LOUDONVILLE — Hungry for fair food and live music? No need to wait.
The 2026 Loudonville Street Fair starts today and runs through Oct. 10 in downtown Loudonville.
Presented by the Loudonville Agricultural Society, the 148th annual street fair is also celebrating the 150th birthday of Charles F. Kettering. Fair-goers can enjoy rides, concessions, livestock shows, power pulls and music throughout the week in downtown Loudonville.
Here’s what to know before heading to the fair.
Admission is free
The Loudonville Street Fair is a free-admission event. Rides and games cost extra.
Wood Midway Entertainment will have rides open from 3 to 10 p.m. Tuesday and noon to 10 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. The 2026 fair book lists ride pricing as still to be determined, but a recent Facebook post lists prices of $2 per ride or 20 tickets for $35.
What to check out this week
There’s so much to check out in so little time.
The week includes livestock shows, a livestock auction, tractor and truck pulls, live entertainment and the annual fair queen introduction.
- Tuesday — Opening Ceremony and introduction of the queen and court, 6 p.m.; Garden Tractor Pull, 7 p.m.
- Wednesday — Pie Auction and Cake Contest, 6 p.m.; Truck Pulls, 7 p.m.; Market Lamb Show, 6 p.m.
- Thursday — Market Steer Show, 10 a.m.; Kiddie Pedal Pulls, 4 p.m.; Market Hog Show, 3 p.m.
- Friday — Antique Tractor Pull, noon; Tractor Pulls, 7 p.m.
- Saturday — Livestock Club Auction, 10 a.m.
Power pulls will take place along Wally Road throughout the week. Tuesday will also have performances from Loudonville-Perrysville students in choir and band from 3 to 4 p.m. at the West Main Street stage.
Live music and entertainment
There will be entertainment on the West Main Street stage throughout the week.
- Tuesday — Rising Star Martial Arts, 7 p.m., Central Park.
- Wednesday — Cedar Valley Cloggers, 7 p.m.
- Thursday — Cook and Belle, 8 p.m.
- Friday — Never Surrender, 8 p.m.
- Saturday — The Lovedays, noon; Shining Stars Dance Studio, 2 p.m.; Tightrope, 5 p.m.
The Wooster-based Cedar Valley Cloggers has performed traditional Appalachian clogging for more than 40 years.
Loudonville celebrates Charles F. Kettering
This year’s fair theme, Charles F. Kettering’s 150th Birthday, brings local history into this week’s activities.
Visitors can also participate in a fair book local history contest tied to the Kettering theme.
Three trivia questions can be answered by visiting exhibits at the Cleo Redd Fisher Museum. People who correctly answer all three questions can enter for a chance to win $300 in gift certificates from participating Fair Book advertisers.
Entries must be placed in the contest drop box at the museum by 2 p.m. Saturday. The museum is scheduled to be open from 2 to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday during the fair.
More than a century of history
The Loudonville Street Fair traces its roots to at least 1876, according to the fair’s website.
Early fairs took place on privately owned land near what is now North Mount Vernon Avenue before moving to Loudonville’s streets and Central Park in 1888.
Those early fairs looked different from today’s event, but had plenty to see and do. Balloon ascensions, parachute jumps, wire walking, juggling, high diving and acrobatic acts were on the itinerary.
Agricultural displays once stretched along much of Main Street, while livestock tents filled Central Park. Bands from nearby communities like Hayesville, Perrysville, Butler and Shreve provided music.
Before you go
The fair book lists portable toilets at the Wally Road tractor pull site, behind the Junior Fair Tent. Restroom facilities are also available at 124 South Brentwood Drive.
WZLP 96.1 FM will broadcast live from the Merchants’ Tent from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday during the livestock sale.
Other activities throughout the week include antique farm machinery displays on North Water Street, fire prevention posters in the Junior Fair Tent and a senior citizens rest area at the Golden Center in the Loudonville Public Library.
