Guides, gear picks, and insider tips for music festivals, food fairs, cultural celebrations, and seasonal events across the US and Europe.
Lantern festivals are among the most visually spectacular events available anywhere in the world. The image of thousands of illuminated paper lanterns rising into...
Lantern festivals are among the most visually spectacular events available anywhere in the world. The image of thousands of illuminated paper lanterns rising into a dark sky is one of those rare festival moments that genuinely lives up to its photographs — and in the United States, a growing number of well-organised events deliver exactly...
The Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant, West Virginia is one of the most genuinely unusual events on the American festival calendar. It celebrates a cryptid — a creature whose existence has never been scientifically verified — that allegedly terrorised a small Ohio River town in 1966 and 1967, in the months leading up to the...
Not every great festival experience requires a ticket. American cities run an extraordinary range of free festivals throughout the year, funded by city governments, sponsorships, and the civic tradition of public celebration that predates the modern ticketed festival industry. Some of these free events rival the production quality and lineup strength of major ticketed festivals....
Europe’s food festival calendar is one of the most extraordinary in the world, rooted in agricultural traditions, regional culinary cultures, and a relationship between food and celebration that predates the modern festival concept by centuries. For American visitors, European food festivals offer genuine access to culinary traditions that cannot be approximated at home — ingredients,...
Venice Carnival is one of the oldest and most visually extraordinary festival traditions in the world. The Carnevale di Venezia has roots going back to at least the 11th century, when the Republic of Venice celebrated a victory over the Patriarch of Aquileia with public celebrations that became an annual tradition. By the 18th century,...
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world. Every August, the Scottish capital hosts around 50,000 performances across approximately 300 venues over three weeks, drawing performers and visitors from across the globe to one of the most beautiful and walkable cities in Europe. For American visitors, the Edinburgh Fringe represents one...
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