List of festivals in the United States
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
- King Mango Strut, Coral Gables, Florida
- New York's Village Halloween Parade, New York City, New York
- SLUG Queen, Eugene, Oregon
- ZenFest McLouth, Kansas
Arts and crafts festivals
- Allentown Arts Festival — Buffalo, New York
- Amish Acres Arts & Crafts Festival — Nappanee, Indiana
- Ann Arbor Art Fairs - Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Art in the High Desert - Bend, OR [1]}
- Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts — State College, Pennsylvania
- Cherry Creek Arts Festival - Cherry Creek, Colorado
- Fallasburg Fall Festival for the Arts - Lowell, Michigan
- Festival of the Arts — Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Festival of Murals - Wayne County, Indiana [2]
- Detroit Festival of the Arts — Detroit, Michigan
- Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival — Half Moon Bay, California
- Lake Eden Arts Festival — Black Mountain, North Carolina
- Letchworth Arts & Crafts Show — Letchworth State Park, New York
- St. James Art Fair — Louisville, Kentucky
- Summer Camp Music Festival — Chillicothe, Illinois
- Texas State Arts and Crafts Fair — Kerrville, Texas
- Vermont Quilt Festival — Essex, Vermont [3]
- Wiregrass Festival of Murals — Dothan, Alabama
Beer festivals
Talk festivity/celebration
- AJC Decatur Book Festival Presented by DeKalb Medical — Decatur, Georgia
- Buffalo Chicken Wing Festival — Buffalo, New York
- Buffalo Grove Austin, TX and Seattle, WA
- Eeyores Birthday Party— Austin, TX
- Gasparilla Pirate Festival Tampa, Florida
- Hessler Street Fair — Cleveland, Ohio
- Pecan Street Festival — Austin, Texas
- Red River Revel — Shreveport, Louisiana
- New City Festival — New City, New York
- Canal Fest — North Tonawanda, New York and Tonawanda, New York
- Frontier Days — Arlington Heights, Illinois
- Friendship Festival — Buffalo, New York - Fort Erie, Ontario -Canada
- International Water Sports Expo — Buffalo, New York
- Syracuse Polish Festival — Syracuse, New York
- ComFest — Columbus, Ohio
- Minneapolis Aquatennial — Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Saint Paul Winter Carnival — Saint Paul, Minnesota
- Cheeseburger in Caseville — Caseville, Michigan
== Culture, heritage and folk festivals == :D
- Aloha Festivals — Hawaii
- Borderfest --- Rio Grande Valley, Texas
- Buffalo Irish Festival — (South) Buffalo, New York
- Calle Ocho Festival — Miami, Florida
- Carnevale Delray Beach First Annual Italian American Cultural, Music, Food Festival, Delray Beach, Florida
- Charles Town Heritage Festival — Charles Town, West Virginia
- Connecticut Irish Festival —[4] — North Haven, CT
- Dublin Irish Festival — Dublin, Ohio
- Farmer's Day — Richlands, North Carolina
- Feast of San Gennaro — New York City, New York
- Festival Latinoamericano — Provo, Utah
- FinnFestUSA
- Folkmoot — Waynesville, North Carolina
- The Great Italian Festival — Hosted by St. Nicholas of Tolentine Parish in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Greek Food Festival of Dallas — Dallas, Texas
- Hungarian Festival — New Brunswick, New Jersey
- Indy Greek Festival — Indianapolis, Indiana
- Indy Irish Festival — Indianapolis, Indiana
- International Children's Festival — Washington, DC
- International Folk Festival — Fayetteville, North Carolina
- Italian Festival — Wilmington, Delaware
- Italian Street Festival — Indianapolis, Indiana
- Johnny Appleseed Festival — Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Kansas City Irish Fest — Kansas City, Missouri
- Little Italy Festival — Clinton, Indiana
- Lowell Folk Festival — Lowell, Massachusetts
- Middle Eastern Festival of Indianapolis — Indianapolis, Indiana
- New Jersey Folk Festival — New Brunswick, NJ
- North Texas Irish Festival — Dallas, Texas
- Northwest Folklife Festival — Seattle, Washington
- Pittsburgh Folk Festival — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Pittsburgh Irish Festival — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania[[File:website]]
- Portugal Day Festival — Newark, New Jersey
- Riverfront Irish Festival — Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
- Rocky Mountain Irish Festival — Loveland, Colorado
- Sorrento Cheese Italian Heritage Festival — Buffalo, New York — Second Largest Italian Festival in the US
- Syracuse Polish Festival — Syracuse, New York
- 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 [5] — 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
- Elmwood Festival of the Arts — Buffalo, New York
- Festival of Independent Theatres — Dallas, Texas
- Fremont Festival of the Arts — Fremont, California
- FotoFest - Houston, Texas
- Grand Cities Art Fest — Grand Forks, North Dakota/East Grand Forks, Minnesota
- Hawaii Shakespeare Festival — Honolulu, Hawaii
- Kansas City Renaissance Festival — Bonner Springs, Kansas
- Maryland Renaissance Festival — Crownsville, Maryland
- MasterWorks Festival — [6] - Winona Lake, Indiana
- Memphis International Film Festival — Memphis, Tennessee
- Minnesota Renaissance Festival — Shakopee, Minnesota
- New York Renaissance Faire — Tuxedo, New York
- North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Performance Festival
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival — Ashland, Oregon
- True/False Film Festival - Columbia, Missouri
- The River To River Festival — New York, New York
- Savannah music festival in Savannah, Georgia
- SNOB (Somewhat North Of Boston) Film Festival [7] - Concord, New Hampshire
- Sterling Renaissance Festival in Sterling, New York
- Tennessee Renaissance Festival - Arrington-Triune, Tennessee
- Utah Shakespearean Festival — Cedar City, Utah
Flower festivals
Food, harvest and wild game festivals
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- Banana Festival [8], Sacramento, California
- Banana Split Festival, Wilmington, Ohio
- Barnesville Pumpkin Festival, Barnesville, Ohio
- Charleston Ribfest [9], Charleston, West Virginia
- Circleville Pumpkin Show, Circleville, Ohio
- Corn Festival, Wilmington, Ohio
- Chowder Fest, Beach Haven, New Jersey
- DeKalb Corn Fest, Dekalb, Illinois
- Delmarva Chicken Festival, Delmarva Peninsula
- Festival of the Fish, Vermilion, Ohio
- Florida food festivals, Florida
- Great Ogeechee Seafood Festival [10], Richmond Hill, GA
- Geneva Area Grape JAMboree, Geneva, Ohio
- 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 Barbeque Festival, Lexinton, North Carolina
- Morton Pumpkin Festival, Morton,Illinois
- National Buffalo Wing Festival, Buffalo, New York
- Niagara Grape & Wine Festival, Niagara County, New York
- Norwalk Oyster Festival, Norwalk, Connecticut
- Ohio Pawpaw Festival, Albany, Ohio
- Parker County Peach Festival, Weatherford, Texas
- Paso Robles Wine Festival, Paso Robles, California
- Pensacola Crawfish Festival[11], Pensacola, Florida
- Pensacola Seafood Festival[12], Pensacola, Florida
- Preble County Pork Festival[13], Eaton, Ohio
- Schmeckfest — Freeman, South Dakota
- The Sportsman's Club Testicle Festival-Mount Sterling, IL
- Sweet Corn Festival, Fairborn, Ohio
- Sycamore Pumpkin Festival, Sycamore, Illinois
- Taste of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- Taste of Chinatown, Manhattan
- Taste of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
- A Taste of Colorado
- Yambilee Festival, Opelousas, Louisiana
- Troy Strawberry Festival, Troy, Ohio
- Vinton County Wild Turkey Festival, McArthur, Ohio
- Nut Club Festival, Evansville, In
Holiday festivals
LGBT Festival
Music festivals
- ¡Globalquerque! — Albuquerque, New Mexico
- 10,000 Lakes Festival — Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
- 80/35 Music Festival — Des Moines, Iowa
- Albino Skunk Music Festival — Greer, South Carolina [18]
- All Good Music Festival — Preston County, West Virginia
- All Points West Music & Arts Festival — Jersey City, New Jersey
- American MusicFest — Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- Apple Jam Music Festival — Williams, Oregon
- ARTSaha! — Omaha, Nebraska
- Ashland Mind Music Festival — Ashland, Oregon
- Atlantic Music Festival — Waterville, Maine
- Austin City Limits Music Festival — Austin, Texas
- The Bamboozle — East Rutherford, New Jersey [19]
- Banjo Jubilee Jazz Festival — San Jose, California [20]
- Bay Area Indie Music Festival — San Francisco, California
- Bay Area Rock Festival — San Francisco, California
- Bayfest — Mobile, Alabama
- Beale Street Music Festival — Memphis, Tennessee
- Bear Creek Music Festival — Live Oak, Florida [21]
- Bele Chere — Asheville, North Carolina [22]
- Bellingham Festival of Music — Bellingham, Washington
- Big Spring Jam — Huntsville, Alabama
- Blossom Festival — Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
- Bonnaroo Music Festival — Manchester, Tennessee
- Britt Festival — Jacksonville, Oregon
- Bumbershoot — Seattle, Washington
- Buzz Bake Sale — Cruzan Amphitheatre of West Palm Beach, FL
- Camp Bisco — Mariaville, New York
- Catskill Chill Music Festival — Hancock, New York, http://www.catskillchill.com
- Central Park SummerStage — New York, New York http://www.summerstage.org
- Chicago Blues Festival — The world's largest free annual Blues festival. with over 800,000 attendees across four days in 2007 — Chicago, Illinois
- Clearwater Festival — Croton-on-Hudson, New York http://www.clearwater.org/festival.html
- CMJ Music Marathon — New York City http://www.cmj.com/marathon
- Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival — Indio, California
- Colorado College Summer Music Festival — Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Comstock Music Festivals — Comstock, Nebraska
- Cornerstone Festival — Bushnell, Illinois
- Country Concert — Ft.Loramie, Ohio
- Country Stampede Music Festival — Manhattan, Kansas
- Dally in the Alley — Detroit, Michigan
- Decibel Festival — Seattle, Washington
- Detroit Electronic Music Festival — Detroit, Michigan
- Dillo Day — Evanston, Illinois
- Diversafest LLC DFEST — Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Drop Dead Festival — NYC, NY
- Electric Daisy Carnival — Los Angeles, CA
- Electric Forest — Rothbury, MI
- Electric Zoo Festival — NYC, NY
- Electronic Music Midwest — Kansas City, Kansas and Lewisville, Illinois
- Festival International de Louisiane — Lafayette, Louisiana
- Festivals Acadiens — Lafayette, LA
- Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance — Trumansburg, New York
- FloydFest — Floyd, Virginia
- Forecastle Festival — Louisville, Kentucky
- Free Press Summer Fest — Houston, Texas
- 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, CT
- Gene Harris Jazz Festival — Boise, Idaho [23]
- Governors Ball Music Festival — New York, NY
- Gigantour
- The Great Blue Heron Music Festival — Sherman, New York
- The Great Hudson River Revival — Croton-on-Hudson, New York http://www.clearwater.org/festival.html
- Hangout Music Festival — Gulf Shores, Alabama
- Hardly Strictly Bluegrass — San Francisco, California
- Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival — San Francisco, California
- Harvest of Hope Fest — St. Augustine, Florida
- HFStival — Washington, D.C.
- High Sierra Music Festival — Quincy, California
- Homegrown Music Festival — Duluth, Minnesota
- Hopscotch Music Festival — Raleigh, North Carolina
- Kahbang Music, Art & Film Festival — Bangor, Maine http://www.kahbang.com/
- Lake Eden Arts Festival — Black Mountain, North Carolina
- Lake George Music Festival — Lake George, New York http://www.lakegeorgemusicfestival.com
- La Musica — Sarasota, Florida
- Langerado Music Festival — Miami, Florida (Cancelled for 2009)
- Lollapalooza — currently held in Chicago, Illinois but was previously a touring festival.
- Long Beach Blues Festival — in Long Beach, California
- Lotus World Music and Arts Festival — in Bloomington, Indiana
- Louisiana Southern Fried Festival — West Monroe, Louisiana
- Lowell Folk Festival — [24]
- MAHA Music Festival — Omaha, Nebraska
- Mendocino Music Festival — Mendocino, California
- MerleFest — Wilkesboro, North Carolina
- MidPoint Music Festival — Cincinnati, Ohio
- Mile High Music Festival — [25] Commerce City, Colorado
- Miles of Memories Country MusicFest — [26] Hastings, Nebraska
- Millpond Music Festival — Bishop, California [27]
- Mississippi River Festival — Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in Edwardsville, Illinois
- moe.down — Turin, New York
- Monolith Festival — Morrison, Colorado [28]
- Moondance Jam — Walker, Minnesota
- Mostly Mozart — New York City, New York
- Mucklewain — Pinewood, Tennessee
- Music from Angel Fire — Angel Fire, Taos, Raton, Las Vegas, New Mexico
- MusicfestNW — Portland, OR
- Musikfest — Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- Nateva Music & Camping Festival — Oxford, Maine
- Naukabout Music Festival — East Falmouth, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
- NEARfest (North East Art Rock Festival) — Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- Nebraska Pop Festival — Omaha, Nebraska
- Neon Reverb Music Festival — Las Vegas, Nevada
- 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
- Norman Music Festival — Norman, Oklahoma
- Northwest Folklife Festival — Seattle, Washington
- Odyssey music festival — Camp Hill, Alabama
- Old Settler's Music Festival — Austin, Texas [29]
- On the Waterfront Festival — Rockford, Illinois
- Orb Festival — Darlington, Maryland [30]
- Oregon Bach Festival — Eugene, Oregon
- Oregon Festival of American Music — Eugene, Oregon
- Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival — San Francisco, CA
- Ozzfest
- PDX Pop Now! — Portland, Oregon
- Philadelphia Folk Festival — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pitchfork Music Festival — Chicago, Illinois
- Planetfest — Jacksonville, Florida
- Pointfest — St. Louis, MO
- ProgPower USA — Atlanta, Georgia [31]
- Projekt Revolution
- Rastafari Ancient Living Arts & Kulture Event — Black Mountain, NC
- Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival — Red Bank, New Jersey
- Rib America Festival — St. Louis, Missouri
- Rib America Festival — Indianapolis, IN
- Rites of Spring Festival — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- The River To River Festival — New York, New York
- The Riverbend Festival — Chattanooga, Tennessee [32]
- Rochester International Jazz Festival — Rochester, New York
- Rock the Garden — Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Rock the Groundz — Morris, Minnesota [33]
- Rockfest — Kansas City, Missouri [34]
- 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
- Santa Fe Muzik Fest — Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Sasquatch! Music Festival — George, Washington
- Serenade! Washington DC Choral Festival, Washington D.C.
- Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival — Silk Hope, North Carolina
- Shamy Bash — Pataskala, Ohio [35]
- Signal - The Southeast Electronic Music Festival — Chapel Hill and Carrboro, North Carolina [36]
- Sitka Jazz Festival — Sitka, Alaska
- Sitka Summer Music Festival — Sitka, Alaska
- sNaKe PiT Music and Motorcycle Connection — Clinton, Montana
- Sonshine Festival — Willmar, Minnesota
- So Percussion Summer Institute — Princeton, New Jersey
- Sounds of the Underground
- South by Southwest — Austin, Texas
- South Padre International Music Festival — South Padre Island
- Stagecoach Festival — Indio, California
- Statesboro Music Festival — Statesboro, Georgia
- Street Scene — San Diego, California
- Summer Camp Music Festival — Chillicothe, IL
- Summerfest — Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- SunFest — West Palm Beach, FL
- Takoma Park Folk Festival — Takoma Park, Maryland
- Telluride Bluegrass Festival — Telluride, Colorado
- Tombigbee River Jam — Silas, Alabama [37]
- Treasure Island Music Festival — San Francisco, California
- Tweed River Music Festival — Stockbridge, VT - Tweed River Music Festival Official Site
- Ultra Music Festival — Miami, Florida
- Vegoose — Las Vegas, Nevada
- Virgin Festival — Baltimore, Maryland
- Voodoo Experience — New Orleans, Louisiana
- Wakarusa Music Festival — Ozark, Arkansas
- Wanee Festival — Live Oak, Florida
- WE Fest — Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
- Wingding — Rockford, IL
- Xclamation Festival Downtown Music Festival http://www.xfestmodesto.com — Modesto, California
- Yosemite International Jazz Festival, Coarsegold, California
Pagan festivals
Pioneer festivals
Religious festivals
Renaissance fairs
Sports festivals
- Bridge Day [38] — Fayetteville, West Virginia
- Ontario Lacrosse Festival [39] — Durham Region, Ontario, Canada
Rodeo and horse racing festivals
Science festivals
Seasonal festivals
- Apple Blossom Festival — Winchester, Virginia
- Apple Harvest Festival — Southington, Connecticut
- Autumnfest — Woonsocket, Rhode Island
- Autumn Leaf Festival — Clarion, Pennsylvania
- Evansville Freedom Festival, — Evansville, Indiana
- Harvest Fest at the Trolley Museum Elgin — South Elgin, Illinois
- Three Rivers Festival — Fort Wayne, Indiana
- West Side Nut Club Fall Festival — Evansville, Indiana
- Woollybear Festival — Vermilion, Ohio
Storytelling festivals
- Bay Area Storytelling Festival — El Sobrante, California
- Corn Island Storytelling Festival — Louisville, Kentucky
- Illinois Storytelling Festival — Spring Grove, Illinois
- National Storytelling Festival — Jonesborough, Tennessee
- Sierra Storytelling Festival — Nevada County, California
- Southern Ohio Storytelling Festival — Chillicothe, Ohio
- St. Louis Storytelling Festival — St. Louis, Missouri
- Taos Storytelling Festival — Taos, New Mexico
- Texas Storytelling Festival — Denton, Texas
- Three Apples Storytelling Festival — Bedford, Massachusetts
- Three Rivers Storytelling Festival — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Timpanogos Storytelling Festival — Orem, Utah
Transportation festivals
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