The Food Fairies step in to provide quality food for ComFest volunteers that are working 2 or more consecutive shifts, those doing night Clean-up & Recycling, and the dedicated folks during setup and tear down.
We are always looking for committed Food Fairy volunteeers. If you have experience, like food, and would like to be more involved in ComFest, consider becoming a Food Fairy. We’ve got different roles for everyone including prep, kitchen operations, or help at meal-time.
If you own or manage a restaurant and would like to donate food or be a volunteer chef during ComFest, please contact us at foodfairies@comfest.com!
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Sharing is ComFesty!
Happy ComFest!
Welcome to Community Festival 2026! For 54 years, ComFest has been the progressive heartbeat of Columbus and central Ohio.
ComFest is a free event, powered by Community and sustained without corporate sponsors. Featuring the very best local music, progressive political activism and community organizing, local artisans and craftspeople and your favorite summer foods, ComFest brings the community together.
ComFest has nurtured the Columbus arts and entertainment scene, nourished small businesses, energized generations of community activists, and positioned progressive ideals front and center in our growing city.
The costs to put on this extraordinary event increase every year. Whether its permits, safety and security, trash and recycling supplies, stages and sound equipment, libations or any number of expenses, the costs of putting on this free and all volunteer weekend continue to outrun the revenues.
We’d like to take a moment to ask you to consider supporting ComFest financially. Now more than ever, this unique and vital event must be here for the next generation of ComFesters and your support can ensure the legacy begun 54 years ago lives on.
Thank you for being here: For volunteering, for supporting local music, for purchasing ComFest beverages, for shopping at Street Fair, and for signing up to protect the principles and values we all stand and fight for.
Pleaseclick hereto keep the “Party with a Purpose” going strong. Have a great ComFest.
