Westfest
Founded in 1976 in the Czech-heritage town of West, this Labor Day weekend festival on the Central Texas prairie celebrates Czech culture through nonstop polka and folk music, traditional food, beseda dancing, and a downtown parade.
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"The Blanco County Fair in LBJ Country brings together local ranching and farming families for livestock judging, ag exhibits, and small-town fair traditions in a county seat of just 1,600 people."
Blanco County Fair and Rodeo Association 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
"The oldest continuously running county fair in Texas, held since well over a century ago in this German-founded Hill Country town, features livestock judging, FFA and 4-H exhibits, pari-mutuel horse racing, a 200-unit parade, and live dancing each evening."
Gillespie County Fair
"Operating since 1906 over Labor Day weekend in the German-founded Hill Country town of Boerne, this traditional county fair brings together livestock shows, rodeo events, and local agricultural exhibits."
Kendall County Fair
"More than 200 teams converge on Brady, the Heart of Texas, each Labor Day to compete in the only world championship devoted entirely to goat cookery, a tradition rooted in McCulloch County's ranching culture."
World Championship Goat Cookoff
"On the square of the self-declared Kolache Capital of Texas, this free one-day festival serves tens of thousands of homemade Czech pastries alongside polka bands, the Beseda national dance, a kolache eating contest, and a classic car show."
Caldwell Kolache 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
"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
"A family-friendly lakeside festival on the shores of Lake Cumberland bringing top local, regional, and national bluegrass acts to the small county seat of Russell Springs every third weekend of August."
Lake Cumberland Bluegrass Festival