List of festivals in the United States

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By territory Festivals of American Samoa Festivals of Guam Festivals of Puerto Rico Festivals of the United States Virgin Islands By state Festivals of Florida Festivals of Georgia Festivals of Hawaii Festivals of Louisiana Festivals of Michigan Festivals of New Jersey Festivals of Pennsylvania Festivals of Virginia By city Festivals of Atlanta Festivals of Buffalo, New York Festivals of Chicago Events of Houston Festivals of Indianapolis Festivals and fairs of the San Francisco Bay Area Street fairs and parades of Seattle Festivals and events of Tulsa, Oklahoma By type Music festivals of the United States (US) Film festivals of the US Dogwood festivals of the US

This is an incomplete list of festivals in the United States. This list includes festivals of diverse types, among them regional festivals, commerce festivals, fairs, food festivals, arts festivals, religious festivals, folk festivals, and recurring festivals on holidays.

Festivals unique to the United States (and Canada and Mexico in some cases) include pow wows, Rocky Mountain Rendezvous, blues festivals, county fairs, ribfests, strawberry festivals, and state fairs. The first U.S. state fair was that of New York, held in 1841 in Syracuse, and has been held annually to the present year. The second state fair was in Detroit, Michigan, which started in 1849.

Territories

List of festivals in American Samoa

List of festivals in Guam

List of festivals in Puerto Rico

List of festivals in the United States Virgin Islands

Cities

List of festivals in Atlanta

List of festivals in Buffalo, New York

List of festivals in Chicago (music)

List of events in Houston

List of attractions and events in Indianapolis

List of San Francisco Bay Area festivals and fairs

List of Seattle street fairs and parades

List of festivals and events in Tulsa, Oklahoma

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, worldwide

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

Cleveland Feast of the Assumption Festival — Cleveland, Ohio

Dublin Irish Festival — Dublin, 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

Nisei Week — Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California

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

Taste of Polonia — Chicago, Illinois

Texas Folklife Festival — San Antonio, Texas

Tulip Time Festival — Holland, Michigan

World of Nations Celebration — Jacksonville, Florida

World's Largest Disco — Buffalo, New York

Ypsilanti Heritage Festival — Ypsilanti, Michigan

Earth and nature festivals

NY Green Fest — Alfred, New York

Film festivals

List of film festivals in the United States

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

MasterWorks Festival — Cedarville, Ohio

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

The River To River Festival — New York, New York

Savannah Music Festival — Savannah, Georgia

Sterling Renaissance Festival — Sterling, New York

True/False Film Festival — Columbia, Missouri

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

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 Cherry Festival — Traverse City, Michigan

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 Buffalo — Buffalo, New York

Taste of Chicago — Chicago, Illinois

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, Indiana

Innovation festivals

One Spark crowdfunding festival - Jacksonville, Florida

LGBT festivals

Capital Pride — 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

Pagan festivals

Faerieworlds — Eugene, Oregon

Heartland Pagan Festival — Tonganoxie, Kansas

Pagan Spirit Gathering — near Salem, Missouri

Starwood Festival — Wisteria Campground in Pomeroy, Ohio

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 — the Gorge Amphitheater in George, Washington and Agape Farm in Mount Union, Pennsylvania

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

Rodeo and horse racing festivals

Days of '47 Rodeo — Salt Lake City, Utah

Kentucky Derby Festival — Louisville, Kentucky

Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

Science festivals

World Science Festival — New York City

Seasonal festivals

Apple Blossom Festival – Winchester, Virginia

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

Sports festivals

Arnold Sports Festival — Columbus, Ohio

Bridge Day — Fayetteville, West Virginia

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

References

List of festivals in the United States Wikipedia

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