Heacook Fest Delmar spring food festival

Heacook Fest is set for Friday, April 24, in Delmar, with food, vendors, music and family activities centered on honoring Corporal Keith Heacook. (heacookfest.com) The 2026 Delaware Festival Guide lists Heacook Fest on April 24 in Delmar, and Kylan Barn’s event calendar shows Heacook Fest booked for Friday, April 24, 2026. (festivalguidesandreviews.com) (kylanbarn.com) The event site says festivities begin at 5 p.m. with a helicopter landing at The Amphitheater at Kylan Barn, 30603 Dusty Lane, Delmar, Maryland 21875. Admission is free, with a donation requested at the door for Operation We Care Behind the Line. (heacookfest.com) Organizers describe Heacook Fest as an annual community festival dedicated to Keith Heacook, a Delmar Police corporal, while also bringing together local vendors, food and beverage businesses, music and family-friendly activities. A regional events roundup from Secrets of the Eastern Shore also lists the festival as a Friday event with music, food, libations and vendors at Kylan Barn. (heacookfest.com) (secretsoftheeasternshore.com) The timing matters because the festival lands at the front end of Delmarva’s late-April event calendar, when nearby towns are also packing in spring festivals, markets and outdoor gatherings. Festival Guides and Reviews says its Delaware guide only includes events with food, vendors and entertainment, placing Heacook Fest in the state’s broader spring festival circuit. (festivalguidesandreviews.com) The event also sits on the Delmar borderland where Delaware and Maryland listings can blur. The festival guide places it in Delmar, Delaware, while the event’s own website gives the venue address as Delmar, Maryland. (festivalguidesandreviews.com) (heacookfest.com) That split reflects how Delmar functions in practice: one community spread across a state line, with Kylan Barn serving as the physical host site and Delaware festival calendars treating it as part of the local regional scene. Kylan Barn’s calendar and the event website line up on the April 24 date even as the state label differs. (kylanbarn.com) (heacookfest.com) For anyone planning to go, the clearest details now are the date, the 5 p.m. start, the Kylan Barn location and the free-entry format with donations encouraged. Organizers say the event is built around remembrance and community, with the evening returning to Delmar on April 24. (heacookfest.com)