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.
Other areas of Tennessee with a Festival Schedule Page are Memphis and 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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2022 Knoxville Festival Schedule


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CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
While I do my best to update festival postponement dates, cancellations or note alternative versions, festivals listed may change or cancel suddenly. Therefore, always check festival information before attending.
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JULY
7/4 – Patriot Festival – Pigeon Forge
7/4 – Independence Day Anvil Shoot – Clinton
7/4 – The Celebration of the Fourth – Knoxville
7/8-7/10 – Gatlinburg Craftmen’s Summer Craft Fair I – Gatlinburg
7/11-7/17 – Gatlinburg Craftmen’s Summer Craft Fair II – Gatlinburg
7/22-7/23 – Greenbrier Mountain Festival – Pittman Center
7/22-7/23 – Grainger County Tomato Festival – Rutledge
AUGUST
8/12-8/14 – Dog Daze at Village Green – Farragut
8/18-8/21 – Gatlinburg Songwriter’s Festival – Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge
8/20 – Great Smoky Mountains Hot Air Balloon Festival – Townsend
8/20 – Loudon Riverfest – Loudon
8/27 – Rock the Smokies Christian Music Festival – Pigeon Forge
8/28 – Knoxville Asian Festival – Knoxville
SEPTEMBER
9/4 – Big Kahuna Wing Festival – Knoxville
9/10-9/11 – Cherokee Fall Festival – Vonore
9/15-9/17 – Dumplin Valley Bluegrass Festival – Kodak
9/23-9/24 – Townsend Fall Heritage Festival – Townsend
9/23-9/25 – Dollywood’s Harvest Festival I – Pigeon Forge
9/26-10/2 (Closed Tuesday) – Dollywood’s Harvest Festival II – Pigeon Forge
9/30 – Museum of Appalachia Fall Heritage Day – Clinton
9/30-10/1 – Fall Clinch River Antique Festival – Clinton
9/30-10/2 – Knox Pride Homecoming – Knoxville
OCTOBER
10/1 – Knoxville Water Lantern Festival – Knoxville
10/1 – Pet Fest and Blessing – Oak Ridge
10/3-10/9 (Closed Tuesday) – Dollywood’s Harvest Festival III – Pigeon Forge
10/8-10/9 – HoLa Festival – Knoxville
10/10-10/16 (Closed Tuesday) – Dollywood’s Harvest Festival IV – Pigeon Forge
10/14-10/16 – Wears Valley Fall Fest – Sevierville
10/16 – Bark in the Park – Knoxville
10/17-10/23 (Closed Tuesday) – Dollywood’s Harvest Festival V – Pigeon Forge
10/22 – Kill the Lights Beer Fest – Knoxville
10/24-10/29 (Closed Tuesday) – Dollywood’s Harvest Festival VI – Pigeon Forge
NOVEMBER
11/5-11/6 – Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas I – Pigeon Forge
11/7-11/13 – Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas II – Pigeon Forge
11/14-11/20 – Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas III – Pigeon Forge
11/20 – Scruffy City VeganFest – Knoxville
11/21-11/27 – Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas IV – Pigeon Forge
11/28-12/4 – Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas V – Pigeon Forge
DECEMBER
12/5-12/11 – Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas VI – Pigeon Forge
12/9 – Christmas in the Park – Loudon
12/9-12/10 – A Candlelight Christmas – Clinton
12/12-12/18 – Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas VII – Pigeon Forge
12/19-12/25 – Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas VIII – Pigeon Forge
12/26-1/1 – Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas IX – Pigeon Forge
MORE FESTIVALS COMING SOON!