Chelsea Jamboree
A small Route 66 town that once served as the oil-rush gateway to the Cherokee Strip throws an October jamboree of country and folk music, local food stalls, and main-street community festivity each autumn.
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"Since 1950, Wetumka has commemorated the year a travelling con man persuaded the whole town to spend lavishly preparing for a circus that never arrived, turning the legendary hoax into an irreverent annual celebration of good-natured gullibility."
Wetumka Sucker Day
"One of the smallest towns on the old Cherokee Nation allotment lands of Rogers County, Talala gathers its community of a few hundred souls for a single autumn Saturday of food stalls, local crafts, and the kind of unpretentious fellowship that defines the rural Oklahoma fall calendar."
Talala Fall Festival
"A working sheep farm in Will Rogers's home county opens its gates each October for a pastoral harvest festival where visitors pick pumpkins, watch spinning demonstrations, meet the flock, and experience the hands-on rhythms of an Oklahoma family farm."
Pumpkin Festival at Shepherd's Cross
"Held in Oklahoma's Victorian territorial capital, this three-day bluegrass gathering brings national and international acts to one of the best-preserved late-19th-century Main Streets in the American West."
Oklahoma's International Bluegrass Festival
"Celebrated as the biggest shindig of the year in Blaine County, this small-town Oklahoma festival honours the historic Roman Nose Springs creamery tradition with cheese tasting, a juried art show, a parade, and the full run of small-town fair amusements."
Watonga Cheese Festival and Arts Show
"The county seat of Washita County throws a classic one-day harvest festival each October with pumpkin displays, arts and crafts, children's activities, and the warm Main Street atmosphere of the southern Oklahoma plains."
Cordell Pumpkin Festival
"Billed as the world's oldest and largest old-time music and bluegrass competition, the Galax Old Fiddlers' Convention has gathered mountain musicians at Felts Park since 1935, drawing competitors and campers from across the country."
Old Fiddlers' Convention
"Known as the Teepee Capital of the World, the Crow Fair is one of the largest Native American gatherings in North America, held on the Crow Reservation with powwow dancing, a rodeo, parades, and an encampment of thousands of teepees."
Crow Fair
"An all-day street fair and live music festival filling Main Street in the charming small town of Bristol, Addison County, with local acts, vendors, and community celebration in the shadow of the Green Mountains."
Pocock Rocks Music Festival and Street Fair
"In the tiny Czech hamlet of Praha, founded by Moravian and Bohemian immigrants in the 1850s, Mass is celebrated in a historic Czech-style church on August 15 each year, followed by traditional Czech food and Texas Czech bands playing for outdoor dancing."
Praha Assumption Festival
"An intimate two-day celebration of traditional fiddle and folk music set in the tiny Genesee Valley hamlet of Mumford, drawing acoustic musicians and dancers from across upstate New York."
Fiddle and Folk Festival
"The inaugural successor to the legendary Norsk Hostfest, this new two-day Nordic heritage festival at the Minot Municipal Auditorium carries forward decades of Scandinavian community tradition with two stages of entertainment, food, artisan crafts and educational programming."
Fjord Folk Fest