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Because we're simply over-flowing with funky festival fun from the good ol' U.S. of A, we've decided to offer our visitors a chance to surf 2camels American festival content by state. So whether your fancy is a food and wine festival in Florida or a summer fest in South Carolina, simply click the map below to be whisked away to the state of your choosing or simply browse the hundreds of American festivals listed in the festival breakdowns below.
And don't forget there's also a breakdown of American festivals by cities and towns at the bottom of this page. Enjoy!
USA Festival Articles
37 festival article(s) returned for USA
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Article Title: Blobfest Brings 'B' Sci-Fi Horror Film Back to Life
Festival Name: Blobfest
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Film, Bizarre
Indescribable... Indestructible! Nothing Can Stop It!' So reads the tagline of the 1950s Sci-Fi classic, The Blob. And nothing seems to be stopping a festival that brings this kitschy film back to life.
Festival Name: Bock Fest
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Beer
Fasching in February' sounds like an accident involving ligaments torn in a winter storm. But in fact, Fasching is a crack-up of another kind, a big costumed carnival, the German version of Mardi Gras, and one last loop-dee-do before Lent.
Article Title: The Art of Burning Man
Festival Name: Burning Man
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Art, Performing Art, Bizarre
Black Rock City, as the town centered around Burning Man is known, is now the third largest city in Nevada, although it exists for only one week a year. It is also perhaps one of the best-designed cities in the world. It works wonderfully. It's safe enough for women to walk around naked. It's chock full of fantastic and real art. Transportation is primarily via bicycle. It's got a world-class view of a unique wilderness. Consumption is low and creation is high.
Article Title: Chicago - Festivals, Shopping & Eating Out
Festival Name: Chicago Festivals
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Local, Traditional
As I drove into Chicago recently I asked my limousine driver what he liked best about living in Chicago. He replied, 'Chicago is an exhilarating city with a non-ending variety of activities - a great place to have fun and enjoy yourself.'
Article Title: The Colorado Dragon Boat Festival
Festival Name: Colorado Dragon Boat Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Dragon Boat, Sport - Water, Traditional
The Colorado Dragon Boat Festival is an awesome display of Asian arts, food and of course the main event of dragon boat racing.
Article Title: D.B.Cooper Party
Festival Name: D.B.Cooper Party
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Fan Convention
D. B. Cooper is famous for one, single act - he hijacked a jet in 1971 and parachuted into the Washington night with $200,000 of ransom money tied to his waist
Article Title: When Worlds Collide
Festival Name: Faerieworlds Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Folk
They say that at certain times of the year, the veil between our world and the otherworldly realm of Faerie becomes so thin as to be non-existent. When that occurs, Faeriefolk glide and gambol through this, the human domain, magic fills the air and anything is possible. The date is May 10th, 2003 and once again the veil is at its thinnest. The event to mark this auspicious occasion is the first ever Faerieworlds Festival, a celebration of music, art and imagination for the 21st century.
Article Title: America's Farm Aid
Festival Name: Farm Aid
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Charity, Music - Country, Music - Rock
If you like your rock with an American accent, a country twang or a bluesy rhythm, Farm Aid may just be the gig for you. What began in 1985 as yet another in a long line of the era's aid concerts has not only endured but grown to become a rural American institution. Now into its third decade and with the likes of Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews advocating the event and playing to crowds in the tens of thousands year in year out, Farm Aid's future all seems pretty rosy.
Article Title: The Winter's Tale: Barleywine in Alaska
Festival Name: Great Alaska Beer and Barleywine Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Beer, Party
There's no better place to get acquainted with new beer styles than at a beer festival. That's especially true of barleywine. The best showcase for the style, and one of the world's biggest, is The Great Alaska Beer and Barleywine Festival in downtown Anchorage.
Article Title: Meet me on the Green
Festival Name: Green River Rendezvous
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Indigenous, Historical, Traditional
Kick up the dust. Put on your best cowboy duds and get ready for some real down-home Americana at the Green River Rendezvous in Pinedale, Wyoming, a annual pageant offering a colorful collection of mountain men, explorers, Indians and well orchestrated drama showing the history of the region with a western bent.
Article Title: Humungus Fungus Festival - Crystal Falls, Michigan
Festival Name: Humungus Fungus Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Fair, Harvest
What is a Humungus Fungus you ask? Several years ago a "humungus fungus" (a GIGANTIC mushroom) was discovered in the Crystal Falls area. It weighs roughly 11 tons and covers 37 acres.
Article Title: The Airy Charm of Kiteflight
Festival Name: International Kite Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Kite
Held annually on the 26 mile stretch of Long Beach, Washington, the International Kite Festival is beholden to no one. You don't have to pay to get in, you can bring your own little trash bag kite and fly it on a spool of fishing line amid the behemoths, and everyone is welcome.
Article Title: Juneteenth!
Festival Name: Juneteenth
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Cultural, Multicultural, Historical
On the morning of June 19, 1865, the residents of Galveston, Texas awoke to discover the streets filled with soldiers wearing blue uniforms. The Union Army had arrived in force. A crowd quickly gathered as men and women, blacks and whites, rushed from their homes to learn what was happening.
Article Title: One of the Hippest Festivals on The East Coast
Festival Name: LEAF - Lake Eden Arts Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Performing Art, Music - World, Folk
"Being KIND is cool." These are the first words in the Spring 2004 brochure for the Lake Eden Arts Festival (LEAF). Since 1995 this semi-annual festival has nested around
Lake Eden in Black Mountain, North Carolina on the site of the historic
Black Mountain College (now the site of Camp Rockmont).
Festival Name: Macaroni Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Local, Food
Victoria, Texas, smack-dab in the heart of the grandest State in the whole United States of America! - continues to age and improve like a fine old wine.
Article Title: Get in the Spirit at the Marblehead Christmas Walk
Festival Name: Marblehead Christmas Walk
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Christmas, Religious, Street Parade
What better way to get into the Christmas spirit than to sing carols by candlelight in the brisk air in a quaint New England seacoast town as the lights of the town tree blink on for the first time. So begins the annual Marblehead Christmas Walk in Marblehead, Massachusetts, part party, part historical tour, and part shopping festival.
Article Title: Discover the Hidden Treasures of Missouri
Festival Name: Missouri Festivals
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Local
Missouri has something for everyone. If you are looking for historic towns filled with the memories of yesteryear, antebellum mansions to tour, wineries to taste your way through, natural areas with glorious scenes to fill your eyes with magnificent colors, craft and art galleries, or fascinating shops filled with charming antiques, Missouri offers all of the aforementione...and then some.
Article Title: Oh, Dem Golden Slippers
Festival Name: Mummers Parade - Philadelphia
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Street Parade, New Year
The air is usually bitingly cold as each New Years Day, thousands don outlandish costumes and strut to the thumping beat of string bands in a colorful Philadelphia spectacle, The Mummers Parade. They're called Mummers (probably after the German word for disguise), they're mostly white, blue-collar guys who every January 1 - except 1919 and 1934 - have strutted up Broad Street decked out in wild array from head to spray-painted toe in one big absurd, hilarious, fraternal party.
Article Title: The Last Rodeo
Festival Name: National Finals Rodeo
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Sport - Extreme, Sport - Equestrian
Although rodeo has been around almost as long as dirt, the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) has a more recent history. The first National Finals Rodeo was held at the Dallas State Fair Grounds in 1959, and since then, has undergone some interesting changes.
Article Title: Mardi Gras Sneak Preview
Festival Name: New Orlean's Mardi Gras
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Mardi Gras
Many people do not realize this, but Mardi Gras or rather, CARNIVAL, begins on January 6, the Epiphany, or Kings Day. The parties and parades begin on a very small but widespread scale until the climax on the Wednesday before Lent which is Fat Tuesday.
Article Title: The Road to N'awlens
Festival Name: New Orleans Mardi Gras
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Carnival, Mardi Gras, Party
What the hell are we doing in Georgia?' Kevin roared from the back seat of the rented '86 station wagon. We're driving from Florida to New Orleans...there's no Georgia involved in this trip!'
Article Title: Mardi Gras - The Greatest Free Show on Earth
Festival Name: New Orleans Mardi Gras
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Carnival, Street Parade, Mardi Gras
Throw me something, Mister! Throw me something!' shout thousands of street revelers to costumed riders on larger than life floats as they shower glittering trinkets over the scrambling crowd below. Parades--60 formal ones at last count and many other informal ones--fantastic costumes, elegant balls and intricately designed tableaux, all essential parts of Mardi Gras, one of the wildest celebrations in the country.
Article Title: A Laugh a Minute
Festival Name: New York City Underground Comedy Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Comedy
Like to laugh? Who doesn't? Then you'll want to make a point of attending the second annual New York City Underground Comedy Festival. No, you don't venture forth into underground caverns for subway tunnels to enjoy the comedy of up-and coming comics. But you may find yourself in basement cafes and comedy clubs scattered around New York's Greenwich Village.
Article Title: New York City, Atlantic City & Philadelphia - Favorite Shops, Restaurants and Festivals
Festival Name: New York Festivals
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Local
Recently I traveled to New York City, Atlantic City and Philadelphia and made it a point to check out several of my favorite stores, restaurants and festivals.
Article Title: Skin Games - The Nude Olympics
Festival Name: Nude Olympics
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Nude, Naturist, Adult
There are no sponsors, no endorsements and no Life magazine exposes. This is the third annual Nude Olympics we're talking about and, like the contestants themselves, this event has been stripped of all trappings.
Article Title: SPAMARAMA
Festival Name: Pandemonious Potted Pork Festival, SPAMARAMA
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Food
Officially called the Pandemonious Potted Pork Festival, SPAMARAMATM draws 10,000 people with a highly refined sense of humor to one of the wackiest festivals in America
Article Title: Raving in Klickitat - Black Lights and Naked Yoga
Festival Name: Phoenix Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Dance, Music - Electronic
At 8 a.m. Friday morning, I was sitting on a dry Eastern Washington hill sharing a smoke with two hippies. They'd driven up from San Francisco to play on the Phoenix Family sound system, which was thumping out psychedelic trance on the slope below us. One of the hippies gestured to a long rectangular canvas event tent.
Article Title: Reggae on the River Festival - Feel the Pressure Drop
Festival Name: Reggae on the River Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Music - Reggae, Party
Hyped by some as the best Reggae and World Music Festival in the United States, we couldn't bear passing up the opportunity to hear tunes from countries such as Brazil, Chile, Cuba, England, Jamaica, the U.S., St. Lucia and Mexico.
Article Title: Rollicking San Antonio's Wine and Food Festival
Festival Name: San Antonio Wine and Food Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Food and Wine, Wine
The sparkling new, first-time-ever, 'New World Wine and Food Festival' roared into San Antonio like a comet. If I had to use one word to describe the whole extravaganza I would choose: spectacular.
Article Title: Rhythm and Rainlessness Up in the Corner
Festival Name: Seattle Rhythm Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Music - Varied, Music - World
A great day to lounge outside, run around in a fountain, dance to African drums, or take percussion classes...and all of the above were happening here at the Seattle Center.
Article Title: Tejano-Conjunto Music Festival
Festival Name: Tejano-Conjunto Music Festival
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Music - Traditional, Music - Rock
But mostly they come to listen and stomp their feet to the music of conjunto and the modern rock-influenced Tejano bands. This is essence of the San Antonio's version of a rollicking good-time-The Tejano-Conjunto Music Festival.
Article Title: Thanksgiving - A Holiday for the Birds?
Festival Name: Thanksgiving
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Traditional, Historical, Cultural
Thanksgiving. A joyous celebration of the Old World meeting the New World. How exciting it must have been the day the first settlers stepped foot onto this strange and wonderful world and came face to face with the original natives of this exciting new land. (Not unlike the Grand Opening of a Caldor's.)
Article Title: Boothbay Harbor Celebrates the Arrival of the Windjammers
Festival Name: Windjammer Days
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Maritime, Sport - Yachting, Sport - Water
The wind fills her sails as the two-masted schooner, Stephen Taber, otherwise known as a windjammer, leans into a turn to starboard. The sun is hot, but her passengers take advantage of a strong sea breeze to read a book or have a cold beer as she heads towards the waterfront at Boothbay Harbor, Maine, to head the dramatic parade of sail. For this is Windjammer Days, a celebration of the age of sail, held annually the last week of June.
Article Title: World Championship Kinetic Sculpture Race
Festival Name: World Championship Kinetic Sculpture Race
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre
World Championship Kinetic Sculpture Race - A kinetic sculpture is an imaginative, often wacky - but always ludicrous - contraption designed to travel along an obstacle course on land, through mud, and over deep harbor waters
Article Title: World Pillow Fighting Championships
Festival Name: World Pillow Fighting Championships
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Bizarre, Sport - Bizarre
Anyone over the age of 14 can enter as long as they leave their maturity outside the arena. Competition begins by straddling a slippery wet pole suspended over a pit of mud.
Article Title: World Series of Poker
Festival Name: World Series of Poker
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Poker
It was the summer of '49 when a chronic gambler by the unassuming name of Nicholas Dandolos - who went by the almost as unassuming handle "Nick the Greek" - approached another probably suitably nicknamed chap (the records don't show) by the name of Benny Binion with a little proposition.
Article Title: New Braunsfels, Texas: Merry making at the Wurstfest!
Festival Name: Wurstfest
Festival Country: USA
Festival Type(s): Cultural, Multicultural, Party
Recently, while driving into New Braunsfels, Texas, I was impressed by the small-town charm of the locale. It is evident that the city-fathers have managed to maintain the original old-world, Germanic ambiance. Even before you enter the area, the billboards along IH 35 provide amusing reading-my all-time favorite: 'TACOS-GET STUFFED!'
USA Festival Snippets
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