It's the annual Scandinavian midsummer festival in this Door County village. There's a regatta, historic walking tours, artisan market, trolley rides, Fur Ball pet parade, cake walk and ice-cream and cherry-pie eating contests.
They call this the world's largest music festival. More than 800 acts perform on 12 stages along Lake Michigan.
The harbor-side North House Folk School on Lake Superior kicks off summer with a boat parade, dancing, craft demonstrations, mini-courses and a solstice parade.
The festival in this northwest Iowa town, home of Blue Bunny ice cream, includes an art fair, old-fashioned children's games, architectural tours, a polo match, airplane and helicopter stunts and a parade at 9 a.m. Saturday. And the ice cream is free.
There will be a carnival, crafts, watermelon- and ice cream-eating contests and lots of festivities downtown, capped by the 1 p.m. Sunday parade.
This self-guided tour of historic barns concentrates on barns in east-central Iowa, featuring the Bickett-Rate Historical Preserve Barn near Buchanan in Cedar County and a Saturday lunch in Tipton.
Listen to jazz in Mears Park, in St. Paul's Lowertown.
Eagle Ridge Resort hosts two balloon races, two night glows and rides for the public. There's also live music, inflatables for kids, a Saturday art fair and a classic car show Saturday night.
Jordan Davis, Thomas Rhett and Scotty McCreery are among the headliners at this festival just west of Minneapolis.
This Fox River town on the western edge of Chicago offers music and a carnival, car show, chocolate crawl and Swedish cottage walk.
This town in the northwest Minnesota lakes region features turtle races, music, trolley rides, kids' games, a pizza-eating contest, a parade at 6:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday fireworks.
Professional musicians, many of them world-famous, offer free concerts nearly every evening in Millennium Park's beautiful Pritzker Pavilion. This year's schedule includes favorites by Beethoven, Stravinsky, Gershwin and Debussy as well as songs from Rodgers & Hammerstein and two performances of "Carmina Burana.''
This town east of Ames calls itself Iowa's rose capital, and it celebrates with garden tours, children's games, a truck and tractor pull, music, fireworks and a parade at 10 a.m. Saturday.
This festival in Viking Ship Park includes a Viking battle performance, storytelling, artisan demonstrators and Nordic food that tell about society and culture in Viking-age Scandinavia and beyond.
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