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Annual Oakland County Events and Festivals That You Shouldn’t Miss!
If you love attending cultural events and community festivals, you’ll love Oakland County.
In Oakland County, several cities and small towns host annual community events and festivals that are truly fun, unique and exciting. Below are some of the best ones that are totally worth visiting and attending.
This city is popularly known as “A Walkable Community”. It has several fine shops, art galleries and amazing restaurants. Birmingham hosts a Farmer’s Market and “In the Park” concerts. Below are some of its annual events.
January – February: Little Christmas Tea, Restaurant Week
March – April: Uptown Film Festival
May – June: Celebrate Birmingham Parade
July – August: Birmingham Cruise Event, Bike Festival, Birmingham Street Art Fair
September – October: Halloween Parade
November – December: Holiday Tree Lighting and Santa House Opens, Magic of Birmingham, Winter Markt (German), Magic of Birmingham, Family New Year Blast
This city has lots of historical buildings and architectural structures that are truly beautiful and exciting. The City of Farmington hosts a Farmers and Artisans Market, as well as concert and entertainment series in Riley Park. Here are some of its annual events:
May – June: Art on the Grand
July – August: Founders Festival
September – October: Harvest Moon Celebration, Ghost Walk, Heritage Week
November – December: Holly Days
Dubbed as the “Good Neighbors” city, the City of Ferndale is one of the most affordable and friendliest places to live in Oakland County. Some of its amazing annual events are as follows:
January – February: Blues Festival
March – April: Taste of Ferndale, Assembly Line Concert, Green Week
May – June: Memorial Day Parade, Dyke March, Motor City Pride
July – August: Fido Does Ferndale, Green Cruise, Ferndale Woodward Dream Cruise
September – October: Ferndale Funky Art Fair and DIY Street Fair
November – December: Ferndale Film Festival, Prohibition Party, Holiday Ie Festival & The Warm Hearted Cookie Challenge
Formerly known as “Egypt”, The Village of Milford is truly one of the best places to visit in Oakland County. It has lots of parks, history-rich structures and amazing, picturesque landscapes. It regularly hosts a Farmer’s Market, movies and concert series in the park. Annual Milford events include:
May – June: Memorial Day Parade
July – August: Shop, Rock, and Stroll, Fourth of July Parade, Milford Memories
September – October: Milford Classic Car show, Boo Bash
November – December: Christmas Parade, MBA Christmas Open House
This is one of the busiest cities in Oakland County. The City of Northville is known for its Victorian-era housing, amazing landscape and quaint small-town atmosphere. It’s the home of many amazing shops, galleries and restaurants. Some of its annual events and festivities include:
May – June: Arts and Acts
July – August: Buy Michigan Now
September – October: Victorian Festival, Ghoultide Gathering, Car Tunes Fall Festival
November – December: Christmas Tea, Holiday Light Parade
These are just few of the many Oakland County events and festivities that happen yearly. As you can see, Oakland County doesn’t run out of exciting occasions and fun gatherings.
H/T: tripsavvy.com
Woodward Dream Cruise is always very popular in August here.
I love these festivals! Our city of Brighton just had their bday celebration and it was a blast!
Oakland county sure looks like a nice place to visit. There are so many activities lined up till year end! It would be nice to attend at least three of them!
There are so many great events in the area! I’d love to visit one day!
These are all great events to check out. The Village of Milford would be the first place I would want to explore.
Lots of great events to check out. My sister lives in Michigan so I will tell her about these.
looks like a lot of choices for fun events this time of year! hope to go to a few.
There are so many fun things going on in Oakland county. I would love to go to the bicycle festival in Birmingham and the Ferndale art fair.
Michigan has so many great summer events that you can spend the whole day just wandering around and enjoying. I have been to all of these, and each offer great activities and things to see. Great list!
I love a good country festival! Looks like there are so many events in the oakland county!! Definitely an amazing place to live!
I totally wish that we were in the area! My kids would love to go to a Halloween parade!
Wow…lots of festivities! Are you one of the organizers?
Oakland is an interesting County! I hope I could visit one of these festivities.
What a fun place to go, I have yet to visit Oakland County. I would definitely love to visit during restaurant week and during the Uptown Film Festival. I would love to take my family here one day soon.
How cool! I love going to these kind of events. I would love to check out what events do we have in our city and other towns near us. Thanks for sharing.
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What a great list of events! They all sound like fun!
Wow such a beautiful place. Nice article very well written and narrated.
Just saw a bunch of old cars & it brings back lots of memories …
So fantastic! I’m a “girl of party” and I love Oakland. I want to enjoy the atmosphere here.
Thanks for sharing these fun events that will be happening all over Oakland County till the end of this year. I wish I lived closer. I would love to attend a few of those festivals!
I’m sure that my whole 2017 will be completed and will be a legend if i wouldn’t miss these events.
I love festivals and adding them to my calendar so we don’t forget. We live in West Palm Beach, the festivals are awesome!
If you had to pick just one event, which one would it be? Which one of these events would you recommend. Would love to attend.
How fun, I use to live in Michigan and I loved the Northville area! I’ll definitely share this for my family back home! Great post!
I wish I lived closer! I definitely wouldn’t miss quite a few of these!
This is a great resource for people living in or visiting Michigan! It sounds like there are a ton of activities going on. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for the events calendar. I love attending festivals and carnivals.
I’m going to have to check out all of these Christmas teas. Great list!