It’s come to our attention that there was an error in this week’s print edition of Loudoun Now. We are not, repeat, NOT moving the Festival to Monday.

There is still a chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms on Saturday afternoon, which might lead us pause programming temporarily to seek shelter, but activities will resume as soon as the storm passes.

Hope to see you all on SATURDAY for the Best Day of the Year in Round Hill!

The Hometown Festival committee would like to thank the following businesses for being sign sponsors for this year’s Festival. Local businesses like these help make the Hometown Festival the Best Day of the Year in Round Hill!

💙 CISO Now (cisonow.us)
💙 Fuog/Interbuild, Inc. (fuoginterbuildinc.com/)
💙 Good Spirit Farm (www.goodspiritfarmva.com/)
💙 Gruto’s Soft Serve (www.grutos.com)
💙 H2BC Partners (www.h2bcpartners.com)
💙 Loudoun Mega Events (loudounmegaevents.com/)
💙 Rise AVL (www.riseavl.com/)
💙 Round Hill Exxon Service Center (www.sunsethillsautomotive.com/Contact/Find-Us/mode/4/4-e-loudoun-st-round-hill-va-20141)
💙 Savoir Faire Limited (savoirfarelimited.com/)

While it’s rained on our parade before, we are keeping our fingers crossed it won’t again. But given the rain we’ve had the last few Saturdays, we are making alternate plans and, yes, *obsessively* checking the weather forecast! Rest assured, the 20th Annual Hometown Festival WILL GO ON, rain or shine and we hope you will still come out and join in the fun either way!

Our morning events — the 5k and parade — are on schedule rain or shine.
The Downhill Derby will be cancelled if the Race Director feels the road is too wet to safely run the race.
If the forecast is for intermittent showers, we will proceed with all planned entertainment and activities (including food and drink) in the Town Park and downtown area, using tents as shelter if needed.
If thunder and lightning develop, we will pause programming until the storm passes. Shelter can be found at the Round Hill Volunteer Fire and Rescue and the Round Hill Baptist Church.
If by Thursday it looks like the day will be a 100% washout, then we have Round Hill Elementary School reserved as a full-day rain site.

Please check this page for further updates as we get closer to the Festival, and keep your fingers crossed for sunny skies and a break in this month’s pattern of rainy Saturdays!

The Festival Committee is thrilled to partner with the Round Hill Baptist Church again this year to offer a stage dedicated to showcasing Western Loudoun’s talented youth! This year we will feature performers from both Woodgrove HS and Loudoun Valley. Be sure to check them out!

Youth Stage Schedule
11:10- 12 Woodgrove Bluegrass Band
12:00 – 12:30 Blank Slate Band
12:30 – 1 Woodgrove Theatre
1 – 1:30 Loudoun Valley HS Showcase
1:30 – 2:00 Logan Buckley
2:00 – 3:00 Woodgrove HS Showcase

To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Hometown Festival, we offer a throwback to the days when the Hometown Festival Community Feast was a scrumptious meal by Savoir Faire served and eaten in the middle of Main Street!

While this year’s Feast will be in the Town Park instead of Main Street, it will be once again catered by Round Hill’s own award-winning Savoir Faire!

Joan Wolford and her crew will be offering a variety of delicious menu items, including:
Joan’s famous berry, chicken salad, seafood tortellini, or grilled flank steak salads
fresh off the grill barbecue chicken with baked beans and cole slaw
a children’s meal of grilled chicken breast, mac’n’cheese and fruit
desserts from Savoir Faire and Cosmic Confections

Items will be available at different stations in the park and priced by the plate or a la carte. No reservations or prepayment required!

Wine by Williams Gap Winery and beer from Dirt Farm Brewing will be available as well as soft drinks. ID required for adult beverages.

Dinner begins at 5 p.m. and music will be provided by Irish jam group The Silver Linings, followed at 7:15 p.m. by Mink’s Miracle Medicine, featuring Loudoun-county natives Melissa Wright and special guest Round Hill’s own Rudy Byzdyk!

Come join your friends, family and neighbors for an evening celebrating our small-town community!

Registration for the 20th Annual Round Hill Hometown Festival Downhill Derby is now live! Visit https://forms.gle/5smn6U8jcS1UHWQNA to sign up your racers!

For more information about the race, which will be held on Saturday, May 25, at 3:30 p.m. on North Locust Street, visit https://hometownfestival.org/about/downhill-derby/.

The Hometown Festival would like to say a big THANK YOU to all of our T-shirt sponsors that have helped make the 20th Annual Hometown Festival the Best Day of the Year in Round Hill!

Logo sponsors:
💙 Infinite Landscapes (www.infinitelandscapedesign.com)*
💙 Hartley Home Exteriors (www.hartleyhomeexteriors.com/)*
💙 Apple House Contracting (www.applehousecontracting.com)
💙 Bank of Clarke Foundation (www.bankofclarke.bank)
💙 Blake Landscapes (blakelandscapes.com)
💙 CISO Now (cisonow.us)
💙 Gruto’s Soft Serve (www.grutos.com)
💙 H2BC Partners (www.h2bcpartners.com)
💙 Norbo Dental (norbodental.com)
💙 Pete Durand Music for Everyone (www.petedurandmusicforeveryone.org)
💙Premier Promotional Products (www.ppromop.com)
💙Robin Gebhardt, Realtor (www.keepinitrealwithrobin.com)
💙Round Hill Smile Design (roundhillsmiledesign.com)
💙 Shahnti Medical Spa (www.shahntispa.com)
💙The Round Hill Arts Center (www.roundhillartscenter.org)
💙 Valley Energy (valleyenergy.org)
💙West Loudoun Repair (www.facebook.com/WestLoudounRepair/)
* Also Sponsors of the Main Stage

Line and Family Sponsors:
Round Hill Volunteer Fire Department | Round Hill Baptist Church| Loudoun Milling | Purcellville Florist | Round Hill United Methodist Church | Tom & Mary Anne Graham | The Ramsey Family | The Pouy Family | Kristen Fiebe | The Wolford Family

We are looking for local businesses, charities, community groups, military and vets, classic cars, scouts, sports, music and more.

Participant check-in starts at 8:30am, and the parade starts at 9:30am, ending around 10:15am.

You must register to participate. Please join us today at www.roundhillparade.com.

This year for our 20th anniversary, we are thrilled to bring back several audience favorites from the past years, including our evening concert featuring **Mink’s Miracle Medicine with special guest Rudy Bzdyk!**

Songwriters Daniel Zezeski and Melissa Wright have been playing together as Mink’s Miracle Medicine since 2013, but before that Wright and Bzdyk were part of Loudoun County’s Acoustic Burgoo and made regular appearances in the Round Hill Town Park. We are so excited to have them together again on our stage!

Here is the full lineup:
10:00 a.m. Loudoun Jazz Ensemble (through Memorial Ceremony)
11:15 a.m. Dominion 4 – Barbershop Quartet*
11:30 p.m. Magic Mayhem – Magician*
12:45 p.m. Gary Jay & The FIRE – Country
3:15 p.m. Shortness of Breath – Classic rock
5:00 p.m. The Silver Linings – Irish jam
7:15 p.m. Minks Miracle Medicine, with special guest Rudy Bzdyk – Americana

Other Performances:
11:30 a.m. On Easy Street – Jazz and Blues Standards, at C’est Bon
11:30 a.m. Matt Davis – Acoustic at Tammy’s

**Dominion 4 and Magic Mayhem will both wander the Festival area and perform spontaneously after their sets on stage