TEXAS FESTIVALS AND EVENTS
Mark your calendar for these 2024 Texas festivals & events for the entire family.
Here is a list of 2024 Texas Festivals And Events.
We all love festivals and special events, especially when we can bring the whole family. Texas has a slue of them, and Texas Travel Talk is here to deliver.
Grab the family and head out to these Texas festivals and events throughout the state.
Family-Friendly Texas Festivals And Events In 2024
This list will continue to be updated throughout the year.
January 2024
• Annual MLK Grande Parade – Midtown Houston
January 15th
One of the most significant multicultural events in the U.S. in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Location: 1200 Holman St. Celebrating MLK Grande Parade in Midtown Houston, one of the most significant single-day multicultural events in the U.S.
• Surfside Food and Art Festival
January 27, 11 am to 4 pm.
Brazosport puts on the Surfside Food and Art Festival at the Stahlman Park Event Center, 2211 Bluewater Highway. Free Event.
February 2024 Texas Festivals And Events
• Jalapeño Festival – Laredo, Texas
Middle of February
Jalapeño Festival – a popular recurring event in Laredo is their annual 2-day Jalapeño Festival. It will feature live music, delicious fair foods, and the La Costeña Jalapeño eating contest. Who’s going? Will you enter the contest?
• Annual 11th Street Cowboy Bar – Mardi Gras – Bandera, Texas
First of February
Three days of Mardi Gras at 11th Street Cowboy Mardi Gras in Bandera.
• Mardi Gras Galveston 2024
February 2-13, 2024
The 3rd largest Mardi Gras celebration in the country! Who’s going? Mardi Gras! Galveston.
• Mardi Gras Southeast Texas – Beaumont
Early February 2024
Carnival rides and kid zone, vendors, purse bingo, and Uncle Kracker, among others, live performances. Get tickets at Beaumont Mardi Gras.
• 2024 North Texas Auto Show
February 22-25
Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center – Dallas
• Dinosaurs Live! in McKinney
Through February 19, 2024
Encounter a 46-foot tall T-Rex and ten new life-size animatronic dinosaurs at the Heard Natural Science Museum and Wildlife Sanctuary at 1 Nature Place, McKinney.
• Dallas Blooms at Dallas Arboretum
February through April
Dallas Blooms is the largest annual floral festival in the Southwest.
March 2024 Texas Festivals And Events
• Texas Independence Day Celebration – Washington
March 1
Texas Independence Day Celebration celebrates Texas becoming a republic 188 years ago – Where Texas Became Texas.
• Dallas Travel And Adventure Show
March 23-24, 2024, 10 am to 5 pm.
Dallas Market Hall, 2200 Stemmons Freeway. Parking is free. From experience, get there early for a good parking space.
• Vintage Market Days Denton/Fort Worth
End of March
NRS Event Center & Arena in Decatur
• Texas Dogwood Trails Celebration – Palestine
End of March
See the history of dogwoods and all about the celebrations here – History Blooms At TX Dogwood Trails Celebration
• Tyler County Dogwood Festival – Woodville 2024
End of March
Each weekend has a different theme. Check it out at the Tyler County Dogwood Festival.
• The Promise Of Passover – Glen Rose
March 31 – April
The Promise in Glen Rose is a one-of-a-kind musical production performed annually at the Texas Amphitheater.
Price Range: $10-$40
• Texas Forever Fest – Plano
March 2024, 11 am to 6 pm
Celebrate food, art, and the people of Texas. Enjoy live music, food trucks, and Texas-themed vendors at Texas Forever Fest at Haggard Park. FREE
Spirits of Texas Tasting is for adults 21+ and requires advance purchase of a $40 ticket.
April 2024
• Annual Main Street Fest – Grand Prairie
Middle of April
Free parking and admission. Main Street Fest.
• Poteet Strawberry Festival
Middle of April
Tickets: $5-$30 (buy online); ticket prices at the gate are higher; free parking.
Poteet Strawberry Festival is a famous festival in South Texas.
• Annual Lonestar Crawfish Festival – Austin
Middle of April
• Red Poppy Festival – Georgetown
End of April
Georgetown’s annual Red Poppy Festival is for three days of fun, food, art, music, and much of the color red!
• University of Houston Offshore Industry Crawfish Boil
April
May 2024 Texas Festivals And Events
• Scarborough Renaissance Festival – Waxahachie
April – May, 10 am to 7 pm.
The 42nd Scarborough Renaissance Festival will again fill the grounds in Waxahachie with live entertainment, vendors, food, and fun for the whole family.
• AnnualTexas Scottish Festival – Decatur, TX
First of May
Texas Scottish Festivals & Highland Games at Wise County Fairgrounds, Decatur, TX.
• Main Street Fest – Grapevine
First of May
39th Main Street Days will be all up and down Main Street with rides for kids, vendors, food, and fun. We love this one!
• Fredericksburg Crawfish Festival
End of May
Held on Memorial Day weekend at Marktplatz, this family-friendly event will feature live music, vendors, food and drink, and a carnival for the kids. Entertainers will be Josh Ward on Friday night and Kyle Park on Saturday night!
June 2024 Texas Festivals And Events
Texas Route 66 Festival & Events
June 1-10, 2023
Route 66, the road that shaped America, will celebrate its centennial in 2026. BUT Amarillo is not waiting that long to get down with the festivities. This year’s festival will be held June 1-10, 2023, and it’s packed with events along the Texas route, including classic car shows, Texas Route 66 bus tours, cattle drives, parades, music festivals, and a grand finale festival on Amarillo’s Route 66 Historic District.
• Puluxy River Fest
June 2-3, 2023, 10 am – 10 pm
Float the river at the Puluxy River Fest as you listen to live music, and don’t forget about the catfish cookoff, fishing tournament, food trucks, & vendors.
• Texas Blueberry Festival – Nacogdoches
Second Saturday in June
Check out the Texas Blueberry Festival in Nacogdoches (East Texas)
- Farm fresh blueberries for sale
- blueberry pancake breakfast
- lots of quilts
- Pick your own blueberries
- entertainment
- pet parade
- and so much more
Free Admission.
• Denton Juneteenth Celebration
June 16-17, 2023
FREEDOM t-shirts are on sale now to wear during the parade on Saturday. Denton Juneteenth Celebration. The location is Fred Moore Park.
• Luling Watermelon Thump
June 22-25, 2023
Honoring our Veterans since 1954 at the Watermelon Thump Pavillion – live music at the beer garden, kid’s activities, food, market vendors, and the crowning of the thump queen!
Tickets: Free on the 22nd. Weekend $30, $35-$200
July Texas Festivals
• 75th McDade Watermelon Festival – Bastrop
July 8, 2023, 11 am (Always the 2nd Saturday in July)
The entire family will enjoy the McDade Watermelon Festival and all the events. The Street Dance kicks off on Friday night from 8-11:30 p.m. Saturday morning kicks off at 7 am for the watermelon weigh-in, where locals compete for prize melon status.
Enjoy these events at the festival on Saturday:
- Car show at 8 am – 1 pm
- Parade in Uptown at 10 am
- Concessions, vendors, and live music
- Cornhole & washer pitching tournaments
- Bingo watermelon eating contest and seed spitting contest
- Riding mower rodeo obstacle course
- Sandy area with water misting stations and picnic tables under the big oak trees
- Prize melon action happens at 5 p.m. with a free melon feast for all—large slices, too!
Free Admission.
• Parker County Peach Festival – Weatherford
July 8, 2023, from 8 am to 4 pm
September
• Rockport-Fulton HummerBird Festival
September 14-17, 2023
Not hummingbird, but HummerBird Festival, but you can bet there will be many hummingbirds fluttering around!
• Autotrader EchoPark Automotive 400
Nascar Cup Series Playoffs Race at the Texas Motor Speedway
September 24, 2023
• State Fair of Texas
September 29 – October 22, 2023
Make plans to see Big Tex at Fair Park.
October Texas Festivals And Events 2023
• 49th Texas Renaissance Festival – Houston Area
October 7 through November 26, 2023, + Thanksgiving
TRF – over 500,000 guests every year, and the Nation’s largest festival in Todd Missions, TX (1 hr north of Houston)
• 2023 Solar Eclipse Festival – Fredericksburg
October 13-14, 2023, 12-4 pm
Grapetown Vineyard
Tickets: $10-$50
• Plano International Festival
October 14th, 11 am – 5 pm, Haggard Park
Plano International Festival is the largest, longest-running multicultural event in North Texas.
Admission: Free
• State Fair of Texas – Dallas
through October 22, 2023
• Texas Marigold Festival
October 23-28, 2023
3rd Annual Texas Marigold Festival in Blanco, TX. Shop, Explore, & Dance
• Cibolofest
October 28, 2023 – 10 am – 10 pm
Expect bands, local performers, a carnival, a petting zoo, food vendors, craft vendors, and much more! Call the city for location – 210-658-9900.
November Texas Festivals And Events 2023
• Texas Monthly BBQ Fest In Lockhart
November 4-5, 2023
Lockhart is the BBQ Capital of Texas, so why not have a BBQ Fest there? That’s exactly what Texas Monthly is returning to do. Ticket proceeds benefit Feeding Texas. Come out and see live music and enjoy 35+ BBQ Joints. Texas Monthly BBQ FEST.
Tickets: $40 – selling in tiers, so get your tickets early.
• New Braunfels Wurstfest
November 3-12, 2023
Wurstfest will shine its German food, special events, and everything that has to do with celebrating German culture.
I attended the 2021 festival with my mom and grandson – and look what all we got to do – New Braunfels Wurstfest.
Tickets: $18-$20
FACT: Parents and Grandparents – Peppa Pig Theme Park is coming to North Richland Hills, TX, sometime in 2024.
FACT: Universal Studios has been approved to build in Frisco, TX, and is scheduled for 2025. The theme park is designed for children up to 11 years old. However, residents nearby are trying to ban this from happening.
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