Saturday, June 28, 2025

  1. Summerfest

    Milwaukee, WI2025-06-28

    They call this the world's largest music festival. More than 800 acts perform on 12 stages along Lake Michigan. 

  2. Strawberry Festival

    Cedarburg, WI2025-06-28

    During this popular event in an old mill town north of Milwaukee, there's music, kids' games, a rubber-duck race, shortcake-eating and bubblegum-blowing contests and strawberries in everything — brats, wine, slush. 

  3. National Cherry Festival

    Traverse City, MI2025-06-28

    This town on Lake Michigan attracts half a million people to events that include air shows, an arts fair, music, races, the big Cherry Royale Parade and many contests, including pie-eating and pit-spitting.

  4. Hoofbeat Festival

    Cadott, WI2025-06-28

    This year's big outdoor festival near Chippewa Falls, previously known as Country Fest, will feature Brooks & Dunn, Lainey Wilson and Riley Green.

  5. Wings Over Wausau

    Wausau, WI2025-06-28

    This air show at Downtown Airport also features live music, children's activities, drone demonstrations and fireworks both nights.

  6. ChalkFest

    Wausau, WI2025-06-28

    Artists of all ages decorate the 400 Block of downtown. There's a children's ChalkFest, too.

  7. Water Ski Days

    Lake City, MN2025-06-28

    There's music, an arts and crafts fair and, on Sunday, a parade followed by a water-ski show on Lake Pepin, where water-skiing was invented.

  8. Blue Ox Music Festival

    Eau Claire, WI2025-06-28

    This family-friendly acoustic festival is in Pines Music Park on the southwest edge of town and includes camping. Headliners include Greensky Bluegrass, Orville Peck and Margo Price.

  9. International Bridge Walk

    Sault Ste. Marie, MI2025-06-28

    Walk across the St. Mary's River to Canada at 9:30 a.m. or ride a bike there and back between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m. Walkers can take a bus back from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., for $10 and must bring a passport. Otherwise, the event is free.

  10. Des Moines Arts Festival

    Des Moines, IA2025-06-28

    This big, juried arts fair at Western Gateway Park downtown includes street theater, live music and a film festival.

  11. Lakes Jam

    Brainerd, MN2025-06-28

    Bush, Riley Green and Gary Allan are among the headliners at this music-and-camping festival at Brainerd International Raceway.

  12. Afton Strawberry Festival

    Afton, MN2025-06-28

    This village on the St. Croix River offers an art fair, music, games and such events as raptor demos and a strawberry shortcake-eating contest.

  13. Grant Park Music Festival

    Chicago, IL2025-06-28

    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.''

  14. Oneida Pow-Wow

    Oneida, WI2025-06-28

    This free family festival near Green Bay features dancing, singing, drumming, indigenous foods and crafts and lacrosse exhibitions.

  15. Cedar Basin Jazz Festival

    Cedar Falls, IA2025-06-28

    There will be 42 hours of free entertainment in Sturgis Park, including a Sunday morning gospel set and a jazz brunch.

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