List of festivals in the United States
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This is a list of festivals in the United States.
Alternative festivals
- Burning Man, Black Rock City, Nevada
- Coney Island Mermaid Parade, New York City, New York
- Exotic Erotic Ball, San Francisco, California
- How Weird Street Faire, San Francisco, California
- King Mango Strut, Coral Gables, Florida
- New York's Village Halloween Parade, New York City, New York
- Porcupine Freedom Festival, Lancaster, New Hampshire
- Rainbow Gathering, National and Regional locations, World Wide
- Roswell UFO Festival, Roswell, New Mexico
- Sawdust Art Festival, Laguna Beach, California
- SLUG Queen, Eugene, Oregon
Arts and crafts festivals
- Allentown Arts Festival — Buffalo, New York
- Amish Acres Arts & Crafts Festival — Nappanee, Indiana
- Ann Arbor Art Fairs — Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Bayou City Art Festival - Houston, Texas
- Catoctin Colorfest — Thurmont, Maryland
- Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts — State College, Pennsylvania
- Cherry Creek Arts Festival — Cherry Creek, Colorado
- Detroit Festival of the Arts — Detroit, Michigan
- Dogwood Arts Festival — Knoxville, Tennessee
- Festival of the Arts — Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Festival of Murals — Wayne County, Indiana
- Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival — Half Moon Bay, California
- Lake Eden Arts Festival — Black Mountain, North Carolina
- Sawdust Art Festival — Laguna Beach, California
- St. James Art Fair — Louisville, Kentucky
- Summer Camp Music Festival — Chillicothe, Illinois
- Vermont Quilt Festival — Essex, Vermont
Beer festivals
- Great American Beer Festival (established 1982) — Denver, Colorado
- Houston Beer Fest (established 2011) — Houston, Texas
- Oregon Brewers Festival (established 1988) — Portland, Oregon
Celebration/talk festivity
- Cheeseburger in Caseville — Caseville, Michigan
- ComFest — Columbus, Ohio
- Friendship Festival — Buffalo, New York (and Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada)
- Gasparilla Pirate Festival — Tampa, Florida
- Hessler Street Fair — Cleveland, Ohio
- Minneapolis Aquatennial — Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Pecan Street Festival — Austin, Texas
- Red River Revel — Shreveport, Louisiana
- Saint Paul Winter Carnival — Saint Paul, Minnesota
Culture, heritage and folk festivals
- Aloha Festivals — Hawaii
- Arlington International Film Festival — Arlington, Massachusetts
- Borderfest — Rio Grande Valley, Texas
- Dublin Irish Festival — Dublin, Ohio
- Cleveland Feast of the Assumption Festival — Cleveland, Ohio
- Feast of San Gennaro — New York City, New York
- Festival Latinoamericano — Provo, Utah
- FinnFestUSA
- Folkmoot — Waynesville, North Carolina
- Greek Food Festival of Dallas — Dallas, Texas
- Hungarian Festival — New Brunswick, New Jersey
- Indy Irish Festival — Indianapolis, Indiana
- International Children's Festival — Washington, DC
- Johnny Appleseed Festival — Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Kansas City Irish Fest — Kansas City, Missouri
- Little Italy Festival — Clinton, Indiana
- Lowell Folk Festival — Lowell, Massachusetts
- New Jersey Folk Festival — New Brunswick, NJ
- New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival— New Orleans, Louisiana
- North Texas Irish Festival — Dallas, Texas
- Northwest Folklife Festival — Seattle, Washington
- Pepper Jelly Festival — Thomaston, Alabama
- Pittsburgh Folk Festival — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Portugal Day Festival — Newark, New Jersey
- Riverfront Irish Festival — Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
- Texas Folklife Festival — San Antonio, Texas
- Tulip Time Festival — Holland, Michigan
- Taste of Polonia — Chicago, Illinois
- World of Nations Celebration — Jacksonville, Florida
- World's Largest Disco — Buffalo, New York
- Ypsilanti Heritage Festival — Ypsilanti, Michigan
Earth and nature festivals
Film festivals
Fine art and theatre festivals
- Alabama Shakespeare Festival — Montgomery, Alabama
- Allentown Art Festival — Buffalo, New York
- Arizona Renaissance Festival — Apache Junction, Arizona
- Artscape — Baltimore, Maryland
- Bristol Renaissance Faire — Kenosha, Wisconsin
- Carolina Renaissance Festival — Huntersville, North Carolina
- Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts — State College, Pennsylvania
- Curtain Up! — Buffalo, New York
- Grand Cities Art Fest — Grand Forks, North Dakota/East Grand Forks, Minnesota
- Kansas City Renaissance Festival — Bonner Springs, Kansas
- Maryland Renaissance Festival — Crownsville, Maryland
- Minnesota Renaissance Festival — Shakopee, Minnesota
- New York Renaissance Faire — Tuxedo, New York
- North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Performance Festival — Manteo, North Carolina
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival — Ashland, Oregon
- True/False Film Festival — Columbia, Missouri
- The River To River Festival — New York, New York
- Savannah Music Festival — Savannah, Georgia
- Sterling Renaissance Festival — Sterling, New York
- Utah Shakespearean Festival — Cedar City, Utah
Flower festivals
- International Cherry Blossom Festival — Macon, Georgia
- Lilac Festival — Rochester, New York
- Lompoc Valley Flower Festival — Lompoc, California
- National Cherry Blossom Festival — Washington, D.C.
- Philadelphia Flower Show — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Portland Rose Festival — Portland, Oregon
- Seattle Hempfest — Seattle, Washington
- Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival — Winchester, Virginia
- Texas Rose Festival — Tyler, Texas
- Tulip Festival — Holland, Michigan
- Washington State Apple Blossom Festival — Wenatchee, Washington
Food, harvest and wild game festivals
- Banana Split Festival, Wilmington, Ohio
- Barnesville Pumpkin Festival, Barnesville, Ohio
- Brushy Mountain Apple Festival, North Wilkesboro, North Carolina
- Circleville Pumpkin Show, Circleville, Ohio
- Delmarva Chicken Festival, Delmarva Peninsula
- Festival of the Fish, Vermilion, Ohio
- Florida food festivals, Florida
- Gilroy Garlic Festival, Gilroy, California
- Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival, Half Moon Bay, California
- Jackson County Apple Festival, Jackson, Ohio
- Kentucky Apple Festival, Paintsville, Kentucky
- Lexington Barbecue Festival, Lexington, North Carolina
- Louisiana Fur and Wildlife Festival, Cameron, Louisiana
- Morton Pumpkin Festival, Morton, Illinois
- National Buffalo Wing Festival, Buffalo, New York
- National Cornbread Festival National Cornbread Festival, South Pittsburg, Tennessee
- North Carolina Wine Festival, Clemmons, North Carolina
- Norwalk Oyster Festival, Norwalk, Connecticut
- Parker County Peach Festival, Weatherford, Texas
- Paso Robles Wine Festival, Paso Robles, California
- Roanoke-Chowan Pork-Fest, Murfreesboro, North Carolina
- Schmeckfest — Freeman, South Dakota
- Strawberry Festival, Poteet, Texas
- Sweet Corn Festival, Fairborn, Ohio
- Taste of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- Taste of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
- A Taste of Colorado
- Yadkin Valley Wine Festival Elkin, North Carolina
- Yambilee Festival, Opelousas, Louisiana
Holiday festivals
- Christmas on the River — Demopolis, Alabama
- New Orleans Mardi Gras — New Orleans, Louisiana
- Spirit of America Festival — Decatur, Alabama
- West Side Nut Club Fall Festival — Evansville, IN
Innovation festivals
LGBT festivals
- Capital Pride (Washington) — Washington, D.C.
- Fantasia Fair — Provincetown, Massachusetts
- Frameline — San Francisco, California
- Newfest — New York City
- Outfest — Los Angeles, California
- PeaceOUT World Homo Hop Festival — Oakland, California
- Southern Decadence — New Orleans, Louisiana
- Utah Pride Festival — Salt Lake City, Utah
- White Party Palm Springs, California
Music festivals
- ¡Globalquerque! — Albuquerque, New Mexico
- 10,000 Lakes Festival — Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
- 311 Pow Wow Festival — Live Oak, Florida
- 80/35 Music Festival — Des Moines, Iowa
- All Good Music Festival & Campout — Thornville, Ohio — And other various locations over the years
- All Points West Music & Arts Festival — Jersey City, New Jersey
- American MusicFest — Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- ARTSaha! — Omaha, Nebraska
- Atlantic Music Festival — Waterville, Maine
- Austin City Limits Music Festival — Austin, Texas
- The Bamboozle — Asbury Park, New Jersey & East Rutherford, New Jersey
- Banjo Jubilee Jazz Festival — San Jose, California
- Backwoods Music Festival — Stroud, Oklahoma
- Bay Area Indie Music Festival — San Francisco, California
- Bay Area Rock Festival — San Francisco, California
- Bayfest — Mobile, Alabama
- Beale Street Music Festival — Memphis, Tennessee
- Bele Chere — Asheville, North Carolina
- Bellingham Festival of Music — Bellingham, Washington
- Big Spring Jam — Huntsville, Alabama
- The Big Up Music & Arts Festival — Ghent, New York
- Blast Furnace Blues Festival — Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- Blossom Festival — Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
- Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival — Manchester, Tennessee
- Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion — Bristol, Tennessee/Bristol, Virginia
- Britt Festival — Jacksonville, Oregon
- Budweiser Made in America Festival — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- BUKU Music + Art Project — New Orleans, Louisiana
- Bumbershoot — Seattle, Washington
- Bunbury Music Festival — Cincinnati, Ohio
- Buzz Bake Sale — West Palm Beach, Florida
- Buzzfest — Nashville, Tennessee & Houston, Texas
- Camp Bisco — Mariaville Lake, New York
- Camp Creek — Oxford, Maine — And other various locations over the years
- Capitol Hill Block Party — Seattle, Washington
- Central Park SummerStage — New York, New York
- Chicago Blues Festival — Chicago, Illinois
- Clearwater Festival — Croton-on-Hudson, New York
- CMJ Music Marathon — New York City
- Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival — Indio, California
- Comstock Music Festivals — Comstock, Nebraska
- Cornerstone Festival — Bushnell, Illinois
- Country Stampede Music Festival — Manhattan, Kansas
- Dally in the Alley — Detroit, Michigan
- Dave Matthews Band Caravan — Atlantic City, New Jersey, Chicago, Illinois, Manhattan, New York & George, Washington
- Decibel Festival — Seattle, Washington
- Detroit Electronic Music Festival — Detroit, Michigan
- Dillo Day — Evanston, Illinois
- Diversafest LLC DFEST — Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Drop Dead Festival — New York, New York
- Electric Daisy Carnival — Las Vegas, Nevada
- Electric Daisy Carnival — Orlando, Florida
- Electric Daisy Carnival — New York, New York
- Electric Forest — Rothbury, Michigan
- Electric Zoo Festival — New York, New York
- Electronic Music Midwest — Kansas City, Kansas & Louisville, Illinois
- Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival — Marin County, California
- Festival International de Louisiane — Lafayette, Louisiana
- Festivals Acadiens — Lafayette, Louisiana
- Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance — Trumansburg, New York
- Firefly Music Festival — Dover, Delaware
- FloydFest — Floyd, Virginia
- Forecastle Festival — Louisville, Kentucky
- Free Press Summer Fest — Houston, Texas
- French Quarter Festival, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Fun Fun Fun Fest — Austin, Texas
- Gathering of the Juggalos — Cave-In-Rock, Illinois — And other various locations over the years
- Gathering of the Vibes — Bridgeport, Connecticut — And other various locations over the years
- Governors Ball Music Festival — New York, New York
- Grand Point North Festival — Burlington, Vermont
- Grant Park Music Festival — Chicago, Illinois
- Great Blue Heron Music Festival — Sherman, New York
- Great Hudson River Revival — Croton-on-Hudson, New York
- Hangout Music Festival — Gulf Shores, Alabama
- Hard — Los Angeles, California — And other various locations over the years
- Hardly Strictly Bluegrass — San Francisco, California
- Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival — San Francisco, California
- Harvest of Hope Fest — St. Augustine, Florida
- HeavenFest Music Festival — Denver, Colorado
- HFStival — Washington, D.C.
- High Sierra Music Festival — Quincy, California
- Homegrown Music Festival — Duluth, Minnesota
- Hopscotch Music Festival — Raleigh, North Carolina
- How Weird Street Faire — San Francisco, California
- Huck Finn Jubilee — Ontario, California
- iHeartRadio Music Festival — Las Vegas, Nevada
- Jacksonville Jazz Festival — Jacksonville, Florida
- Jamboree in the Hills — Morristown, Ohio
- Kahbang Music, Art & Film Festival — Bangor, Maine
- Kanrocksas Music Festival — Kansas City, Kansas
- Lake Eden Arts Festival — Black Mountain, North Carolina
- La Musica — Sarasota, Florida
- Langerado Music Festival — Big Cypress Indian Reservation, Florida — And other various locations over the years
- Litchfield Jazz Festival — Goshen, Connecticut
- Lollapalooza — Chicago, Illinois — Previously a touring festival
- Long Beach Blues Festival — Long Beach, California
- LouFest — St. Louis, Missouri
- Lowell Folk Festival — Lowell, Massachusetts
- MAHA Music Festival — Omaha, Nebraska
- Maryland Deathfest — Baltimore, Maryland
- Mendocino Music Festival — Mendocino, California
- MerleFest — Wilkesboro, North Carolina
- MidPoint Music Festival — Cincinnati, Ohio
- Mile High Music Festival — Commerce City, Colorado
- Mile of Music — Appleton, WI
- Mississippi River Festival — Edwardsville, Illinois
- moe.down — Turin, New York
- Monolith Festival — Morrison, Colorado
- Monterey International Pop Music Festival — Monterey, California
- Moogfest — Asheville, North Carolina
- Moondance Jam — Walker, Minnesota
- Monster Massive — Los Angeles, California
- Mostly Mozart — New York City, New York
- Mountain Jam — Hunter, New York
- Mucklewain — Pinewood, Tennessee
- Muddy Roots Music Festival — Cookeville, Tennessee
- Music from Angel Fire — Angel Fire, Taos, Raton, Las Vegas, New Mexico
- MusicfestNW — Portland, Oregon
- Music Midtown — Atlanta, Georgia
- Musikfest — Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- Nateva Music & Camping Festival — Oxford, Maine
- Naukabout Music Festival — East Falmouth, Massachusetts
- NEARfest — Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- Nerdapalooza — Eureka, California
- New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — New Orleans, Louisiana
- Newport Folk Festival — Newport, Rhode Island
- Newport Jazz Festival — Newport, Rhode Island
- Newport Music Festival — Newport, Rhode Island
- Newport Pop Festival — Costa Mesa, California
- Nocturnal Wonderland — San Bernardino, California & Thorndale, Texas
- Noise Pop Festival — San Francisco, California
- Norman Music Festival — Norman, Oklahoma
- Northwest Folklife Festival — Seattle, Washington
- Ojai Music Festival — Ojai, California
- OK Mozart Festival — Bartlesville, Oklahoma
- Old Settler's Music Festival — Austin, Texas
- On the Waterfront Festival — Rockford, Illinois
- Oregon Bach Festival — Eugene, Oregon
- Oregon Festival of American Music — Eugene, Oregon
- Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival — San Francisco, California
- PDX Pop Now! — Portland, Oregon
- The Peach Music Festival — Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia Folk Festival — Upper Salford, Pennsylvania
- Phish festivals — Various locations over the years
- Pitchfork Music Festival — Chicago, Illinois
- Planetfest — Jacksonville, Florida
- Pointfest — St. Louis, Missouri
- ProgPower USA — Atlanta, Georgia
- Pygmalion Music Festival — Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
- Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival — Red Bank, New Jersey
- Red Sky Music Festival — Omaha, Nebraska
- Re:Generation — North Plains, Oregon
- Ravinia Festival — Highland Park, Illinois
- Riot Fest — Chicago, Illinois
- Rites of Spring Festival — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- River To River Festival — New York, New York
- Riverbend Festival — Chattanooga, Tennessee
- RiverJazz Music Festival — Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- Rochester International Jazz Festival — Rochester, New York
- Rock the Bells — San Bernardino, California — And other various locations over the years
- Rock the Garden — Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Rockfest — Kansas City, Missouri
- Rocklahoma — Pryor, Oklahoma
- Rock N Resort Music Festival — North Lawrence, Ohio
- Rock on the Range — Columbus, Ohio
- Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival — Columbia, Missouri
- Rothbury Music Festival — Rothbury, Michigan
- Sacramento Jazz Jubilee — Sacramento, California
- Satchmo SummerFest, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Sasquatch! Music Festival — George, Washington
- Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival — Silk Hope, North Carolina
- Sierra Nevada World Music Festival — Boonville, California
- Signal - The Southeast Electronic Music Festival — Chapel Hill & Carrboro, North Carolina
- Sisters Folk Festival — Sisters, Oregon
- Sitka Jazz Festival — Sitka, Alaska
- Sitka Summer Music Festival — Sitka, Alaska
- Sloss Music and Arts Festival — Birmingham, Alabama
- SmokeOut Festival — San Bernardino, California
- Solid Sound Festival — North Adams, Massachusetts
- Sonshine Festival — Willmar, Minnesota
- Soulfest — Gilford, New Hampshire
- South by Southwest — Austin, Texas
- South Padre International Music Festival — South Padre Island, Texas
- Springing the Blues Festival — Jacksonville Beach, Florida
- Stagecoach Festival — Indio, California
- Stars & Stripes Festival — Sterling Heights, Michigan
- Street Scene — San Diego, California
- Summer Camp Music Festival — Chillicothe, Illinois
- Summerfest — Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- SunFest — West Palm Beach, Florida
- Takoma Park Folk Festival — Takoma Park, Maryland
- Tanglewood Music Festival — Lenox, Massachusetts
- The Fest — Gainesville, Florida
- Telluride Bluegrass Festival — Telluride, Colorado
- Together as One — Los Angeles, California
- Treefort Music Fest — Boise, Idaho
- Treasure Island Music Festival — San Francisco, California
- Ultra Music Festival — Miami, Florida
- US Festival — San Bernardino, California
- Vegoose — Las Vegas, Nevada
- Virgin Festival — Baltimore, Maryland
- Voodoo Music Experience — New Orleans, Louisiana
- Wakarusa Music & Camping Festival — Ozark, Arkansas
- Wanee Festival — Live Oak, Florida
- Warped Tour — varying locations
- Waterfront Blues Festival — Portland, Oregon
- WE Fest — Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
- Woodstock Mozart Festival — Woodstock, Illinois
- Woodstock Music & Art Fair — Bethel, New York — And other various locations over the years
- Xclamation Festival — Modesto, California
- Yosemite International Jazz Festival — Coarsegold, California
Pagan festivals
- Heartland Pagan Festival — Tonganoxie, Kansas
- Pagan Spirit Gathering — near Salem, Missouri
- Starwood Festival— Wisteria Campground in Pomeroy, Ohio
- Faerieworlds — Eugene, Oregon
Pioneer festivals
- Days of '47 Parade — Salt Lake City, Utah
- Pioneer Day (Utah) — Utah state holiday with multiple celebrations throughout the state
- Pioneer Days (Ohio) — Kalida, Ohio
Religious festivals
- Cornerstone Festival — Bushnell, Illinois
- Creation Festival— George, Washington The Gorge Amphitheater and Mount Union, Pennsylvania Agape Farm
- LifeLight Festival — Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- Sonshine Festival — Willmar, Minnesota
- Vaisakhi — Yuba City, California
- X-Day (Church of the SubGenius) — Wisteria Campground in Pomeroy, Ohio
Renaissance fairs
Sports festivals
Rodeo and horse racing festivals
Science festivals
Seasonal festivals
- Apple Blossom Festival — Winchester, Virginia
- Autumnfest — Woonsocket, Rhode Island
- Evansville Freedom Festival, — Evansville, Indiana
- Sawdust Art Festival, Laguna Beach, California
- Three Rivers Festival — Fort Wayne, Indiana
- West Side Nut Club Fall Festival — Evansville, Indiana
- Woollybear Festival — Vermilion, Ohio
Storytelling festivals
- National Storytelling Festival — Jonesborough, Tennessee
- Southern Ohio Storytelling Festival — Chillicothe, Ohio
- Timpanogos Storytelling Festival — Orem, Utah
Transportation festivals
- Dragging the Gut Festival — McMinnville, Oregon
- Segway Fest — varying locations
- Tall Stacks — Cincinnati, Ohio
See also
- Carnival
- Festival
- Hot air balloon festivals
- List of contemporary amphitheatres
- Tourist attractions in the United States