An Enchanted Fairie Festival
Saturday-Sunday, May 17-18, 2025
12:00 - 6:00 PM
Berkeley Springs State Park, Berkeley Spring, WV
What is Bringing in the May?
12:00 - 6:00 PM
Berkeley Springs State Park, Berkeley Spring, WV
What is Bringing in the May?
Bringing in the May is a FREE Morgan Arts Council event meant to celebrate Spring and the return of flowers, fun, and ….fairies! Come join our revels… there will be much to rejoice, now on our third year!. The State Park will be filled with music and other entertainment, and vendors will offer their art and craft wares inspired by the fae. Our shops will have fun things for all ages, and there will be bubbles and fairies everywhere. Wear your wings, or wear your horns, any kind of fairie creature is welcome. (Humans must be accompanied by a fairie!)
What Will You do at Bringing in the May?
Dance the Maypole • Get your fairy name • Play with bubbles • Join a drum circle • Dance to the music • Build a fairy house • Make something in the Crafts tent • Trade something for a treasure at the Giving Tree • Hoop! • Get dressed up at the Fairy Closet • Take pictures at our Selfie Stations • Attend a fairy tea party • Bid in the Silent Auction • Play with an ogre, Trade with a gnome! ... and more!
Slient Auction at the Merch Tent!
Schedule and Program Now Available!
Our Amazing 2025 Poster
Please check out our wonderful poster by the amazing Jasper Night. It’s another gorgeous fae knockout!
Visit the Artist’s web site at Nightsong Alchemy
View or download a large version
suitable for printing.
2025 Performers Include...
Black Cat School of Rock Jr. and Sr. • Dustbowl Fairies • River Barry • Big Whimsy • Soolah Hoops • Laz Rapidaz • Shangö Mountain Taiko • Sweet Maple Singers • Bunneh Tribe Tea Parties • Meat Puddle • Better Gnomes and Gardens • Hippy Flow • The Ogre Trading Post • Better Weather • Sadie & Monroe
There will be a Maypole, bubbles, drummers, bagpipes, friendly costumed fae, the chance to get your fairy name, and put your wish on the Wishing Tree, oh, and MORE MORE MORE!
Our Artists and Vendors
Handmade Fairy Delights From
Adventure Hook
A Touch of Magic
Aurora Mahoney
Coral and Vine
EvenRose
Fairy Hair by Claire
Fairy Makers
Glass Suitcase
Greenwood
Harper’s Fairies
ICE Jewels and Glass
Inspired by Life
Jenni Buffington Art
Miscellaneous Oddiments
Music Mountain Arts
Pretty Little Addictions
Rainbow Moon Dyes
Raven Cat’s Wands & Things
Sacred Totems
Dakini Trading
Scarves of Holding/Gear Grinders
Songbird Farm
Sunken Moon Studios
Torch and Thread (formerly Crystal Flipz)
Vintage Vestments
Wicked World Workshop
Wolfbite Fiber Works
Our non-profit organizations
Morgan Arts Council
Give Purrs a Chance and Friends Fur Life
Charlies’ Angels VACTERL Foundation
Berkeley Springs Pride
Eastern Panhandle Empowerment
Shangö Mountain Taiko
BlackCat Music Cooperative
Thanks to our Sponsors!
Morgan Arts Council
The Morgan Arts Council (MAC) offers a world of artistic creativity that brings inspiration and joy within a welcoming environment for all.
The official arts council of Morgan County, MAC has more than 450 individual and family members. MAC is governed by an elected board of artists and business people and staffed by a professional arts management team. A corps of dedicated volunteers work in all areas, from booking artists to curating gallery shows to staffing the box office at concerts and plays. New volunteers are always welcome. Financial support derives from West Virginia Commission on the Arts and National Endowment for the Arts grants, as well as other grantors: hotel/motel taxes, fundraising activities, membership fees and admissions.
MAC events include the popular Summer Concert in the Park series, Ice House Concerts, Arts Integration and Adopt-a-School programs in the Morgan County Schools, community theater productions, literary festivals, gallery shows, visual arts classes for adults and children, public art projects, media classes on videography, broadcasting and film, dance and movement classes, storytellers, and festivals.
Congress House LLC
Congress House has generously donated overnight lodging for some of our performers. Thank you!
Berkeley Springs State Park
Located in the center of historic Berkeley Springs, Berkeley Springs State Park is home to a mineral spa that has been in use since colonial times. The park is renowned for its warm spring water, which flows at a constant temperature of 74.3 degrees. The park’s Old Roman and Main bathhouses offer a wide selection of spa services, including massages, saunas, baths and showers. The park has been or gracious hosts for the past four years of the festival after we outgrew the courtyward at MAC.
Fantastic Realities Studio
Fantastic Realities Studio is a small, boutique, graphics and web design studio specializing in providing world-class Art, Graphic and Web Design services to the small business community. Owner and Creative Director Kurt Griffith is a veteran Art Director, Graphic & Web Designer, Illustrator, Photographer, and Design Consultant with over 40 years of experience as a creative professional.
This lunatic also plays a half-dozen kinds of drums, and performs with Shangö Mountain Taiko!
All those who bought “virtual tickets” THANK YOU!
Contact us if you'd like to be a Bringing In The May Sponsor.
Donate to Bringing In The May!
Donations are through Morgan Arts Council.
Even small donations help us out a lot, and help keep the festival a FREE event!
Become a Vendor
Clik the above link to find out about being a vendor at Bringing in the May.
Volunteers
Please consider volunteering at this FREE event! Or helping out in any way!
Contact the organizers. Email:hillbillyfairy@icloud.com
Vist and Join our public Facebook Group to learn more and indluge in hijinks and all manner of Mischeif! Plenty of Up-to-date news and information about the events.
This program is presented with financial assistance from the WV Department of Arts, Culture and History, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the WV Comission of the Art, & local hotel/motel taxes.
KUBIANDO!!!