Festivals & Events
Explore Rochester Series
With events centered around food, music, and the arts, Rochester is known as a festival city.
With more than 140 festivals happening throughout the year there is always something to
celebrate in Rochester and the Finger Lakes. Here are just a few of the events going
on in Rochester, NY.
MAY
5/1 Spring Wildflower & Orchid Show 250 Gibson St., Canandaigua
5/1 Rochester Red Wings Game Frontier Field Rochester (reoccurring)
5/1 Community Garage Sale Rochester Public Market Rochester
5/6 Perinton Art Group’s Show & Sale Perinton Community Center Fairport
5/7 Genesee Country Village & Museum Mumford (reoccurring)
5/8 Flower City Days Rochester Public Market Rochester (reoccurring)
5/6-8 Lilac Festival Highland Park Rochester
5/12-15 Lilac Festival Highland Park Rochester
5/19-22 Lilac Festival Highland Park Rochester
5/21 Finger Lakes Celtic Festival Shortsville, NY
5/20 Finger Lakes Food Tours 800 S. Main St., Canandaigua
JUNE
6/2-16 Peony Tours Bristol Hills Lavender and Flower Farm Bristol
6/4 Fairport Canal Days Village of Fairport
6/17-25 Rochester International Jazz Festival Rochester
JULY
7/9-10 Corn Hill Arts Festival
7/30 Spencerport Canal Days Car Show American Legion, Spencerport
AUGUST
8/6-7 Park Ave Festival-Canceled
8/13 Brockport Arts Festival Brockport
8/13 Rochester Water Lantern Festival North Ponds Park Webster
8/19 Flour City Brewers Fest Rohrbach Brewing Rochester
SEPTEMBER
9/13-24 Key Bank Fringe Festival Rochester
9/18 Artist Row at the Rochester Public Market Rochester
9/24 Canaltown Days Palmyra
OCTOBER
10/1 Hilton Apple Festival
NOVEMBER
11/5 Rochester Children’s Book Festival RIT
