Best New Jersey Italian Festivals: 2024 Guide
Listed Here are the best 2024 New Jersey Italian Festivals.
They feature culture festivals that offer sumptuous Italian food, live music, games, and kids activities.
New Jersey Italian
festivals are vibrant events that honor Italian culture and family unity.
Attendees delight in mouth-watering Italian cuisine, thrilling games, live
entertainment, and much more.
Italian Festivals, or feasts (large gatherings accompanied by food), are usually held over the course of a summer weekend.
These cultural events are largely organized by Catholic churches that have a significant congregation, or an Italian community service organization with an interest in promoting their culture and providing knowledge and stories for future generations to benefit from.
The primary aim of these organizations is to preserve and share their cultural heritage with future generations.
Stay tuned --- we will be updating this list as the event sponsors confirm this year's events.
2024 Italian Festivals and Events
St. Ann's Festival
Wednesday, July 24 through Sunday, July 28, 2024
On the streets around St. Ann Church
704 Jefferson Street
Hoboken, NJ
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Enjoy Italian food like St Ann's famous zeppole, music, rides, crafts, a beer garden, raffles, and games. Nightly entertainment on 2 stages. Feast Day Mass on July 26 followed by the Procession with a 600-pound statue of St. Ann will be carried through the streets of Hoboken.
Italian Festival & Wine Tasting
Saturday, Sunday, July 27th, 28th, 2024
Monmouth Park Racetrack
Oceanport Avenue
Oceanport NJ
Website/Tickets
Cost: admission is $6. Kids 12 and under are free. General parking is free
This event features Italian wine tasting with participation by some of the area's top restaurants, delis, and food trucks, Attendees will get to enjoy live music both days, plus free family fun day activities in the picnic area on Sunday.The event begins with Food trucks at 11am, followed by live racing at 12:50pm.
The Italian American Association of Ocean Township Annual Italian Festival
August 7th - 11th, 2024
Joe Palaia Park
corner of Deal and Whalepond Road
Oakhurst, NJ
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Free admission
This four day Italian Festival annually attracts over 80,000 people with a taste for our traditional foods and wholesome family fun. Celebrating Italian heritage and culture!
There's something for everyone! From sampling the great taste of Italy's delicious food, rides, games, music, Galbani Live Cooking Seminar, fireworks on Friday night.
La Festa Itialiana
August 7-11, 2024; 5pm - 11pm
344 Sixth Street
Jersey City, NJ
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La Festa Italiana celebrates Italian heritage, spirituality and is an evening of music, dance and authentic Italian foods. It's fun filled with games, an hourly 50/50, and terminates with the Super 50/50 raffle drawing. The festival will honor the Veneration of Our Lady of the Assumption and Saint Rocco.
Each night Live Bands perform on the Mainstage.
Church of Epipfany Italian Festival
August 15th, - 18th, 2024
615 Thiele Road
Brick, NJ
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This Italian family event features Rides, games, Italian food, live entertainment, a beer & wine garden, craft vendors, and more! Free admission & Parking
Annual St. Bartholomew/UNICO Italian Festival
Friday to Monday, August 30, 31, September 1, 2, 2024
St. Bartholomew Church
2032 Westfield Ave
Scotch Plains, NJ
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The feast is truly a great family event and has something for everyone to enjoy. There is nightly live music, rides, games, and great food, including favorites like pizza, pasta, zeppoles, clams, mussels, and calzones. In addition, there are nightly 50/50 drawings and a super 50/50 raffle on Monday.
The Feast of Saint Joseph of Lodi
Friday, August 30 to Monday, September 2, 2024
Saint Joseph Church
40 Spring Street
Lodi, NJ
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This family event features traditional Italian festival food, exciting nightly entertainment, thrill rides, and games of chance. The highlight of the Feast is on Labor Day at 2PM where there is a solemn mass followed by a procession honoring Saint Joseph.
Feast of the Madonna Dei Martiri - The Hoboken Italian Festival
September 5, 6, 7, 8, 2024
Sinatra Park
on the historic waterfront of Hoboken, NJ
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The Hoboken Italian Festival, the premier Italian-American festival in New Jersey is over 80 years old, and is derived from a festival in Italy that is over 600 years old. The Festival is a four day celebration of music food and fun from Thursday through Sunday. On Saturday they celebrate their "Feast" day, when the 800lb statue of Madonna Dei Martiri or Madonna of the Martyrs is carried through the streets of Hoboken.This includes a reenactment of the Blessing of the Fleet in the Hudson River, culminating with a fireworks show over Sinatra Park.
Belmar Feast of San Gennaro
Saturday, September 7th, 2024; 11:00AM - 6:00PM
Main St, between 10th & 12th Ave
Belmar, NJ
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The days festivities kick off with a Mass celebrated in Italian at St. Rose Church in Belmar. Followed by the traditional procession of the Statue of San Gennaro to its place of honor on Main Street. The family friendly festival will feature authentic Italian foods, live entertainment, dancing and a pasta and cannoli eating contest. There will be awesome Italian food with live music, dancing, kid activities and vendor shopping along the festival route.
Italian American Association of Monmouth County Festival
Friday until Sunday, September 13th, 14th, 15th, 2024
Sanford Park
West Dey and Main Street
Englishtown, NJ
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Admission and parking are free
This event features Italian food, live entertainment, DJ, crafters and a procession for the Blessed Mother on Sunday!
Proceeds benefit our scholarship, charity and cultural funds.
St. Anthony's Italian Heritage Festival
September 14, 2024; 2 - 10 pm
Glassboro Town Square
Rowan Blvd
Downtown Glassboro, NJ
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This festival features
carnival games, live entertainment, cultural exhibits, a homemade wine competition, cannoli eating contest, beer garden, food trucks, and of course, amazing Italian food.
Knights of Columbus Villa Marie Council # 6342 Italian Festival
Saturday, September 21, 2024: 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Historic Smithville
Village Greene
Smithville, NJ
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Come and enjoy a taste of Italy. The event features delicious Italian Food and Deserts, Wine Tasting and Beer, Italian music, Folk dancing, Children's activities, Free Bocce Ball (must register in advance), a vendor market with Hand crafted items and imported Italian specialties, and a super 50/50. Free Bocce Ball (must register in advance).
Wildwood Olde Time Italian Festival
September 27, 28, 2024
Fox Park on Ocean Avenue between Burk and Montgomery Avenues
Wildwood, NJ
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Admission Free
This popular annual fest features an 'Olde World' family festival including a Procession of the Saints, delicious Italian food favorites, merchandise vendors, games, and continuous FREE live entertainment.
Spring Lake Italian Festival
Saturday, September 21, 2024 (12pm-5pm)
Morris Avenue
Spring Lake, NJ
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This ventfeatures live music, Italian food, kids activities, and a spaghetti eating Contest, a crowd favorite. Not new, but always a draw, is the festival Art Walk that will take place along Third Avenue.
Ocean County Columbus Day Parade & Italian Street Festival
October 11th,12th, 13th, 2024
On Grant Ave
Seaside Heights, NJ
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Celebrating the Annual Columbus Day Parade and Italian
Heritage Festival. A fun filled weekend of food, friends, and Italian Culture.
The Parade will be held on Sunday at 1 pm, on the Boulevard from J Street to Sampson Avenue.
