Your festival event guide for Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P), including such cities as Marquette, St. Ignace, Munising, Escanaba, Iron Mountain, Manistique and Mackinac Island.
Welcome to a comprehensive festival listing page for Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Once area festivals are confirmed on the main Michigan Festival Guide, they are copied over to this page to make it easier to plan your weekend festival adventures. Please keep in mind that you should not see area festivals that have been canceled or have not yet been confirmed.
Another area of Michigan with a Festival Schedule Page is the Detroit Area.
Festivals listed here include music festivals, art festivals, food festivals, town festivals, church festivals, cultural festivals and more, but they do not include craft shows, machinery shows, bazaars, county fairs and some other events. Feel free to contact me if you have a question about your event.
“My Review” means that it’s a link to my review of that festival.
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2023 Upper Peninsula Festival Schedule


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MAY
5/31-6/4 – Aldo Leopold Festival – Hessel/Cedarville
JUNE
6/2-6/3 – Krusin’ Klassics Fun Run – Escanaba
6/10 – Highlander Festival – St. Ignace
6/10 – Pride UP – Ironwood
6/10 – Niiwin Noodin Pow Wow – Manistique
6/10 – UP Rainbow Pride PrideFest – Marquette
6/10 – Baraga County Lake Trout Festival – L’Anse
6/10 – Iron Mountain Brew Fest – Iron Mountain
6/10-6/11 – Pictured Rocks Days – Munising
6/15-6/18 – Bridgefest – Houghton
6/23-6/25 – Marquette Trails Festival – Marquette
6/23-6/25 – Honoring Our Veterans Pow Wow – Brimley
6/25 – Art For All – Menominee
6/30 – Sault Arts, Crafts, and Family Fun Fair – Sault Sainte Marie
JULY
7/1 – UP City Fest – Marquette
7/1-7/4 – Bessemer 4th of July – Bessemer
7/4 – Alpha 4th of July Celebration – Alpha
7/7-7/8 – Manistique Folk Festival – Manistique
7/7-7/8 – Copper Country Strawberry Festival – Chassell
7/7-7/8 – U.P. Championship Rodeo – Iron River
7/12-7/15 – Festival Ironwood – Ironwood
7/14-7/15 – Aura Jamboree – Aura
7/21-7/23 – Hiawatha Traditional Music Festival – Marquette
7/28 – Blueberry Festival – Marquette
7/29-7/30 – OutBack Art Fair – Marquette
7/29-7/30 – Art on the Rocks – Marquette
AUGUST
8/4-8/6 – Michigan Lighthouse Festival – Marquette
8/4-8/6 – Farm Block Festival – Allouez
8/5 – 906 Festival – Curtis
8/5 – Straits Brew Bash (formerly Blues and Brew Festival) – St. Ignace
8/10-8/12 – Grand Marais Music Festival – Grand Marais
8/12 – Le Cheneaux Antique and Wooden Boat Show and Festival of Arts – Cedarville
8/18-8/20 – Wild Blueberry Festival – Paradise
8/19 – Woodward Dream Cruise – Royal Oak
8/19 – PastyFest – Calumet
8/25-8/26 – Humongous Fungus Fest – Crystal Falls
8/25-8/26 – Porcupine Mountains Music Festival – Ontonagon
8/25-8/26 – Seney Lumberjack Festival – Seney
8/26-8/27 – Rendezvous at the Straits Powwow – St. Ignace
SEPTEMBER
9/1-9/3 – Bell’s Beer Copper Harbor Trails Fest – Copper Harbor
9/1-9/3 – Boogie Fest too – Rock
9/2-9/3 – Arts and Crafts Dockside – St. Ignace
9/4 – Labor Day Celebration – Escanaba
9/9 – U.P. Fall Beer Festival – Marquette – Blogger Review
9/16 – Parade of Nations and Multicultural Festival – Houghton
9/23 – Menominee Giant Pumpkin Festival – Menominee
9/30 – Harvest and Haunt Fall Festival – Iron River
OCTOBER
10/6-10/8 – Leif Erikson Festival – Norway