Annual Events & Festivals

Spring Fest is a great opportunity all ages to learn about animals, art, astronomy, and much more in two full days of hands-on activities. Admission is free.

Join in the fun at TAP for TAF! Enjoy the best craft beer Indiana has to offer and a beautiful view of Downtown Lafayette. Open to all 21+

A go-kart race held annually since 1958. Event also includes time trials, a car show, a parade and additional activities.

A one-day art fair featuring up to 100 artists from around the nation. Since their humble beginnings in 1973, the Round the Fountain Art Fair has grown to become known as one of the premier juried fine art fairs in the Midwest.

TASTE of Tippecanoe is a one-day summer festival focusing on providing visitors a wide selection of foods from community restaurants and a large selection of live musical entertainment.

Indiana Fiddlers' Gathering is an acoustic music festival featuring the best in old-time, bluegrass, swing jazz fiddle, string band, Celtic and ethnic music on one stage. Held at the Tippecanoe Battlefield in Battle Ground, Indiana.

Lafayette Citizens Band performs a patriotic concert , followed by a robust firework display at dusk.

Riverfest is a family-friendly event that brings people to the shores of the Wabash to celebrate one of the area's greatest natural resources. Enjoy live music, educational opportunities, a 5K run/walk and watch voyageur canoe race team battle it out on the Wabash River.

Downtown Blues and Jazz Festival - a sort of Uptown Jazz & Blues 2.0, which itself was a sort of evolution from the Riverfront Jazz & Blues Fest started in 1996. Downtown Blues and Jazz Festival will host local stalwarts from the Lafayette jazz and blues scene. Come out and enjoy…

Fun family entertainment for all since 1930. Great entertainment, quality music, buildings of crafts and fine handiworks, all phases of agriculture, a wide variety of youth activities, carnival rides and games and of course, mouth watering fair food.

OUTfest, Lafayette's annual pride festival hosted by Pride Lafayette, aims to increase public awareness of the LGBTI community in Lafayette and beyond.

Beers Across the Wabash is a craft beer tasting experience featuring beers and representatives from small breweries throughout Indiana.

Germanfest offers authentic German food, beer and wine tents, live Polka music, casino and carnival rides and games for children in Downtown Lafayette, Indiana.

Tippecanoe Latino Festival of the Greater Lafayette area. Annual event showcasing our diverse and vibrant culture and traditions!

Global Fest celebrates world cultures through music, dance, crafts, displays and international food.

Artists from fifteen Indiana counties show their art along the beautiful Wabash River in this juried fair.

A weekend of events on the Purdue University Campus including the Homecoming Parade, pep rally, Mackey madness, the family-friendly celebration on the Purdue Mall and then the Homecoming Football Game.

The Feast of the Hunters' Moon is a re-creation of the annual fall gathering of the French and Native Americans which took place Fort Ouiatenon, a fur-trading outpost in the mid 1700s. It is held annually in early autumn on the banks of the Wabash River. Thousands of participants…

The Downtown Christmas Parade is Indiana's largest holiday parade. Marching bands, floats and even Santa take part.

The Purdue Christmas Show is made up of performances by the Varsity Glee Club, the Purduettes, University Choir, Heart and Soul, Purdue Kids Choir and the All Campus and Community Chorale.

Join thousands of runners and walkers at this incredible event, which starts and finishes outside of Ross-Ade Stadium, the home of Purdue football!