Our rules are amazingly simple. Do you have a favorite car, truck or souped up pair of wheels that you like to drive on a sunny afternoon, or have you lovingly restored a vehicle to its original state? Send us a picture of the car that makes your heart beat a little faster, and makes you feel like a kid again. Enter your beauty in our Virtual Auto Contest and you may win the top prize of best car and the bragging rights of bringing home the "Mum Festival Virtual Auto Show Award". Entries must be more than 25 years old (I do mean the cars) but if you have a favorite car that you enjoy and would like to help us raise money, by all means enter your AMC Gremlin or your Ford Focus. Let's have a little "FUN" with this! Take a picture of your car or truck and upload it to the website and ask your friends and family to vote. It is that easy. We ask that you submit a high-resolution photo for the website and no humans in the picture.

As we come together to make the best of our circumstances, we are thinking outside of the box to bring you this "FUN-Raising" event. Mum Festival is adjusting to a "new normal" and we need your support to solidify the future of our festival. It's only $5 to enter and only and $1 to vote! Help us today so that we can come back stronger in 2021.


Winners will be announced at the end of the contest on September 16, 2020. Awards will be presented for 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd place at our revised and abbreviated Mum Festival on September 26, 2020.


The Exchange Club of Bristol is the producer of the Mum Festival.


The Exchange Club of Bristol is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization made up of men and women working together to make our community a better place to live through programs of service in Americanism, Community Service, Youth Activities, and our national project, the Prevention of Child Abuse.

We are part of The National Exchange Club – a service organization with 700 clubs and more than 21,000 members throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.


The Bristol Mum Festival is an annual festival which includes the Mum Parade. The Mum Festival is celebrated during the third full week of September. The festival celebrates chrysanthemums, formerly a major product of the town, and was first held on Sunday, October 7, 1962. Opening ceremonies kicked off the celebration, now known as the Bristol Mum Festival.

One of the most rewarding things about the Mum Festival is that people from all backgrounds and interests have an opportunity to combine efforts. The Bristol area is filled with talent and creativity and its residents are enjoying an opportunity to display it. The ultimate success of the festival is provided by the delight, enjoyment and excitement experienced by the thousands who attend the events that combine to become the Bristol Mum Festival.

For more information on our epic fall Mum Festival, visit https://bristolmumfestival.com/ or our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MumFestival/