200+ Annual Events Around Rochester

Centered on food, drink, music and culture, these festivals & events around Rochester bring our community together throughout the year.

Beautiful lilac, peony, rose and tulip festivals. Tasty maple syrup, wine, beer, and food truck events. Regional agricultural days featuring garlic, sauerkraut, strawberries, corn & apples. County and state fairs. Celebrations of Puerto Rican, Hodinöhsö:ni’, Greek, Italian and Ukrainian culture. And lots of music!

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JAN | FEB | MAR
APR | MAY | JUN 
JUL | AUG | SEP
OCT | NOV | DEC

Reoccurring events during the warmer months

1. Food Truck Rodeo Last Wednesday night of the month, April through September
2. Flower City Days at the Market Sundays mid-May and early-June
3. Concerts by the Shore Wednesday nights, June through August
4. Party in the Park Thursday nights running roughly early-June to early-August
5. Bands on the Bricks Friday nights roughly mid-July to mid-August
6. Zoo Brew Fridays nights, once a month May through September, with special events throughout the year
7. Flavors of the Market  Saturday mornings, May through September
8. Garden Vibes at Eastman Museum

May events around Rochester

1. Lilac Fest Rochester
2. Rochester Cocktail Revival
3. Red, White and Blue Balloon Festival Letchworth
4. Low Bridge High Water Brockport
5. Ellwanger Garden Lilac Weekends Rochester
6. Holland Tulip Festival
7. Buffalo Cherry Blossom Festival
8. NYS Chinese Lantern Festival Syracuse
9. Linwood Gardens Tree Peony Festival
10. Rochester Dachshund Parade
11. Roc City Rib Fest Greece
12. Greater Rochester Teen Book Festival
13. Montezuma Wildlife Festival
14. Paddle & Pour Pittsford
15. Glass Fest Corning
16. Finger Lakes Celtic Games & Festival Shortsville
17. Mendon Fire Department Carnival
18. St. Rita’s Annual Fiesta (Webster)
19. Rochester Greek Festival
20. Sulphur Springs Festival (Clifton Springs)
21. Fairport Canal Days
22. Ithaca Festival of the Arts

Reoccurring through the warmer months

Food Truck Rodeo (Rochester) Last Wednesday night of the month, April through September

Flower City Days at the Market Sundays mid-May and early-June

Zoo Brew (Rochester) Fridays nights, once a month May through September, with special events throughout the year

Flavors of the Market  (Rochester) Saturday mornings, May through September

June events around Rochester

1. Rochester Real Beer Expo
2. Rochester Twilight Criterium
3. Hamlin Fireman’s Carnival
4. Shortsville Fireman’s Carnival
5. Ellwanger Garden Peony Weekend Rochester
6. Rochester International Films Festival
7. Outdoor Expo (Mendon)
8. Little Italy Festival (Rochester)
9. Albion Strawberry Festival
10. Hamlin Wheel Fest
11. The Fast & The Furriest (Rochester)
12. Finger Lakes Plein Aire Competition & Festival (Canandaigua)
13. Maplewood Rose Festival (Rochester)
14. Allentown Art Festival (Buffalo)
15. Keuka Arts Festival
16. Rochester International Jazz Fest
17. Cherry Festival (Romulus)
18. Rochester International Jewish Film Festival
19. Jamesville Balloonfest

Reoccurring through the warmer months

Food Truck Rodeo (Rochester) Last Wednesday night of the month, April through September

Flower City Days at the Market Sundays mid-May and early-June

Concerts by the Shore (Rochester) Wednesday nights, June through August

Party in the Park (Rochester) Thursday nights running roughly early-June to early-August

Zoo Brew (Rochester) Friday nights, once a month May through September, with special events throughout the year

Flavors of the Market  (Rochester) Saturday mornings, May through September

Garden Vibes at Eastman Museum

July events around Rochester

1. National Warplane Museum – Geneseo Airshow
2. Hilton Fireman’s Carnival
3. Webster Fireman’s Carnival
4. East Rochester Fireman’s Carnival
5. Westside Music & Food Festival
6. Rush Fireman’s Carnival
7. Puerto Rican Festival (Rochester)
8. GCV&M Independence Day & Naturalization Ceremony (Mumford)
9. Yates County Fair (Penn Yan)
10. Chil-E Fest (Chili)
11. Genesee County Fair (Batavia)
12. Seneca County Fair (Waterloo)
13. Old Home Days (Williamsville)
14. Corn Hill Arts Festival (Rochester)
15. Canandaigua Lake Music Festival
16. Canandaigua Lakefront Art Show
17. Canandaigua Art & Music Festival
18. Lyons Peppermint Days
19. Finger Lakes Choral Festival (Rochester)
20. Macedonian Festival Henrietta
21. LeRoy Oatka Festival
22. Seneca Falls Canal Festival
23. Ontario County Fair (Canandaigua)
24. Watkins Glen Waterfront Festival
25. Indigenous Music & Music Festival (Victor)
26. Orleans County Fair (Albion)
27. Spencerport Canal Days
28. Finger Lakes Wine Festival (Watkins Glen)
29. Waterfront Art Festival (Webster)
30. Rochester Pride Festival
31. Canadian-American Festival (Sackets Harbor)
32. Webster Jazz Festival
33. Perry Chalk Art Festival & Taste of Summer
34. Oswego Harbor Festival
35. Shakespeare in the Park (Rochester)
36. Sterling Renaissance Festival

Reoccurring through the warmer months

Food Truck Rodeo (Rochester) Last Wednesday night of the month, April through September

Concerts by the Shore (Rochester) Wednesday nights, June through August

Party in the Park (Rochester) Thursday nights running roughly early-June to early-August

Bands on the Bricks (Rochester) Friday nights roughly mid-July to mid-August

Zoo Brew (Rochester) Friday nights, once a month May through September, with special events throughout the year

Flavors of the Market  (Rochester) Saturday mornings, May through September

Garden Vibes at Eastman Museum

August events around Rochester

1. Gateway Music Festival (Rochester, 2019)
2. New York State Festival of Balloons (Dansville)
3. Lima Crossroads Blues Festival
4. Palmyra Pirate Weekend
5. Flour City Brewers Fest (Rochester)
6. Phelps Sauerkraut Festival
7. Chalk Walk & Arts Festival (Dansville)
8. Poags Hole Hillclimb (Dansville)
9. Park Ave Summer Festival (Rochester)
10. Monroe County Fair (Rush, take the trolley to the fair!)
11. St. Stanislaus Polish Arts Festival (Rochester)
12. Livingston County Fair (Caledonia)
13. Wyoming County Fair (Castile)
14. Art in the Gardens (Canandaigua)
15. Fairport Music and Food Festival
16. Avon Corn Festival
17. Pageant of Steam (Canandaigua)
18. Brockport Summer Arts Festival
19. Wayne County Fair (Palmyra)
20. Ukrainian Arts & Craft Festival (Rochester)
21. Mount Morris Italian Festival
22. Elmwood Avenue Arts Festival (Buffalo)
23. New York State Fair (Syracuse)
24. Eden Corn Festival
25. Rochester Teen Film Festival

Reoccurring through the warmer months

Food Truck Rodeo (Rochester) Last Wednesday night of the month, April through September

Concerts by the Shore (Rochester) Wednesday nights, June through August

Party in the Park (Rochester) Thursday nights running roughly early-June to early-August

Bands on the Bricks (Rochester) Friday nights roughly mid-July to mid-August

Zoo Brew (Rochester) Friday nights, once a month May through September, with special events throughout the year

Flavors of the Market  (Rochester) Saturday mornings, May through September

Garden Vibes at Eastman Museum

September events around Rochester

1. Macedon Center Lumberjack Festival
2. Naples Grape Festival
3. RocCon Rochester
4. Clothesline Art Festival Rochester
5. Rochester VegFest
6. Wickham Farms’ Honeycrisp Weekend & The Great Candy Drop Penfield
7. Appleumpkin Festival Wyoming
8. Cuba Garlic Festival
9. Rochester Garlic Festival Webster
10. Rochester Fringe Festival
11. WNY LlamaFest Arcade
12. Finger Lakes Fiber Festival Hemlock
13. Oktoberfest Irondequoit
14. Barktober Fest Walk for the Animals Fairport
15. KettleFest Victor
16. Palmyra Canaltown Days
17. Artist Row Juried Art Show Rochester
18. Tinker Park’s Honey Harvest Festival Henrietta
19. Niagara Celtic Olcott
20. Buffalo Maritime Festival
21. CNY Tomato Fest Auburn
22. Niagara County Peach Festival Lewiston
23. Purple Foot Festival Fairport
24. Locktober Fest Lockport

Reoccurring through the warmer months

Food Truck Rodeo (Rochester) Last Wednesday night of the month, April through September

Zoo Brew (Rochester) Friday nights, once a month May through September, with special events throughout the year

Flavors of the Market  (Rochester) Saturday mornings, May through September

October events around Rochester

1. Stokoe Farms Pumpkin Patch and Harvest Fest (Scottsville)
2. Genesee Valley Hunt Races (Geneseo)
3. Hilton Apple Festival
4. Rochester Antiquarian Book Fair
5. Penn Dixie Fossil Park’s Earth Day (Buffalo)
6. Wizarding Weekend (Ithaca)
7. Fairport Oktoberfest
8. ImageOut (Rochester)
9. Rochester Fashion Week
10. Indoor Fine Arts & Craft Festival (Rochester)
11. ROC the Riverway
12. Letchworth Arts & Crafts Show
13. Seneca Park ZooBoo (Rochester)

November events around Rochester

1. Dickens Christmas in Skaneateles (through December)
2. Rochester Children’s Book Festival
3. Rochester Maker Faire
4. Park Avenue Holiday Open House (Rochester)
5. Granger Homestead Festival of Trees (Canandaigua)
6. Glass Wonderland at the Corning Museum of Glass
7. Sweet Creations Gingerbread House Display at Eastman House (Rochester)
8. High Falls Film Festival (Rochester)
9. Mayday! Semi-Annual Underground Crafts + Art (Rochester)
10. International “Art of the Book” Juried Art Show (Rochester)
11. Great New York State Fair Model Train Fair
12. Winter at Powers Farm Market
13. Holiday Valley’s Fall Beer & Wine Festival (Ellicottville)
14. Anniversary of the Signing of the Canandaigua Treaty

December events around Rochester

1. Light Up the Holidays and Roc Holiday Village (Rochester)
2. Holidays at the Market (Rochester)
3. Rochester Festival of Lights and North Pole Village (Henrietta)
4. Garden Factory’s Holiday Lights Show (Gates)
5. Lights on the Lake (Syracuse)
6. Yuletide in the Country Tours at Genesee Country Village & Museum (Mumford)
7. Festival of Lights (Clifton Springs)
8. Carolcade (East Aurora)
9. Come Home for the Holidays (Fairport)
10. Cobblestone Museum Holiday Tour of Homes (Albion)
11. Corn Hill Tour of Homes (Rochester)
12. Candlelight Night (Pittsford)
13. Eastman Museum Holiday Homecoming (Rochester)
14. Lamberton Conservatory Holiday Show (Rochester)
15. It’s a Wonderful Life in the South Wedge (Rochester)
16. It’s a Wonderful Life in Seneca Falls
17. It WAS a Wonderful Life (Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo)
18. Lighting of the Genesee Brew House Keg Tree (Rochester)
19. Sparkle (Corning)

January events around Rochester

1. First Day Guided Hikes
2. Mendon Ponds Winterfest

February events around Rochester

1. Native American Winter Games and Sports Victor
2. NY Ice Wine & Culinary Festival Fairport
3. Battle of the Brunches Rochester
4. Lakeside Winter Celebration Rochester
5. Polar Plunge Rochester
6. NordicFest at Cumming Nature Center Naples
7. George Eastman Museum Dutch Connection Rochester

March events around Rochester

1. St. Patrick’s Day Parade (Rochester)
2. Rochester International Auto Show Rochester
3. Rochester Wine & Chocolate Festival

April events around Rochester

1. Imagine RIT: Innovation & Creativity Festival (Henrietta)
2. Rochester Red Wings Opening Day
3. Flower City Comic Con (Rochester)
4. Dyngus Day (Buffalo)
5. Sheep Shearing Festival at Springdale Farms (Spencerport)
6. Rochester Erotic Arts Festival
7. Mayday! Semi-Annual Underground Crafts + Art (Rochester)

Reoccurring through the warmer months

Food Truck Rodeo (Rochester) Last Wednesday night of the month, April through September

Which are your favorite annual events around Rochester?

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