Festivals in Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas festivals are always a huge draw for people who live here and visitors alike. Austin festivals always provide the best in food and music!

131.12 Austin Vintage Style Festival

131.12 Austin Vintage Style Festival

By Kristy Owen | Festivals, Things To Do In Austin

The first Vintage Style Festival debuted in Austin in November, and it’s back in all of it’s old-school glory! This town loves vintage anything, and this is a perfect place to find cool stuff. It also encourages people to keep it local by checking out vintage shops and boutiques around town. Participants are also encouraged

112.12 Austin Earth Day Festival 2012

112.12 Austin Earth Day Festival 2012

By Kristy Owen | Family Friendly, Festivals, Free things to do in Austin, Outside, Things To Do In Austin

Austin loves Earth Day, and this festival is meant to inform, inspire and celebrate “the City of Green Ideas!” They will have speakers, exhibits, a petting zoo, an eco-maze, face painting and plenty of local food trailers, including Jim Jim’s Italian Ices, The Belgian Waffle Co., Short Bus Subs and more. There’s also going to

104.12 Dog Day Afternoon

104.12 Dog Day Afternoon

By Kristy Owen | Dog Friendly, Family Friendly, Festivals, Free things to do in Austin, Outside, Things To Do In Austin

Dog Day Afternoon is the perfect way for you to spend some quality time with your four-legged friend. The park at the Triangle will be a canine extravaganza! They’ll have a doggy dance contest, chihuahua fun run, dog talent show and a weenie dog race! By the end of the afternoon I imagine both you

91.12 Family Water Festival

91.12 Family Water Festival

By Kristy Owen | Family Friendly, Festivals, Free things to do in Austin, Outside, Things To Do In Austin

Happy April Fools Day! Today’s festival is a chance to celebrate and learn more about the Colorado River in Texas with all kinds of fun and educational activities. They will have fishing and canoe clinics, reptile and river bug shows, arts and crafts, puppet shows, games, face painting, a photo booth, workshops and more! This

74.12 Wildfire Reggae & Arts Festival

74.12 Wildfire Reggae & Arts Festival

By Kristy Owen | Family Friendly, Festivals, Free things to do in Austin, Live Music, Things To Do In Austin

It’s time for the third annual Reggae & Arts Festival at Ruta Maya. This is a great event for reggae lovers and a chance for you to hear some awesome music while enjoying the weather on Congress. They will have music all day featuring artists from all over the world. If you love reggae, you need

63.12 Zilker Park Kite Festival

63.12 Zilker Park Kite Festival

By Kristy Owen | Dog Friendly, Family Friendly, Festivals, Free things to do in Austin, Outside, Random Fun, Things To Do In Austin

The day has finally arrived for the nation’s oldest kite festival in Zilker Park! This is one of the best events in Austin every year. It’s a great family festival, and one that everyone can enjoy. You can fly a kite just for fun, or you can participate in one of the free contests. Contest

55.12 Austin

55.12 Austin “Juggle”fest

By Kristy Owen | Family Friendly, Festivals, Random Fun, Things To Do In Austin

It’s starting to warm up, which means it’s festival time in Austin. And this one definitely qualifies as weird. Austin Jugglefest is back for its 19th year. As you might guess, there’s a lot of juggling - games, demonstrations, shows, people on unicycles, that kind of thing. Tonight they’re having a free “Renegade” show at Ruta Maya

26.12 Oh Snap! Festival

26.12 Oh Snap! Festival

By Kristy Owen | Festivals, Live Music, Things To Do In Austin

The Oh Snap! Benefit Festival is very special to me. My friends organized this in memory of their friend who passed away after being killed by a drunk driver. The festival has grown tremendously over the years, and all the money raised goes to The Sergio Machado Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship helps international students attend

308.11 Texas Science & Engineering Festival

308.11 Texas Science & Engineering Festival

By Kristy Owen | Family Friendly, Festivals, Free things to do in Austin, Random Fun, Things To Do In Austin

Did you remember to set your clocks back one hour before you went to bed last night? It certainly felt good to beat Tech yesterday. Then again, it always feels great to be a Longhorn. I would rather be in Austin than Lubbock any day. Anyway, for all the families with little geniuses and future

307.11 Austin Celtic Festival

307.11 Austin Celtic Festival

By Kristy Owen | Family Friendly, Festivals, Live Music, Outside, Things To Do In Austin

Calling all Austin Celts, or those that just want to sing, dance, eat and celebrate all night at an awesome festival! It will be a day full of Irish dance, Scottish games, history and Celtic animals. This is an extremely family friendly event. Saturday will feature a Celtic Dog Parade, mini horses, Clydesdales and more.