A festival that is pretty hard to categorize, consisting of ideas, unique things, etc.
As someone who owns and operates a festival website, let me tell you that Covid-19 has been driving me crazy. The weather is starting to warm up, the self-quarantine continues (the 6th week now?), and I long for road trips to festival cities where I can celebrate with various communities, … Read more
The Cleveland Kurentovanje Festival is a Slovenian Festival where lamb-skinned wearing Kurents ring bells to scare the winter away. Music, food and fun for all. 2024 DATE: February 10, 2024Location: Slovenian National Home6417 St Clair AveCleveland, OH 44103Website: https://www.clevelandkurentovanje.com/ **** I first visited this festival in 2014, which you can … Read more
AUTHOR’S NOTE: I visited the festival on Friday morning before any serious crowds had arrived. I was told that Saturday is the big day. NOTE 2: This festival was moved to Paden City in 2021. **** The Sistersville Marble Festival is a marble show and festival… …where marble enthusiasts come … Read more
The Twins Days Festival is the largest gathering of twins and multiples in the world, offering food, music, vendors and more. 2023 DATE: August 4-6, 2023Location: Glenn Chamberlin Park10260 Ravenna RdTwinsburg, OH 44087Website: https://twinsdays.org/ ****My first visit to the festival was in 2010. You can read about that experience HERE. … Read more
This post documents my experience on June 29, 2019. Just through this short passage… …and beyond the tie dye alien… …peace and harmony were in the air… …at a festival called Love Fest… …where festival goers could practice free yoga… …express themselves through a face painting (Affordable Face Painting)… …and … Read more
Throughout my festival career, I’ve seen festivals about Bigfoot… …BBQ (photo from a different festival)… …and even UFO’s (photo from a different festival)… …but never have I seen one about all three..until now. Located at the Milton Loop Campground in Dayton, Pennsylvania, the Bigfoot BBQ UFO Festival was a newer, … Read more
Parade the Circle is put on by The Cleveland Museum of Art. Along with the parade, there are plenty of activities, entertainment and food. 2023 DATE: June 10, 2023Location: Wade Oval10820 East BlvdCleveland, OH 44106Website: https://www.clevelandart.org/learn/community-arts/parade ****This post documents my experience on June 8, 2019. Out at University Circle… …families … Read more
Through this gate… …you can find Lake Orion… …a place where teams practice on boats… …equipped with dragon heads… …for a Dragon Boat Festival called… …Dragon on the Lake. But while other dragon boat festivals took place in the racing area during the race… …most of this festival’s activities occurred … Read more
This post documents my experience on August 11, 2018. Out at the Mosquito Lake Marina… …a strange ship was docked… …with a skeleton crew… …an underfed parrot… …and many festival-luvin’ mateys… …who came to treasure the Moskito Lake Pirate Festival. Although a rather small fest… …there was a fun pirate … Read more