Unfortunately, it has come to a point where we have to cancel the 2025 Dolgeville Violet Festival. There are several aspects that have led to this decision, which has stemmed from construction on Dolgeville’s Main Street and lack of volunteers. There have been several discussions about the possibility of temporarily moving the festival to a different location. However, every possibility has led to more possible issues. We intend to continue our efforts and will be moving forward with fundraising, in hopes that we will be back in 2026 once construction has finished.

As I mentioned, the Dolgeville Violet Festival is lacking volunteers. We have at least three positions that needed to be filled and I have had no responses. With that being said, moving an event this size would not be possible with the current number of volunteers we have. I encourage anyone who would like to see the festival continue in 2026 to reach out and see how you can volunteer with the festival. If you are unable to make meetings we have an e-mail list where we send our meeting notes.

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UPDATE 2/10/25

We have had several people now reach out about volunteering. Currently we are still in need of a group to be in charge of set up and clean up. We can always use more floater volunteers. These volunteers are not only needed the weekend of the festival, but for fundraisers throughout the year as well.

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Dolgeville Violet Festival President

Crystal Napier