Alabama, Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas bring the festivals this weekend.
The south is really bringing the festivals this weekend with celebrations for Peanuts, Pecans, Cotton, Grits, Chicken Livers, Seafood, the Greek Culture, Pork, Fermented Food and more.
I could happily gain a good 20 pounds this weekend alone with some of the festivals going on.
Up north, things have changed. There are some festivals still going on and some interesting – Testicles, Cider, Dia de los Muertos, Christmas – but it’s at a much lower rate than what we had during the previous weekends.
Things will pick up to some regard as I list Lighting and Holiday Festivals that run over several weeks. And there will be Christmas Markets and the like, but festivals will still be a little slow up north for a while.
May be time for a road trip or flight down south.
Let’s look at what’s going on this weekend in each of the states. Here are some festivals in each that I think sound interesting:
Alabama
A Peanut Festival AND a Pecan Festival, plus festivals about Cotton, Honey Bees and a Moss Rock. Barktoberfest from last weekend was postponed to this weekend.
Florida
A LOT of Greek Festivals this weekend, plus some Seafood Festivals, a Dragon Boat Festival, a Cannabis Festival, more than one Medieval Festival, a Japan Festival and so much more. Florida is offering a lot this weekend.
Georgia
Chicken Livers and Gizzards, Shrimps and Grits, Big Pig Jigs, Mule Days, Cotton Blossoms and more. A great festival weekend in Georgia.
Illinois
There’s a Testicle Festival in Hamburg. What more can you ask for?
Indiana
Mellow Yellow Festival and Dia de los Muertos.
Kentucky
Patti’s Festival of Lights starts in Grand Rivers. There’s also COLORFEST at Bernheim.
Michigan
Bourbon and Wine Festivals this weekend.
New York
Some Christmas in Hamburg, Children’s Books in Rochester and French Heritage in Youngstown.
North Carolina
A nice selection of festivals this weekend: Christmas in the Woods, Pork and Beats, a Polish Festival, Latino Festival, Whirligig Festival, Veg Fest, Fermenting Fest and Festivals about Pumpkins, Pecans, Cotton, Beer, Whiskey, and Wine.
Pennsylvania
Christmas in the Village and FortMas.
South Carolina
Peanuts, Pecans, Craft Beer and Art – plus there’s Music, Motoring, Antique and Harvest Festivals.
Tennessee
Hope you’re hungry because you have a Greek Festival, a Grain and Grits Festival, a Turnip Green Festival and a Pie Festival. Also, Dollywood starts up their Smoky Mountain Christmas.
West Virginia
Sorry, West Virginia. Nothing to report this weekend.
Wisconsin
Ciderfest, Day of the Dead, Thanks and Giving and a Holidays Market. Looks like all the holidays are represented.
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Upcoming Festival Weekend: November 3-6, 2022
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MAP of festival and fair food cities this weekend.
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ALABAMA
11/2 – Día de los Muertos Alabama – Birmingham
11/4-11/5 – Muscle Shoals Songwriters Festival – Florence
11/4-11/6 – National Peanut Festival I – Dothan
11/4-11/6 – Alabama Pecan Festival – Mobile
11/5 – Lineville Heritage Day Festival – Lineville
11/5 – Tanner Williams Cotton Festival – Wilmer
11/5 – Scottsboro Harvest Festival – Scottsboro
11/5 – Honey Bee Festival – Robertsdale
11/5 – Fall Food and Wine Festival – Calera
11/5 – Pike Road Arts and Crafts Fair – Pike Road
11/5 – St. Nicholas Slavic/Russian Food Festival – Brookside
11/5 – Stallion Street Fair – Millport
11/5-11/6 – Moss Rock Festival – Hoover
11/5-11/6 – Round Top Folk Festival – Huntsville
11/6 – Barktoberfest – Helena
FLORIDA
11/3-11/6 – Foo Foo Festival I – Pensacola
11/3-11/6 – St. Jude Fall Festival – Boca Raton
11/3-11/6 – St. Raphael School Fall Festival – St. Petersburg
11/4 – Fall Festival at Atwood Family Farm VII – Eustis
11/4 – North Pace Fall Festival – Pace
11/4-11/5 – Tallahassee Greek Food Festival – Tallahassee
11/4-11/5 – American Indian Arts Celebration – Clewiston
11/4-11/5 – Festival of the Skeletons – Bradenton
11/4-11/5 – Florida Seafood Festival – Apalachicola
11/4-11/6 – Brown’s Corn Maze and Fall Extravaganza V – Oxford
11/4-11/6 – Greek Fest Orlando – Orlando
11/4-11/6 – Tampa Greek Festival – Tampa
11/4-11/6 – The BASH Music Festival – Gainesville
11/4-11/6 – Thunderbird Inter-Tribal Powwow – Niceville
11/4-11/6 – Hollerbach’s Oktoberfest in Sanford – Sanford
11/4-11/6 – Lady of the Lakes Renaissance Faire I – Tavares
11/4-11/6 – Greek American Festival – New Port Richey
11/4-11/6 – Feast of Little Italy – Jupiter
11/4-11/6 – Land O’ Lakes Swamp Fest – Land O’ Lakes
11/4-11/6 – Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival – Pensacola
11/4-11/6 – Treasure Coast Seafood and Music Festival – Fort Pierce
11/4-11/6 – Tinez Farms Fall Festival VIII – Miami
Weekend continues below…
11/5 – Grovetoberfest – Miami
11/5 – Wine and All That Jazz – Boca Raton
11/5 – Stone Crab Jam – Crystal River
11/5 – LagoonFest – Lake Worth
11/5 – Brandon Seafood Festival – Brandon
11/5 – DeLand Original Music Festival – DeLand
11/5 – Fall Festival and Pumpkin Destruction Day at Red White and Blues Farm – Williston
11/5 – McIntosh 1890 Festival – McIntosh
11/5 – Sebring Arts and Crafts Festival – Sebring
11/5 – Lake Hernando Dragon Boat Festival – Hernando
11/5 – Safety Harbor Wine Festival – Safety Harbor
11/5 – Jazzoo at the Brevard Zoo – Melbourne
11/5 – Space Coast Music Festival – Melbourne
11/5 – Treasure Coast Caribbean Food and Music Festival – Port Saint Lucie
11/5 – India Festival Tampa – Tampa
11/5 – Jacksonville Porchfest – Jacksonville
11/5 – Port St. Lucie American Litle League Fall Family Festival – Port St. Lucie
11/5 – Clearwater Sangria Festival – Clearwater
11/5 – Everglades City Music Festival – Everglades City
11/5 – Treasure Coast Brew Fest – Port St. Lucie
11/5-11/6 – Awaken Florida Festival – Spring Hill
11/5-11/6 – South Shore’s Best Fest! – Wimauma
11/5-11/6 – Halifax Art Festival – Daytona Beach
11/5-11/6 – Maxwell Groves Fall Citrus Festival – Avon Park
11/5-11/6 – Kirby Family Farm’s Six Gun Territory: Wild West Weekend and Reunion – Williston
11/5-11/6 – Middle Eastern Festival – Coral Gables
11/5-11/6 – Barberville Pioneer Settlement Fall Country Jamboree – Barberville
11/5-11/6 – Fall Fiesta in the Park – Orlando
11/5-11/6 – Camelot Days Medieval Festival I – Hollywood
11/5-11/6 – Florida Cannabis Festival – Mount Dora
11/5-11/6 – Sarasota Medieval Fair I – Myakka City
11/5-11/6 – Right Whale Festival – Fernandina Beach
11/5-11/6 – Spanish Springs Arts and Crafts Show – The Villages
11/5-11/6 – SAVOR St. Pete Food and Wine Festival – St. Petersburg
11/6* – Conga Caliente – Tampa – CANCELLED
11/6 – Miami Food Festival – Miami
11/6 – Orlando Japan Festival – Kissimmee
GEORGIA
11/3-11/6 – Native American Festival and Pow Wow – Stone Mountain
11/4-11/5 – Big Pig Jig – Vienna
11/4-11/5 – IrishFest – Atlanta
11/4-11/6 – Jefferson Holiday Market – Jefferson
11/4-11/6 – Christmas Made in the South – Macon
11/4-11/6 – HemlockFest – Murrayville
11/4-11/6 – Shrimp and Grits Festival – Jekyll Island
11/5 – Suwanee Wine Fest – Suwanee
11/5 – Mule Day Festival – Calvary
11/5 – Deer Festival – Monticello
11/5 – Alpharetta Fall Wine Festival – Alpharetta
11/5 – Grandiose Grape Wine Festival – Roswell
11/5 – Chicken Livers and Gizzards Festival – Broxton
11/5 – Uptown Fall Food Truck Festival – Columbus
11/5 – The Summerville Mini Renaissance Festival – Summerville
11/5 – Granite City Fall Festival – Elberton
11/5 – Cotton Blossom Festival – Twin City
11/5 – Colors of Asia – Savannah
11/5 – Cedartown Fall Festival – Cedartown
11/5 – Cabbagetown Chomp and Stomp – Atlanta
11/5 – Decatur Wine Festival – Decatur
11/5 – Taste of Kennesaw – Kennesaw
11/5 – Dia de los Muertos Festival – Norcross
11/5 – Carnival at the Park – Fayetteville
11/5 – Newton County Parks and Recreation Fall Festival – Covington
11/5-11/6 – Million Pines Arts and Crafts Festival – Soperton
11/5-11/6 – Native American Festival and Pow Wow – Stone Mountain
11/5-11/6 – Chastain Park Arts Festival – Atlanta
11/6 – Dia de Muertos Festival – Atlanta
ILLINOIS
11/4-11/5 – Saluting with Smoke Festival – Yorkville
11/5 – Testicle Festival – Hamburg
INDIANA
11/4-11/5 – MerryMeeting Show – New Harmony
11/5 – Luce Elementary Fall Festival – Rockport
11/5 – Mellow Yellow Festival – Indianapolis
11/6 – Dia de los Muertos Family Celebration – Fort Wayne
KENTUCKY
11/3-11/5 – GypsyMoon Marketplace II – Bowling Green
11/4-11/6 – Patti’s Festival of Lights I – Grand Rivers
11/5 – Pioneer Arts and Crafts Festival – Clay City
11/5 – Hustonville Heritage Days Festival – Hustonville
11/5-11/6 – COLORFEST at Bernheim – Clermont
MICHIGAN
11/5 – Treetops Resort Beer and Wine Festival – Gaylord
11/5 – Ypsilanti Bourbon Fest – Ypsilanti
NEW YORK
11/3-11/6 – Christmas in the Country – Hamburg
11/4-11/5 – French Heritage Days at Old Fort Niagara – Youngstown
11/5 – Rochester Children’s Book Festival – Rochester
NORTH CAROLINA
11/4 – Garner Night Market V – Garner
11/4-11/5 – Christmas in the Woods – Thomasville
11/4-11/5 – Pork and Beats Festival – Elizabethtown
11/4-11/6 – Greensboro Holiday Market – Greensboro
11/5 – Taste of Wrightsville Beach – Wrightsville Beach
11/5 – St. Stanislaus Polish Festival – Castle Hayne
11/5 – Statesville Pumpkin Fest – Statesville
11/5 – North Carolina Cotton Festival – Dunn
11/5 – North Carolina Pecan Harvest Festival – Whiteville
11/5 – WNC Pottery Festival – Sylva
11/5 – Charlotte Whiskey, Wine and Fire Festival – Charlotte
11/5 – Tryon Beer Fest – Tryon
11/5 – Festival del Tamal – Concord
11/5 – Currituck Bulls and BBQ – Powells Point
11/5 – St. Stanislaus Polish Festival – Castle Hayne
11/5 – Fall Festival at Bentonville Battlefield – Four Oaks
11/5-11/6 – Festival Latino – Wilmington
11/5-11/6 – Greensboro Greek Festival – Greensboro
11/5-11/6 – NC Whirligig Festival – Wilson
11/5-11/6 – The NC Spot Festival – Hampstead
11/5-11/6 – Carolina Renaissance Festival and Artisan Marketplace VI – Huntersville
11/6 – Raleigh Veg Fest – Raleigh
11/6 – WNC Fermenting Festival – Marshall
OHIO
Ohio Festivals can be found at ohiofestivals.net/ohio-festivals/
PENNSYLVANIA
11/4-11/6 – Christmas in the Village – Eldersville
11/5-11/6 – FortMas at Fort Roberdeau – Altoona
SOUTH CAROLINA
11/4-11/5 – SC Pelion Peanut Party – Pelion
11/4-11/5 – Pigs on the Ridge – Ridgeway
11/4-11/6 – Richland Creek Antique Fall Festival – Ward
11/4-11/6 – Concours d’Elegance and Motoring Festival – Hilton Head Island
11/5 – Surfside Beach Family Festival – Surfside Beach – RAIN DATE
11/5 – Johns Island Harvest Fest – Johns Island
11/5 – South Carolina Pecan Festival – Florence
11/5 – Tap the Rock Craft Beer Festival – Rock Hill
11/5 – Hanahan Red, White and Blue Fall Festival – Hanahan
11/5 – Autumn Faire Arts Festival – Columbia
11/5 – Greenville Craft Beer Festival – Greenville
11/5 – Upstate Pride SC March and Festival – Spartanburg
11/5 – Charleston Scottish Games and Highland Gathering – North Charleston
11/5-11/6 – Artisanville – Greenville
11/5-11/6 – Greenville Country Music Fest – Greenville
11/5-11/6 – Cultural Arts Festival and PauWau – Aynor
11/6 – Lowcountry Dog’s Dia de los Perros Festival – Johns Island
TENNESSEE
11/3-11/4 – Museum of Appalachia Fall Heritage Days – Clinton
11/4 – East Nashville Night Market X – Nashville
11/4-11/6 – Shadrack’s Christmas Wonderland I – Kodak
11/4-11/6 – Greek Fest – Knoxville
11/5 – Wine Down Main Street – Franklin
11/5 – Townsend Grains and Grits Festival – Townsend
11/5 – Turnip Green Festival – Nashville
11/5-11/6 – Crafty Bastards Fall Arts and Crafts Fair – Nashville
11/5-11/6 – Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas I – Pigeon Forge
11/5-11/6 – Cookeville Christmas Market – Cookeville
11/6 – Memphis Japan Festival – Memphis
11/6 – Soddy-Daisy Pie Festival – Soddy-Daisy
WEST VIRGINIA
No festivals this weekend.
WISCONSIN
11/4 – Flannel Fest I – Appleton
11/4-11/6 – Ponyville Ciderfest – Milwaukee
11/5 – Flannel Fest II – Madison
11/5 – Day of the Dead Celebration – Kenosha
11/5 – Thanks and Giving Festival – Elkhorn
11/5 – Brodhead Jaycees Holiday Market – Brodhead
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