Danish Festival

05/28/2026

Woohoo!! Good luck to our 2025 Miss Danish Festival Runner Up Marleigh Ingles and the rest of the FRCP - Flat River Community Players cast of Grease! Make sure to buy your tickets before they sell out! 🎟

05/26/2026

05/26/2026

Our Queens Court had a wonderful time yesterday representing the Danish Festival at the Sheridan Springfest Memorial Day Parade and Queen’s Tea! 🇺🇸👑

A huge thank you to Sheridan Springfest for the hospitality. We also want to thank Ed Koehn Chrysler Jeep Dodge Ram for providing the beautiful truck for our float, and Audrey’s dad, Chris, for driving the girls through the parade route!

We always love connecting with other communities and celebrating festival season together! ❤️

05/22/2026

👑✨ Calling all princes and princesses! ✨👑

Missed our Mother & Me Royal Tea Party? No worries — your royal adventure can still begin! 💖

We are still accepting applications for our Prince & Princess Drawing during the Miss Danish Festival Scholarship Pageant!

Participation is easy and FUN! All contestants will take the stage together, share their name, and answer one simple question (like what's your favorite food or who is your favorite princess!). Then, one lucky Prince and one lucky Princess will have their name drawn as the winner! 👑

Our Prince & Princess will get to join the Queens Court at Danish Festival events throughout festival weekend — making magical memories, meeting new friends, and feeling like royalty along the way! ✨

💙 Ages 5-10
💙 Link to apply in comments

Dress up, have fun, and make memories your child will never forget! 👑✨

05/21/2026

Thank you to the Daily News for a great evening at the 2026 Reader's Choice Awards!

Danish Festival President Andrea Krause and Executive Director Kristen Videan were honored to accept awards tonight for:

🏆 Best Festival/Fair (for the 6th year)
🏆 Best Parade (for the 5th year)
🏆 Best Craft/Market Event (for the 5th year)
🏆 Best Free Event

Thank you to everyone who took the time to vote for us. We couldn’t do it without the incredible support of our community, sponsors, the City of Greenville, our volunteers, board of directors and YOU — the amazing people who have supported the Danish Festival for 62 years.

We are so grateful for this community and can’t wait to celebrate with you all again this August. Thank you! ❤️

05/20/2026

Think you have what it takes to represent our community? 👑✨

We’re looking for young women ages 17-22 from the Greenville area to compete in this year’s Miss Danish Festival Scholarship Pageant! This is an incredible opportunity to build confidence, gain leadership and public speaking experience, create lifelong friendships, earn scholarship opportunities, and become a proud ambassador for our community and festival traditions. ❤️🇩🇰

Whether you’ve competed before or this is your first time stepping on stage, we encourage you to apply!

We also still have plenty of room for more young miss (13-16) and junior miss (11-12)!

📌 Application link in the comments.

05/19/2026

🏃‍♂️🇩🇰 Lace up your running shoes for the 2026 Danish Dash 5K and Kid's Half Mile Fun Run on Saturday, August 22 at Baldwin Heights Elementary School!

Start your Danish Festival morning with a scenic run/walk around beautiful Baldwin Lake before heading downtown for the Meijer Grand Dansk Parade and a full day of festival fun at the Greenville Danish Festival!

✨ USA Track & Field-certified 5K course
✨ FREE Kids 1/2 Mile Fun Run at 8:30 a.m.
✨ Kids Fun Run shirts available for purchase
✨ Medals for top finishers in multiple age groups
✨ Strollers & wagons welcome!

🕖 Check-in begins at 7:00 a.m.
🏁 5K Race starts at 8:00 a.m.

Register by August 6 to guarantee your race shirt!

A huge THANK YOU to our sponsors, Corewell Health Greenville Hospital and of Michigan Health, for supporting this fun community event! ❤️🤍

05/18/2026

Who would you love to see honored as this year’s Grand Marshal(s)? 🇩🇰✨

Now is the time to submit your nominations for individuals who have made a lasting impact on our community and who represent the heart of Danish Festival.

If someone comes to mind, we’d love to hear from you! Please email your nomination, including your name and phone number, your nominees name and phone number (or email), their current or former involvement with the Danish Festival, and why you think they should be this year's Grand Marshals! Email: [email protected]

Help us celebrate the people who help make our community so special—submit your nomination today!