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For the 2025 Marion Popcorn Festival, join our raffle for a chance to win a new Win a 2025 Vivid V-Series Golf Cart from The Golf Cart Guy.
$15 for 1 Ticket • $50 for 4 Tickets • $100 for 9 Tickets
Drawing will be held across from the Information Trailer on September 6, 2025 at 11:00pm.
[Read more…]For the 2025 Marion Popcorn Festival, join our raffle for a chance to win a new Whirlpool Top Control, 24-inch, built-in dishwasher. Winner will get to choose between white or black.
$5 for 1 Ticket • $10 for 3 Tickets • $20 for 5 Tickets
Drawing will be held across from the Information Tent on September 6, 2025 at 11:00pm.
[Read more…]The Marion Popcorn Festival will again present a free live entertainment event at the Marion Palace Theatre on Thursday, September 5 with the performance of Liverpool Lads at the Popcorn Matinee. It’s all fab!
Based in Northeast Ohio, Liverpool Lads have been recreating Beatles memories and surpassing audience expectations since 2009. They utilize replicas of the same vintage instruments, amplifiers, and wardrobes used by the Beatles to create accurate and energetic live recreations of their inspiring music.
[Read more…]The following 2024 Marion Popcorn Festival pageant winners were chosen at recent events.
[Read more…]The Marion Popcorn Festival will hold a 5K on Saturday, September 7, 2024. Registration starts at 8:00am and the race begins at 9:00am.
The starting line will be the intersection of South Main Street and Church Street in Downtown Marion, Ohio.
The Main Stage at the 43rd Annual Marion Popcorn will again feature three nights of free live entertainment, including a tribute to a legendary singer/songwriter Thursday evening, one of the Fresh faces of Country on Friday, and closing out Saturday with some Southern Rock tour warriors from Georgia on September 5-6-7, 2024 in downtown Marion, Ohio.
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Get your favorite decades clothing ready for the Marion Popcorn Festival in 2024. The theme for this year’s festival is Poppy Goes Poppin Thru The Decades: 5 Decades Strong in 2024!
We are excited for this year’s theme and can’t wait to see all the creative floats, pageant wear and ideas you all come up with!
The organizers of the Marion Popcorn Festival would like to issue a hugh THANK YOU to the City of Marion, all of our sponsors, volunteers and the community for a successful festival in 2023.
We are gearing up for a bigger and better festival in 2024. Mark Your calendars for September 5, 6, 7, 2024. The 2024 festival theme is Poppin Thru the Decades: 5 Decades Strong.
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