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New England Fairs & Festivals Calendar


Get out to a New England fair or festivals and enjoy affordable, family-friendly fun year round! Discover the newest art, crafts, music, and film. Enjoy live blues, folk, bluegrass, and jazz music. Shop for handmade art and crafts and find vendors selling celebrated New England food like maple syrup, blueberries, cheeses, ice cream, seafood, barbecue, craft beer and wine. Take a fun peek into world cultures at Scottish, Celtic, Italian, Portuguese, Asian, and French Canadian celebrations. Classic cars, books, and glowing hot air balloons are some of New England’s favorite festival treasures.

To find more events, visit our Events Calendar.






Yarmouth Summer Festival in Yarmouth, MA
Athletics - NH Highland Games & Festival - Lincoln, NH
NHSCOT & NH Highland Games Festival

Loon Mountain Resort - 60 Loon Mountain Road Lincoln, NH Phone:

Celebrate the spirit of Scotland at this three-day festival

Explore Scottish culture at the NH Highland Games & Festival at Loon Mountain Resort in the White Mountains. There’s something for everyone from Scottish music, dance, food, and fun to heavy athletics competitions, sheep dog trials, and crowd-favorite, massed bands. Try-It classes all day long in street curling, highland dance, and more. Sign up for a seminar and explore topics ranging from Scottish cooking to genealogy. Opportunities to shop in Vendor Village. You don’t have to be Scottish to enjoy this signature event presented by NHSCOT – visit our website for details and to purchase tickets today!
The 2025 NH Highland Games & Festival is on September 19-21 - Check the website for tickets & more info!
Rock & Roll Yard Sale in Downtown Providence, RI - Credit PWCVB
Go Providence

1 Sabin Street Providence, RI, 02903 Phone: 401-751-1177

City celebrates in style with a host of arts, cultural and holiday festivals

Providence, RI just loves to celebrate, which is why the area’s calendar is filled with festivals. One of the most exciting is WaterFire, a series of nearly 100 bonfires on three rivers downtown, held in August, September and November. There’s the Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular along the wooded walkways of the Roger Williams Park Zoo in October, the Rhode Island Comic Con in November, holiday festivals in December. June is the month for the PrideFest and Parade, with bar and club events and a nighttime illuminated parade. September means PVDFest, the area’s signature arts festival. April means Pizza Week; July means a glorious Fourth festival featuring an outdoor pops concert. There are restaurant weeks, film festivals and so much more. Check the website calendar at GoProvidence.com for the latest info.
Green Cavern at Ice Castles in North Woodstock, NH - Photo Credit Mary Siversten
Ice Castles

24 Clark Farm Road North Woodstock, NH, 03262 Phone: Toll-Free: 866-201-1726

Your moment of imagination, exploration and magic awaits at Ice Castles

The award-winning Ice Castles in North Woodstock, NH is an enchanting winter destination. This award-winning return attraction features sparkling caverns, frozen archways, and ice caves that dazzle at every turn. Wander along an enchanted forest path, marveling at ice sculptures. Thrill-seekers can race down exhilarating ice slides, squeeze through adventurous crawl tunnels, or glide down a snow tubing path groomed for safety, speed, and fun. At night, the castles are even more amazing, as color-changing LED lights frozen inside the ice illuminate while whimsical music plays. Whether exploring by foot or horse-drawn sleigh ride, Ice Castles is a must-visit destination for making magical winter memories!
Renee Fleming at BSO Tanglewood - Lenox, MA - Photo Credit Hilary Scott
BSO - Tanglewood

297 West Street Lenox, MA, 01240 Phone: 617-266-1200

Surround yourself with the sounds of music at this famous festival in the Berkshires

The sound of music, in all its spell-binding forms, is everywhere at Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and site of one of the world’s most beloved music festivals. Whether your tastes run to Beethoven, or to James Taylor – or to the movies! – you will find something to engage the music-lover in you at this magnificent property in the Berkshires. The festival runs from late June through August, this year featuring everything from Kool and The Gang and “Jurassic Park in Concert” to chamber-music ensembles, guest artists Yo-Yo Ma and Joshua Bell, and an all-Strauss program with leading soprano Renee Fleming. Tanglewood also offers summer guided tours. Dining options include elegant picnics, a bistro buffet and three-course dinners at Highwood Manor House.
Winnipesaukee Pier Fireworks - Lakes Region Association - New Hampshire
Lakes Region Tourism Association

61 Laconia Road Tilton, NH, 03276 Phone: 603-286-8008 Toll-Free: 800-605-2537

There’s always a reason to celebrate in any season in the Lakes Region

There’s always something celebratory going on in New Hampshire’s Lakes Region. Warm up in the winter at the Wolfeboro and Franklin NH Winter Carnivals, both featuring fun & family-friendly events, great food and music spanning from February into March. Maple Sugar Weekend arrives in mid-March to sweeten things up as the snow melts away. Plus there's always good action all season long at nearby ski areas including Purity Spring, Ragged Mountain and Tenney Mountain. Be sure to check the website for all our event listings and updates.
Plymouth MA Herring Festival - See Plymouth
See Plymouth

4 North Street Plymouth, MA, 02360 Phone: 508-747-0100 Toll-Free: 800-872-1620

Plymouth Herring Festival 2025

(To find more great things to do while visiting Plymouth County, MA, see our Destination Plymouth page.)

The herring make a much-anticipated annual return to Plymouth each April via Town Brook, Plimoth Grist Mill and Jenney Pond Park. Celebrate the arrival of spring with friends, family, fun, and FISH with this annual celebration! Every spring tens of thousands of alewife herring set off from locations throughout the North Atlantic, from far afield. They find Plymouth Harbor, swim past Mayflower II and into Town Brook, where they launch themselves two miles upstream against the current, passing the Grist Mill on their way to Billington Sea to spawn. Come and observe this amazing migration known as the herring run! The Plymouth Herring Festival is usually held the 3rd Saturday in April. Also not to be missed, nearby Middleborough, MA holds a multi-day annual Herring Run Festival of its own at Oliver Mill Park, usually held the 2nd weekend in April.
Town & City Festival 2025
Greater Merrimack Valley

61 Market Street, Unit 1C Lowell, MA, 01852 Phone: 978-459-6150

Shed those late winter blues and get into a festival frame of mind with these fun events

Chase those seasonal blues away and get out there and enjoy winter at Lowell Winterfest! The festival features an eclectic music and entertainment lineup, food vendors and competitions, an art market, ice skating and children’s activities. Watch the website for more information about this exhilarating event.

And spring is just around the corner! Coming up in late April is the Town & City Festival, also in Lowell. This music and art festival features an enormous talent lineup that you won't want to miss!
New England Folk Festival - Marlborough, MA - Photo Credit Jeff Bary
New England Folk Festival 2025

Best Western Royal Plaza - 181 Royal Plaza Drive West Marlborough, MA, 01752 Phone:

April 25-27, 2025

The annual New England Folk Festival returns with music sessions, dance, crafts, workshops and international foods. Dance performance and participation, including square dancing, international folk dancing, swing dancing, clogging; food booths and trucks; music everywhere; crafts, bazaar, activity room for kids and adults; discussion, family events. (Photo Credit: Jeff Bary)
Cherry Blossom Festival at Wooster Square - New Haven, CT
Cherry Blossom Festival in Wooster Square 2025

Wooster Square - Chapel and Academy Streets New Haven, CT, 06511 Phone: 203-641-4666

April 5, 2025

Come enjoy cherry blossom viewings and free live music. Features of past festivals have included food and craft vendors, a Little Italy area, a Wooster Square Reunion area, children's area with arts & crafts, face painting, Nappy's Puppets, activities with Peabody Museum, New Haven Museum, Eli Whitney Museum, Horizon Wings, Elm Shakespeare. Check the website for additional details.
Eastern CT Maple Festival - Storrs-Mansfield, CT
Eastern CT Maple Festival 2025

E.O Smith High School - 1235 Storrs Road Storrs-Mansfield, CT, 06268 Phone:

March 29-30, 2025

Join us for a weekend of MAPLE MADNESS and 100% wholesome family fun at the annual Eastern CT Maple Festival. There will be maple sugaring demonstrations, presentations on the history of maple syrup, cooking with maple syrup, information on agriculture and all that is beautiful in the Last Green Valley. Plus family activities, children's crafts and games, bouncy houses, carnival games and contests to keep kids of every age entertained. Your favorite food trucks, lots of maple flavored treats, jams, honey, spices, candles, soap, jewelry, clothing, baskets, pet treats, bread, baked goods, cannoli, fudge, cotton candy, kettle korn, fried dough, knitted items, toys, handmade cutting boards, and so much more! This event is free for anyone who likes maple! There is limited parking downtown near EO Smith High School but there is a free shuttle bus service for easy parking located at the ECSU Baseball Complex at 1 Mansfield City Rd.
Vermont Maple Festival - St. Albans, VT
Vermont Maple Festival 2025

Main Street St. Albans, VT, 05478 Phone: 802-524-5800

April 25-28, 2025

Visitors flock all over the U.S. and the world visit downtown St. Albans for maple treats, maple fun, and the chance to see the maple sugaring industry in action. What goes on? Live entertainment; antique show; craft show; paint and sip, tastings of beer, cider, and mead; sugarhouse tours; pancake breakfasts; a carnival; and more. 

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