List of festivals in the United States

This is a list of festivals in the United States.

Music festivals

See also List of bluegrass music festivals in the Pacific Northwest

Austin Psych Fest; Austin, TX
Eeyore's birthday; Austin, TX
California Music Fest— Ventura, California
The Nik's Annual May Music Festival — Marietta, Georgia
80/35 Music Festival — Des Moines, Iowa
10,000 Lakes Festival — Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
A Tribute to Tony De La Rosa — Kingsville, TX
All Good Music Festival — Preston County, West Virginia
All Points West Music & Arts Festival — Jersey City, New Jersey
Amberland — LaFayette, Georgia
American MusicFest — Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
ARTSaha! — Omaha, Nebraska
Atlantic Music Festival — Waterville, Maine
Audubon Rock Festival — Audubon, Iowa
Austin City Limits Music Festival — Austin, Texas
Austin Reggae Festival — Austin, Texas
Bach Festival at Baldwin-Wallace College [11] — Berea, Ohio
BamaJam Music Festival — Enterprise, Alabama
The Bamboozle — East Rutherford, New Jersey
Bang Music Festival — Miami, Florida [12]
Bay Area Indie Music Festival — San Francisco, California
Bay Area Rock Festival — San Francisco, California
Beale Street Music Festival — Memphis, Tennessee
Bear Creek Music Festival — Live Oak, Florida [13]
Beaufort Music Festival — Beaufort, North Carolina [14]
Bele Chere — Asheville, North Carolina [15]
Bellingham Festival of Music — Bellingham, Washington
Berkshire Mountain Music Festival (aka Berkfest) — Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Blossom Festival — Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
Big Spring Jam — Huntsville, Alabama
Bluegrass in the Park — Henderson, Kentucky
Bobolink Music Festival — Belden, California
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival — Manchester, Tennessee
Bonner Mountain Music Festival — Orofino, Idaho
Buffalo-Niagara Guitar Festival — Buffalo, New York
Bumbershoot — Seattle, Washington
Buzz Bake Sale — Cruzan Amphitheatre of West Palm Beach, FL
City Folk Festival — Dayton, Ohio
Camp Bisco — Various locations, usually near east coast
Carrboro Music Festival — Carrboro, North Carolina
Central Park SummerStage — New York, New York http://www.summerstage.org
Clearwater Festival — Croton-on-Hudson, New York http://www.clearwater.org/festival.html
CMJ Music Marathon — New York City http://www.cmj.com/marathon
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival — Indio, California
Comstock Music Festivals — Comstock, Nebraska
Cornerstone Festival — Bushnell, Illinois
Country Fever Fest — Pryor, Oklahoma
Country Thunder; Twin Lakes, Wisconsin; Florence, Arizona
Country Stampede Music Festival — Manhattan, Kansas
Diversafest LLC DFEST — Tulsa, Oklahoma
Dally in the Alley — Detroit, Michigan
Decibel Festival in Seattle, Washington
Deer Valley Music Festival — Salt Lake City, Utah
Detroit Electronic Music Festival — Detroit, Michigan
Dillo Day — Evanston, Illinois
DIT Fest — Kent, Ohio
Dream Acres Music Festival - Pleasant Hill, North Carolina
Drop Dead Festival — NYC, NY
Drums Along the Waterfront (Drums Corp. International Competition) — Buffalo, New York
Earthdance — Laytonville, California
The Echo Project— Atlanta, Georgia
Edgefest— Queen Creek, Arizona
Electronic Music Midwest — Kansas City, Kansas and Lewisville, Illinois
Endless Festival
Festival of Musicians http://FestivalofMusicians.com
Festivals Acadiens — Lafayette, LA
Festival International de Louisiane — Lafayette, Louisiana
Floyd World Music Festival — Floyd, Virginia
Flyday, Groveland, New York
Forecastle Festival — Louisville, Kentucky
Fun Fun Fun Fest — Austin, Texas
Gathering of the Juggalos — Cave-In-Rock, Illinois — And other various locations over the years
Gathering Of The Vibes — Bridgeport, Connecticut — And Other Various Locations Over the Years
GrahamFest, Comin' Home; Max Meadows, Virginia
The Great Blue Heron Music Festival — Sherman, New York
Gigantour
The Great Hudson River Revival — Croton-on-Hudson, New York http://www.clearwater.org/festival.html
Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance — Trumansburg, New York
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass — San Francisco, California
Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival — San Francisco, California
Harvest of Hope Fest — St. Augustine, Florida
HFStival — Washington, D.C.
High Sierra Music Festival — Quincy, California
Homegrown Music Festival — Duluth, Minnesota
HONK! Festival — Somerville (Boston), MA
Jacksonviille Jazz Festival, Jacksonville, Florida
JamBaloosa Music And Arts Festival — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania [16]
Jam on the River — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
JazzFest Falmouth — Falmouth, Cape Cod, MA [17]
Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival [18] — Laytonville, California
Kerrville Folk Music Festival - Kerrville Texas [19]
Lake Eden Arts Festival — Black Mountain, North Carolina
La Musica — Sarasota, Florida
Langerado Music Festival — Miami, Florida (Cancelled for 2009)
Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise — Fort Lauderdale, Florida — San Diego, California
Lifelight Music Festival — Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Lollapalooza — currently held in Chicago, Illinois but was previously a touring festival.
Long Beach Blues Festival; in Long Beach, California

Lowell Folk Festival — [20]
MAHA Music Festival — Omaha, Nebraska
MasterWorks Festival — [21]Winona Lake, Indiana
Memphis Music and Heritage Festival — Memphis, Tennessee
Mendocino Music Festival — Mendocino, California
MerleFest — Wilkesboro, North Carolina
Mile High Music Festival — [22] Commerce City, Colorado
Mississippi River Festival - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in Edwardsville, Illinois
moe.down — Turin, New York
Monolith Festival — Morrison, Colorado [23]
Moondance Jam — Walker, Minnesota
Mountain Jam (Radio Woodstock) — Hunter, New York
Mostly Mozart — New York City, New York
Mucklewain — Pinewood, Tennessee
Music from Angel Fire — Angel Fire, Taos, Raton, Las Vegas, New Mexico
Musikfest — Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
National Polka Festival — Ennis, Texas
Naukabout Music Festival — East Falmouth, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
NEARfest (North East Art Rock Festival) — Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Nebraska Pop Festival — Omaha, Nebraska
Nerdapalooza — Eureka, California
New Bedford Summerfest - New Bedford, Massachusetts
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — New Orleans, Louisiana
Newport Folk Festival — Newport, Rhode Island
Newport Jazz Festival — Newport, Rhode Island
Newport Pop Festival — Costa Mesa, California
Norman Music Festival — Norman, Oklahoma
Northwest Folklife Festival — Seattle, Washington
Odyssey music festival — Camp Hill, Alabama
Old Settler's Music Festival — Austin, Texas [24]
On the Waterfront Festival — Rockford, Illinois
Oregon Bach Festival — Eugene, Oregon
Oregon Festival of American Music — Eugene, Oregon
Oregon Jamboree — Sweet Home, Oregon
Outside Lands Festival — San Francisco, CA
Ozzfest
Peace Conspiracy Community Peace Festival - Held annually generally in Missouri [25]
Paducahpalooza — Rock the Vote-sponsored event held annually in Paducah, KY
PDX Pop Now! — Portland, Oregon
Peninsula Music Festival — Door County, Wisconsin
Petestock Music Festival Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Philadelphia Folk Festival — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pitchfork Music Festival — Chicago, Illinois
Planetfest — Jacksonville, Florida
Pointfest — St. Louis, MO
Popped! Music Festival — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Portland Jazz Festival — Portland, Oregon
ProgDay — Chapel Hill, North Carolina
ProgPower USA — Atlanta, Georgia [26]
Projekt Revolution
Provincetown Music Festival — Provincetown, Massachusetts [27]
Provincetown Jazz Festival — Provincetown, Massachusetts [28]
Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival — Red Bank, New Jersey
Reach Music Festival— Sugar Land, Texas
RoSfest - The Rites of Spring Festival — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The River To River Festival — New York, New York
The Riverbend Festival — Chattanooga, Tennessee [29]
Rochester International Jazz Festival — Rochester, New York
Rocklahoma — Pryor, Oklahoma
Rock N Resort Music Festival — North Lawrence, Ohio
Rothbury Music Festival — Rothbury, Michigan
Sacramento Jazz Jubilee — Sacramento, California
San Francisco LoveFest — San Francisco, California
Santa Fe Muzik Fest — Santa Fe, New Mexico
Sasquatch! Music Festival — George, Washington
Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival — Sedalia, Missouri
Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival Silk Hope, North Carolina
Shamy Bash Pataskala, Ohio [30]
Shenandoah Valley Music Festival Orkney Springs, Virginia
Signal - The Southeast Electronic Music Festival — Chapel Hill and Carrboro, North Carolina [31]
Sitka Jazz Festival — Sitka, Alaska
Sitka Summer Music Festival — Sitka, Alaska
sNaKe PiT Music and Motorcycle Connection — Clinton, Montana
So Percussion Summer Institute— Princeton, New Jersey
Sonic Bloom Festival — Winter Park, Colorado
Sonshine Festival — Willmar, Minnesota
Sounds of the Underground
South by Southwest — Austin, Texas
South Padre International Music Festival; South Padre Island
Stagecoach Festival — Indio, California
St. Petersburg International Music Academy various places
www.stpetersburgacademy.com
Street Scene — San Diego, California
Spirit of Bluegrass Music Fest — Live Oak, Florida
Strawberry Music Festival — Yosemite, California
Sugar Maple Traditional Music Festival — Madison, WI
SummerCamp Music Fesitval — Chillicothe, IL
Summerfest — Milwaukee, Wisconsin
SunFest — West Palm Beach, FL
Symbiosis Gathering — Camp Mather, Yosemite, CA
Texas Rockabilly Revival — Austin, TX
Treasure Island Music Festival — San Francisco, California
Thyagaraja Music Festival of Utah — Salt Lake City, UT
Telluride Bluegrass Festival Telluride, Colorado
Ultra Music Festival — Miami, Florida
Vegoose — Las Vegas, Nevada
Virgin Festival — Baltimore, Maryland
Voodoo Experience — New Orleans, Louisiana
Wakarusa Music Festival — Lawrence, Kansas
Walnut Valley Festival — Winfield, Kansas
Watermelon Park Fest Berryville, Virginia
W. C. Handy Blues and Bar-B-Q Fest — Henderson, Kentucky
WE Fest — Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
Wheatland Music Festival — Remus, Michigan
Wildflower Art and Music Festival — Richardson, Texas [32]
WIMFEST (Women's International Music Festival) [33] — NE, OHIO
Winfield Country Roundup — Winfield, Kansas
Wingding — Rockford, IL
Woodstock Mozart Festival — Woodstock, Illinois
World Sacred Music Festival — Olympia, Washington
Xclamation Festival Downtown Music Festival http://www.xfestmodesto.com — Modesto, California
XPoNential Music Festival — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
YarmonyGrass — State Bridge, Colorado
Rock on the Range Columbus, Ohio

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