Labor Day Weekend with more festivals.
Welcome back, Festival Fans!
Labor Day Weekend is already here, kicking off the beginning of fall festivals and a period when the festival numbers are going to get crazy.
After this week and into October (even later for southern states), the number of festival options each weekend is really going to grow, so get ready for lots of festival hopping with great entertainment, shopping and delicious food.
Even this weekend, there has been a significant increase in festivals throughout the regional states, offering everything from Labor Day Festivals, Rodeos and Pow Wows to Renaissance Fairs, Cultural Festivals and so many Food Festivals (Banana Pudding, BBQ, Pickle, Blackberry, Chile, Taco).
Here are some of the festivals going on this weekend…
- Arizona Invitational Black Rodeo in Arizona
- Mt. Shasta Blackberry Music Festival in California
- Sacramento Rainbow Festival in California
- Boulder Art Festival in Colorado
- Caveman Music Festival in Colorado
- Lawrence Psych Fest in Kansas
- Yuma Street Cultural Festival in Kansas
- Best In The West Rib Cook Off in Nevada
- Wagon Mound Bean Day Celebration in New Mexico
- Hatch Chile Festival in New Mexico
- Cherokee National Holiday Powwow in Oklahoma
- Jana Jae Fiddle Camp and Music Festival in Oklahoma
- Everything Funky Neighborhood Night Market in Oregon
- Arab Mahrajan in Oregon
- Marfa Lights Festival in Texas
- Texas Banana Pudding Festival in Texas
- Tumbleweed Music Festival in Washington
- Cascadia Renaissance Faire in Washington
And there are many more.
Be sure to take your time when going through the festival listings as there are plenty of options. And please check the map as some festivals may be closer to you than you think.
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Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Washington
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Have a great weekend, everyone!
If you happen to be in Ohio this weekend, check this weekend’s post at OhioFestivals.net to see what’s going on. You can find this week’s post at https://ohiofestivals.net/ohio-weekend-090726
And here are the other two sections again…
Northern Section: https://festivalguidesandreviews.com/north-festival-weekend-090726
Southern Section: https://festivalguidesandreviews.com/south-festival-weekend-090726
Until next week…
Love, Peace and Festival Grease!
Upcoming Festival Weekend: September 3-7, 2026
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MAP of festival and fair food cities this weekend.
If you can’t see the map on your smartphone, click HERE.
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Only want to see festivals in your state?
Go directly to your State Festival Guide.
Alabama | Arizona | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Delaware | Florida
Georgia | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana
Maryland | Michigan | Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri | Nevada
New Jersey | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | Ohio | Oklahoma
Oregon | Pennsylvania | South Carolina | Tennessee | Texas | Virginia
Washington | Washington, DC | West Virginia | Wisconsin
Otherwise, continue down for all of this weekend’s festivals…
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ARIZONA
9/4-9/5 – Arizona Chile Festival – Phoenix
9/4-9/6 – Labor Days Arts and Crafts Festival – Pinetop
9/4-9/6 – Arizona Invitational Black Rodeo – Scottsdale
9/4-9/6 – Oak Creek Arts and Crafts Show – Sedona
9/4-9/7 – Coconino County Fair – Flagstaff
9/5 – Cars and Bikes on Arizona St – Bisbee
9/5 – Mesa Feastival XVII – Mesa
9/5 – Taylor Sweet Corn Festival – Taylor
9/5 – Fiesta de Septiembre – Wickenburg
9/5-9/7 – Flagstaff Art in the Park II – Flagstaff
9/6 – Salsa, Tequila and Taco Challenge – Tucson
9/6 – Grand Canyon Brewery Labor Daze – Williams
CALIFORNIA
9/1 – Corning Tuesday Night Market IV – Corning
9/1 – Surf City Nights XXXV – Huntington Beach
9/3 – Downtown Fullerton Night Market XXIII – Fullerton
9/3 – Oceanside Sunset Markets XXXV – Oceanside
9/3 – Palm Springs Village Fest XXXVI – Palm Springs
9/3-9/6 – Eastern Sierra Tri-County Fair – Bishop
9/3-9/6 – Lake County Fair – Lakeport
9/3-9/7 – Inter-Mountain Fair – McArthur
9/3-9/7 – Monterey County Fair – Monterey
9/4 – Artesia Labor Day Community BBQ and Concert in the Park – Artesia
9/4 – Night Market 831 VIII – Seaside
9/4-9/5 – Basscon Wasteland Festival – San Bernardino
9/4-9/6 – Bigfoot Jamboree – Happy Camp
9/4-9/6 – Barona Pow Wow – Lakeside
9/4-9/6 – Mammoth Rock N Rye Whiskey Festival – Mammoth Lakes
9/4-9/6 – Orange International Street Fair – Orange
Weekend continues below…
9/4-9/6 – Heavenly Village Midway Art and Music Festival – South Lake Tahoe
9/4-9/7 – Paul Bunyan Days – Fort Bragg
9/4-9/7 – Newman Fall Festival – Newman
9/4-9/7 – Norco Fair – Norco
9/4-9/7 – Mariposa County Fair and Homecoming – Mariposa
9/5 – Sierra Nevada Logging Jamboree – Arnold
9/5 – Corks and Hops IV – Crestline
9/5 – El Dorado Hills Brewfest – El Dorado Hills
9/5 – Julian Grape Stomp Festa – Julian
9/5 – American Craft Sake Fest – Los Angeles
9/5 – Oakchella Family Music Festival – Oakhurst
9/5 – Wild West Fest – Truckee
9/5* – Mare Island Dock of Bay Music Festival – Vallejo – CANCELLED
9/5-9/6 – Belmont Greek Festival – Belmont
9/5-9/6 – Millbrae Art and Wine Festival – Millbrae
9/5-9/6 – Scottish Highland Gathering and Games – Pleasanton
Weekend continues below…
9/5-9/6 – Roseville Greek Food Festival – Roseville
9/5-9/6 – St. George Middle Eastern Food Festival – Sacramento
9/5-9/6 – Labor Day Stockton Community Pow Wow – Stockton
9/5-9/6 – Aloha Beach Festival – Ventura
9/5-9/7 – Long Beach Greek Food and Music Festival – Long Beach
9/5-9/7 – Chalk It Up! Chalk Art and Music Festival – Sacramento
9/6 – Brownsville Blues Festival – Brownsville
9/6 – Garin Apple Festival – Hayward
9/6 – Oktoberfest at Old World Huntington Beach I – Huntington Beach
9/6 – Mt. Shasta Blackberry Music Festival – Mt. Shasta
9/6 – Sacramento Rainbow Festival – Sacramento
9/6 – Tejano Conjunto Festival – Sacramento
9/7 – Hiero Day – Oakland
9/7 – Head West Marketplace: SF Ferry Building VII – San Francisco
9/7 – Stockton Black Family Day Celebration – Stockton
COLORADO
9/2-9/6 – Bright Nights at Four Mile V – Denver
9/3-9/6 – Four Corners Motorcycle Rally – Durango
9/4-9/6 – JAS Labor Day Experience – Aspen
9/4-9/6 – Beaver Creek Oktoberfest – Beaver Creek
9/4-9/6 – Caveman Music Festival – Weston
9/5 – Antonito Labor Day Festival – Antonito
9/5 – Brighton Art in the Park – Brighton
9/5 – Break the Silence Festival – Fort Morgan
9/5 – Keystone Oktoberfest – Keystone
9/5 – Minturn Market XII – Minturn
9/5 – Niwot Honeybee Harvest Festival – Niwot
Weekend continues below…
9/5 – Mountain Mining Days – Walsenburg
9/5-9/6 – Boulder Art Festival – Boulder
9/5-9/6 – Fall Fest in Dillon – Dillon
9/5-9/6 – Colorado West Pride Festival – Grand Junction
9/5-9/6 – Saint Rafka Lebanese and Middle Eastern Festival – Lakewood
9/5-9/6 – Steampunk Soiree – Victor
9/5-9/7 – Colorado Springs Labor Day Lift Off – Colorado Springs
9/5-9/7 – Commonwheel Artists Labor Day Festival – Manitou Springs
9/5-9/7 – Windsor Harvest Festival – Windsor
9/6 – Granby Art in the Park – Granby
9/7 – Fountain Fall Festival and Parade – Fountain
KANSAS
9/3 – Filley Fest – Pratt
9/3-9/5 – De Soto Days – De Soto
9/4-9/6 – Middle of Everywhere Music Festival – Humboldt
9/4-9/6 – Wathena Fall Festival – Wathena
9/4-9/7 – Hoisington Labor Day Celebration – Hoisington
9/5 –Sunflower Craft Market – Buhler
9/5 – Clyde Watermelon Festival – Clyde
9/5 – Labor Day Weekend Kite Festival – Jetmore
9/5 – Lawrence Psych Fest – Lawrence
9/5 – Post Rock Festival – Lincoln
9/5 – Oktoberfest at KC Wine Co – Olathe
9/5 – Little Balkans Days Festival – Frontenac
9/5 – Walnut Days Labor Day Celebration – Walnut
9/5-9/6 – HorseThief Great American Kite Festival – Jetmore
9/5-9/7 – Kansas City Renaissance Festival I – Bonner Springs
9/6 – Yuma Street Cultural Festival – Manhattan
9/6-9/7 – Chapman Labor Day Festival – Chapman
9/6-9/7 – Little World’s Fair – Kismet
9/7 –Burdick Labor Day Celebration – Burdick
9/7 – Dale Jackson Memorial Car Show – Uniontown
9/7 – Old Settlers Picnic – Uniontown
NEVADA
9/2-9/7 – Best In The West Rib Cook Off – Sparks
9/3-9/6 – Tri-County Fair: Winnemucca Fair and Stampede – Winnemucca
9/4-9/6 – Numaga Indian Days – Sparks
9/4-9/7 – Pioche Labor Day Festival – Pioche
9/7 –Reno LaborFest – Reno
NEW MEXICO
9/2-9/6 – Socorro County Fair and PRCA Rodeo – Socorro
9/3-9/6 – Tico Time Jam Festival – Aztec
9/3-9/7 –Bi-County Fair – Prewitt
9/4 – Burning of Zozobra – Santa Fe
9/4-9/5 – Sunshine Festival – Questa
9/4-9/6 – Pickamania Music Festival – Kingston
9/4-9/7 – Wagon Mound Bean Day Celebration – Wagon Mound
9/5 – Carrizozo Community Festival – Carrizozo
9/5-9/6 – Chama Valley Art Festival – Chama
9/5-9/6 – Labor Day Hoopla– Cloudcroft
9/5-9/6 – Hatch Chile Festival – Hatch
9/5-9/6 – Franciscan Festival of Fine Arts – Las Cruces
9/5-9/6 – Valley of the Mills Tour – La Cueva
9/5-9/6 – Gate City Music Festival – Raton
9/5-9/7 – Harvest Wine and Music Festival: Albuquerque – Albuquerque
9/5-9/7 – Santo Domingo Pueblo Labor Day Market – Kewa Pueblo
9/5-9/7 – Harvest Wine and Music Festival: Las Cruces – Las Cruces
9/5-9/7 – Fiesta Fine Arts and Crafts Market – Santa Fe
9/6 – Rail Yards Market XIX – Albuquerque
9/6 – Labor Day Blues Festival – Placitas
9/6 – Our Lady of Immaculate Conception Church Fiesta – Tomé
OKLAHOMA
9/3 – Rock the Route – Yukon
9/3-9/5 – Bushyhead Farm Fall Festival – Kansas
9/3-9/7 – Henryetta Labor Day Celebration – Henryetta
9/4 – Friday Nights in the Park XVIII – Choctaw
9/4-9/5 – Arcadia Festival and Rodeo – Arcadia
9/4-9/6 – Elk City Rodeo – Elk City
9/4-9/6 – Jana Jae Fiddle Camp and Music Festival – Grove
9/4-9/6 – Medicine Park Blues Ball – Medicine Park
9/4-9/6 – Ottawa Pow-wow & Celebration – Miami
9/4-9/6 – Rocklahoma – Pryor
9/4-9/6 – Dusk Til Dawn Blues Festival – Rentiesville
9/4-9/6 – Cherokee National Holiday Powwow – Tahlequah
9/4-9/6 – Choctaw Labor Day Festival – Tuskahoma
9/5 – Clinton’s Century Lap on Route 66 – Clinton
9/5 – Drumright Monthly Market V – Drumright
9/5 – First Family FCU’s Smokin’ Hot Car and Bike Show – Henryetta
9/5 – Oklahoma City Water Lantern Festival – Norman
9/5 – FAM Night Market IV – Oklahoma City
9/5-9/6 – Time Travelers Indoor Market IX – Bartlesville
9/6-9/7 – Noble County Free Fair I – Perry
9/7 – Cleo Springs Watermelon Festival – Cleo Springs
OREGON
8/31-9/7 – Oregon State Fair II – Salem
9/3-9/7 – Lake County Fair and Round-up – Lakeview
9/4 – Fiesta Cultural – Eugene
9/4-9/6 – Montavilla Jazz Festival – Portland
9/5 – Everything Funky Neighborhood Night Market I – Beaverton
9/5 – Juniper Jam – Enterprise
9/5 – Painted Hills Festival – Mitchell
9/5 – Portland Saturday Market XXVII – Portland
9/5-9/6 –Fort Umpqua Days – Elkton
9/5-9/6 – Bridge City Block Party – Portland
9/5-9/6 – Romanian Fall Festival – Portland
9/5-9/7 – Dahlia Fest VI – Canby
9/5-9/7 – Art in the Pearl Find Arts and Crafts Festival – Portland
9/6 – Astoria Sunday Market XVIII – Astoria
9/6 – Arab Mahrajan – Portland
TEXAS
9/3-9/6 – Fayette County Fair – La Grange
9/3-9/6 – Palomino Fest and Pro Rodeo – Uvalde
9/4 – Celina Friday Night Market VII – Celina
9/4-9/5 – World Championship BBQ Goat Cookoff – Brady
9/4-9/6 – Riverfront Jazz Festival – Dallas
9/4-9/6 – Galveston Island Wine Festival – Galveston
9/4-9/6 – Granbury Labor Day Weekend Festival – Granbury
9/4-9/6 – Marfa Lights Festival – Marfa
9/4-9/6 – Walburgfest – Walburg
9/4-9/6 – Westfest – West
9/5 – Under the Moon Market VII – Alice
9/5 – Bat Fest – Austin
9/5 – Bedford Beats and Eats Fest – Bedford
9/5 – Frida Kahlo Fest – Brownsville
9/5 – Everybody’s Somebody’s Fest – Fredericksburg
9/5 – Beach Bash (Pride Galveston) – Galveston
9/5 – Gulfstock – Galveston
Weekend continues below…
9/5 – Grand Prairie Pickle Fest – Grand Prairie
9/5 – Boots Brews & BBQ Festival – Killeen
9/5 – Texas Street Festival – Mercedes
9/5 – Paris Hatch Chile Fest – Paris
9/5 – Water Lantern Festival: Plano – Plano
9/5 – Texas Banana Pudding Festival – Slaton
9/5-9/6 – Blues on Main – Ennis
9/5-9/6 – Redbud Artisan Market: Labor Day Weekend – Fredericksburg
9/5-9/7 – Labor Day Celebration at Historic Market Square – San Antonio
9/6 – Brownsville Blues Festival – Brownsville
9/6 – Bryan Fiestas Patrias Mexicanas – Bryan
9/6 – Empanada Fest: Austin – Leander
9/6 – Luckenbach Texas Bull Bash – Luckenbach
9/6 – Labor Day in The Woodlands – The Woodlands
WASHINGTON
9/1 – Evergreen State Fair II – Monroe
9/2 – Kendall Yards Night Market XVI – Spokane
9/2-9/6 – Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days – Walla Walla
9/3 –DogFest Seattle – Seattle
9/3-9/6 – Wheat Land Communities Fair – Ritzville
9/3-9/7 – Kittitas County Fair – Ellensburg
9/3-9/7 – Spokane Tribe of Indians Labor Day Celebration – Wellpinit
9/4-9/6 – Sh’Bang! – Bellingham
9/4-9/6 – Ferry County Fair – Republic
9/4 – Lacey Night Market XII – Lacey
9/4-9/6 – Oak Harbor Music Festival – Oak Harbor
9/4-9/6 – Ocean Shores Arts and Crafts Festival – Ocean Shores
9/4-9/6 – Olympia Harbor Days – Olympia
9/4-9/6 – Tumbleweed Music Festival – Richland
9/4-9/7 – Ellensburg Rodeo – Ellensburg
9/4-9/7 – Washington State Fair I – Puyallup
9/5 – Bickleton Community Day – Bickleton
Weekend continues below…
9/5 – Pride Across the Bridge (formerly Redmond Pride) – Kirkland
9/5 – Ridgefield Multicultural Festival – Ridgefield
9/5 – Soulfood and Sips – Spokane
9/5 –SoulFULL Festival – Tacoma
9/5 – Seafood Festival – Westport
9/5-9/6 – Cascadia Renaissance Faire – Randle
9/5-9/6 – Roy Pioneer Rodeo II – Roy
9/5-9/6 – Bumbershoot – Seattle
9/5-9/7 – Bremerton Blackberry Festival – Bremerton
9/6 – Duvall Days Festival – Duvall
9/6-9/7 – Black Diamond Labor Days – Black Diamond
9/7 – Olympia Porch Fest – Olympia
9/7 – Labor Day Festival at Cheney Stadium – Tacoma
Alabama | Arizona | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Delaware | Florida
Georgia | Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana
Maryland | Michigan | Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri | Nevada
New Jersey | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | Ohio | Oklahoma
Oregon | Pennsylvania | South Carolina | Tennessee | Texas | Virginia
Washington | Washington, DC | West Virginia | Wisconsin
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