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Pittsburgh Festivals & Fairs by Month

Festivals Listed Alphabetically by Month

March

 

April

  • Tekkoshocon
    Tekkoshocon is a Japanese animation and pop culture convention held each April.
 

May

  • National Pike Festival
    90 miles of food, fun, and entertainment along the Pennsylvania National Road (Route 40) in Somerset, Fayette, and Washington Counties during the third week in May
  • Pittsburgh Folk Festival
    An annual ethnic event held every Memorial Day Weekend. Live music, ethnic food, dance and arts and crafts events. Find an events schedule, artist profiles and ticket information.
  • Pittsburgh International Children's Festival
    The International Children's Festival showcases 5 days filled with the very best in international performing and visual arts for children and families. The festival takes place on Pittsburgh's North Shore in West Park and in Allegheny Center. Information on the Festival is available on the Pittsburgh International Children's Theater website.
  • Pittsburgh Russian Film Symposium
    An annual event in May hosted by the University of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Filmmakers.
  • Pittsburgh Wine Festival
    The Pittsburgh Wine Festival is an annual event presented by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board and Comcast.
  • St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral: Annual Greek Food Festival
    Second week in May. St. Nicholas Cathedral Community Center, 419 S. Dithridge St., Oakland (between Fifth and Forbes Ave. near the Carnegie Museums). One of the best food festivals in Pittsburgh: dolmades, spanokapita, tiropita, shish kebab, rice pilaf, and plenty of pastries for desert.
  • Silk Screen: Asian American Film Festival
    Currently a film festival in May, Silk Screen plans to develop into a week- or month-long celebration of Asian and Asian American cultures with events throughout the City of Pittsburgh.
  • Waynesburg Sheep & Fiber Festival
    May. Celebrating the Heritage of Sheep, Wool & Fibers in Greene County (southwest of Pittsburgh).
 

June

  • Three Rivers Arts Festival
    An annual 17-day festival of the visual and performing arts in downtown Pittsburgh each June as well as special performing arts projects and exhibitions throughout the year.
  • Pennsylvania Microbrewers Fest
    An annual event at Penn Brewery. Meet the owners and brewmasters of over thirty breweries from all over the Middle Atlantic states and sample more than 100 different beers. A meal is included.
 

July

  • Big Butler Fair
    An annual event held on the week of July 4th Big Butler Fair
  • Pittsburgh Blues Festival
    An annual event in July to benefit the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.
  • Fayette County Fair
    At the Fayette County Fairgrounds between Connellsville and Uniontown. Runs end of July to beginning of August.
  • Pittsburgh Three Rivers Regatta
    A boating and water sports festival held at the Point on ghe 4th of July.
  • Westmoreland Arts and Heritage Festival
    An annual summer celebration, the free Festival takes place at Twin Lakes Park in Greensburg (east of Pittsburgh), in July. Annual attendance is over 100,000 and the festival offers visual and live performing arts, traditional and fine crafts, cultural heritage activities, humanities, and ethnic foods.
 

August

  • Bedford County Fair
    Started in 1873!
  • DiverseCITY Pittsburgh Festival
    The Greater Pittsburgh DiverseCity Festival is a four day event in August that celebrates the Pittsburgh region’s ethnic and cultural diversity and embraces all.
  • Festa Italiana di Vandergrift
    This Italian festival takes place each year in August in Vandregrift, located northeast of Pittsburgh.
  • Fort Armstrong Folk Festival
    A five day festival in August that celebrates art, music, food, history, and memories of Armstrong County; held in Kittanning.
  • Holy Trinity Greek Food Festival
    End of August, beginning of September. North Side of Pittsburgh
  • Regatta at Lake Arthur
    The Regatta at Lake Arthur is an annual 2 day event staged in the Lakeview area at Moraine State Park each August. Hiking, bicycling on the paved bike trail, paddling canoes and kayaks, and disc golf are just some of these activities.
  • Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival
    August and September
  • Three Rivers Storytelling Festival
    The Three Rivers Story Telling Festival began with one storyteller, some grass, a few trees and an enchanted audience. It's grown into a site at North Park- two tents with storytelling going concurrently, workshops, a storytelling store, and world class talent.
  • Westmoreland Fair
    At the Westmoreland County Fairgrounds in Greensburg.
 

September

  • Black Sheep Puppet Festival
    The Brew House - an artist's collective - sponsors the annual Black Sheep Puppet Festival. The Festival features experimental and traditional puppetry and performance, films, music and children's workshops.
  • Bloomfield Little Italy Days
    3 days of live music & dance, food, games, contests, more food, kid stuff, sidewalk sales and more celebrating our Italian heritage. By the Bloomfield Business Association.
  • A Fair in the Park
    Started in 1969, A Fair in the Park is an annual contemporary craft festival, presented each September by The Craftsmen's Guild of Pittsburgh in Mellon Park, adjacent to The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
  • Ligonier Highland Games
    Annual event in September. Join the gathering of the clans in the scenic Laurel Highlands of Pennsylvania for three exciting days of dancing, piping, drumming, massed bands, heavy athletics, storytelling, harping, and much more!
  • Penn's Colony
    Experience 18th century history and crafts two weekends in September
  • Pittsburgh Dragon Boat Festival
    The Pittsburgh Dragon Boat Festival is a unique multi-cultural event. Featuring dragon boat races with teams from around the country, Asian restaurants cooking their specialties, food from other Pittsburgh Sister Cities, Dragon and Lion Dance performers, Chinese opera, Tai Chi performers, martial arts demonstrations, artist drawings, children’s events, and much more. The festival is a not-for-profit initiative.
  • Pittsburgh Irish Festival
    An annual event each September in Station Square, Pittsburgh.
  • Pittsburgh New Works Festival
    Twelve new one-act plays are produced by different theatre companies during the four weeks of the festival. Three new one-acts are performed each weekend. All festival productions are performed at the Hamburg Studio. Hamburg Studio is located on the South Side, 57 South 13th Street.
  • Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival
    August and September
 

October

  • Canonsburg Oktoberfest
    These always seem to take place in September. Downtown Canonsburg; (724) 222-6960
  • Pittsburgh International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
    Yearly event held in October.
  • Springs Folk Festival
    Experience how our forefathers worked & played. 140 juried craftsmen, music, PA Dutch Food in Springs, PA. Put on by the Springs Historical Society of the Casselman Valley. Located southeast of Pittsburgh, south of Meyersdale in Somerset County near the Maryland border.
  • Fort Ligonier Days
    A very popular annyal 3-day festival, commemorating the Battle of Fort Ligonier, a key engagement of the French and Indian War, October 12, 1758. In Ligonier, PA in the Laurel Highlands east of Pittsburgh.
  • Pittsburgh International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
    The Pittsburgh International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (PILGFF) is an annual celebration of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered writers, directors, actors and their work. Each year in October, hundreds of movie-goers from Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and the surrounding areas are treated to ten days of high quality entertainment, including feature films, shorts, and videos from the hottest national and international LGBT filmmakers of our time.
 

November

  • Three Rivers Film Festival
    A yearly event of independent and foreign films put on by the Pittsburgh Filmmakers.
  • Light Up Night (Friday before Thanksgiving)
    Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership
    Light Up Night is the traditional launch of the holidays in Downtown Pittsburgh on the Friday before Thanksgiving. At the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership website you can check out the full schedule of activities including the traditional tree-lighting ceremony by the Mayor.
 

December

  • Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership
    Downtown Pittsburgh - A Holiday Tradition With a New Twist
    A five-week holiday celebration that includes a special focus on three special Thursday evenings and Saturday activities including the free Dollar Bank shopping shuttle, free horse drawn carriage rides, strolling carolers and street performers.
  • FirstNight Pittsburgh
    "a community- and family-oriented, alcohol-free celebration of the arts" on New Year's Eve.
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