Special Events in Fort Worth

Fort Worth hosts a big variety of special events throughout the year -- from street festivals and blockbuster art shows to major concerts and exciting sports. Check out our calendar of events for happenings of interest to you.

January
Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show
Will Rogers Memorial Center
817-877-2420
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.

March
Cowtown Goes Green Stockyards Parade
Downtown in the National Historic District
817-626-7921
Fort Worth celebrates St. Patrick's Day with a parade and festival
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April
Main St. Arts Festival
817-336-2787
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.

July
Independence Day Fireworks
LaGrave Field
301 N.E. Sixth Street
817-226-2287
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.

October
Red Steagall Cowboy Gathering and Western Swing Festival
Stockyards National Historic District
817-336-8791 or 888-COWTOWN
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
817-625-7005
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.