"A three-day seaside carnival on the Suffolk coast with a Battle of the Bands theme for 2026, featuring a decorated shields procession, fairground, fireworks finale, and live music across the weekend on the esplanade."
Felixstowe Carnival
"Fairies, alchemists, water nymphs and wizards take over a moated Tudor manor's gardens for a weekend of enchanted imagination where dressing up is warmly expected."
Magic Weekend at Kentwell Hall
✦ Weird & Wonderful"Named for the spectral black dog that terrorised St Mary's Church in 1577, this brilliant folklore festival fills the town with art, parade, storytelling and a ritual burning of demons."
Black Shuck Festival
✦ Weird & Wonderful"Over 1,200 vehicles from 1928 to now sweep the driveway of a Grade I listed moated hall, with birds of prey, swing dancing and Grade I garden entry included in one day."
Festival of Classic and Sports Cars at Helmingham Hall
"A free three-day community celebration that grew from a grassroots music idea into Suffolk's friendliest festival, with tribute acts, children's workshops, street food and a stage for all."
Saxmundham Community Fest
"Suffolk's award-winning seaside carnival fills the shingle beach town of Aldeburgh across a summer Bank Holiday weekend, with a procession, 10K Mini Marathon, community events and the particular magic of carnival lights on the North Sea."
Aldeburgh Carnival
"402 years old and still going: the parade winds through the market town to the riverside quay for a weekend of live music, a fun dog show and genuine community spirit."
Beccles Carnival
"Three days of music, ale, art and family on a Suffolk estate, famed for its premieres and firsts and a reputation as one of the best-loved folk weekends in the country."
FolkEast
"Two days of Suffolk country life on the grounds of Framlingham College, with a dedicated dog show, local produce, rural crafts and live music in a properly family-friendly setting."
Framlingham Country Show
"The final ever edition of a 40-year tradition brings Renaissance and Baroque voices to the ancient wool-trade churches of Lavenham, Kersey and Clare for one last magnificent farewell."
Suffolk Villages Festival
"The medieval market town of Bury St Edmunds fills its Abbey Gardens and town centre with artisan food and drink producers each August Bank Holiday, a free festival that celebrates Suffolk's extraordinary larder of provender from the Breckland and the farmland of west Suffolk."
Bury St Edmunds Food and Drink Festival
"Forty local makers and artisan producers fill the medieval village hall and its glebe field in one of Suffolk's most photographed timber-framed villages, with street food trucks and barista coffee outside."
Lavenham Summer Craft and Foodie Festival
"For its 44th year around forty gardens open across the village with brass bands, Morris dancing and a free vintage bus to ferry weary visitors between cream teas."
Walsham le Willows Open Gardens
"A whole Suffolk market town turns its churches, pubs and castle bailey into stages for a long weekend of folk where most of the music is free and open to all."
Bungay Folk Festival
"A traditional village fete held each September in the small West Suffolk village of Barnham, raising over four thousand pounds annually split equally between the local church, school, and village hall."
Barnham Village Fete
"Suffolk producers gather at Snape Maltings by the river for two days of tastings and demonstrations."
Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival
"Ampton Hall estate near Bury St Edmunds hosts a ploughing competition in the chalky boulder clay of West Suffolk each autumn, a county match that draws skilled ploughmen from across East Anglia to fields that have been arable since the Domesday Book."
Ampton Hall Ploughing Match
"A weekend festival drawing poets from across the world to the Suffolk coast each November, with readings, talks and performances filling Aldeburgh's Jubilee Hall and seafront venues in one of England's most concentrated celebrations of poetry."
Poetry in Aldeburgh
"Forty local crafters and artisan makers fill the medieval village hall of this Suffolk wool town for a two-day Christmas market, running alongside the award-winning Lavenham Farmers Market and a pop-up cafe in one of England's best-preserved medieval streetscapes."
Lavenham Christmas Craft Market
"Lavenham Village Hall fills with more than forty local makers and artisan crafters across a November weekend, with the award-winning Lavenham Farmers Market running outside on the Sunday."
Lavenham Two Day Christmas Craft Market
"Hundreds of stalls spill through Georgian streets and around the cathedral in one of East Anglia's most atmospheric small-town festive markets."
Bury St Edmunds Christmas Fayre
"The Suffolk market town whose Norman castle looms over its rooftops brings its square alive with stalls each December, a small and properly local market where the castle walls provide a backdrop that no purpose-built Christmas market could ever replicate."
Framlingham Christmas Market
"On the parkland of the Duke of Grafton's Euston Estate, 350 exhibitors, clay shooting, falconry and rare-breed demonstrations celebrate East Anglian country life across two glorious April days."
East Anglian Game and Country Fair
"The classical festival founded by Benjamin Britten, centred on the concert hall at Snape Maltings."
Aldeburgh Festival
"Over 100 local food and drink producers and street food traders gather in the grounds of Kentwell Hall in one of Suffolk's finest wool villages for a June celebration of East Anglian produce."
Taste of East Anglia Food and Drink Festival
"A dozen gardens centred on two village greens open their gates, including the listed serpentine Crinkle Crankle walled garden at Tostock Place, with homemade cakes in the churchyard tea tent."
Tostock Open Gardens
"The medieval hilltop village comes alive with 40 stalls, live music and the flavours of East Suffolk in a community market that refreshes four times a year."
Wickham Market Summer Market on the Hill
"A full day of folk sessions, open stages and real ale in the walled gardens of Nowton Park, where the 12th festival gathers East Anglia's finest acoustic talent."
Bury Folk Festival
"In its 57th year and the first open gardens event of its kind in the country, around twenty gardens welcome visitors with a vintage tractor rally and Morris dancers winding through a timbered Brett valley village."
Chelsworth Open Gardens
"The UK's first and finest Americana festival, staged among the barns and animal pens of Easton Farm Park with Cajun roosters, hula dancing and murder ballads."
The Maverick Festival
"A brand new village rally raising funds for Suffolk Lowland Search and Rescue, with classic cars, tractors and commercials from all eras gathering in one of the county's most picturesque wool villages."
Boxford Vintage and Classic Vehicle Rally