The temperatures are slowly — finally! — starting to rise and snowdrops and crocuses are popping up in yards. That whiff of spring in the air means it’s almost time for the summer festival season.
Actually, as the festival season has started to stretch back into the winter, you can kick it off with Dyngus Day in Gordon Square on Mon 4/2 where “It’s good to be drunk and Polish” seems to the be the operative vibe, with an emphasis on the former.
But it starts in earnest at the end of April, when warmer temperatures are likelier, and local farms are starting to roll out their early produce (ramps first!). From then on, there’s something going on every weekend through early October. It’s the time of year to enjoy food of every type, music of every genre, art, dance, animals, sports, ethnic culture, parades, fireworks and just being outdoors.
It seemed like this year, more festivals nailed down their dates early, so we’ve got an almost filled-out schedule now, which we wanted to get to you as quickly as possible. We’ll add more as they announce.
Thu 4/26-Sun 4/29: Geauga County Maple Festival
Sat 4/28: Ramp Up Peninsula Ramp Fest
Sat 5/5: VegFest
Sat 5/12: The Hooley on Kamm’s Corners
Sat 5/19-Sun 5/20: Cleveland Asian Festival
Thu 5/24-Sun 5/27: Chagrin Falls Blossom Time Festival
Fri 5/25-Mon 5/28: Berea National Rib Cook-Off
Fri 5/25-Mon 5/28: Tremont Greek Festival
Sat 6/2-Sun 6/3: Art in the Village Art Festival
Sat 6/2-Sun 6/3: Hessler Street Fair
Sat 6/2: Summit StageFest
Sat 6/2: Pride in the CLE
Sat 6/10: Taste of Lakewood
Thu 6/7-Sat 6/9: AHA! Festival Arts & Humanities Alive
Fri 6/8-Sat 6/9: Canton Blues Festival
Sat 6/9-Sun 6/10: Chagrin Falls Art by the Falls
Sat 6/9-Sun 6/10: Crocker Park Fine Art Fair
Sat 6/9-Sun 6/10: Hale Farm Sow and Grow Farm Festival
Sat 6/9: Parade the Circle
Sat 6/9: Put-in-Bay Music Festival
Sat 6/9-Sun 6/10: LaureLive
Thu 6/14-Sat 6/16: Avon Heritage Duck Tape Festival
Fri 6/15-Sun 6/17: Vermilion Festival of the Fish
Sat 6/16: Clifton Arts & Music Fest
Sat 6/16: Euclid Wind Festival
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Sat 6/16: BayARTS & Music Festival
Sat 6/16: Larchmere Porchfest
Sat 6/16-Sun 6/17: La Sagrada Family Latin American Cultural Festival
Fri 6/22-Sat 6/23: Ohio Scottish Games
Fri 6/22-Sun 6/24: Rock The Docks, Akron
Sat 6/23-Sun 6/24: Mulberry Creek “Party in the Garden” Herb Fest
Thu 6/28-Sat 6/30: Tri-C JazzFest
Fri 6/29-Tue 7/3: Rib White and Blue, Akron
Sat 6/30: Waterloo Arts Fest
Thu 7/12-Sat 7/14: Summit County Italian American Festival
Fri 7/13-Sun 7/15: Painesville Party in the Park
Fri 7/13-Sun 7/15: Cain Park Arts Festival
Sat 7/14: Lakewood Summer Meltdown
Sat 7/14-Sun 7/15: Music in the Valley Folk & Wine Festival
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Sat 7/14-Sun 7/16: SerbFest
Sun 7/15: Taste of Tremont
Sat 7/21: Mentor Headlands Beach Fest
Fri 7/20-Sun 7/22: Cleveland Irish Cultural Festival
Fri 7/20 & Sat 7/21: Uncorked Medina Wine Festival
Tue 7/24-Sun 7/29: Lake Country Fair
Tue 7/24-Sat 8/4: American Dance Festival
Fri 7/27-Sat 7/28: Avon Annual Summer Market
Sat 7/28-Sun 7/29: Rooms to Let CLE
Mon 7/30-Sun 8/5: Medina County Fair
Thu 8/2-Sun 8/5: Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival, Canton
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Thu 8/2-Sat 8/4: Ohio Burlesque Festival
Fri 8/3-Sat 8/4: Vintage Ohio at Lake Metroparks
Fri 8/3-Sun 8/5: Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg
Sat 8/4: Lakewood Arts Fest
Sun 8/5: Warehouse District Festival
Mon 8/6-Sun 8/12: Cuyahoga County Fair
Sat 8/11: Cleveland Dragon Boat Festival
Sat 8/11: The Signal Tree Festival at Lock 3
Fri 8/10-Sun 8/12: Ohio Celtic Festival
Wed 8/15-Sat 8/18: Feast of the Assumption
Sat 8/11-Sun 8/12: National Hamburger Festival
Fri 8/17-Sat 8/18: Burning River Fest
Sat 8/18-Sun 8/19: Third Annual Flats Festival of the Arts
Sun 8/19: Cleveland Tomato Festival
Sat 8/18: Highland Square Porch Rockr
Thu 8/23-Sun 8/26: Rubber City Jazz & Blues Festival
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Sat 8/25: Akron Pride
Sat 8/25: Blue Sky Folk Fest
Sat 8/25-Sun 8/26: Cleveland Pagan Pride
Sat 8/25-Sun 8/26: InCuya
Sat 8/25-Sun 8/26: Cleveland Garlic Festival
Sat 8/25-Sun 8/26: St. Josaphat Ukrainian Festival
Sat 8/26: One World Day
Thu 8/30-Mon 9/3: Great Geauga County Fair
Fri 8/31-Sun 9/2: Hale Farm Made in Ohio Arts & Crafts Festival
Fri 8/31-Mon 9/3: Cleveland Labor Day Oktoberfest
Sat 9/1-Sun 9/2: St. John Cantius Festival
Mon 9/3: 11th Congressional District Labor Day Parade & Festival
Thu 9/6-Sun 9/9: Thunder on the Strip, Geneva-on-the-Lake
Fri 9/7-Sun 9/9: NEOCycle
Sat 9/8: Skunkfest
Sun 9/9: Berea Arts Fest
Thu 9/13-Sat 9/15: Heights Music Hop
Sat 9/15-Sun 9/16: Chalk Festival
Sat 9/15-Sun 9/16: Tremont Arts & Cultural Festival
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Sun 9/16: Cleveland One World Day
Fri 9/21-Sat 9/22: FireFish Festival
Sat 9/22-Sun 9/23: Mulberry Creek Garlic Festival
Sat 9/22: Music on the Porches, Peninsula
Sun 9/23: Ohio City Street Festival
Fri 9/28-Sun 9/30: Ingenuity
Sat 10/13-Sun 10/14: Ashtabula County Covered Bridge Festival