Rochester’s heavy summer festival season has already taken many hits, including the cancellation of the Lilac Festival.
Rochester Festivals
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The best fest time of year
Inside our annual Festival Preview Guide, CITY rounds-up the dates and details of all of those festivals, which we hope will be useful in planning your summer
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Best Arts & Entertainment 2017
Best Local Original Band Joywave. @joywavemusic; joywavemusic.com Runners up: Danielle Ponder and the Tomorrow People | Harmonica Lewinski | Junkyardfieldtrip Best Local Solo Musician Teagan Ward. facebook.com/teaganwardmusic; teaganward.com Runners up: Cammy Enaharo | Roger Kuhn | Nick LeDuc Best Local Hip-Hop Act Tugboat. facebook.com/theofficialtugboat Runners up: Ishmael Raps | Level 7 Experience | MdotCoop Best […]
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Rochester Fringe 2017 Preview Guide
The sixth annual KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival runs Thursday, September 14, through Saturday, September 23, with more than 500 shows in and around downtown Rochester. It’s hard to know where to start.
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Festival Preview Guide: Take your pick
The spring and summer always brings a little something for everyone. For almost 18 weeks, the Greater Rochester Area will host festival after festival. If you’re bored over the next few months, that’s on you. Rochesterians will have every reason to get out into the sun, from celebrating Highland Park in bloom (the Lilac Festival) […]
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Festival City
It’s that splendid time of year when the Flower City transforms into Festival City. The 2017 festival lineup is as diverse as ever and expands beyond Rochester to Livingston, Ontario, and Wayne Counties. The fests offer celebrations of flowers, glorious food, booze, cuddly animals, music, art, pirates, and more. Below is a quick guide to […]
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Rochester Fringe 2016: City’s Daily Fringe Blogs
The 2016 First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival runs Thursday, September 15, through Saturday, September 24, and City Newspaper will be out EVERY NIGHT of the festival covering multiple shows. Check in first thing each morning for photos and reviews of the previous night’s entertainment, listed below by date. For up-to-the-minute coverage of the festival follow […]
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Rochester Fringe Festival 2016: Preview
With more than 500 performances taking place Thursday, September 15, through Saturday, September 24, there’s a lot to take in. We’ll help you get started.
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Historically speaking
We look at three festivals that take attendees to different eras A celebration of cool, obsolete machinery Western New York State is rife with fertile farmland; it’s given the region a rich agricultural history. And though farming is still a major part of life in rural areas, industrial cities grew in the late 19th century, […]
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A (festival) day in the life
Food truck operators run long days in the summer heat to be out with the festival crowds Since modern style food trucks started hitting Rochester streets in 2011, they have become a cornerstone of the area’s festival scene. At this point, it would be hard to imagine going to Park Ave Fest or the Jazz […]
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Big Rib BBQ and Blues Fest
BBQ and the blues are salaciously synonymous in my sordid life. Both share a plethora of adjectives like smoky and juicy and hot, and indulging in both at the same time seems only natural. Sure, the Lilac Fest has the sweet smell of flowers and the Jazz Fest marks my favorite week on Earth each […]
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CITY’s 2014 Festival Preview Guide
Whether you’re in the mood for live music, handcrafted art, or just want to get outside and walk around for the day, every month is packed full.
