2022 Festival Celebrities

95th Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival

Queen Shenandoah XCV
Mia Dorsett

Festival Grand Marshal
Terry Bradshaw

Firefighters' Parade Marshal
Dean Cain

Festival Sports Marshal
Julius "Dr. J." Erving

Festival Sports Guests
Tony Dorsett
Fred Smoot
Jeff Hammond

Valley Health Business at the Bloom Speaker
Lisa Sturtevant, PhD, Chief Economist, Virginia REALTORS®

Prayer Luncheon by Knouse Foods Speaker
Kim Sharp

Ladies Horticultural Luncheon Speaker
Margo Oxendine

Festival Special Guests
Tatum Sheppard, Miss Virginia
Kara Britz, SagAftra Vocal Contractor Blake Shelton Band
Court Ambassador Coronation of Queen Shenandoah

Queen Shenandoah XCV - Designate | Mia Dorsett

Mia Dorsett, youngest daughter of Janet and Tony Dorsett to serve as Queen Shenandoah XCV.

Celebrity Sponsors

Festival Grand Marshal

Terry Bradshaw, NFL Hall of Famer and four-time Super Bowl winning quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers will serve as Grand Marshal of the 2022 Glo Fiber Grand Feature Parade.

Dean Cain is a multi-faceted, Emmy-winning filmmaker and actor. He starred as Clark Kent/Superman in “Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman” (4 seasons), produced and hosted “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” (4 seasons) and made well over 100 films, including “Out of Time", “The Broken Hearts Club,” "God’s Not Dead,” “Vendetta,” and “Gosnell.” He co-hosted the Today Show and Fox and Friends in between his numerous film and television projects. He is currently hosting Season 9 of “Masters of Illusion” for the CW and Season 3 of The Christmas Caroler Challenge.

Dean will be honoring real heroes at the Firefighters' Rodeo, the Coronation of Queen Shenandoah XCV, and leading the Firefighters' Parade on Friday, April 29, at 5:30 p.m. On Saturday, April 30, he will serve as the Marshal of the Shenandoah Caverns Heroes' Division in the Glo Fiber Grand Feature Parade honoring the dedicated essential workers during COVID.

Julius Winfield Erving, internationally recognized as Dr. J. was the dominant basketball player of his era, and a true innovator who revolutionized the way the game was played. Widely heralded as one of the all-time greats, he is often considered to have been the catalyst for the ABA-NBA merger in 1976. Erving played professionally for 16 years, having scored 30,026 points in his combined ABA and NBA career, and left as the third highest scorer in professional basketball at the time behind only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Wilt Chamberlain. Erving scored more than 22.0 points per game in his 11 NBA seasons with Philadelphia and 28.7 points per game in his 5 ABA seasons with Virginia and New York.

In 1993, Erving was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and was also named to
the NBA’s 50th Anniversary All-time team. In 1994, Erving was named by Sports Illustrated as one of the 40 most important athletes of all time. In 2017, GQ Magazine selected him as part of the 50 Greatest Living Athletes, a true testament to his staying power of remaining generationally relevant some 30 years after his playing career ended.

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Festival Sports Guests

Tony Dorsett, Running Back
Dallas Cowboys

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Fred Smoot, Cornerback
Washington Redskins

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Jeff Hammond, Crew Chief
NASCAR

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Speaker Sponsors

Valley Health Business at the Bloom
Guest Speaker

The Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival is pleased to announce that Dr. Lisa Sturtevant, Chief Economist with Virginia REALTORS® will speak at the Valley Health Business at the Bloom Luncheon presented by Top of Virginia Regional Chamber at 11:00 am on Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at the Tolley Dental Zone in the James R. Wilkins, Jr. Athletics & Events Center on the campus of Shenandoah University.