Fall Mississippi Festivals

Memphis Tri-State Blues Festival - Southaven, MS - Aug 17, 2024

Biloxi Seafood Festival - Biloxi, MS - Sep 14, 2024
A giant festival featuring great seafood, live music, children’s games, arts & crafts and more. Celebrate Biloxi’s rich culture, heritage, and more.

Mid-South Fair - Southaven, MS - Sep 19 to Sep 29, 2024
The Mid-South Fair will be returning to Landers Center! There will be 11 days of fun with exciting carnival midway rides for adults and children, carnival games, outdoor entertainment, petting zoo, contests, delicious fair food and more.

Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival - Greenville, MS - Sep 21, 2024
The largest blues festival in the Delta and the oldest in the United States. Always held on the 3rd Saturday in September, it features both local and national blues artists. Started in 1977.

Mississippi Pecan Festival - Beaumont, MS - Sep 27 to Sep 29, 2024
Over 250 booths with arts and crafts, antiques, the South’s finest foods, live bluegrass music, demonstrations, raffles and more. Don’t miss the bake-off or pecan pies.

Hernando Water Tower Festival - Hernando, MS - Sep 28, 2024
Enjoy crafts, vendor booths, live music, a car show, BBQ contest, a corn hole tournament and a free Kids Zone!

Tupelo Chili Festival and Fall Festival - Tupelo, MS - Oct 4 to Oct 5, 2024
Everyone’s favorite chili cook-off is back, and teams compete against each other in a number of prize categories, including best recipe, team spirit, best costumes, most creative tent and most original theme. Attendees can come at both lunch and dinner – tickets are sold at the gate upon entrance. You get to eat a bowl of delicious chili, then sample each team’s recipe, all before casting your vote for People’s Choice. As if that wasn’t enough, there’s beer and live music to make it the perfect Friday night! Saturday is Fall Festival, with a family fun day and free concert

Pilgrimage & Pioneer Day Festival - Carrollton, MS - Oct 4 to Oct 5, 2024
Tour lots of historic homes, churches, and buildings in the area plus the J.Z. George Library. Enjoy live music, food, educational exhibits, traditional arts and crafts, and more at festival headquarters, 701 Lexington Street. Parking available on Washington Street or in front of the Courthouse.

Tupelo Ale Trail - Tupelo, MS - Oct 4 to Oct 5, 2024
Ale Trail is a progressive craft beer tasting with stops in shops throughout Downtown Tupelo. Start your night by picking up your beer glass and map at FNB Bank, then shop around with participating merchants. End your night with an after-party

Loblolly Festival - Laurel, MS - Oct 5, 2024
Annual event held the first Saturday in October. Get heritage with a small town feel with lots of artists, crafters, and craftmen set up downtown. Enjoy great food, funnel cake, and art judging.

Mississippi Peanut Festival - Collins, MS - Oct 5 to Oct 6, 2024
Mitchell Farms host this annual event. Includes over 75 vendors of yard art, jewelry, collectibles, antiques, arts, crafts, and a wide variety of food, plus pumpkin patch and a tour of a working farm with turn of the century antiques. There is also a fundraiser 5K raising funds for St Jude’s Children’s Hospital.

Horn Lake Food Truck Festival - Horn Lake, MS - Oct 5, 2024
Join in the fun with craft vendors, live music, Kids Zone and of course many food trucks. Free admission.

Saint John Oktoberfest - Hattiesburg, MS - Oct 5, 2024
St. John Lutheran Church, with many of its church members descendants of German immigrants, has hosted this annual event for more than 40 years. It shares German food and culture with visitors to raise money for the church’s mission work. They offer German brats, sauerkraut, potato salad and other food for sale while guests listen to folk songs. There is also a silent auction, quilt raffle and deli featuring German meats and desserts.

Olive Branch Arctoberfest - Olive Branch, MS - Oct 5, 2024
A fundraiser for the Arc Northwest Mississippi at the Mississippi Ale House in Olive Branch

Cruisin’ The Coast - Gulfport, MS - Oct 6 to Oct 13, 2024
Over 8000 cars kick off America’s Largest Block Party from several coastal locations. Enjoy cruise-ins, headline bands, oldies entertainment, swap meet, auto auction, and more.

Celtic Fest Mississippi - Brandon, MS - Oct 11 to Oct 13, 2024
Scottish clans, Highland games, Scotch and whisky tastings, vendors and more

Cleveland Oktoberfest - Cleveland, MS - Oct 11 to Oct 12, 2024
More than 15,000 gather here every year for the event that has been called one of the best outdoor festivals in the Delta. It is organized by more than 100 community volunteers. While you are here, you will also be able to enjoy the Mississippi Delta State Barbecue Championship. The event kicks off on Friday afternoon, when the BBQ contest (featuring chefs from around the South) starts and they begin announcing some of the division winners. Live entertainment and dancing continue well into the evening. The antique car show and craft booths are on Saturday. Children’s activities include inflatables, face painting, rock climbing wall, train rides and more. So prepare for a weekend of pork barbecue, German brats, live music and fun. Since 1982.

Bukka White Festival - Aberdeen, MS - Oct 12, 2024
Lots of arts and crafts, kid’s fun, animal show, antiques, classic cars and fantastic blues music. A tribute named after singer-guitarist Booker “Bukka” White who lived in the Aberdeen area.

Deep Blues Festival - Clarksdale, MS - Oct 17 to Oct 20, 2024
Visit Clarksdale for a weekend of blues. Tickets are just $75 for the weekend (Thursday, Friday, Saturday nights, plus Sunday afternoon) and gives you access to all shows at the New Roxy and the Shack Up Inn. There is plenty of free daytime music as well.

Delta Hot Tamale Festival - Greenville, MS - Oct 18 to Oct 19, 2024
Greenville is the “Hot Tomale Capital of the World”. Activity starts at the Greenville Inn and Suites but expands throughout downtown. Enjoy children’s fun in the square

Great Mississippi River Balloon Race - Natchez, MS - Oct 18 to Oct 19, 2024
Held at Rosalie Bicentennial Gardens, it features a carnival section with rides, games, and fun for all ages. Enjoy plenty of food. Local sports bars host college football on Saturday and the Saints football on Sunday. Also the exciting Balloon Race plus live music all weekend.

Gautier Mullet Festival - Gautier, MS - Oct 19, 2024
A free arts and crafts festival with local cuisine, arts & crafts, fishing rodeo, live music, car and boat show, kids zone, and a mullet toss!

Peter Anderson Festival - Ocean Springs, MS - Nov 2 to Nov 3, 2024
Annual arts and crafts festival featuring culinary events, live music, contests, hand on activities, plus over 150 shops, restaurants, and galleries.  Lots of fun with kid’s activities also.

Mermaids Arts & Crafts Show - Bay St Louis, MS - Nov 9 to Nov 10, 2024
Held on the shady grounds of the Historic L&N Train Depot in beautiful Bay St Louis, Mississippi

Gulf Coast Veterans Parade - Gulfport, MS - Nov 9, 2024
Celebrating over 100 years since World War I ended and Armistice Day/Veteran’s Day has been celebrated, and continuing to honor all those who have served. Parade Begins at 11:00 AM in Downtown Biloxi to honor the many U.S. Veterans that attend the Gulf Coast Veterans Parade.

Celtic Music Festival and Scottish Highland Games - Gulfport, MS - Nov 9 to Nov 10, 2024
Cultural tent, Highland games, food vendors, sheep herding, jousting, pipe bands and more

Fiber Fun in the ‘Sip - Vicksburg, MS - Feb 21 to Feb 22, 2025
2024, announced move to February. Will wait for return to fall. Description: Two days of fiber arts including knitting, crochet, weaving, and spinning, with vendors and classes, plus music

National Folk Festival - Jackson, MS - Nov 7 to Nov 9, 2025
Itinerant folk festival, held this year in Jackson. One of the country’s largest, longest-running celebrations of arts, culture, and heritage offers three days of free fun with over 350 traditional musicians, dancers, craftspeople, and more, plus children’s activities, food and craft brews, dancing, storytelling, parades and more. Since 1934, this festival has celebrated Americans, no matter how long or how recently their families have lived on these shores.

Hambone Festival - Clarksdale, MS - Oct 26 to Oct 29, 2023
Walk the art gallery downtown, enjoy live blues music, sample bloody marys, and more.

French Camp Harvest Festival - French Camp, MS - Oct 14, 2023
Celebrating “The Lord’s Acre” for over 60 years with thanks, life, and small town living.  Highlighted by the Quilt and Craft auction.  Also crafts, food, music, buggy rides, and more.

Blues Jubilee - Hernando, MS - Nov 4, 2022
This is an evening of blues, great food, and art at One Memphis Street. DeSoto Arts Council will have work on display during this time that is related to Hill Country Blues. All proceeds from this event benefit the Friends of the Von Theater and the DeSoto Arts Council.

Bricks and Spokes - Vicksburg, MS - Oct 1, 2022
Don’t miss your chance to ride the red brick streets of Vicksburg, cross the Old Mississippi River Bridge and Louisiana backroads all in one ride! Cycle Vicksburg’s great rolling hills and see great fall scenery. There is a variety of rides from 10 to sixty-two miles with a choice of two gravel routes.

Bike MS Rockin Ride - Southaven, MS - Sep 10 to Sep 11, 2022
Bike MS is more than a ride. It’s an experience grounded in camaraderie and marked by passion, inspiration, determination and pure enjoyment. It will be an experience you’ll never forget, shared with new friends and old.

Fall Flower and Garden Fest - Crystal Springs, MS - Oct 4 to Oct 8, 2021
Canceled for 2022. Annual event at the Truck Crops Experiment Station. Lots of food, drink, and gardening fun with a 3 acre garden and over 5000 people attending.

Alcorn State University Jazz Festival - Vicksburg, MS - Oct 2, 2021
40th annual. Performances will be from school groups from throughout the SE and the MS Jazz Educators and Cassandra Wilson Group.

Walls Fall Festival - Walls, MS - Oct 19, 2019
Canceled for 2021, look for their return in 2022. Normally: There were 100 vendors in recent years. In addition to vendor and craft booths, there will be children’s inflatables and games, live musical entertainment, silent auction and various community exhibits from Fire, Police, Search and Rescue and more.