Your festival event guide for the Knoxville, Tennessee Area, including Anderson, Blout, Knox and Sevier Counties.
Welcome to a comprehensive festival listing pagefor Knoxville, Tennessee and the greater area. Once area festivals are confirmed on the main Tennessee 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 Tennessee with a Festival Schedule Page is Nashville.
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.
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2023 Knoxville Festival Schedule
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JUNE
6/2-6/3 – Flatwater Tales Storytelling Festival – Oak Ridge
6/2-6/4 – Dolly Fest – Knoxville
6/3-6/4 – Lenoir City Arts and Crafts Festival – Lenoir City
6/16-6/18 – Lavender Festival – Oak Ridge
6/17 – KARM Dragon Boat Festival – Knoxville
6/17 – Festival of Friends – Lenoir City
6/23-6/24 – Daylily Festival – Corryton
6/23-6/24 – Helen Ross McNabb Big BBQ Bash – Maryville
6/24 – Hops in the Hills Craft Beer Festival – Maryville
6/24 – Knoxville Brewfest – Knoxville
JULY
7/4 – Patriot Festival – Pigeon Forge
7/4 – The Celebration of the Fourth – Knoxville
7/7-7/9 – Gatlinburg Craftmen’s Summer Craft Fair I – Gatlinburg
7/8 – Hotter than July Mimosa and Margarita Festival – Knoxville
7/10-7/16 – Gatlinburg Craftmen’s Summer Craft Fair II – Gatlinburg
7/15 – Karns Community Fair – Karns
7/21-7/22 – Grainger County Tomato Festival – Rutledge
AUGUST
8/11-8/13 – Dog Daze at Village Green – Farragut
8/19 – Great Smoky Mountains Hot Air Balloon Festival – Townsend
8/25-8/26 – Knoxville Asian Festival – Knoxville
8/26-8/27 – Celebrate Oak Ridge! – Oak Ridge
SEPTEMBER
9/1-9/3 – Bare Bones Music Festival – Dandridge
9/3 – Big Kahuna Wing Festival – Knoxville
9/9-9/10 – Cherokee Fall Festival – Vonore
9/14-9/16 – Dumplin Valley Bluegrass Festival – Kodak
9/20-9/24 – Dollywood’s Harvest Festival I – Pigeon Forge – My Review
9/22-9/23 – Pigeon Forge Bluegrass Festival – Pigeon Forge
9/25-10/1 (Closed Tuesday) – Dollywood’s Harvest Festival II – Pigeon Forge – My Review
OCTOBER
10/2-10/8 (Closed Tuesday) – Dollywood’s Harvest Festival III – Pigeon Forge – My Review
10/5-10/8 – Gatlinburg Craftmen’s Fall Craft Fair I – Gatlinburg
10/6-10/7 – Fall Clinch River Antique Festival – Clinton
10/6-10/8 – Robert A. Tino’s Smoky Mountain Homecoming – Sevierville
10/7 – Fall Harvest Fest and Craft Fair – Lenoir City
10/7-10/8 – Tennessee Medieval Faire I – Harriman
10/9-10/15 (Closed Tuesday) – Dollywood’s Harvest Festival IV – Pigeon Forge – My Review
10/9-10/15 – Gatlinburg Craftmen’s Fall Craft Fair II – Gatlinburg
10/14-10/15 – Tennessee Medieval Faire II – Harriman
10/16-10/22 (Closed Tuesday) – Dollywood’s Harvest Festival V – Pigeon Forge – My Review
10/16-10/22 – Gatlinburg Craftmen’s Fall Craft Fair III – Gatlinburg
10/20-10/22 – Wears Valley Fall Fest – Sevierville
10/21 – October Sky Festival – Oliver Springs
10/21-10/22 – Tennessee Medieval Faire III – Harriman
10/23-10/30 (Closed Tuesday) – Dollywood’s Harvest Festival VI – Pigeon Forge – My Review
10/26-10/27 – Museum of Appalachia Fall Heritage Days I – Clinton
10/28 – Kill the Lights Beer Fest – Knoxville
10/28-10/29 – Lakeside of the Smokies Balloon Fest – White Pine
NOVEMBER
11/3 – Museum of Appalachia Fall Heritage Days II – Clinton
11/4 – Townsend Grains and Grits Festival – Townsend
11/4-11/5 – Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas I – Pigeon Forge
11/7-11/12 – Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas II – Pigeon Forge
11/9 – Gatlinburg Chili Cookoff – Gatlinburg
11/9-11/12 – Wonders of Light Christmas Village I – Pigeon Forge
11/14-11/19 – Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas III – Pigeon Forge
11/17-11/19 – Wonders of Light Christmas Village II – Pigeon Forge
11/21-11/26 (Closed 11/23) – Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas IV – Pigeon Forge
11/22-11/26 – Fantasy of Trees – Knoxville
11/24-11/26 – Wonders of Light Christmas Village III – Pigeon Forge
11/28-12/3 – Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas V – Pigeon Forge
DECEMBER
12/4-12/10 – Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas VI – Pigeon Forge
12/11-12/17 – Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas VII – Pigeon Forge
12/18-12/24 (Closed 12/24) – Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas VIII – Pigeon Forge
12/25-12/31 (Closed 12/25) – Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas IX – Pigeon Forge
MORE FESTIVALS COMING SOON!