Festivals by the Numbers
This is the number of estimated Festival attendees between Spring Daze, Lazy Daze, & Pimento Cheese in 2025.
What is 90,000 (15,000, 55,000, & 20,000)
This really grate event celebrates it's 8th year on Saturday, April 11th.
What is the Pimento Cheese Festival?
This holiday feature lines Academy Street and DCP with decorated trees sponsored by businesses and individuals.
What is the Gifting Tree Project?
What Lazy Daze spreadsheet has the most line items?
A. Every location needing Cary provided tents, tables, chairs, or miscellaneous items across the festival
B. Every power source needed across the festival
C. Every sign needed across the festival
C. Every sign needed across the festival (~140)
(Every location needing tents, tables, chairs, or miscellaneous across the festival (~90))
(Every power source needed across the festival (~60))
This internal calendar system helps staff track events and resource needs across departments.
What is Event Wrangler 2.0?
Cary's first drone show, which took place at the Downtown Cary Park, featured this many drones.
What is 275?
The 2025 Pimento Cheese Festival was looking pretty gouda after attendees consumed this many pounds of cheese.
What is 10,000 lbs.
The Heart of the Holidays: Season of Celebrations was recently featured in this national magazine.
What is Southern Living?
This is the main difference between Spring Daze and Lazy Daze Artists.
What is artist home location
Spring Daze = NC Artists Only
Lazy Daze = National Artists
Cary Festival banners get a second life after the events as these unique items.
What are Tote Bags?
LIST IT!
Name 5 Town of Cary festivals or events with over 1,000 attendees.
Spring Daze
Lazy Daze
Pimento Cheese Festival
Wheels on Academy
Heart of the Holidays (et al) - Tree lighting
To monitor when weather turns into a muenster or if an emergency threatens our events, Cary activates this at Fire Station 9 for large-scale events like Pimento Cheese.
What is the Emergency Operations Center?
Heather Nadeau, a judge in Cary's Annual Gingerbread House Competition, has previously won 2nd place at this national competition.
What is the National Gingerbread Competition?
The Lazy Daze 50 artists were recently juried. The invited artists come from this many states.
What is 23?
True or false, Cary staff judge the Top 30 awards at the Wheels on Academy car show.
--False. We coordinate with a local car club to judge for Top 30.
It takes this many tractor-trailers to deliver materials for the Chinese Lantern Festival's visiting artisans to assemble the 40+ lantern groupings.
This monthly meeting helps departments get on the same cheese board before Cary events.
What is InterCEPT?
Interdepartmental Cary Event Planning Team
This year marked the Town's annual Tree Lighting Celebration move from Town Hall to Downtown Cary Park?
What is 2023?
Artist applications for Lazy Daze open during this month.
What is December?
LIST IT!
Name 5 town departments Festivals collaborate with during the event planning process?
PW
PD
Fire
Planning/Development
PRCR
Finance
TMO
311
Marketing
...and everyone else!
Did you know Santa responds to every letter received in DCP mailbox? His replies have been sent in this many different languages.
In support of Spring Daze, this many volunteer shifts are needed across the event (not including Teen Council)
What is 189?
This certification standard is required for approved compostable serviceware used by food vendors at Cary Art Daze (and a few other) festivals.
What is BPI-Certification?