I always love the street fair!!! The vendors are always so cool and unique and the food trucks that…read moreare there are always a hit! It's so nice to just walk around and experience the different artists in the community with drink in hand.

Love the DIY fair! It's an annual tradition to say goodbye to summer and welcome in fall. They have…read moresome fun and unique art stands. My daughter particularly enjoys the stuffed toys and puppets. I enjoy the atmosphere and fun crowd. The music is great and so is the food. They have one of the best funnel cake trucks with amazing fried Oreos, sooo good!!! Treat Dreams has an ice cream truck with their famous flavors. The ice cream cookies are the absolute best!!! They have an eclectic variety of food trucks that look and smell mouthwatering. But they could use more seating, it's very limited compared to the amount of people eating the goodies. I love the adult beverages available to purchase through tickets. They have a ginormous variety of beer and mixed drinks, plus some of the money goes toward different charities and good causes. It's ten tickets for $20, but this year I noticed you may purchase individual tickets. I prefer this option! Tickets are $2 a piece, so most beers cost around $6 or three tickets. I got the Griffinclaw pumpkin beer. It was amazing! Very pumpkin forward with a nice spice aftertaste. Most of the mixed drinks are between three and four tickets, cheaper than most bars. I've even seen some for two tickets. The parking can be challenging. We were able to find a good spot and only paid $3.00. But I wonder if it gets more challenging in the evening hours. I bet this a fun time at night. This is a great event when paired with the Funky Ferndale fair. I look forward to next year.

Excellent. A wonderful and affordable holiday tradition for our family for generations. Always…read morewell organized and awe inspiring no matter your age, and inclusive of all in the Wayne County Community. Highly suggest!

What a bargain!! For $5 and some gas, you get to enjoy what has become a family tradition in metro…read moreDetroit. You also help fund improving the county parks. Open Wednesday thru Sunday from before Thanksgiving to New Years Eve 6:00 -10:00 pm. It is a 4 mile drive that does not move fast and you stop alot, but it is peaceful unless you can't control your kids. I have been enjoying it for over 25 years. My ex who hates winter so he hates Christmas even enjoyed it. They use to have a craft store and some food at the end, but since this is a pandemic year that wasn't allowed. I also enjoyed shopping there since they had some cool stuff. Traffic does back up on the surface streets leading to the entrance off of Merriman road. But it is worth the wait and the gas.

This weekend I attended the St. Florian Strawberry festival. This event is hosted by the parish…read moreand offer live music, food and beverages. It is more of an adult event, as there wasn't much for kids to do there. I had the Gołabki (stuffed cabbage), kraut and potatoes. The food was home made traditional Polish food. It was delicious and reasonably priced. There was also a bake sale offering Strawberry pies, tarts, and the traditional Polish desserts. If you are looking for a fun time as a couple or are of Polish heritage, give this a shot. Just know that there's not a whole lot going on. Felt more like a church even than a festival.

I try to attend every year. A fun festival, with lots of people watching! A huge streetlong tent…read morewith music, beer and food. The 100 plus year old church is open for tours.the basement of the church offers totally authentic polish dinners, desserts and youngsters in costumes performing and dancing to polish music. They also sell lots of crafts.

MoPop has become a summer tradition for me. Every July, I look forward to the last weekend filled…read morewith great music, food, and fun. MoPop is a boutique indie music festival on the gorgeous Detroit Riverfront. It started as a one day music festival for two years at Freedom Hill but rapidly grew and expanded into a weekend long festival on the Detroit River front and has been there for the last five years. The Detroit Riverfront is doing significant renovations this year and will no longer be able to accommodate large-scale events so next year MoPop will move to a new venue but will remain in Detroit and is rumored to move to Hart Plaza or Belle Isle. I've been the last three years and I always have a great time. They sell tickets in three phases. Phase one starts before the lineup is announced and is around $79 for weekend passes. Phase two starts after the lineup is announced and is around $100 for weekend passes. If you purchase tickets during phase three tickets are around $150 for weekend passes and close to $100 if you buy a ticket for only one day. So the earlier you purchase the better. There are also several locations where you can buy fee free tickets like Royal Oak Music Theatre and UHF. The first year I went, the lineup was incredible including Alt-J, Phantogram, Foster the People, The Arkells, Tyler the Creator, and Vance Joy. Acts in previous years have also included Brandon Flowers, Father John Misty, The Neighbourhood, Borns, City and Colour, M83, Modest Mouse, Glass Animals and more. The last couple years have had big headliners like Lizzo, Vampire Weekend, and Tame Impala but a lot of less well known acts throughout the weekend and seems like they used to book more big name bands. I've also noticed that it's become significantly more crowded this last year and it's harder to get a good spot in front of the stage. This last year they had 33,000 concert goers in attendance. There are two stages-a large main stage called the grand stage and a smaller stage to the right. There are no overlapping set times which is great so you don't have to decide who you want to see. I do wish the second stage was larger, or even as big as the grand stage as the acts are just as big as names and it's hard to scope out a good spot since crowds have grown over the past couple years. The festival itself is setup really nicely. There's lots of stuff to explore. There's an arcade area which is air conditioned in a tent and a good place to hit if there's rain. There's an artist market and shaded hammock area. There's a large selection in the merch tent. The waterfront has the big MoPop sign for photo ops and usually painted pianos are setup along the waterfront. They don't allow water to be brought in but you can bring in an empty water bottle and refill it at the front of the park at the refilling station for free. They have lots of food trucks like Hero vs Villain, Treat Dreams, and Shredderz. Food trucks are setup near lots of picnic tables in the front of the park and there are also plenty of tiki bars and restaurants setup near the stages as well. Food and drink vendors have included Imperial, Antihero, Hopcat, Slows, Voyager, Lover's Only, Sugarhouse, and Dark Horse. Island Noodles is one of my fave vendors here. There are also lots of freebies and samples set up in cute tiki bars from Patron, Mike's Hard Lemonade, Deep Eddy's, Stok Coffee and more. They had onsite parking this year (next year's venue will not). Parking was $40 VIP which is all that's advertised at the gate and actually puts you farther away and harder to get out. We bought parking online for $20 and it was close and we got out easily. The surges for Lyft/Uber we're insane coming out of the event-over $100 and stayed that way for over an hour so park if you can. In past years it's been very dusty at night but this year they added sand and gravel which really helped. Overall I love MoPop. I have seen some incredible shows here with great acoustics, lighting and effects. The atmosphere and food is great, there's a lot to do, and it's a well organized event. Can't wait to see who will be there next year.

It's a great little festival that could be greater with a few small tweaks…read more.. Mostly, the single water station they have isn't enough. They have one right by the front gate, but they absolutely need one near the two stages somewhere. Second, they need a center rail at the stages. I know it's a small festival but.. it's weird and sort of annoying to be at a festival that is without a center rail. A guy had a seizure during Bon Iver Saturday and he could have gotten help a lot sooner if they had a center rail. The food is great and the music is generally varied -- but this year had me worried with where Mo Pop's direction is going... they've always been looking for a younger demographic, but now it seems they want an audience of fourteen year olds, outside of the headliners, which were great (Bon Iver, The National). There were a ton of vegan options available for such a small festival -- I've been to a number of other festivals that were considerably larger and their options paled in comparison. What sucks is that there either aren't enough options for the number of people, or the trucks are too slow -- except Island Noodles. Those magnificent bastards are phenomenal. But, if you want to eat any time after 5:30 or so, expect to wait in line for easily 45min and miss a set. On top of that, if you get in when gates open, very few places have food prepared. I wanted to get my damn day drink on even and I was told by a stand that... they didn't have the 21+ wristbands, their syrup wasn't made for their drinks, and they didn't have blackberry lemonade. What? So you literally only had vodka and lemons? Dudes, let your vendors set up sooner. I'll go to Mo Pop every year regardless so long as I'm on Michigan because music festivals are a blast, but Mo Pop needs work... I'd love if they managed a third, smaller stage and made the festival three days long instead and made it have more of a true music festival experience in that way, but there are plenty of other kinks to work out first.

Amazing this is my first visit to this Festival. Sunday evening and there is no parking for blocks…read more Find might have been a good time to visit on a Sunday evening :-) considering it's the last day and it only few hours remaining. Certainly didn't disappoint great entertainment. The spinach pie in baklava were excellent. Not real sure about the Oktoberfest beer go figure they were out of IPA

Great Greek festival with an army of super volunteers for a good cause! What's not to love?…read moreDelicious food, music and fun. Truly impressive how they pull it off and a welcome event every year...

Waited patiently for 1 hr after boat races for parade. Issues with parade entering carnival…read morearea... Entire parade stopped for15 minutes waiting to continue into carnival area.. Certainly need additional planning. Also only port of johns are located in carnival area. It was an 8 block walk during boat races to use facilities.

It is a shame that so many of the city's other ethnicities chose not to participate in the…read moreHamtramck festival. The city needs to do a better job of making its booths more affordable to more people. I thought the bands I heard Saturday were good, and I had some very good BBQ, as well as some outstanding potato pancakes. I heard the firehouse chili was very good. Missed the trannies in pleather skirts, though! The people watching is one of the best things about this event! Only in Hamtramck. :) I appreciate the line of security that keeps people with alcoholic beverages out of the carnie/kiddie area. The porta-potty situation was ridiculous. As a veteran of several art shows, I know they can do better! The city's new events coordinator will need to take a read over here.

Pig and Whiskey is a great time-beers, BBQ, and great music. The festival takes place every year in…read moreFerndale in mid-July. The stage for music is located right next to WAB and beer and whiskey tents are set up in the parking lot behind WAB, The Emory and surrounding restaurants. Admission is free and you can bring your own bottled water with you. It's also a dog friendly event and lots of people walk their dogs around the fest. You purchase tickets at designated tents similar to Arts Bears and Eats. Tickets are $2 a piece. Most beers are about 3 tickets and whiskeys are between 4-7 tickets. I usually start with a sheet of tickets for $20 but you can buy as few or many tickets as you like but they are non-refundable. Food vendors for the BBQ portion were located further down, past the whiskey and beer vendors this year. Surprisingly BBQ/food vendors only accepted cash or credit this year and didn't accept tickets which was kind of annoying because last year they only took tickets and wouldn't take cash and I wish they had posted that somewhere before I had bought extra tickets. The food is good. I had BBQ ribs from Bad Brad's BBQ with a Mexican style watermelon salad with cojita cheese and cilantro which was light and refreshing. Their Pig Candy-candied bacon is delicious! There were lots off BBQ vendors with pulled pork sliders and tacos, ribs, mac and cheese, jalapeño cornbread, and Cheeto covered street corn. Picnic tables were all the way at the other end of the festival this year and it would be nice if there was seating near the food tents. Lots of great beers too from Dogfish Head, Griffin Claw, Shorts, B. Nektar and more. They have whiskey from Jack Daniels, Jameson, Old Forster, Four Roses, Woodsford Reserve, and more. Last year they had some tents that mixed craft cocktails with whiskey and bourbon. I had a Woodsford Reserve mint julep that was amazing and a pineapple upside down cake cocktail with brown sugar bourbon mixed with pineapple juice that was delicious. This year I didn't see many cocktails, just strait whiskey or bourbon or you could add a a mixer but mixers were only limited to lemonade or Faygo soda. The main reason I go every year is for the music. A friend and I love Electric Six and we attend to see them perform every year. Electric Six has closed out the festival on Sunday night for the last six or seven years. They always put on an awesome show. Last year there were torrential downpours and they had to call the festival due to rain, so lots of people got stuck with drink tickets which were non-refundable. However they didn't cancel the music and moved Electric Six's set down to The Loving Touch and it was a really great show. This year we also saw Ann Arbor band Joe Hertler and the Rainbow Seekers who are a lot of fun to see. Verve Pipe also played on Friday night. The festival runs Friday through Sunday. It starts at 6 pm on Friday and around noon on Saturday and Sunday and goes until midnight with music ending at around 9:00 on Sunday. I always have a blast and I'll definitely be back next year.

Super fun event. It was cold but not too busy when we went. I love the location! Great fun stuffs…read moreto do.

Nice show, nice premise.. but there is not much diversity at all. Detroit is full of Black artists…read morethat are never selected for this show. Hopefully one day they will allow Black people in their show.

Every year this fair just gets better and better. There's consistently a nice mix of vendors (some…read morereturning, some new) with a variety of goods. It really is easy to find something for everyone at the fair. This year in particular was bananas. I came on a Sunday afternoon and it was packed. I had heard that they surpassed the entire weekend attendance from last year (5,000) in just one day on Saturday. Like I said, bananas. But the vibe is so good and positive that it doesn't feel uncomfortably crowded and the shoppers aren't rude or pushy. Just one big feel good shopping party. But it may be time to expand the space. Which is never a bad problem to have, I think? To keep growing. Just goes to show you how much love and support there is for handmade, local gifts in this town. I love it!