Pennsylvania Fair and Festivals Guide - Year Round ListingsPA Festivals | A guide to Fairs and Festivals that occur in Pennsylvania

Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival

Of the many bluegrass festivals, the penultimate may well be the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival. Held at the Granite Hill Camp Resort since the festival’s inception in 1979, this festival is an annual pilgrimage for thousands of bluegrass patrons. Gettysburg Bluegrass is internationally acclaimed for its music selection and unbeatable quality. Better still, the festival runs [...]
National Pike Festival

National Pike Festival is an annual celebration of the “Road That Built The Nation”. The National Pike opened up the frontier to Americans when it was built in the nineteenth center and today, and like days long past, people can tour it’s route today. very third week in May the road is retraced from Maryland [...]
Dogwood Festival

Considering this is a Jaycees sponsored event it seems fitting that the Dogwood Festival celebrate American military service than actual dogwood. Held annually since the forties, this festival was originally a one day parade held on Armed Forces Day. In fact, during World War II the time-honored queen of the pageant was determined by how [...]
Luthersburg Spring Gas Up

The machines are all on display at the Luthersburg Spring Gas Up. Large powerhouses of industrial cultivating, these tractors are the backbone of farming life. Tractor shows have always been a staple of rural communities but the last few years have seen an explosion of interest in tractor shows and one of the more interesting [...]
Potter – Tioga Maple Festival

Admittedly, most maple syrup festivals are wrapped up by April, so even by May it’s a little late in the year for a maple harvest festival. However, don’t try telling the folks in Coudersport that; they are little bothered by this otherwise inconvenient tidbit. Their Potter-Tioga Maple Festival has been an annual delight since 1968 [...]
Friendship Flower and Folk Festival

Affectionately referred to as F4, that Friendship Flower and Folk Festival is a community-based festival designed to strengthen the bonds in the neighborhood of Friendship and accentuate the beauty of living in Pittsburgh. Friendship is north-east of downtown Pittsburgh and the annual Friendship Flower and Folk Festival is one example of just what a place [...]
Brandywine Health Foundation Strawberry Festival

Strawberries are delicious fruits, and strawberry festivals are delicious events. The Brandywine Health Foundation Strawberry Festival is a delicious event. Enough said, right? Well it gets even better because yes, there are tons of fun things to do. In fact there is so much to do; the festival is four very busy days long. Except [...]
Peddler’s Village Strawberry Festival

The alluring strawberry is traditionally a fruit of early summer in Pennsylvania, but the Peddler’s Village habitually has the jump on Mother Nature. Juicy and sweet, the annual Peddler’s Village Strawberry Festival has no shortage of those red plump berries! Started in 1979, this annual event continues to go strong and the festival shows no [...]
Ambridge Nationality Days

Editors Note: We can’t find any dates for 2013 for this festival. Going strong since 1965, Ambridge Nationality Days runs an interesting seam between the charm of small-town Americana and the ascetic observation of heritage. For instance, it is not uncommon that authentic German toys be sold alongside modern handbags or that traditional Polish food [...]
Oak Street Festival

The Oak Street Festival is never so big that it overwhelms, but never small enough to allow an awkward break in activity. Sponsored by the local Lions Club, this festival strikes an ideal balance of fun and leisure, offering just enough for a perfect afternoon with the family or your special someone. With its street [...]
Wild Rib Cook Off

The streets of downtown Erie, PA will be filled with the aroma of slow cooked ribs prepared to perfection with secret sauces and specialty rubs at Erie’s Wild Rib Cook Off. This kick-off event to Erie’s summer festival season is also host to delicious festival foods including fresh squeezed lemonade, creamy fudge, candy apples, funnel [...]
Anthracite Heritage Festival of the Arts

Put simply, the Anthracite Festival of the Arts is just a gold ole time. Showcasing dozens of vendors from around the area along with a plethora of community-centered activities, there is no shortage of things to do at this festival. Family-friendly activities abound while the whole town floods the streets to catch some of that [...]
Dillsburg Picklefest

Even though Mr. Dill himself was probably not thinking pickles when he founded Dillsburg, the annual Dillsburg Picklefest was practically made for this town. Designed to raise the community profile, this festival certainly satisfies the order. Peter Piper would be proud. Gherkin, sweet, and (obviously) dill – they’re all at Picklefest. And incarnations of all [...]
Rimrock Bash

Editors Note: We could not find any information on this years Rimrock Bash. Held every Memorial Day at the stunningly beautiful Kinzua Lake, Rimrock Bash is sponsored by PKP, a group dedicated to educating and inspiring people about the natural beauty of the Allegheny Reservoir area. So it is that this one day event plays [...]
Summerfest Arts Festival

Camp Men-O-Lan, in Quakertown, PA holds the Annual Summerfest Arts Festival and Benefit Auction each year around the 3rd weekend in May, to help fund scholarships to ensure that all kids can attend camp. This is a festival that can run a FULL DAY! It starts with a pancake breakfast, then continues to the Arts [...]
Boalsburg Memorial Day Festival

In actuality, the Boalsburg Memorial Day Festival is a very, very big deal. As the story goes, Memorial Day was started in Boalsburg when in 1864 three local women decorated the graves of their fallen soldiers in austere remembrance. The birthplace of a national holiday is no small matter, and Boalsburg carries the burden gleefully [...]
Mayfair Festival of the Arts

Since 1987, Mayfair Festival of the Arts has laid claim as the premier outdoors art festival; it is a moniker they scant hope to ever dismiss. For five days – the week before Memorial Day – Allentown is transformed into a creative and cultural oasis as Mayfair envelops the town with a sensory overload of [...]
Allegheny Burger Festival

You think basketball tournament and think, “good time!” You think burger cook off and you think, “good time!” What happens when you mix said basketball and burgers? Enter the Allegheny Burger Festival. This awesome soiree is a collaboration of all things burgers with the added kick of a weekend-long basketball championship. Started in 2011, this [...]
Blossburg Coal Festival

Every Memorial Day weekend since 1993, the town of Blossburg commemorates their town’s rich history of mining with the Blossburg Coal Festival. And while coal is no longer mined in Blossburg all the major manufacturing that exists there today is directly descended from the nearly 150 years of mining that fueled the growth of the [...]
Taste Of The Alleghenies

Editors Note: We could not find updated information for this festival in 2013 Taste of the Alleghenies is a food show highlighted with demonstrations, seminars and exhibitors over a jam-packed weekend. This show is busy, if only for the intense interest sparked in the region. For weeks and even months leading up to this most [...]
Tile Festival

It would be no surprise to learn that the niche crowd for art-tile enthusiasts is relatively tiny. What may be a surprise is that in this alcove world the annual Tile Festival is Tile Mecca. Held at the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works, Tile Festival draws is a gathering of some of the most beautiful [...]
Apple Blossom Festival

Get into the spirit and mark the start of the Apple growing season in Pennsylvania at the Apple Blossom Festival. This companion festival to the National Apple Harvest Festival, celebrates the blossoming of the apple trees in South Central PA. This is an Arts & Crafts festival also offers quite a bit of other entertainment [...]
Bethlehem Bach Festival

The Bethlehem Bach Festival is held in May on the first and second weekends of the month. The concerts are held at various locations on the Lehigh University Campus.