If you want to survive in this jungle of festivals, you need a good guide. This is it.
Festivals
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Rochester’s Lilac Festival will return in 2022 with three-weekend format
The dates for the 2022 Rochester Lilac Festival have been announced: May 6-8, May 12-15, and May 19-22.
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Rochester’s festival season is still in flux
As the city invites applications for festivals, organizers are weigh scaling back for safety against the costs of staging their event.
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Rochester’s summer festivals are gone – but hope remains for fall
The city has stopped issuing permits for special events through August. Festival organizers are being told to start planning for the fall.
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A blue note for the Jazz Fest
The Nature Conservancy of Central and Western New York, Xerox, and the City of Rochester offered a small but important service during the just-ended Jazz Fest: they provided a water bottle filling station that festival-goers could use for free. This isn’t a radical idea, or a new one. Filling stations have been brought in for […]
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MUSIC: Pitching a tent
Looking to catch some concerts this summer outside your own back yard? Want to make that concert a road trip? No matter what your musical tastes may be — or your budget — tons of shows are happening down the road that will get you grooving in the great outdoors. Get your motor running, head […]
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FOOD: Summer’s exclusive festival foods
Rochester’s summer will be filled with places to see, events to attend, and perhaps most importantly, food to eat. From now until September, there is a festival to be found nearly every weekend. Some of these festivals have amusement park rides, some have works of art for sale, but they all have one delicious thing […]
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Rochester Lilac Festival announces 2013 schedule
The 115-year-old Lilac Festival announced details of its 2013 edition this morning, including a new official title for the event — the Rochester Lilac Festival. The festival will run May 10-19 in Highland Park. The festival grounds will be open daily 10:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m. and admission remains free. Headliners for the festival main stage this […]
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ANNUAL MANUAL ’09: 2009 Festival Guide
[ EVENTS ] COMPILED BY LEAH KRAUS For a city its size Rochester is jam-packed with events. Once the weather warms up we tend to go a little crazy, and nary a weekend goes by between April and October when there isn’t some fabulous festival bringing thousands of people to the streets. ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย Below is […]
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ANNUAL MANUAL ’07: Festival Guide
Mark your calendar… Lakeside Winter Celebration Date: February Place: OntarioBeachPark Description: snow and ice sculpture contests, Chili Challenge, Polar Plunge Info: 865-3320 St. Patrick’s Day Parade Date: March Place: downtown Description: parade, family festival Info: www.rochesterparade.com Lilac Festival Dates: May 11-20 Place: Highland Park Description: 500 varieties of lilacs, live music, activities, food Info: 456-3070, […]
