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This is an incomplete list of festivals in the United States with articles on Wikipedia, as well as lists of other festival lists, by geographic location. 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.
The Three Rivers Festival is an annual multi-day event held in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The festival lasts for nine days in mid-July, starting on the first Friday after Independence Day . Events include concerts, a community parade, amusement rides, a bed race, art and craft shows, children's and seniors mini-fests, an International Village, and a ...
A post office was established at Pittsburg in 1838, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1915. The name of the post office was officially spelled Pittsburgh until 1894. [4] It was likely named after Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [5]
The initial 2005 festival was to be held May 27 at the Chevrolet Amphitheater. This would be the first year that the festival was not held at the Post-Gazette Pavilion. However, the event, which featured Social Distortion, My Chemical Romance, Sum 41, Unwritten Law, and Thirty Seconds to Mars, was not given the X-Fest name. Sum 41 was scheduled ...
The Pittsburgh Folk Festival is a large multicultural celebration of diverse international ethnic heritages, which has been held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania since 1956. [1] [2] [3] The festival's early mission statement was described in May 1959, as follows, by The Zajednicar, the official newspaper of the Croatian Federal Union of America: [4]
For Louisville area residents down for great music and a little bit of a road trip, consider these Indiana music festivals: Abbey Road on the River Festival 2024 Dates: May 23-27, 2024
Feast of the Hunters’ Moon is a weekend festival and historical reenactment held on a weekend in October since 1968, at the present-day site of Fort Ouiatenon, a replica 18th century French military and trading post near West Lafayette, Indiana. Traditionally, the Hunters' Moon is the full moon in October, following September's Harvest Moon.
The Bean Blossom Festival was founded in 1966 by Bill Monroe, who is considered by many to be the originator of the bluegrass genre. [3] In 1973, an album of live music, titled Bean Blossom, was recorded at the festival. [2] By 1974, about 20,000 people were attending the festival each year. [4] [5]