Market Days at the Port Alfred Easter Festival – Quick Facts on the Street Market Vibes 2025

Port Alfred – an essential feature of the Port Alfred Easter Festival is the street market vibe in town. This vibe is derived from the Good Time Fair and the Four Elements Festival. These take place during the festival, providing wonderful times and fun for the whole family.

Live music, craft market stalls, wife-carrying contests, local food and drinks. Also fun activities, low-flying aeroplanes, face-painting, mesmerizing fire displays and more

What Are The Street Markets?

1. The Good Time Fair

The Good Time Fair will include food from Graze By The River, Die Stoompot, Rise Cafe, the Market Traders Store and My Pond Hotel. Furthermore, activities include sand art, a treasure hunt, a jumping castle, face painting, and a miniature art gallery, with many cool craft stalls along the street. Check it out.

2. Four Elements Festival

The Four Elements Festival features the famous Wife Carrying Race, where you compete for fame and glory and the chance to win your wife’s weight in beer. There is also live music, food stalls, a vibrant craft market, fire displays, low-flying planes and more. Check it out.

Where Are They Happening?

Good Time Fair: Van Der Riet Street

Four Elements Festival: Wharf Street

When Is This All Going Down?

All the fun of the Good Time Fair kicks off at 10 am on Friday, 18 April, a great way to launch the Easter Festival in town, while the Rip Curl GromSearch and the Granny Grommets take place at East Beach and the Bodyboarding Challenge goes down at West Beach. Read more HERE

The Four Elements Festival starts at 10 am on Saturday, 19 April, with free entry and food and drinks specials from all nearby restaurants and bars. Support from Spargs Furnishers, Kraft Alchemy, Barefoot Cafe, Port Alfred Round Table, Eighteen 26 on Wharf, TAB, Wharf Street Pub and Grill, Wharf Street Fruit and Veg and the RD McKenzie Art Gallery