DEARBORN, MI — The 41st annual Dearborn Homecoming Festival, full of carnival rides, food and live music opened Friday morning at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center. The festival runs through the weekend (Aug. 5-7) and opens each day at noon.
There will be a $1 recommended entry with the profits going to the various service clubs and non-profits of Dearborn at the festival. A full-day wristband is $25 online and $30 at the door. Individual tickets are also available for purchase by visiting the city's website at www.dearbornhomecoming.com.
There will be a parking shuttle running from noon to 12:00 a.m. each day from all four corners of the city, including Salina Elementary School, Dearborn Fresh Parking Lot, West DDA Parking Structure and Dearborn High School.
Another free shuttle will also run from noon to 6 p.m. at the Hubbard Manor East, Kennedy Plaza, Townsend Towers, Hubbard Manor West and the Sisson Manor. There will be onsite parking for $10 at the following locations: The Henry Ford Centennial Library, The Dearborn Administrative Center and Ghafari Associates.
The festival is really broken down into three sections: Food, Carnival and entertainment. The Greenfield entrance into the festival is where you'll find all the food and cultural tents. A slew of food trucks will be on hand, including the Cousin's Maine Lobster Truck.
You will also find multiple cultural tents, such as the Polish-American and Arab-American tents serving unique food as well as arts and crafts. A class reunion tent will also be on hand in the same section, inviting past classmates and friends to reconnect from all Dearborn Public Schools.
The entertainment section will feature live music from established icons to local up-and-comers. Saturday and Sunday will feature with headlining performances from former Journey lead vocalist Steve Augeri and country music artist Randy Houser, as well as a fireworks show west of the festival toward the Ford World Headquarters.
Motown Tribute band Phase 5 and local favorites, Sunglasses After Dark will take the stage Saturday prior to Augeri's set. Billy Gunther and The Midwest Ryders and the Family Tradition Band will hit the stage before headliner Houser on Sunday night.
The carnival section, located behind the performing arts center will feature multiple classic carnival rides, children's games, crafts as well as the World's Largest Bounce House. The bounce house will cost an extra $20 fee per child.
The festival, the first at the Performing Arts Center, comes on the heels of raising more than $126,000, which is $33,000 more than the 2019 festival and the most for any festival in the city's history.
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