View Balloon Launces LIVE Visit Sunjournal.com for the latest updates on weather conditions and watch the balloon launches LIVE! Best conditions are at 6:00 am and 6:00 pm. Weather permitting, balloon launches are scheduled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning and evening at those times. Submit your own photos at www.sunjournal.com/balloonfestival

Contributors of good and services Special thanks to community members contributing to the success of the festival!Contributors of goods and services. AAA Fire Extinmguishers Ace Security Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce Androscoggin Historical Society Andy Valley Gymnastics Auburn City Council Auburn Fire Department Auburn Police Department Auburn Public Works Department Auburn Recreation Department Bates College […]

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Historic Auburn home to be open during festival   The Woman’s Literary Union, 19 Elm Street, Auburn will be open for tours during the Balloon Festival, on August 22, 2010 from 11:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. This impressive Colonial Revival mansion was built between the years 1914 – 1917 by Horatio Gates Foss, a prominent […]

Moon Dawgs Friday, August 21 Lewiston 8:30-10:30 pm In their early teens the Moon Dawgs began their career in 1963 in a basement with an old upright piano and an overturned ice bucket for drums using sawed off broom handles for drumsticks. Their first gig took place in a small second floor dance hall for […]

Big Blue Friday–Auburn–6:30-7:30 Big Blue is a family band from Midcoast Maine. They play Delta Blues, Country Blues, Jazz, Rock and Cajun.

Party Palooga Saturday – Auburn 11:30-1 pm Party Palooga specializes in awesome balloon twisting and elaborate face painting. Party Palooga offers entertainment packages for private birthday parties, town fairs, school and corporate events, store sales, and community fundraisers.

Pilots Confirmed The Bear Ship Andre Boucher Derry NH Serendipity Jason Boucher Derry NH Flashover Marc Brodear Windham NH Remax Bruce Byberg S. Woodstock CT Tittravate Joe Caputo Pittston ME Last Penny William Colyer Fairfield CT Rainbows End Walter Crites Auburn ME Blue Horizons Ray Fournier Hillsboro NH Amazing Grace Honi Glover Hollis NH Six […]