Saturday, September 6, 2025

  1. Festival of the Vine

    Geneva, IL2025-09-06

    There's an arts and crafts show, flower market, music, wine tasting and sampling of food from local restaurants.

  2. International Fireworks Championships

    Traverse City, MI2025-09-06

    In Turtle Creek Stadium, teams show their best pyrotechnics, accompanied by music. Tickets go on sale in mid-May and sell out.

  3. Taste of Chicago

    Chicago, IL2025-09-06

    The city's big sampling festival returns to Grant Park at the end of summer, with free dance lessons and free performances on two stages.

  4. Defeat of Jesse James Days

    Northfield, MN2025-09-06

    In this college town south of the Twin Cities, there's a fine-arts festival, tractor pulls, a bike tour, reenactments of the famous bank raid and a Sunday parade.

  5. Sandwich Fair

    Sandwich, IL2025-09-06

    This northeast Illinois fair, held since 1888, features exhibits, entertainment and music plus harness racing, tractor pulls and demolition derbies.

  6. Paw Paw Wine & Harvest Festival

    Paw Paw, MI2025-09-06

    This big festival in southwest Michigan wine country features music on three stages, Friday fireworks, an art fair, motorcycle and bicycle tours, grape stomps and a Sunday parade.

  7. James J. Hill Days

    Wayzata, MN2025-09-06

    This Minneapolis suburb features a street market and carnival, dachshund races, a craft-beer fest, logrolling and fireworks on Saturday and an air show and 3 p.m. parade on Sunday.

  8. Villa Louis Carriage Classic

    Prairie du Chien, WI2025-09-06

    The Victorian estate on the Mississippi River hosts horses, restored carriages and drivers in period dress for competitive arena and cross-country sport driving, a passion of the frontier aristocrats who built it.

  9. Harvest Moon Festival

    Ely, MN2025-09-06

    In Whiteside Park, there's an arts fair plus music, an old-time medicine show and pony rides and a petting zoo for kids.

  10. Grand Rapids Riverfest

    Grand Rapids, MN2025-09-06

    This music festival downtown features nationally known rock and folk acts.

  11. Mural Fest

    Ashland, WI2025-09-06

    Go on guided tours of Ashland's famous murals, meet the artists and go on a mural scavenger hunt. There's also food, music, crafts and a car show.

  12. Little Falls Arts & Crafts Fair

    Little Falls, MN2025-09-06

    This large fair, with nearly 600 artists, includes a car show and an antiques and collectibles section as well as a Man Cave.

  13. Festival of Arts

    Bayfield, WI2025-09-06

    This juried art show, in Memorial Park on the shore of Lake Superior, includes a live art auction and a tour of studios and galleries, with artist demonstrations.

  14. Sputnikfest

    Manitowoc, WI2025-09-06

    Help celebrate the 1962 crash landing of a 20-pound piece of Russia's Sputnik on a street in Manitowoc. There's a wacky costume contest, a Miss Space Debris pageant, a pet costume contest, a space-themed movie and music.

  15. Rock Bend Folk Festival

    St. Peter, MN2025-09-06

    This free, easygoing festival is in this Minnesota River town's Minnesota Square Park.

  16. Monarch Festival

    Minneapolis, MN2025-09-06

    This festival at Lake Nokomis celebrates the monarch migration from Minnesota to Mexico and includes a costume parade, music, dance, art activities and monarch games.

  17. Washington County Bluegrass Festival

    Lake Elmo, MN2025-09-06

    Bluegrass bands will play at this family festival at Lake Elmo Park Reserve at the eastern edge of the Twin Cities, free with $7 vehicle permit. There also will be camping and food vendors.

  18. Greenway Glow

    Minneapolis, MN2025-09-06

    Along the five-mile Midtown Greenway bike route in south Minneapolis, enjoy free live music, art installations and theatrical performances between 4 and 10 p.m.

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