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 Manitoba prairie town celebrates its heritage with pavilions representing 44 nationalities, offering music, dance and food at many venues.
See a diaper derby, outhouse races and mullet contest, among many other contests, and don't miss the butter sculptures.
In this southeast Wisconsin vacation area, the festival includes a carnival, arts and crafts fair, firefighter water fight and, on Sunday, a water-ski show followed by a lighted boat parade and fireworks.
The nation's largest Irish festival features 100 acts on 16 stages, plus children's activities, red hair and freckle contests and demonstrations by Irish dog breeds. In Henry Maier Festival Park.
The fest in this town just north of St. Paul features a skateboard contest, craft fair, Swedish dancers, a pie-eating contest, fireworks Saturday and a parade at 2 p.m. Sunday.
The antiques show and flea market in this friendly little village just north of Rochester off U.S. 52 includes more than 400 vendors and 1,200 booths. There's also pancakes for breakfast, homemade pie and music.
Enjoy national and local blues musicians in Fern Island Park. There's a beer garden, of course.
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community powwow in this southwest Minneapolis suburb includes a moccasin games tournament, food, crafts, fireworks at 10 p.m. Saturday and, of course, dance. Don't miss the Grand Entries at 7 p.m. Friday, 1 and 7 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday.
The humble miner's lunch — meat and rutabagas in a pocket of pie crust — has inspired this Keweenaw Peninsula festival, which includes such events as a PastyWalk, PastyPoetry contest and, of course, a PastyCook-Off.
The hometown of the famous children's-book bear celebrates with a block party, bounce houses, parades and fireworks.
A Wednesday-night parade kicks off this festival just north of Madison, and there's also a craft fair, car show, tractor pull, music, carnival rides and, on Saturday and Sunday, literally tons of steamed sweet corn.
The music fest in this charming town in southwest Wisconsin is held at the Mineral Point Opera House.
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