Special Events in Fort Worth

January
Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show
Will Rogers Memorial Center
This truly spectacular showcase of Western heritage features a world-class rodeo, national livestock shows and sales, family entertainment, and more than 20,000 head of the finest animals anywhere.

All Western Parade
Downtown Fort Worth

March
Cowtown Goes Green Stockyards Parade
Downtown in the National Historic District
Fort Worth celebrates St. Patrick's Day with a parade and festival

April
Main St. Arts Festival
More than 400,000 visitors and 500 artists, dancers, street performers and musicians fill nine blocks of Main Street in one of the U.S.' leading art festivals. A juried fine-art and crafts fair takes place as well, and at least 100 local, regional and national bands give live concerts.

Texas Frontier Forts Muster
Stockyards National Historic District
The Texas Frontier Forts Muster provides an exciting and historic look at frontier life in Texas. Learn about the many forts along the Texas Forts Trail and elsewhere in Texas, and experience the sights and sounds of this important era. Events also include Quanah Parker Comanche Pow Wow and honor dances and cavalry competitions.

July
Independence Day Fireworks
LaGrave Field, 301 N.E. Sixth Street
The minor-league Fort Worth Cats host some of the city's most popular fireworks at the end of a home game. The fireworks go off on the banks of the Trinity River.

Miss Texas Pageant
Will Rogers Memorial Center, 3401 W. Lancaster Ave.
The winners of local preliminary pageants compete in several events to qualify for the national Miss America contest and scholarship money.

September
State Fair of Texas
Fair Park, 3809 Grand Ave, Dallas, Texas
The massive three week tradition teems with interactive games, antique cars, a make-believe circus, educational displays, rides and nightly laser shows. Pavilions, vendor booths and 750,000 square feet of Fair Park buildings will offer live music, livestock exhibitions, dance, those legendary corn dogs, a petting zoo, Clydesdale horses, puppet shows, a midway and a host of other activities and special shows.

October
Red Steagall Cowboy Gathering and Western Swing Festival
Stockyards National Historic District
Held in October, this three-day festival promotes the cowboy way of life. You can enjoy Western swing music, ranch rodeo action, cowboy poetry, an authentic chuck wagon competition, horsemanship clinics, kid's events, and a cowboy trading post.

December
Chisolm Trail Round-Up
131 East Exchange, Suite 109
This annual event celebrates Fort Worth history, similar to a county fair and block party rolled into one big festival. Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year in the Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District, this event is one of the largest held in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. Trail rides commemorate Fort Worth's role as the last stop along the historic Chisholm Trail, and chuck wagon campsites give you a taste of how cowboys lived. Events begin as early as 9 a.m. each day and continue throughout the day with music ending around 10 p.m.