Carstairs Beef & Barley Days

01/21/2026

Reminder Beef & Barley Days meeting tonight Wed Jan 21st 7pm at curling rink.
Join us to help with another great event this year 🤠

01/14/2026

Seeking volunteers! Join us next week Wednesday January 21st 7pm at the Carstairs Curling Rink

08/02/2025

Thank you to Crooked Horn Canadian Jr. Rodeo Association for joining us for Beef & Barley Days and congratulations for making it to the The Albertan paper. Thank you to The Albertan for the coverage!

08/02/2025

Thank you to The Albertan for the coverage and Cochrane Pipe Band for joining Carstairs for Beef & Barley Days, congrats to making it to the paper!

Look at that! We made it into The Albertan paper!

07/20/2025

Today is Sunday and we wanted to take a moment to recap & highlight the wonderful human effort behind the festival!!

Friday marked a hugely successful first-ever Brewfest, thank you to Rheanna & Danielle leading this sold-out event!! We couldn’t have done it without the help and networking from Jen at Olds College Brewery. And thank you to Shelley and her team for organizing Friday night rock-n-roll bingo at the Curling rink lounge upstairs.

Saturday morning marked pancake breakfast and parade. Thank you to the Carstairs Chamber of Commerce for breakfast! And thank you to Leslie and the Lions club volunteers for putting together the Lion’s Parade, plus our many, many community participants in making it a parade! From bands, to horses, floats, vintage cars and more, what an awesome experience for all.

Thank you to Jeff for your incredible organization of the slo-pitch tournament and Dan for caring for the rodeo grounds throughout the weekend.

Thank you to Kristy for all the behind-the-scenes work - from the website, to the forms, to the brochures and more - these are crucial in getting the good word out. And thank you to our incredible main organizers Kelly & Charlie - you are the steady leaders and foundation of this event.

Thank you to the entire Carstairs Ag Society team for all the behind-the-scenes work - from hauling tables, setting up chairs, set up and take down, these are all vital elements to the events.

Most importantly - an immense thank you to the ‘front-of-the scene’ volunteers - those setting up and interacting with children at kids zone and the entire team at Carstairs Playschool for manning the concession and providing hamburgers and hot dogs to many.

And it doesn’t end there!! Thank you to Adrenaline Motorsports and Champion Ford for the car show, Crooked Horn for organizing the rodeo and all your efforts, musician Dustin Farr for playing, the Elks and Rocky 6 Ranch for supporting the kids zone, Kristi for glitter tattoos and all you do in bringing colour and sparkle to Carstairs, Ryan for your balloon-animal talents, Lori and Pamela for the markets, and all the market vendors and businesses for coming out. Plus the Farm Table and their ice cream scooping station in multiple locations!!

We thank the museum for providing a scavenger hunt and prizes to many on Beef & Barley Days. Thank you to John at the museum - the museum also serves as an information centre to the many visitors on Beef & Barley Days, a lost kids location for the festival, and public restroom.

We were very lucky to have not one, but two art exhibits in Carstairs yesterday, Eleanor & Peter’s abstract & realism display and the Art Show & Sale by the Carstairs Artists Guild. We thank the many other businesses and organizations throughout town in hosting special events yesterday.

Yesterday evening marked a fun in-line skate party, thank you to Carstairs Towing for sponsoring, Alien In-line for facilitating the party, and Ross at Battle River BBQ for your delicious smoked brisket.

Thank you to the Town of Carstairs for giving us a place for fireworks, and letting us permission to take over the town with this festival.

We did have a few hiccups such as rescheduled fireworks, rodeo grounds being too wet, and reaching capacity for our liquor license at the curling rink - we appreciate everyone’s understanding and flexibility. Thank you to the volunteers at the Carstairs Fire Department for your work in keeping our community safe and for your fireworks duty.

For anyone we have missed, we thank you from the bottom our hearts.

Today Beef & Barley Days wraps up with Church in the Park from 10am-12pm, which is a collaboration from multiple congregations, organized by Church Link. We thank them for coming together to offering an inter-church service to the community. There will be free coffee & donuts. (Update: held in the Curling rink due to weather.)

Thank YOU for participating in Beef & Barley Days and joining us to check things out. If you have any feedback about Beef & Barley Days - or if you might be interested in volunteering next year to help make Beef & Barley Days even better - feel free to reach out to us.

Have a wonderful week & we look forward to seeing you again soon!

07/19/2025

Ooops! We made a mistake and used a stock photo of pulled beef when in fact it is *smoked brisket* being served tonight at the free in-line skate party. As fans of food; we felt it was important to make this distinction. 😉 Prepared generously by Battle River BBQ.

Skates & helmets provided at the party (or bring your own), thank you to Carstairs Towing and Storage for sponsoring this fun event!

Party starts tonight Saturday, 5pm at the Memorial Arena. More about what to expect at AlienInline.com

07/19/2025

Parade Day is here! Go to our main profile page and see the highlighted posts at the top to see listings of everything. Thank you to all the incredible volunteers in giving back & making this community festival happen. We truly value you & your efforts. Have an amazing day everyone! ❤️

Learn more about our volunteer organization at CarstairsAgSociety.ca

07/19/2025

DAY 2 of the Carstairs Beef & Barley Days Festival is here!! See below gallery for a collection of posters from our community. Thank you again to the incredible number of volunteers and businesses who have joined together to make this happen, your time and efforts are appreciated. Good luck to everyone today, we hope you have a great time ❤️

07/19/2025

UPDATE: Fireworks postponed due to weather, visit their page for details ⬇️

Thank you to the Volunteer Carstairs Fire Department for fireworks duty! “Carstairs Fire Dept. is staffed by approximately 30 volunteers from the Carstairs area.” Follow them along for fireworks updates, we have our fingers crossed for tonigt rs

We are still planning to go ahead with fireworks tonight at 10:30.

We may have to cancel last minute if the lighting is too close, but for the moment we are still planning for them.

07/18/2025

Update SOLD OUT: we’ve reached capacity under liquor laws. Thank you for all your support and thank you everyone for your tremendous effort in this volunteer-organized event and all your hard work. Also to all the incredible vendors for travelling out from all over Alberta to join us. ❤️

Hope many enjoy the rock-n-roll bingo upstairs the curling rink (spots for 100 persons! and goes until 1am). And/or fireworks later tonight, thank you to the volunteer Carstairs Fire Department for fireworks duty, hopefully the rain clears!!

07/18/2025

Thanks Dan 🥳🐎

A HUGE THANK YOU to D Bar S Welding: Dan Sheehan and family for all of their work on the ground the last 48 hours. Dan has donated his time and tractor for the full three days and we are very grateful!

07/18/2025

UPDATE: tickets are now available at the door (pre-sale is sold out). $10 entry/$2 tokens. 20+ vendors. Food & non-alcoholic options too! Learn more CarstairsAgSociety.ca