BC & Alberta Festival Stories & Event News

Picture yourself jamming with your friends at one of BC's largest—and at the same time one of the most intimate—outdoor music venues, having just come back from a picnic submerged in wildflowers.

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This May 2025, we're putting a deserved spotlight on local business owners and tourism operators in northwest Alberta as part of #exploreNWAB North West Alberta Online Festival.

Festivals like the Sunshine Coast Flavour Festival and qathet International Film Festival showcase the artistic and creative side of the Sunshine Coast, and you can be right in the heart of the act

Get your party hats, noisemakers and dancing shoes ready! Putting on festivals through the winter in Western Canada means adapting to snow and cooler temperatures.

Feel like a Vermilionaire—head to Savor Vermilion, where "old prairie" meets "new school" at a food festival brimming with local makers, distillers and entertainment.

August is a busy month for festival lovers in Alberta and we’ve hand selected a few great ones that you won’t want to miss this month.

It's that sweet spot, halfway through summer and BC festivals and events for August are sizzling with live music, fresh food, local art and all kinds of great creative experiences.

Check out some of the highlights and memories from summer 2024 festivals, and get ready to make your own memories as the biggest weekends of the summer light it up.

Beating the heat at summer festivals in Alberta and BC is all about your pre-game. With a little advance prep you can be free to indulge in all the spontaneous fun of the festival scene. 

From the summit of SilverStar Mountain, BC, looking out onto the Okanagan valley, you can see a mountain village teeming with trail runners, mountain bikers, live music and a vibrant arts scene.

Check out the awesome festival lineup Alberta has to look forward to this July

Explore some of the countless exciting events that will be happening in British Columbia in July.

With all the over the top festival experiences these days, do you think you would have been fooled by these posts?