Fall Festivals
Sept. 22-24: Blackwater music Festival with the Flaming Lips and others, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, Live Oak. Tickets: $150-$180 weekend. (www.blackwatermusicfestival)Sept. 24-25: Art Festival at Thornebrook, 2441 NW 43rd St., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday - Sunday; preview 6-9 p.m. Friday. (www.thornebrookart.org)
Sept. 24-25: Downtown Latino Festival, noon to 5p.m., Bo Diddley Community Plaza. (downtownlatino.org)
Oct. 1: Quilt Show- A Walk Through Time, 10 a.m. to 3p.m., Dudley Farm Historic State Park. Admission $5 per car. (www.friendsofdudleyfarm.org)
Oct. 1: 22nd Annual Central Florida Harvest and Peanut Festival, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Heritage Park on Main Street, Williston. (528-5552)
Oct. 6: Ronald Regan Black Tie and Blue Jean BBQ with Ted Nugent, 5:30 p.m., Canterbury Equestrian Show Place, Newberry. Tickets: $65-$125, students $45. (www.blacktieandbluejeans.com)
Oct. 6-8: Fall Palatka Bluegrass Festival featuring The Grascals Rhonda Vincent and The Rage, Rodeheaver Boys' Ranch, highway 19, Palatka. Tickets: $30 daily advance $35 at the gate, $75-$85 three-day pass. (706-864-7203)
Oct. 8: Walk to end Alzheimer's fundraiser for the Alzheimer's Association, Central and North Florida Chapter 9 a.m., The Village at Haile Plantation. (www.alz.org/cnfl)
Oct. 15-16: Cedar Key Seafood Festival, Cedar Key, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. daily. (543-5600)
Oct. 20-23: Magnolia Fest with Bela Fleck and the Flecktons, Lucinda Williams, Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, Live Oak. (904-249-7990 or http://magnoliafest.com)
Oct. 22: 4th Annual Chili Cook-off, for Hampton Veterans Memorial Fund, Cowboys Steakhouse, 1103 S. Walnut St., Starke. (904-368-3800)
Oct. 22: 6 x 6” - Getting it Square Away art event, 7-10 p.m., Doris Barden Community Cultural Center, 716 N. Maine St.
Oct. 22: McIntosh 1890's Festival, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., McIntosh. (591-4038 or www.friendsofmcintosh.org)
Oct. 22-23: Heart of Florida Asian Festival, noon to 6 p.m., Thomas Center.
Oct. 22-23: ButterflyFest, Florida Museum of Natural History, UF campus. (www.flmnh.ufl.edu/butterflyfest)
Oct. 22-26: Friends of the Library Book Sale, 403-B N. Main St., Gainesville. Tuesday is half price day and Wednesday is 10 cent day. (375-1676 or www.folacld.org)
Oct. 29: Florida Annual Bat Festival, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Lubee Bat Conservency, 1309 NW 192nd Ave., Gainesville.
Oct.29: High Springs Fall Festival, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., James Paul Park, High Springs. (www.highsprings.com)
Oct. 29-30: 37th Annual Micanopy Fall Harvest Festival, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Sunday, Micanopy. (www.micanopyfallfestival.org)
Nov. 3-6: Riverhawk Music Festival, Sertoma Ranch, Brooksville. (863-984-8445 or www.lindentertainment.com)
Nov. 5: Sarastoa Blues Fest, with Los Lobos and others, Ed Smith Stadium Complex, Sarasota. (www.sarastoabluesfest.com)
Nov. 6: Alachua Harvest Festival, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. in downtown Alachua. (514-1258)
Nov. 10-13: Bear Creek Music Festival with Trey Anastasio Band and others Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, Live Oak. Tickets: $150-$255 weekend. (www.bearcreekmusicfestival.com)
Nov. 11: Tioga Jazz Fest with Jessy J, Jonathan Fritzen, Nate Najar, Michael J. Thomas, 8 p.m. at Tioga Town Center, Jonesville. (339-3285)
Nov. 12-13: 30th Annual Downtown Festival and Art Show, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., downtown Gainesville. (334-ARTS or www.gvculturalaffairs.org)
Nov. 26-27: St. Augustine Fall Art and Crafts Festival, Francis Field, St. Augustine. (www.staa.org)
Dec. 3: Cane Day Festival, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m., Dudley Farm Historical State Park. Admission $8 per vehicle.(www.friendsofdudleyfarm.org)
Dec. 3-4: Annual Craft Festival, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sunday, O'Connell Center, UF. Admission $1 students, $4 general admission. (392-7238)
Jan. 28 - Feb 6: 26th Annual Hoggetown Medieval Faire, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Saturdays-Sundays, Friday 9:30 a.m. - 3 p.m., at Alachua Country Fairgrounds. Admission $14 adults, $7 ages 5-17. (334-ARTS or www.gvculturalaffairs.org)
Feb 3-4: Plow Days, 10 a.m. - 2p.m., Dudley Farm Historical State Park. Admission $5 per vehicle. (www.friendsofdudleyfarm.org)
Feb. 16-18: 8th Annual Palatka Bluegrass Festival, with Russell Moore and IIIrd Time Our, Daily and Vincent, Rodeheaver Boys' Ranch, Highway 19, Palatka. $30 daily advance, $35 at the gate, $75-$85 three-day pass. (706-864-7203)
March 2-6: Alachua Country Youth Fair and Livestock Show
March 24: Stargazing at Dudley Farm Historic State Park, 8 p.m.. Admission $5. (www.friendsofdudleyfarm.org)
March 25: 25th Anniversary Puttin' on the Ritz Children's Home Society of Florida fundraiser, 6:30 - 10:30 p.m., Santa Fe Fine Arts Hall, SFC. (334-0955)
April 12-15: Levy County Fair, Williston. (221-0681 or www.levycountyfair.com) April 14-15: SFC Spring Arts Festival (juried show), 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Saturday, 1-5:30 p.m. Sunday, NE First Street, Gainesville.
April 27-28: VetFest Music Fest, Rose's Auction House, u.s. 301, Hampton.
April 28-29: Old Florida Celebration of the Arts, Cedar Key, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily. (cedarkeyartsfestival.com)
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