List of festivals in North Carolina

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This is an incomplete list of festivals that take place in the state of North Carolina, and have an article on Wikipedia.

Food
Beverage
Music
Film
Dance
Art
Other
See also
References

Food

Beverage

Music

Brevard Music Center
The End of Summer Weenie Roast
MerleFest
Moogfest (music, art and technology, see Moog synthesizer)
Mount Airy Fiddlers Convention
Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival (music and dance)
Sparkcon
Hopscotch Music Festival

Film

Dance

Art

Artsplosure
Bele Chere (defunct, music and street arts)
Brushy Mountain Apple Festival (arts and crafts)
Transformus (regional "Burning Man" art festival)

Other

Animazement (anime)
Aniwave (anime)
Apple Chill
Carolina Renaissance Festival
Fayetteville Dogwood Festival (musics, arts and crafts, art, educational)
Halloween on Franklin Street
John Canoe (influenced by the Fancy Dress Festival)
Lake Eden Arts Festival (instructive, performing arts)
North Carolina Azalea Festival
North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival
North Carolina Science Festival
Wild Goose Festival (focuses on justice, spirituality, music and the arts)
Woolly Worm Festival (celebrating the supposed weather-predicting abilities of the woolly worm)

References

v t e List of festivals in the United States by political division
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Federal district	Washington, D.C.
Territories	American Samoa Guam Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico U.S. Virgin Islands

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