Fifteen New Jersey Events for June 24 – 26, 2022
Hello Summer! It’s June and the weather is hot hot hot. Let’s celebrate with street fairs, music and food truck festivals, carnivals, and more. Let’s leave the house to explore what NJ has to offer (or not, you do you). If you’re looking for something to do… I got you. These are my top 15 picks are for June 24 – 26, 2022.
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NJIB’s Top Fifteen New Jersey Events for June 24 – 26, 2022:
Summer Solstice Music Festival
June 24, 4PM – 10PM
Celebrate the official start of summer at Haddon Township’s Summer Solstice Music Festival! The festival will return to Haddon Township on Sunday, June 20 from 4-10 p.m. along Haddon Avenue between Strawbridge Avenue & Cooper Street. A Haddon Township favorite, the Summer Solstice Music Festival marks the official start of everyone’s favorite season. Live music, food trucks, strolling entertainment, a petting zoo, beer garden, a giant fun slide and much more will be featured at the event for the whole family to enjoy. The Haddon Township Summer Solstice Music Festival is FREE and open to the public.
Haddon Avenue and Cooper Street Haddon Township, NJ
Rock, Ribs & Ridges Festival
June 24 – 26
Southern Rock and Southern Cooking return to North Jersey as this annual summer fest expands to 3 days! The biggest names in music. The nation’s top pitmasters will be serving up mouthwatering BBQ including ribs, brisket, pulled pork and great comfort food such as cornbread and mac & cheese. Weekend camping, RV, and reserved group seating add to the enjoyment and festival experience presented by Franklin Sussex Automall.
Sussex County Fairgrounds, 37 Plains Rd., Augusta, NJ
Cost: $25 – $90
Atlantic City Seafood Festival
June 24 – 26
This three-day extravaganza of food, entertainment, and fun celebrating all things Seafood. The festival will offer event-goers the opportunity to treat their taste buds to delicious foods cooked on-site with the freshest ingredients by restaurants & seafood vendors from up and down the East Coast. Food & beverages will be for sale at each individual vendor booth while attendees can also experience a shopping event featuring businesses showcasing their crafts, jewelry, art, home décor, and more!
Music Line-up:
The Cranked Up Country Band, Killer B’s (Cover Band), Jimmy & The Parrots (Buffet Tribute Band), The Best of The Eagles (Eagles Tribute Band), Glenn Roberts (Country Music), E Street Shuffle (Springsteen Tribute Band), & The Sensational Soul Cruisers (Classic Soul, Motown, & Disco)
Bader Field, 545 North Albany Avenue, Atlantic City, NJ
Cost: Friday is Free, Sat and Sun $11
Margate Beachstock
June 25, 8AM – 10PM (Rain date is June 26th)
This event features mouthwatering food, unique handmade crafts and featured retailers and sponsors will all be a part of this year’s event. Children’s activities, live music, Air Circus single line and stunt kite demos and lessons, volleyball, South Pacific Island Dancers, beach nature walk, special characters all capped off by an evening movie, bonfire on the beach and a live band performance. The activities take place on the beach between Huntington and Granville Avenues with food and beverages set up in the parking lot of the Martin Bloom Pavilion. Featured this year will be the Margate Cornhole League Tournament where teams can compete to win prizes.
On the beach between Huntington and Granville Ave’s, Margate, NJ
Liberty Corner Food Truck & Music Festival
June 25, 11AM – 7PM
18 Gourmet Food Trucks, Live Music, beer, margarita & sangria garden, vendors, kids activities, pony rides, petting zoo, axe throwing, face painting, sand art, knockerball & it’s a Benefit for The Liberty Corner Fire Company! Bring your friends, family, appetites, chairs & blankets.
Liberty Corner Firemans Field, 95 Church St, Liberty Corner, NJ
Cost: $5, kids under are 5 are free
Blueberry Summer Fest Markets
June 25, 10AM – 2PM
Pick blueberries fresh from the field, take a wagon ride around the farm, buy cases of fresh picked blueberries, enjoy locally made blueberry pies, donuts and cakes, buy a blueberry plant (or three) to take home, tour the home of The Blueberry Queen, Elizabeth Coleman White, shop wonderful handmade vendors while enjoying the sounds of music on the Whitesbog stage. Make a nature craft with the PINES program or learn about the state forest! Pick up blueberry jams, honey, hot sauce and more in the General Store. Check out the exhibits in the Cranberry & Blueberry Museum, The Barrel Factory and the seven other historic houses open. Take a silly picture at the outhouses, dress up in vintage attire, try your hand at basket weaving, walking stick carving and more each weekend!
120 W. Whitesbog Road Browns Mills, NJ
Cost: No entry fee but donations are welcome.
Morris County Pride 2022
June 25, 10:30AM – 5PM
Morris County Pride 2022 will feature exhilarating onstage performances, along with food, craft, merchandise vendors, and community groups. The event is family friendly with special offerings for children, teens, and adults.
CCM, 214 Center Grove Road., Randolph, NJ
Woodbury Juneteenth
June 25, 2PM – 4:30PM
An afternoon of live historical drama told through Juneteenth inspired Spirituals performed by Rowan University professor Dr. Lourin Plant, narratives from the voices of the enslaved, powerful images and the poem by Dee Galloway. Meet the Artists, Light refreshments served following the performance.
414 Mantua Pike Woodbury, NJ
Northern NJ Empanada Festival
June 25, 11AM – 7PM
Time to see who makes the best empanada in northern NJ! The event will highlight local gourmet food vendors and their unique twists on empanadas. Sample a bunch, then vote for your favorite! (Don’t worry if empanadas aren’t your thing, we’ll have plenty of other gourmet food options too!)
Weasel Brook Park, 1 Westervelt Pl, Clifton, NJ
Cost: $6, $4 Kids
11th Annual Taste of Highlands
June 25,12PM – 5PM (rain or shine)
This annual event features five hours of scrumptious samplings and cocktails at over twenty great Highlands restaurants and establishments. Ticket holders must check in at Huddy Park on Bay & Waterwitch Avenues and pick up their map/bracelet. You will be greeted at each establishment and present your map to be stamped. Visit ALL stops and be eligible to win a $200 BID BUCK good at any participating establishment.
Huddy Park, 301 Shore Dr., Highlands, NJ
Cost: Tickets are $45.00 and include a map and free parking
2022 Meadowlands Racetrack Wine Fest
June 25, 5:30PM – 9:30PM
The event includes horse racing, a DJ, and 45+ total wineries. Your ticket includes a four-hour wine tasting and glass.
1 Racetrack Drive, East Rutherford, NJ
Cost: $45 – $65
Wine & Pizza Festival
June 25 & 26
What’s better than a day of wine sampling from NJ’s finest wineries for just $20?! How about adding pizza to the menu! This summer, Monmouth Park’s newest event is the Wine & Pizza Festival. We’ve taken our long-standing NJ Wine Festival and added some NJ pizza. Now what can be better than that?! This two-day festival will feature a number of the Garden State’s top wineries, plus a half dozen of the area’s top pizza vendors, live music from 12-4pm, and live racing both days. Enjoy live music Saturday from Pez Head and Sunday from All That Roxx.
Monmouth Racetrack, Oceanport, NJ
Cost: Discounted tickets will be available for $17 at seatgeek.com/monmouth for those who purchase in advance. Tickets will also be available day of for $20.
School’s Out Food Truck Fair!
June 25 & 26
Come join for an outdoor, fun-filled day of relaxing fun on the grounds of Laurita Winery — a great place to enjoy outstanding wines with friends and family. Pair their delicious wines with the many delicious food offerings available from onsite food trucks. Wine and dine while listening to top live musical artists. Other treats include: free parking, face painter for kids (1:00-4:00) fire pits, fantastic fireworks (Saturday evening) and access to many unique and popular food trucks
Laurita Winery, 85 Archertown Rd New Egypt, NJ
Cost: $12 per person, $14 at the door. 20 and under FREE!
New Jersey Collector’s Fest
June 26, 10:30AM – 4PM, VIP Starts at 9AM
Collector Fest will be chock full of amazing Toys, Comics Comic artists & special guests! Collector Fest will feature amazing vendors from all over the east coast bringing the very best in amazing Toys, Comics, and more from classic to modern & hot! Plus guests, Comic artists, and more! So far Amazing guests and artists include Larry Kenney Thundercats! Sam Jones Flash Gordon & Ted. Mark Patton Elm Street, Bran A Prince the Predator, Comic artists Ron Wilson the Hulk, Rudy Nebres Conan, Silver Surfer- – Chris Campana TMNT – Keith Williams Superman, Spider-Man, and much more to come.
WAYNE PAL, 1 Pal Dr, Wayne, NJ
Cost: $5 – $12
Teaneck Arts Festival
June 26, 11AM – 5PM
Come Celebrate the Arts. Teaneck will display their talent on stage talent, Artwork, crafts, Musicals, and Theatrical talents.
Benjamin Franklin Middle School, 1315 Taft Road, Teaneck, NJ
