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Salmonfest Launches Ray Troll Scholarship
Ninilchik Food Pantry
Since 2023, Salmonfest and ARCHES Alaska have teamed up to fund and operate the Ninilchik Food Pantry at the Kenai Peninsula Fairgrounds to combat hunger on the south peninsula.
Salmonfest announces evening headliner schedule for 2024 festival
Salmonfest featured in Outside Magazine
Old Crown Medicine Show Announced as the Headliner of Salmonfest 2023
Why Alaska residents are fighting against a billion-dollar mine project
This Alaska mine could generate $1 billion a year. Is it worth the risk to salmon?
Bristol Bay advocates push for new Pebble Mine assessment
2023 Headliner Announced! – Old Crow Medicine Show
Well Worth The Wait Nearly every year for the past decade, we’ve checked in with the Old Crow Medicine Show team to see if we could get them to Alaska for Salmonfest. A testimony to persistence, the band is finally coming to headline and play the River Stage Saturday...
Salmonfest 2021 is on August 6th, 7th, and 8th! Limited Capacity So Get Tickets Now!
Salmonfest 2021 is on August 6th, 7th, and 8th in Ninilchik! Salmonfest 2021 is on! Join in on the fish, love, and music this August 6th, 7th & 8th at the Kenai Peninsula Fairgrounds in Ninilchik for the festival's 10th anniversary. Four stages, 65 bands, 100+...
Salmonfest is deeply saddened and disappointed to announce that the 2020 festival will be rescheduled for August 6th-8th, 2021
Salmonfest is deeply saddened and disappointed to announce that the 2020 festival will be rescheduled for August 6th-8th, 2021. As a festival built around fish, love, and music, we try our hardest to think about everyone involved, especially the residents of Alaska,...
Life and the Music Business
COVID-19’s impact on life, Salmonfest 2020 and the music industry in Alaska By Salmonfest Director, Jim Stearns The first question on phone calls, texts, and emails, now with a new level of sincerity, is “how are you doing?” In a world that has suddenly been thrust...
Unifying the Public to Preserve and Protect Alaska’s Salmon
Once a Russian settlement dating back to the early 1800’s, Ninilchik currently stands as a must-visit Alaska destination featuring stunning scenery and ample outdoor activities. Outdoor enthusiasts will love locations like Ninilchik State Recreation Area and Deep Creek State Recreation Area, which offer opportunities for sightseeing, claiming, hiking, and more. Visitors should stop by the town’s famous Russian Orthodox Church that’s more than two centuries old, and the town’s most distinctive building.
Salmonfest celebrates Alaska bands
Salmonfest 2016 runs Aug. 5-7 and features a wide-ranging collection of Alaskan bands. Come celebrate during Alaska’s biggest festival weekend right here in Ninilchik.
Jewel will headline Salmonfest in August
Jewel Kilcher will headline the 2017 Salmonfest, which takes place Aug. 4-6 in Ninilchik, the festival announced Monday.
Salmonfest Holds Concert Series at Alice’s
Starting Friday, Alice’s Champagne Palace teams up with Salmonfest to bring a music series, the Salmonfest Concert Series, to Homer that will continue through the August Salmonfest Aftershock Concerts.
SALMONFEST 2017
Right in the heart of the peninsula sits the historic, charming and picturesque village of Ninilchik. Home of the Kenai Peninsula Fairgrounds and the popular Kenai Peninsula Fair, Ninilchik has, for several years, hosted one of Alaska’s most dynamic weekends.
Salmonfest captures the essence of why young Alaskans stay
This weekend they'll be rockin' in Ninilchik as Salmonfest moves into its sixth year. A crowd of mostly 20- and 30-something millennials and Generation Xers will be putting on the uniform of youth at this time and this place — jeans, Xtratufs and a hoodie. If it...