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Festivals & Events
Sol Fest
Noon-7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, May 4 and 5
In 2017, Sol Fest was cancelled due to flooding on Fox Island.
The catastrophic emotional effect of this on devotees of the festival cannot be understated. Sol Fest exists partly to reassure residents that no further snow squalls lie in wait to ambus...
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Michiana Wine Festival
Noon-6 p.m. Saturday, April 27
Necessity is the mother of invention, and that little pearl of wisdom is apparent when talking about...
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PFW summer camp
Having a large university in any city is a plus, but that advantage goes well beyond providing educa...
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Jeff Corwin
I interviewed Jeff Corwin in 2001 when he was experiencing his first wave of fame, thanks to the Ani...
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Record Store Day
It’s the day we celebrate the independent record store. It’s the day we celebrate music and comm...
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Maumee Mary & Joseph Comedy Festival
As the third Maumee Mary & Joseph Comedy Festival is about to get under way, it is remarkable to con...
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Fort Wayne TinCaps
One of the surprising things about all the activity in the front office of the Fort Wayne TinCaps is...
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Arts United Center
Local historic preservation organization ARCH is shining its spotlight on the Arts United Center, a ...
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Under the Big Top
After years of black-tie fundraisers, the Community Harvest Food Bank decided to try something diffe...
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Dancing with the ARC Stars
With its instantly recognizable hook, referencing one of the most popular competitive shows on telev...
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FAME Festival
It’s the one time a year when more than 6,500 pieces of art are on display and 2,000 students show...
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Plan your St. Paddy's celebration
In 2017, Fort Wayne came in at number 26 on WalletHub’s list of the best places to spend St. Patri...
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Spring Forward Fest
It was a festival whose time had come.
In fact, it’s a festival that was long overdue.
Sure, the f...
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Turnstone Casino Night
There are few activities more intergenerational than visiting casinos. Whether it’s a weekend in L...
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Fort Wayne Home & Garden Show
At the end of the month, a semi will dump 20 tons of sand inside the Memorial Coliseum. That’s 40,...
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Another Bazaar Evening on the Maumee
One of the many organizations dedicated to keeping the local rivers vibrant is Save Maumee. The orga...
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Down the Line 13
What’s better than a whole night that showcases local musicians? One that features those same arti...
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Weather the Fort
Four years ago, a group of community-minded young leaders worked to come up with a new way to bring ...
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John Cusack plus High Fidelity
Last year, the notoriously insular actor John Cusack was offered the chance to preside over public s...
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Festival of Trees
When Cindy Friend decorates a Christmas tree, she tends to shy away from traditional ornaments and g...
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Christmas on Broadway
If the heart of Christmas celebration lies at home with our families, it’s community celebrations ...
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Cirque Dreams
When Cirque Dreams returns to the Honeywell Center in Wabash, bringing with it the seasonal spectacu...
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Fright Night
On Saturday, Kinta Dowdell will transform himself into a zombie for the ninth time when he attends F...
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whatzup Pick
With the huge rise in popularity of craft beers and microbrews over the last decade, we have seen a ...
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Middle Waves
When passionate volunteers come together with a vision, great things can happen. That’s what the o...
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Brewed IN the Fort
Mad Anthony’s first craft beer festival happened 20 years ago under a tent in a parking lot behind...
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whatzup Pick
When lists of the best neighborhoods in Indiana are made, Fort Wayne’s West Central Neighborhood r...
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Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival
As the City of Auburn progresses into the future, the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival invites the co...
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Tri-State Bluegrass Festival
If it’s Labor Day weekend, it must be time for some serious pickin’, with acoustic string instru...
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Taste of the Arts
As if hours of family fun, entertainment, arts, and cultural pleasures weren’t enough, the 10th ed...
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Fort Wayne Pride
Having seen Pride celebrations throughout the month of June, which is officially Pride month, it’s...
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Three Rivers Festival
This year’s Three Rivers Festival is the 50th annual edition, but executive director Jack Hammer ...
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Buskerfest
There's at least one thing that makes busking more difficult than any other kind of performing.
Wi...
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Voices of Unity
In recent years Voices of Unity have put Fort Wayne in the musical spotlight through their successe...
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Gearfest
Sweetwater Sound’s Gearfest is not only unusual among music industry trade shows.
It is unusual ...
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Fort Wayne Germanfest
Long time Fort Wayne residents know that once summer time comes to northeast Indiana, it is time to...
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Hobnobben Film Festival
It's time once again for the Hobnobben Film Festival, the gathering of filmmakers that has put Fort...
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Arab Fest
The 4th annual Arab Fest kicks off the summer festival season with a lineup of world-renowned perfo...
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Embassy Theatre Community Celebration
The opening of the Emboyd Theatre on May 14, 1928 was a pretty big deal, as one can imagine when r...
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Northern Indiana Bluegrass Festival
The mission of the Northern Indiana Bluegrass Association is simple: to introduce and promote blueg...
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Cherry Blossom Festival
Fort Wayne is fortunate to have a diverse community which in turn provides everyone the chance to e...
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Fort Wayne Pride
If you traveled back in time about two decades and told people that an LGBT pride festival in Fort ...
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Three Rivers Festival
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Just one year removed from its 50th anniversary year, Three Rivers Festival has once again bec...
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Festivals & Events
GearFest
There may not be another event in the world quite like Sweetwater Sound's GearFest.
Most showcase...
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Buskerfest
Launching an event called Buskerfest was a brave thing to do in Fort Wayne in 2009.
Busking, both...
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Festival of Gingerbread
For more than three decades the Fort Wayne History Center has been making local history of its own ...
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Fright Night
People may love their Christmas trees and their Labor Day cookouts and their dinner out for Valent...
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Hysterium
By the time that local haunted attraction impresario Brett Molitor acquired the Haunted Cave in 201...
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Brewed IN the Fort Craft Beer Fest
duction and letting the music seek its own path. He says "check this out." If you like it, great. If...
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Fort Wayne Pride
When the Fort Wayne Pride festival debuted modestly in Freimann Square in the mid 90s, the Summit C...
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Three Rivers Festival
Each year as Fort Wayne anticipates the biggest week of a very busy festival season, the upcoming s...
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Three Rivers Festival
The concert schedule in Fort Wayne this summer has been jam-packed with a remarkable lineup of cla...
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Buskerfest
A funny thing happened on the way to last year's Buskerfest. Rain. And lots of it. While that in i...
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GearFest 2016
It only lasts two days, but Sweetwater's GearFest is the kind of event people talk about for weeks,...
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Fort Wayne Germanfest
Suggestions anyone? It seems that Germans have a word for every complex emotion known to humans. Yo...
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Cherry Blossom Festival
The Cherry Blossom Festival, now in it's 11th year, has its roots in a neglected garden.
The Japan...
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Michiana Wine Festival
Nichole Thomas, Cristal Reader and Lisa Beber are three wine-loving friends who are willing to trav...
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Record Store Day
Ten years ago Bob Roets was more than a little concerned about the financial viability of his busin...
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8th Annual Northeast Indiana Playwright Festival
By Steve Penhollow
The Northeast Indiana Playwright Festival, in its eighth year, happens all day S...
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Fort Wayne Home & Garden Show
What is the surest sign that spring is coming? It's not the mobs of people lined up for a pre-Flori...
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