Southern California’s largest free two-day music festival is held each year during the last weekend in September in the community of Normal Heights. The event also features beer gardens and beer tastings, giant carnival rides, festival foods and more than 350 arts and crafts booths.

Anegada Lobster Festival is a two-day culinary event held on the shores of Anegada usually in lat November. It features talented local chefs who will be on hand to prepare, cook, and serve plated sample lobster dishes at participating Anegada restaurants. Participants will dine on three different lobster samplers at each restaurant at a cost of $12 per sampler plate.

This former gold mining town in eastern San Diego County has been growing apples for more than a century. The Apple Days Celebration is a two-day festival held each year in October. The festival has antiques displays, gold-panning demonstrations and, of course, apple pie eating contests. The event runs from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., both Saturday and Sunday. The admiss...

Kivik is a locality situated in Simrishamn Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 960 inhabitants in 2010. It is located in a part of Scania (Skåne) called Österlen. Kivik is known for its annual market, usually taking place on the third Monday through Wednesday of July each year. It's also known for its abundant production of herring, apples and app...

Festival of everything chocolate. Chocolate-making classes, seminars and a seven-course chocolate-themed dinner. Also farm tours and a ballroom gala catered by the state’s top chocolate confectioners, the Big Island Chocolate Festival offers visitors a wonderful introduction to the destination’s sweetest industry.

The Boston Seafood Festival is a celebration created by the Boston Fisheries Foundation designed to enrich the cultural, economic & social vitality of Boston by promoting all aspects of the local seafood economy. The event will take place from 11:00 AM until 6:00 PM and will include more than 20 vendors. It takes place at historic Boston Fish Pier in South Boston....

Drink Craft beer from 70 independent breweries and taste gastropub-styled dishes from 20 of the region’s finest culinary tastemakers.

Cupcakes, pizza, doughnuts, fried chicken, pierogies, tamales and lobster can be found at the Chicago Food Truck Festival. Don't miss the sangria garden, giveaways, entertainment, outdoor games like corn hole, Jenga and volleyball, and taste portions from up to 50 gourmet food trucks.

As Chinchilla produces 25% of Australia’s melons (including watermelon, rockmelon and honeydew), the first Chinchilla Melon Festival was started in 1994 by local producers and businessmen, to lift the town’s spirits after the severe drought experienced in the early 1990s. Estimated numbers at the first Festival were approximately 2,500, and it has been est...

Every year, as the Valle de Guadalupe Fiestas de la Vendimia draw to a close, the Concurso de Paella (Paella Contest) serves as the grand culmination of the festival. As the last event on the calendar for the annual wine fest, the Paella Contest makes sure that the Vendimia goes out in style. Held at Liceaga winery outside under the oak trees in the dog days of summer...

The Connemara Mussel Festival is a celebration of Killary mussels which takes place every May Bank Holiday Weekend. The festival includes mussel cooking demonstrations and competitions, music, fun, children's activities, drama, heritage walks, a country market and lots of craic. The hub of the festival is in Tullycross Village where professional chefs will demonstrate...

Come join us at the Largest Cranberry Festival in the World, more than 110,000 visitors come to the Cranberry Capital of Wisconsin on the last full weekend of September. Ride a guided tour bus on a Cranberry Marsh Tour Friday or Saturday. Over 1,300 booths of arts & crafts, antique & flea market, and farm market items. Enjoy mouth-watering fall produce and a v...

The Festival de las Conchas y el Vino Nuevo is a 4-day festival that takes place in Ensenada, Baja California late-March/early-April. Enjoy tours of mussel crops, abalone cultivation, and learn how to prepare shellfish. Try wine from more than 30 Baja California wineries, accompanied by seafood prepared by restaurants and local producers.

The Galway Food Festival takes place over the Easter Bank Holiday Weekend each year. Enjoy 5 days of exceptional food and lots of free events for all the family in Ireland's favourite festival city. The 2014 event will include an extended food village at Spanish Arch on the banks of the River Corrib; open-air markets at Galway Market, Woodquay Country Market and Moyc...

The Galway International Oyster Festival is a food festival held annually in Galway on the west coast of Ireland on the last weekend of September, the first month of the oyster season. Inaugurated in 1954, it was the brainchild of the Great Southern Hotel (now Hotel Meyrick) manager, Brian Collins. In 2000 was described by the Sunday Times as "one of the 12 greatest s...