14 festivals in Detroit. See all Michigan towns.
Hosted by the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, one of the largest celebrations of African and African American culture in the Midwest - music, a global…
Festival details for African World Festival →Metro Detroit holds one of the largest Arab American populations in the country, and this riverfront festival brings that out - Lebanese, Iraqi, Yemeni and Chaldean food, music…
Festival details for Arab and Chaldean Festival →A juried art fair on Belle Isle, the Olmsted-designed island park in the Detroit River - artists set up with the city skyline on one side and Canada on the other.
Festival details for Belle Isle Art Fair →In 1977 the North Cass Community Union was fighting the city and Wayne State over plans to demolish neighborhood homes - and started selling beer on card tables in the alley to…
Festival details for Dally in the Alley →Michigan ranks near the top of the country for breweries, and every October the Michigan Brewers Guild brings its whole membership to Eastern Market's historic sheds to prove it…
Festival details for Detroit Fall Beer Festival →Known as Detroit Bookfest - dozens of booksellers, small presses, zine makers, and collectors filling a historic building in Eastern Market, with the kind of crowd that shows up…
Festival details for Detroit Festival of Books →Ice sculptures against fire pits and fire performers on the Detroit riverfront - a January weekend designed around the contrast, with the frozen river and Windsor across the…
Festival details for Detroit Fire and Ice Festival →It started in 1980 as an American cousin to Switzerland's Montreux Jazz Festival, sharing performers and even commissioned poster art across the Atlantic - then nearly collapsed…
Festival details for Detroit Jazz Festival →Mexicantown has marked Día de los Muertos since 1999, and it's grown into a neighborhood-wide observance rather than a single event - businesses, churches, and restaurants along…
Festival details for Día de los Muertos in Southwest Detroit →Michigan's largest Pride celebration, held at Hart Plaza on the Detroit riverfront - multiple stages, a Sunday parade up Griswold, and tens of thousands of people filling the…
Festival details for Motor City Pride →Techno was invented in Detroit, and in 2000 the city finally threw it a party - a free festival curated by Carl Craig, featuring the Belleville Three who created the genre, that…
Festival details for Movement Electronic Music Festival →Michigan's rowdiest barbecue-and-whiskey block party ran 15 years in Ferndale before rising costs killed it in 2025 - so the crew at Detroit's Lager House revived it in Corktown…
Festival details for Pig & Whiskey →Mexican Christmas in Mexicantown: the night ends with a Posada procession re-enacting Mary and Joseph's search for shelter, then a tree lighting. Before that, Pancho Claus visits…
Festival details for Southwest Holiday Fest →A Polish parish in Detroit throws an annual festival dedicated to bananas, which is exactly as unexplainable as it sounds. Banana splits, banana bread, banana everything, at a…
Festival details for St. Hyacinth Banana Festival →