Chowdah Fest 2025
Monday, March 31st || 5:00-6:30pm
The Neighborhood House, Northeast Harbor
$12/ticket
kids 10 & under free!
Join us for an evening of chowder tasting, live music, and a silent auction of beautiful works of local art!
All proceeds for this event will go directly toward MDNA’s mission of providing home health care to patients on Mount Desert Island, Trenton, and Lamoine.
Generously sponsored by
Taste chowder from these local restaurants & vote for your favorite!
Who will win the People’s & Judges’ Choice Awards?
Live jazz quartet ft. Matt Harkins (saxophone), Matt Grant (drums),
Greg Snakard (piano), & Rodrigo Castro (bass).
Bid on beautiful artwork provided by:
Marian Baker
Steve Bart
Emily Bracale
Robert Coppage
Tyson Guthrie
Lindsay Hopkins-Weld
Rocky Mann
Gabriela Niejadlik
Rick Osann
Linda Perrin
J.K. Putnam
Smart-Studio
Mary Anne Starbird
Tom Cat Tide
Shannon Westphal
Anne Woodman
*Starting bids between $30-$150
Meet the Judges
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Eliza Bishop
Eliza has been living (and cooking and eating!) on MDI since 2006, and she opened Milk & Honey in Northeast Harbor in 2013. She lives with her family in Seal Cove.
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Tasha Higgins
Tasha has been in the food industry most of her life. She is a culinary graduate, and was the owner of Mother’s Kitchen in Bar Harbor that she sold in 2021.
You can find her now feeding the kids at Mount Desert Elementary School or moonlighting at Floret in Somesville. She is really happy to be a judge and support MDNA!
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Chris Popper
Chris Popper is WDEA's "Sports Guy!" He has been broadcasting MDI and Ellsworth Basketball games for the past 18 years and MDI Football for 17 years. He was awarded the Cadillac Award by the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce in November 2023.
In May 2020, he was a honorary inductee into the National Technical Honor Society by Hancock County Technical Center and in 2015 he received the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce President’s Award Winner for Sustained and Exceptional Service to the Community.