51st Annual Greater Phoenix Greek Festival

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Visiting Greece is an affordable stay-cation at the 51st Annual Greater Phoenix Greek Festival, October 7th, 8th, and 9th with Greek food, music, dancing, jewelry, art, grocery items and activities for children at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Community Center, 1973 East Maryland Avenue in Phoenix. Admission is $3.00 and free for children under 12. For more information, please call the festival hotline at 602-264-2791.

Food and Drink

Authentic Greek foods include gyro, chicken or pork souvlaki, calamari, saganaki (flaming cheese), loukaniko (sausage with citrus and cloves), pastitsio (Greek "lasagna"), spanakopita (spinach pie), dolmades (stuffed grape leaves) and roasted lamb.

Two types of patátes (potatoes) are offered – our popular oven-roasted red skin potatoes with lemon and Greek seasonings and Greek fries tossed with lemon, salt, oregano and a hint of honey.

Sweets include baklava and kataifi pastries, kourambiethes plain or with pecans, melomacarona and koulourakia cookies, tsourekia (bread), individually fried diplés, loukoumades (fried honey puffs) and baklava sundaes.

The Village Market features feta cheese, Kalamata olives, phyllo dough, fresh oregano and other food items imported from Greece.

Ouzo and Metaxa brandy are served alongside Greek wines and beer.

Dance

Our award-winning folk dance groups are nationally recognized and made up of children from kindergarteners to college-age. The six groups perform multiple times each day. The Little Lambs, ages 0-5, parade in costume on Sunday afternoon.

Dance lessons offered daily. Anyone can get up to join the dancing as a live Greek band plays. OPA!

Culture

Cultural Museum

The new Hellenic Museum of Phoenix will be open with vintage photographs of pioneer Greek families as featured in the book, Greeks in Phoenix.

Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral tours are conducted throughout each day. The architecture conforms to ancient Byzantine standards while exhibiting a Southwest desert influence. The icons and stained glass windows are exquisite.

Connect with us!

When
  • Friday, October 7, 5pm – 10pm
  • Saturday, October 8, 11am – 10pm
  • Sunday, October 9, 11am – 8pm
Where
  • Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox
    Community Center
  • 1973 East Maryland Avenue
  • Phoenix, AZ 85016
  • holytrinityphx.org
Admission

$3.00 for adults; children under 12 free. Portion of proceeds donated to Phoenix Children's Hospital.

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    • baklava

      "The Greater Phoenix Greek Festival used to be called the Greek Bazaar. Back then, we made everything from scratch using a single oven in our old church kitchen. We've forgotten the exact year we started using our current baklava recipe, but I remember demonstrating how to make this version of baklava at ASU over 25 years ago. Our recipe uses only real, unsalted butter – never margarine – and adds cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Mary Maniatis has continued the tradition since I retired. This year, Mary and her team will make over 9,900 pieces of baklava!"

      — Mae Ducas,
      Greek Bazaar Chair, 1962

    • "The Greater Phoenix Greek Festival used to be called the Greek Bazaar. Back then, we made everything from scratch using a single oven in our old church kitchen. We've forgotten the exact year we started using our current baklava recipe, but I remember demonstrating how to make this version of baklava at ASU over 25 years ago. Our recipe uses only real, unsalted butter – never margarine – and adds cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Mary Maniatis has continued the tradition since I retired. This year, Mary and her team will make over 9,900 pieces of baklava!"

      — Mae Ducas,
      Greek Bazaar Chair, 1962
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