Unfortunately, festivals don’t last forever.
This can be due to a number of reasons including a lack of volunteers, funds and a lack of appeal.
This page is dedicated to those festivals I had the privilege of experiencing before they left us…
Appalachian Spring Festival – The Plains
Art and Jewish Food Festival – Akron
Autumn Mum Festival – Connellsville, Pennsylvania
Banana Split Festival – Wilmington
Bellaire Puritas Arts Festival – Cleveland
Birmingham Ethnic Festival – Toledo
Buttercream Festival – West Carrollton
Cambridge October Fall Festival – Cambridge
Cedar Valley Settlers Celebration – North Olmsted
Celtic Beltane Festival – Hartville
Charles W. Fairbanks Festival – Unionville Center
Cherry Blossom Festival – Barberton
Cleveland Pizza Fest – Berea/Middleburg Heights
Clifton Arts and Music Fest – Cleveland
Colonial Williamsburg Festival – Wooster
Coshocton Dulcimer Days – Coshocton
Crafted Food, Beer and Music Festival – Cleveland
Crocker Park Liberty Fest – Westlake
Dean Martin Festival – Steubenville
DeBord’s Halloween Festival – Akron
Der Dutchman Heritage Days – Plain City
Deshler Corn City Festival – Deshler
Dragon Boat Summer Learning Festival – Toledo
Dublin Kiwanis Frog Jump – Dublin
Dutch Valley Fall Festival – Sugarcreek
East Bank Bacon Festival – Cleveland
Edgar Allan Poe Fall Festival – Canal Fulton
El Sabor Latino Community Festival – Lorain
Festival in the Flats – Ottawa
For the Love of Chocolate Festival – Medina
Glass Heritage Festival – Fostoria
Grafton Village Firemen’s Festival
Grand Lake St. Marys Fall Festival
Hempfield Township Community Days – Hempfield Township, Pennsylvania
Hessler Street Fair – Cleveland
Hillbilly Festival and Classic Car Show – Broadview Heights
Ilenden (Macedonian) Festival – Avon
Italian American Brotherhood Festival – Bedford
Italian American Summer Festival – Middleburg Heights
Jak of All Trades Fest – Cleveland
Jeromesville Sycamore Festival
Johnny Appleseed Festival – Brunswick
Keeping the Tradition Pow Wow – Dayton
Lagrange Street Polish Festival – Toledo
Lake County Perch Fest – Fairport Harbor
Lost Arts Festival – Grand Rapids
Lunar New Year Celebration – Cleveland
Marblehead Summerfest – Marblehead
Medina Halloween Harvest Festival
Miami Valley Bluegrass Heritage Festival – Miamisburg
Miskito Lake Pirate Festival – Cortland
National Hamburger Festival – Akron
New American Festival – Columbus
North Coast Oktoberfest – Sandusky
Northwest Ohio Woodland and Wildlife Family Festival – Elmore
North Coast Nature Festival – North Olmsted
Northeast Ohio Pierogi Party and Polish Marketplace Review – Berea
Oberlin Community and Culture Festival
Oberlin Family Fun Fair and Classic Car Show – Oberlin
Ohio City Holiday Festival – Cleveland
Ohio City Street Festival – Cleveland
Ohio Outdoor Quilt Festival – Wellington
Ohio Smoked Meat and BBQ Festival – Nelsonville
Ohio Wizard of Oz Festival – Macedonia
Old Brooklyn PierogiFest – Cleveland
Old Fashioned Days – Brunswick
Old West Festival – Mt. Orab/Williamsburg
Olmsted Heritage Days – Olmsted Falls
Park Street Festival – Columbus
Pioneer and Primitive Arts Festival – Marblehead
Ramseyer Farms Fall Festival Weekends – Wooster
“The Reckoning” Highland Games and Festival – Vermilion
Riverfront Arts Festival – Columbus
Russian Maslenitsa-Pancake Festival – Cleveland
Spring Greek Festival – Lorain
Southern Lorain County BBQ Festival – Wellington
St. Anthony of Padua Carnival – Parma
St. Anthony’s Pierogi Fest and Carnival – Lorain
St. Elizabeth of Hungary Festival – Cleveland
St. John Medical Center Festival of the Arts – Westlake
Strawberry Fest – Brunswick
SunWatch Native Flute Festival – Dayton
Taste of Hungary Festival – Columbus
Union County Covered Bridge Bluegrass Festival – North Lewisburg
Via Colori Festival – Columbus
Warehouse District Street Festival – Cleveland
Washington Township’s Autumn Bash Festival – Moscow
Wellston Coal Festival – Wellston