EXCITING EVENTS IN 2025

Here’s our roundup of the top proper Cornish days out that are worth a visit in 2025.

Feast Days and Saint’s Days 2025

St Ives Feast Day: February 10th. Celebrates the consecration of the Parish Church of St Eia in 1434, featuring the ancient game of Hurling the Silver Ball.

The day begins with a procession of musicians and schoolchildren through the town’s narrow cobbled streets. The children wear crowns of ivy in remembrance of St Eia, the saint of St Ives, who crossed the sea from Ireland on a boat made of ivy.

At the well of St Ia, overlooking Porthmeor beach, the parish priest blesses a silver ball. The main event, Hurling the Silver Ball, takes place at St Ia Parish Church yard. The town’s Mayor hurls the silver ball into the crowd on the sands below, shouting “guare wheg ya guare teg” (fair play is good play in Cornish).

The game, dating back at least a thousand years, is played by children and teenagers who scramble and run around town to keep possession of the ball. The child who keeps the ball returns it to the Mayor at noon for a reward.

St Piran’s Day: March 5th. Celebrated across Cornwall with parades, processions, and festivities in honor of St Piran, the patron saint of tin miners.

Helston Flora Day: May 8th. Townsfolk will be dancing through the streets adorned with greenery and flowers to mark the end of winter and the arrival of spring. With a fair and high spirits this is a great Cornish event.

 

Golowan Festival: June 20th-29th. Golowan is Penzance’s 10-day festival of arts, performances, culture, fireworks and parades celebrating midsummer.

Montol Festival: December 21st. Montol Festival is a traditional, colorful Celtic-meets-Christmas midwinter festival in Penzance. It features processions, guising (costume-wearing), and mask-making workshops. The festival culminates on Montol Eve with community singing, lantern parades, and traditional Mummers plays.

Tom Bawcock’s Eve: December 23rd. Celebrated in Mousehole with the tradition of eating Stargazy Pie. Why not check out the fantastic harbour Christmas lights too.

Food and Drink Festivals 2025

 

Don’t miss the St Ives Food and Drink Festival 16th-18th May. On Porthminster Beach, with fab food, chef demos, live music and this year even a beach spa. It’s our favourite Cornish food festival.

Others worth tasting are the Porthleven Food Festival 2nd-4th May, the Falmouth Food Festival  23rd-26th May and the Falmouth Oyster Festival 9th-12th October.

 

Royal Cornwall Show

If you want to dive right into rural life, the Royal Cornwall Show, June 5th to 7th, is an incredible event celebrating the best of Cornish agriculture, crafts, food & drink, and a packed live programme of entertainment for everyone to enjoy!

The main and showing rings have a packed programme of prize-winning livestock parades, stunt demos and equestrian events.

There are music and dance stages throughout the showground, food and drink stalls, a Food and Farming Pavillion, tractors and farm vehicles, a funfair, vintage rally and steam fair, Flower Show, small animal and bird marquees, rare breeds, Countryside Village, Woodlands Area.

Hooray & Up She Rises!

Heave ho, the Falmouth Sea Shanty Festival runs from June 13th to 15th – the largest free nautical music and song festival, celebrating Falmouth’s seafaring heritage.

Heave away, haul away…to the St Ives Shanty Shout, which runs in various venues around St Ives on 21st & 22nd November.

St Ives September Festival 2025

13th-27th September: The St Ives September Festival is an exciting 15 days of music and arts including poetry, films, exhibitions, talks, walks, workshops, Open Studios and so much more . . .with free admission to many of the events.

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