This is a list of festivals and parades in

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. This list includes festivals of diverse types, such as regional festivals, commerce festivals,

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arts festivals An arts festival is a festival that can encompass a wide range of art forms including music, dance, film, fine art, literature, poetry and isn't solely focused on visual arts. Arts festivals may feature a mixed program that include music, lit ...

religious festivals A religious festival is a time of special importance marked by adherents to that religion. Religious festivals are commonly celebrated on recurring cycles in a calendar year or lunar calendar. The science of religious rites and festivals is know ...

folk festivals A folk festival celebrates traditional folk crafts and folk music. This list includes folk festivals worldwide, except those with only a partial focus on folk music or arts. Folk festivals may also feature folk dance or ethnic foods. Handicra ...

, and recurring festivals on holidays.

Festivals

Black and Blue Festival The Black & Blue Festival is a gay-benefit dance festival held in Montreal, Canada, every Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, which raises money for HIV/ AIDS and the gay community. It is organized annually by the Bad Boy Club Montréal. The various ...

gay

Circuit party A circuit party is a large dance event. It extends through the night and into the following day, almost always with a number of affiliated events in the days leading up to and following the main event. Proto-circuit parties in the late 1970s, t ...

and AIDS research fundraiser *

Blue Metropolis Blue Metropolis (also known as Blue Met) is an international literary festival held annually in Montreal since 1999. Founded by Montreal writer Linda Leith, it is one of the world's first multilingual literary festival. In early 2011, Leith depar ...

The Montreal International Literary Festival *

Festival SOIR A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival c ...

, festival pop up multidisciplinaire *

Fierté Montréal Fierté Montréal, also called Montreal Pride, is an annual LGBT pride festival in Montreal, Quebec. The event was founded in 2007 at the initiative of Montreal’s LGBTQ+ communities after the city's prior Pride festival, Divers/Cité, reposit ...

Pride celebrations * Just for Laughs comedy festival * L'International des Feux Loto-Québec - International

fireworks Fireworks are a class of low explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes. They are most commonly used in fireworks displays (also called a fireworks show or pyrotechnics), combining a large number of devices ...

competition * Montreal High Lights Festival * The People's Games * St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe Festival

Culture festivals

Matsuri Japon festivalMontreal's Italian Week
* Jamaica Day * Romani Yag, a Roma/gypsy cultural and musical festival * Trinidad Day

Film and stage festivals

Fantasia Festival Fantasia International Film Festival (also known as Fantasia-fest, FanTasia, and Fant-Asia) is a film festival that has been based mainly in Montreal since its founding in 1996. Regularly held in July of each year, it is valued by both hardcore ...

Genre films festival *

iF3 International Freeski Film Festival The International Freesports Film Festival (iF3) is a film Festival dedicated to screening and rewarding Skiing and snowboarding on film and video, freeskiing and snowboarding movies. Held annually at the end of October in Montreal, iF3 was creat ...

* Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media *

Montreal World Film Festival The Montreal World Film Festival (WFF; french: le Festival des Films du Monde) was one of Canada's oldest international film festivals and the only competitive film festival in North America accredited by the FIAPF (although the Toronto Interna ...

Otakuthon Otakuthon is Quebec's largest anime convention promoting Japanese animation (anime), Japanese graphic novels (manga), related gaming and Japanese pop-culture (music, cinema, television). It is held annually for 3 days in downtown Montreal during ...

, a Japanese animation convention/festival * Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montreal

Food festivals

* Mondial de la Bière, one of North America's largest

beer festival A beer festival is an event at which a variety of beers are available for purchase. There may be a theme, for instance beers from a particular area, or a particular brewing style such as winter ales. Asia * Singapore holds an annual Beer Festiva ...

s * Montreal Vegan Festival

Music festivals

* Amnesia Rockfest, for

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ska Ska (; ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a walki ...

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music * Festival Bach Montréal, * FestiBlues international de Montréal, for blues music *

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, for heavy metal and hard rock music *

Igloofest Igloofest is an annual outdoor music festival which takes place at the Old Port of Montreal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Co-produced by '' Piknic Electronik'' and ''the Quays of the Old Port'', it began in January 2007 and now draws crowds in the ...

, wintertime outdoor music festival * île Soniq,

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festival * Les FrancoFolies de Montréal, French-language music * Montreal Electronic Groove (MEG) festival, for electronic music *

Montreal Jazz Festival The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal ( en, Montreal International Jazz Festival) is an annual jazz festival held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal Jazz Fest holds the 2004 Guinness World Record as the world's largest jazz fes ...

, for

jazz music Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a maj ...

* Montreal Reggae Festival, for

reggae music Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use the ...

* Mutek,

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and avant-garde music festival *

Osheaga The Osheaga Music and Arts Festival (french: Festival musique et arts Osheaga) is a multi-day indie music festival in Montreal, Quebec, that is held every summer at Parc Jean-Drapeau on Île Sainte-Hélène. The festival takes place on six stages ...

, music festival held annually at

Parc Jean-Drapeau Jean Drapeau Park (officially in French: ''Parc Jean-Drapeau'') (formerly called ''Parc des Îles'') is the third-largest park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises two islands, Saint Helen's Island and the artificial island Notre Dame Isla ...

* Piknic Électronik, weekly summertime house music festival *

Pop Montreal POP Montreal is an annual music festival occurring in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in the early fall, usually at the end of September or the beginning of October. More than 400 bands are scheduled to play in more than 50 venues across the city, most ...

indie-rock Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produce ...

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UnPop Montreal UnPop Montreal was a music festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The festival typically occurs at the end of August or early September. UnPop Montreal started as a weekend long event featuring unknown bands. It has since grown into a two-week par ...

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Vans Warped Tour The Warped Tour was a traveling rock tour that toured the United States plus three or four stops in Canada annually each summer from 1995 until 2019. It was the largest traveling music festival in the United States and the longest-running tourin ...

, for punk rock music

Pop culture festivals

Montreal Comiccon The Montreal Comiccon (French: ''Le Comiccon de Montréal''), under its current form, was launched in 2006 as "Montreal Comic-Con". The event features comic books, toys, games, science-fiction, horror, anime, non-sport cards and collectibles. It ...

Parades in Montreal

Montreal's St. Patrick's Day parade and the Irish in Quebec
Montreal's is the oldest St. Patrick's Day Parade in Canada and one of the largest parades in Montreal. *Greek Independence Day Parade on Hutchison in Jean Talon, it happens right after the St. Patrick's Day Festival. First celebrated on March 25, 1821, this parade gathers numerous Greek schools such as Socrates, and Demostenes for example, and the church groups and the different provinces from Greece, such as the Ionian Islands, the Cyclades and many more. It's expressed as the day that Greece marks its independence from the Ottoman Empire. *

Fête nationale du Québec Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day (french: Fête de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste, la Saint-Jean, Fête nationale du Québec), also known in English as ''St John the Baptist Day'', is a holiday celebrated on June 24 in the Canadian province of Quebec and by Fren ...

parade * Canada Day Parade, celebrating Canada's birthday * Carifiesta Montreal, a Parade celebrating the Caribbean culture of Montreal * Twins Parade, a parade hosted by Just For Laughs Festival *

, celebrating Montréal's LGBTQ+ community, every third sunday of August. *Santa Claus parade

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