2023 Top 100 Festivals & Events in Ontario

The list of 2023 top 100 festivals and events in Ontario – awarded by Festivals and Events Ontario (FEO).

Festivals & Events Ontario (FEO) was established in 1987 as an association devoted to the growth and stability of the festival and event industry in Ontario.

Plan a day trip or a weekend getaway centred around these best festivals of Ontario!

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Ongoing  — Spring to Fall

1. Amherstburg Open Air Weekends — May to October
2. Dresden Night Market
3. TD Niagara Jazz Festival @ Niagara Falls
4. Pelham Summer Chill Series @ Pelham
5. Stratford Festival — April to @ Stratford
6. Aurora’s Concerts in the Park @ Aurora
7. Vaughan Celebrates Concerts in the Park @ Vaughan
8. Kingsville Open Streets @ Kingsville
9. Tweed & Company Theatre Season @ Tweed
10. Festivals at Fort William Historical Park – Anishinaabe Keeshigun @ Thunder Bay
11. Thunder Bay Live on the Waterfront @ Thunder Bay

April 2023

1. Eat & Drink Norfolk — April 13-15, 2023 @ Simcoe

May 2023

1. SING! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival — May 29 to June 4, 2023 @ Toronto
2. Carassauga Festival of Cultures — May 26 to 28, 2023 @  Mississauga
3. Timmins Multicultural Festival — May @ Timmins
4. Creemore Springs Turas Mor — May 13 @ Creemore

June 2023

1. The Streetsville Founders’ Bread and Honey Festival — June 2 to 4, 2023 @ Mississauga
2. Barrie Automotive Flea Market — June 1 to 4, 16 to 18, 2023 @ Bonfield
3. Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival — June 2 to 4, 2023 @ Orangeville
4. Paisley Blues Festival — June 2 to 4, 2023 @ Paisley
5. Luminato Festival — June 7 to 18 @ Toronto
6. LaSalle Strawberry Festival — June 8 to 11, 2023 @ LaSalle
7. Peony Festival — June 10 to 11, 2023 @ Oshawa
8. Ontario’s Best Butter Tart Festival — June 10, 2023  @  Midland
9. Sound of Music Festival — June 15 to 18, 2023 @ Burlington
10. Carrousel of the Nations @ Windsor
11. The Sound Waterfront Festival — June 30 to July 1 @ Owen Sound
12. TD Ottawa Jazz Festival — June 23-30, 2023 @ Ottawa
13. Festival of the Sound @ Parry Sound

July 2023

1. Canada Day — July 1, 2023 @ Vaughan
2. Canada Day — July 1, 2023 @ Goderich
3. TD Sunfest: Canada’s Premier Celebration of World Cultures — July 6 to 9, 2023 @ London
4. RBC Bluesfest — July 6 to 16, 2023 @ Ottawa
5. Afrofest — July 7 to 9, 2023 @ Toronto
6. TD Salsa in Toronto Festival — July 8 & 9, 2023 @ Toronto
7. Mariposa Folk Festival — July  7 to 9, 2023 @ Orillia
8. Belleville Waterfront & Multicultural Festival — July  @ Belleville
9. Pelham Summerfest — July 13 to 16, 2023 @ Pelham
10. Lighthouse Blues Festival — July 14 to 16, 2023 @ Kincardine
11. Because Beer Festival — July 14 to 15, 2023 @ Hamilton
12. The Mount Forest Fireworks Festival — July 14 to 16, 2023 @  Mount Forest
13. Richmond Hill’s Ribfest — July 21 to 23, 2023 @ Richmond Hill
14. Guelph Hillside Festival — July 28 to 30 @ Guelph

August 2023

1. Canal Days Marine Heritage Festival — Civic Day Weekend @ Port Colbourne
2. Toronto Caribbean Carnival — August 3rd to 7th, 2023 @ Toronto
3. Kempenfest — August 4 to 7, 2023 @ Barrie
4. Glengarry Highland Games — August 4-5, 2023 @ Maxville
5. National Bank Tennis Open presented by Rogers — August 5 to 13, 2023
6. TD Jerk Food and Music Festival — August 10 to 13, 2023 @ Toronto
7. Boots and Hearts Music Festival — August 10 to 13, 2023 @ Oro-Medonte
8. Fergus Scottish Festival & Highland Games — August 11 to 13, 2023 @ Fergus
9. Mississauga Italfest — August 11 to 12 @ Mississauga
10. Dundas Cactus Festival — August 18 to 20, 2023 @ Dundas
11. Riverfest Elora — August 18 to 20, 2023 @ Elora
12. Canadian National Exhibition — August 18 to September 4, 2023
13. Carrot Fest — August 19, 2023 @ Bradford
14. Fan EXPO Canada — August 24 to 27, 2023 @ Toronto
15. Music in the Fields — August 24 to 26, 2023 @ Lucknow
16. Paris Fair —  August 31 to September 4, 2023 @ Paris
17. Telling Tales Festival — August @ Burlington
18. Sun Life Waterloo Busker Carnival — August 24 to 27, 2023 @ Waterloo
19. Winona Peach Festival — August 25 to 27, 2023  @ Hamilton
20. Port Hope Arts Festival — August @ Port Hope
21. The Great India Festival — August @ Ottawa

September 2023

1. Western Fair— September 8-17, 2023 @ London
2. Niagara Grape and Wine Festival — September @ Niagara Falls/St. Catharines
3. Markham-Milliken Children’s Festival @ Markham
4. World Of Jazz Festival — September 9 & 10, 2023 @ Brampton
5. Southside Shuffle Blues and Jazz Festival — September 8 to 10, 2023 @ Mississauga
6. St. George AppleFest — September 16 to 17 @ St. George
7. Brooklin Harvest Festival — September 16, 2023 @ Whitby
8. International Plowing Match & Rural Expo — September 19 to 23 @ Bowling Green
9. Collingwood Art Crawl — September @ Collingwood
10. Hike Haliburton Festival — September 21 to 24, 2023 @ Haliburton County
11. Multicultural Festival — September 23, 2023 @ Aurora
12. Supercrawl — September @ Hamilton
13. Toronto Garlic Festival @ Toronto
14. Mississauga MuslimFest @ Mississauga
15. Redpath Waterfront Festival @ Toronto
16. Markham Fair @ Markham
17. Clearview Small Halls Festival — September to November @ Clearview Township

October 2023

1. Norfolk County Fair & Horse Show — October 3 to 9, 2023
2. Port Elgin Pumpkinfest — October @ Port Elgin
3. Bala Cranberry Festival — October 13 to 15 @ Bala
4. Hops on the Water — October 14 @ Quinte West
5. Aurora’s Haunted Forest — October 28, 2023 @ Aurora
6. Pumpkinferno — October @ Penetanguishene
7. Kingsville Migration Festival @ Kingsville
8. Waterford Lions Pumpkinfest — October 13 to 15 @ Waterford

Winter 2023 – 2024

1. The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair — November @ Toronto
2. Richmond Hill Merry Marketplace — November @ Richmond Hill
3. City of Windsor Bright Lights — November to January @ Windsor
4. Stouffville Holiday Market — November @ Whitchurch-Stouffville
5. St. Marie Among the Hurons – First Light Festival — November/December @  Midland
6. Port Hope Candlelight Festival — November to December @ Port Hope
7. Amherstburg River Lights Winter Festival — November 18, 2023 till January 8, 2024 @ Downtown Amherstburg
8. OPG Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights — November to February @ Niagara Falls
9. Hamilton Winterfest — February @ Hamilton
10. Winterlude — February @ Ottawa
11. Crane Creations Theatre Company – Bridges Festival — March Break @ Mississauga

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