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DubuqueFest
Dubuque, IA · Arts & Culture
- When
- August 14–15, 2027
- Where
- Washington Park · Dubuque · IA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
Washington Park in downtown Dubuque fills each August with regional artists, live music and hands on activities for DBQFest, Iowa's longest running fine arts festival. Produced by the Dubuque County Fine Arts Society since 1979, the free weekend draws dozens of juried exhibitors.
The history within reach
- Galena Country Fair13 mi
Galena Country Fair started in 1979 as a small handful of craft booths overlooking the Galena River and has grown into a juried show of more than 100 artisans.
- Field of Dreams21 mi
A baseball diamond a farmer cut into his corn for the film and then, when he was supposed to plough it back under, could not.
A Chicago sailing-hardware catalogue moved to a town of 3,800 and became a clothing mail-order company.
A large fur-trade-era reenactment on the Mississippi River island where Prairie du Chien's historic trading post once stood.
- Effigy Mounds49 mi
More than two hundred mounds on the bluffs above the Mississippi, many shaped as bears and birds up to 137 feet long, built over several centuries and best read from the air.