CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — The annual Kolach Festival is underway from June 12-14 at St. Ludmila Catholic Church.
Celebrating the beloved Czech fruit-filled pastries, the festival begins Friday, June 12, from 5-9 p.m. on the church grounds at 211 21st Ave. SW.
See photos from a past kolache bake.
The festival continues from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 13; and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, June 14.
In addition, “drive-up” kolaches will be available from 6-9 a.m. both Friday and Saturday.
Volunteers will bake up to 40,000 or more kolaches with prune, apricot, apple, rhubarb, poppyseed, strawberry and cherry fillings at $18 per dozen or $9 for a half-dozen.
Live music includes the Traveling Pillsurys from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday and Barefoot Becky & the Ivanhoe Dutchmen from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday.
A pork & dumpling dinner will be served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday.
Other activities include a silent auction, food concessions, family fun zone and adult area with beer and wine.
The festival began in 1938, but was temporarily suspended in 2023, as the parish demolished its 1958-built elementary school in order to construct a new parish center, which includes an industrial kitchen where the kolaches are now baked.
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