Tickets for South End Fairy House Tour Now on Sale

PORTSMOUTH, NH — Discount advance tickets are now on sale for the 12th annual Friends of the South End (FOSE) Fairy House Tour. The event will take place this year on Sept. 24 and 25, 2016 and the proceeds of this long standing collaborative community event benefit Strawbery Banke, Prescott Park Arts Festival, the Governor John Langdon House, Prescott Park and the Portsmouth Elementary Schools, according to a press statement. Since the Fairy House Tour began, FOSE has reinvested more than $250,000 in these important South End organizations and in the Portsmouth community as a whole.

The Portsmouth Fairy House Tour is the world’s largest fairy house tour and features more than 200 handcrafted fairy houses made by local artists, florists, garden clubs club members, businesses, families and local school children. Anyone interested in building a fairy house for display can sign up until August 15 at portmsouthfairyhousetour.com.

Advanced tickets are $25 per family, $12 per adult, $8 per senior and $4 per child ages 3-12. Tickets purchased on the day of the event are $15 per adult, $10 per senior, $5 per child ages 3-12, and $30 for families of two adults/ two children or one adult/ four children.

Tickets can be purchased online at portsmouthfairyhousetour.com or at the following Portsmouth retailers: Discover Portsmouth, Flower Kiosk, G. Willikers Toy Shop, Pickwick’s Mercantile, Strawbery Banke Museum Visitor Center, and Treehouse Toys.

Fairy House tickets include full admission to all the Strawbery Banke Museum historic houses and to the Governor John Langdon House.

Inspired by local author Tracy Kane’s Fairy Houses Series®, and produced by Friends of the South End with the assistance of Canoe Harbor Consulting, the annual Fairy House Tour attracts more than 8,000 families and fairies each year. The event is sponsored by Pickwick’s Mercantile, Parenting NH, Infinite Imaging (design & print sponsor), Geno’s Sandwich and Chowder Shop, Piscataqua Savings Bank, Rolling Green Nursery, Sandra Dika, Keller Williams Coastal Realty and Sander’s Fish Market.

Tracy Kane will be on hand both days of the Tour to greet ticket holders and sign autographs. In addition, visitors can expect to see performances by the Southern New Hampshire Dance Theater and the NH Theatre Project.

For more information about the 2016 Portsmouth Fairy House Tour, to sign up to build a fairy house or to purchase tickets, visit portsmouthfairyhousetour.com.

Submitted by Caroline Amport Piper.