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Upcoming Festivals and Events all around USA

Taste of Buffalo
Bring an empty stomach on July 12 to 13 in downtown Buffalo, where more than 50 local restaurants and wineries provide you with amazing food and sides of entertainment. Event begins at 11 a.m. daily and there is no admission charge. Showcasing from Jazz to Pops to Blues, with regional and national artists.

The Taste of Buffalo is one of the nation’s largest food festivals and attracts more than 450,000 people annually to the event–and is fun by the forkful!

The event features some of the region’s best restaurants serving some of the most enjoyable foods the area has to offer. Buffalo looks forward to seeing you at the 25th Birthday Celebration on July 12th and 13th in downtown Buffalo!

4th of July in New York City
The fourth of July is the most patriotic holiday that that the U.S. Of A has. That being said, what could be better than experiencing it in New York City? Drive on over and check out the massive Macy’s Fireworks Spectacular, watch the Nathan’s Hot Dog eating contest or attending a concert at Battery Park. No matter what you decide to do, you will find that New York offers a variety of activities for everyone.

Check out the ever popular Macy’s Fourth of July Fireworks that starts approximately o9PM. Macy’s will have fireworks being released from 3 separate locations around the city. Namely the East River ind Midtown, the South Street Seaport and Liberty State Park.

There will be loads of entertainment, including music and and food! All you have to do is come on over and experience it first hand! Don’t forget to bring a camera.

Monterey Bay Blues Festival
In need of some good blues? Don’t fret. The Monterey Bay Blues Festival is happenin’ on June 27-29, 2008. It started off in 1986 and eventually became one of the leading blues festivals in America. Twenty one years ago, the local community dreamed of promoting the art form of Blues. Today, the Monterey Bay Blues Festival was established, and every year the event is held on the 4th Saturday weekend in June in Monterey, California.

Highlights of this year’s line-up include Joe Louis Walker, Shemkia Copeland and Buddy Guy and a whole lot more. Tickets are available, the whole event will last for three days so be sure to get your schedule down. Support the Monterey Bay Blues Festival and help in preserving the blues as an American art form.

Coming in your USA RV rental? Don’t fret, there are RV parking spaces for this year’s festival, but better get there fast!

Texas Folklife Festival
This Friday, June 13, for three days until Father’s Day, smell and taste the four corners of the earth in the Texas Folklife Festival. As they say, once you’ve experienced all the Festival has to offer, you will truly feel like a member of our family.

The 37th annual Texas Folklife Festival for this year - “We All Belong!”. The three-day cultural extravaganza is the place for visitors to bask in smorgasbords of ethnic foods, world music and entertainment. The event will be held at UTSA’s Institute of Texan Cultures in downtown San Antonio’s HemisFair Park.

Visitors from all around are encouraged to get involved! Learn, sing, dance, eat traditional ethnic foods, and converse with people involved in the celebration from over 40 cultural groups from across the state to preserve their traditions’ past and perpetuate their own generations’ futures.

You’ll come for the food, you’ll stay for the entertainment, and you’ll leave with a new sense of friendship, family and community.

Haight Ashbury Street Fair
Every year, San Francisco never fails to celebrate its cultural heritage. This June 8 on Haight Street, San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury area celebrates in a Summer of Love atmosphere. The streets of Haight will be lined with booths, stalls, stages and the like from local delicacies to souvenirs, with street performers and musicians.

The area is young, but the hippie population still lives on some with the tie-dye shirts and peace sign. The festival aims to foster goodwill to all who visit and reside in the area, all attributing to the 1960’s vibe. This June 8, 2008 - Sunday, take the whole bunch to Haight Street when in San Francisco, you’ll never know what treasures you might find in just one day.

Formula One: Grand Prix
This June 8, 2008, get your gears down to Gilles Villenueve Circuit! What for?

Why, for the Formula One kick off! This year, in Montreal’s Gilles Villenueve, the Grand Prix of Canada will hold the seventh race of the 2008 Formula One season. The man-made island in the middle of St. Lawrence Seaway holds the circuit at Montreal. Take note of the two sharp hairpins at either end where
spectators get excited.

Formula One is the king of motorsports. Since in 1950, it has attracted the very best talents in the world of motor racing. Celebrated world-wide in different circuits. The sheer speed of the vehicles is hard to note, and the noise from the track is almost deafening. All for the love of speed!

Starting in Australia, there are 18 races in the Formula One season, across four continents, ending with the big finale in Brazil. Highlights include the Monaco Grand Prix, set on the roads of Monte Carlo, and the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.

If you’re heading to Montreal, then this hair-raising event should be at the top of your list!

Indy 500
The Indianapolis 500-mile Race, or more popularly known as the Indy 500 is roaring to go on the 25th of May, 2008.

Where else would it be held? Of course, the historic Indianapolis, Indiana Speedway. Everyone knows that this is the premier race for specially designed high-speed race cars or what we all call the Indy Racing Machines. If you know a thing or two about cars, or particularly racing cars, then you better set your sights for this year’s much awaited racing event.

This motorsport event is regarded as one of the three most important motor racing events in the world. With the attendance of thousands and wide media coverage, this single-day sporting event lives up to its name!

Passing by Indiana? Or not have anything planned on Memorial Day weekend?

Time is running short as race car drivers prep for the big day. Why not take that RV and your whole family along, as racing fans gear towards Indianapolis for the 2008 Indy 500!

Kentucky Derby
On the 3rd of May 2008, be sure to drop by Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, USA!

Why you ask? You wouldn’t want to miss the famous Kentucky Derby! The world famous Derby, hailed as the greatest two minutes in sport and also has a host of spectacular events prior to the event race itself. Horse racing in Kentucky is rich in history, dating back to 1789 when the first race course was laid out in Lexington. It was almost 100 years later, in 1875, that Churchill Downs officially opened and began its tradition as “Home of the Kentucky Derby.”

This year, who will be blanketed with a lush blanket of 554 red roses? Who will be the lucky KD winner? Find out for yourself. Activities for the weekend includes square dancing in the main square to hot-air balloon contests. This giant festivity holds attendance of well over 1 million people annually!

The Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs is one event not to be missed especially for sport-lovin’ folks!

Gathering of Nations Indian Powwow
This April 24th till the 26th in Albuquerque, New Mexico, everyone can come and witness the Gathering of Nations Indian Powwow. This is the largest gathering of Native American tribes that features fantastic arrays of Indian culture including drumming, dancing, singing and story telling.

The Gathering of Nations is a Native American Indian non-profit organization founded to promote their indigenous culture and traditions.Dispelling all stereotypes and forming one community to celebrate a Powwow. This event is North America’s biggest Powwow and also an International World Celebration! Join Albuquerque as they celebrate the 25th annual event.

So, if you are heading down south of the great American states, be sure to include Albuquerque, New Mexico on your list of places to go. Many Native American tribes will be represented by singers and dancers dressed in traditional dance attire and performing their unique dances and songs and everyone is welcome to join!

North Carolina Gold Festival
Every town has its own story of how it struck gold in the good ol’ days. In 2004, the loyal citizens of North Carolina formed the North Carolina Gold Festival to promote, educate and preserve the state’s gold heritage. And this year, the festival, to commemorate the discovery of gold in California, will take place on April 18 and 19, 2008 at Tom Johnson’s Rally Park on Highway 70.

The festival includes a schedule of events that makes way for derbies, entertainment, gold panning, treasure hunting, food and live bands. With over three thousand attendees, the festival welcomes one and all!

The festival kicks off on Friday the 18th at noon. If you’re heading to North Carolina during this time, don’t miss this event. It’ll be a fun adventure for the whole family and in this state you will find that “all that glitters is gold”.

World Cow Chip Throwing Championship in Beaver
In Oklahoma, USA, crap is gold. Head on to Beaver, OK so you would know what we are talking about! April is the time to save those poops and have some fun. What started off as a local fuel turned out to be a trend! Cow chips have been used for a variety of activities for hundreds of years. In the early days when the first settlers arrived, they relied on these cow poop to keep warm, fuel for a campfire or stove. This little brown crap is so important that it is even called brown gold.

Now, it is a sport for all OK to enjoy. Competitors even from Australia, Germany and Japan garner for the crown. Throwing cow chips today will bring world recognition. Everyone gets the chance to pick two chips from the pile. The rules? There is only one rule. Ya gotta do it bare-handed!

Who holds the world record? (Yes, there is a world record!) Leland Searcy in 1979 holds the record with a 182′3 hurl. If you think you’re up for it, then head on to Beaver and take a chance at this family oriented sport. Otherwise, just have some fun with chips!

Anvil Shooting Festival
What’s interesting in Laurel,Mississippi in April? The all-time festival state: The Anvil Shooting Festival. It’s a bit bizarre, but for the people of Mississippi, it’s all fun!

The annual event at Laurel’s Wood Expo held every April dates back to the Civil War when the Yanks came through the South destroying all of the metal works. They’d put gun powder underneath the anvils and try to blow them up. And up they went, up in the air. Now, from this historical event, sprouts a bizarre festival that everyone loves and enjoys!

If you wish to join the event, the rules are simple. The anvils must be made of steel and weigh at least 100 lbs. Not more than 2 pounds of black powder can be used to blast that anvil in the air. There are two classes in the event, the Traditional and the Super Modified. In the Traditional class, shooters use real, antique anvils and shot the traditional way. Some anvils shot the traditional may reach heights up to 100 feet, but for some that’s not high enough, now that’s the Super-Modified category.

But here’s something you should know: No one has ever been crushed by a falling anvil and no one has ever lost an arm to the explosive blasts.

Don’t miss out on this explosive event when touring around the Deep South!

STA-BIL National Lawn Mower Races
What happens when a garden chore becomes competitive sport? In Illinois, mowing the lawn is a serious matter.

Racers compete in three road track classes, which are factory Stock,Prepared and Factory Experimental. In each class, the lawn mower blades are removed for safety. Mowers in each category reach speeds up to 10 MPH,35 MPH, and 60 MPH, respectively. And their machines have names ranging from Sodzilla to Turfinator to Lawn Ranger to Garden Gangster.

It’s now confirmed, the schedule for April is on the 4th for the STA-BIL NASGRASS Southern Shoot Out in Labelle, FL. And on the 26th, the Kentucky Blue Grass Spring Nationals is on!

The world’s famous lawn mower racer is Bobby Cleveland. Cleveland has been racing for the past 20 years and competes in anywhere from 15-20 races, plus makes stops at many other fairs and parades around the country.

Now,who would have thought that a weekend chore would turn out as a competition? So ready those mowers and head on to Florida with the whole family!

St. Patrick’s Day

On March 15, 2008 California will once again play host to the annual featured event in San Francisco, the St. Patrick’s Day. With over 250,000 attendees, the St. Patrick’s Day celebrates with a bang!

To top it off is the St. Patrick’s day Parade. Irish Pubs in and around the State serves ale and dances to the jig. Everything colored green is welcome! Including green gardens, green beer, and green shirts! Out door barbecue islands, recreational vehicles
or RV’s, and more. Across the valley, showcasing 2007 vintage straight from the barrels, sampling new releases, and offering award-winning wines paired perfectly with foods & culinary delights prepared by local chefs and restaurants, guests meet winemakers and local chefs, mingle in caves and on crush pads, peruse art from local artists while listening to live music, tour wineries and vineyards, and enjoy a wonderful wine country weekend. Plus, get a glimpse of the California gray whale migrating to the warm coastal waters of South California.

In Los Angeles, through downtown LA, festivities even start before St. Patrick’s Day. The event includes carnival rides, historic re-enactors, several stages of Irish music from rock to trad, dance performances and social dancing, casual and fine dining, Irish and other Celtic product vendors, a petting zoo, sheep herding demonstrations and Highland-style games. St. Patrick’s Day is a celebration across the state of California, and even to the rest of the United States.

The Festival is open to all because everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day!

25th Annual Chicago Blues Festival

Mark your calendars as the summer of 2008 will be one filled of music not to be missed. The City of Chicago announces a landmark celebration for the 25th Annual Chicago Blues Festival, June 5-8, 2008. Chicago has never been better, as the Chicago Blues Festival takes over Grant Park June 5-8, 2008. The annual tradition (celebrated for over 20 years) four-day festival offers the best in national, international and local Blues entertainment on six stages with more than 70 performances, preceded by a month of Blues activities (Blues Season) throughout Chicago.

In commemoration of the 25th Annual event, the festival not only will feature a quarter of a century of the blues festival highlights but also celebrate the centennials of Louis Jordan, Tommy McLennan, and Blind John Davis. This free event draws nearly a million people each year where Blues, Jazz and even Soul local and national performers grace the stage.