Seaside Treasure Festival

Seaside Treasure Festival celebrates its 10th year by expanding to a two-day event and featuring a wide variety of arts and crafts vendors, lunch, a fabulous silent auction, pet adoptions, sweet shoppe, and much more.

Admission is free.

Fri: 1-7pm, Sat: 9am-4pm

For information: call Mike Stangle at 713.819.3685

10am-12am

Musical acts: "Rockport's Gospel Force" Poice Quartet, "The Melody Boys", Crimson River, The Nelons, and more.

Gospel Music Festival featuring numerous gospel groups from around the nation and the area.

GoTexan Barbecue Cook-off

More than 50 barbecue and chili cook teams competing to benefit the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.

Free admission, just $3.00 to park at Traders Village, the largest flea market and festival complex on the Texas Gulf Coast.

World-class potters from around the world will display their works for sale to the public. Event is sponsored by the Council on Aging Senior Center, Rockport, TX

10am-4pm

Musical acts: TBA

Carnival and booths of different types.

Fri: 5:30-11pm & Sat: 10am-11pm

A salute to the oyster industry with plenty of food, entertainment, arts, crafts & carnival. Expected attendance: 25,000 to 35,000

Bayou City Cajun Fest

Live Cajun music, tons of crawfish and more for the entire family all weekend long.

Admission is free, just $3.00 to park. Traders Village is the largest flea market and festival complex on the Texas Gulf Coast.

Three Rivers Salsa Festival

• Two stages of live music.
• Bike race (25, 35 and 50 mile routes)
• 60 food and arts and crafts booths
• kids area
• salsa making competition
• salsa eating competition
• horsehoe and washer tournaments

The festival will be 10 years old in 2009 and attracts about 6,000 people.

A free festival featuring herb dishes, and for sale herb items & herb plants. Sponsored by the Rockport Herb and Rose Study Group.

9am-3pm

Open to all classic cars and bikes.

• Awards
• T-shirts and dash plaques.
• Over 200 cars & bikes were displayed in 2008. This event has grown and is one of the best show in Gulf Coast region. Fee $25.00

• Quilt show
• Arts & Crafts
• City-wide tours
• Kid Zone

This is a fun event for the whole family. Learn about the fig industry that began the lifestyle of the Quaker Community in Friendswood, TX.

Cinco de Mayo

An afternoon of live Latino music and dance, food and shopping. Three live acts TBA.

Admission is free, just $3.00 to park. Traders Village is the largest flea market and festival complex on the Texas Gulf Coast.

Pasadena Strawberry Festival

Pasadena Strawberry Festival is three days of fun and entertainment for the whole family. Set on a 106-acre Fairgrounds. Corner of Fairmont Pwky & Red Bluff.

• Mud Volleyball Tournament
• Swifty Swine Pig Races
• IGX Guitar Hero Contest
• Mutton Bustin
• Swampmaster Gator Show
• Washer Pitching Contest
• BBQ cookoff
• World's Largest Strawberry Shortcake
• Buzz Berry's Kid Zone
• much more entertainment

Fri: 3-midnight, Sat: 10am-midnight, Sun: 10am-7pm

4th Annual ARTFEST

ARTFEST includes a Youth art & craft activity area. Last Year Artists offered the following: Paintings in Oil, Watercolor, Acrylic, Mixed Media & Prisma Color. There was Stained Glass, Glass Windchimes, Glass Jewelry.

Clay Artists offered Sculpture, Pottery, Raku, Shard Art & Household Ceramics.

Photography: Photo Cards & Photos on Canvas & Handmade Books.

Jewelers offered Beads, Natural Stone sets, Glass, Lampwork Beads & Sterling Silver. Shell & Crystal Decorated Bottles, Shadow Boxes, Wooden Art & more!

Saturday & Sunday 10am-5pm

Country Roots Music Festival

Two days of live honky-tonk, rockabilly and old-style country music, dance, food and shopping.

Admission is free, just $3.00 to park. Traders Village is the largest flea market and festival complex on the Texas Gulf Coast.

Bring a lawn chair/ blanket/cooler & listen to some wonderful original music under the stars.

Songwriter's Showcase benefits the Art Center for the Islands.

Wine seminars and cooking demonstrations

Chefs will be preparing mouth-watering treats for all to enjoy. And, come meet vintners who have selected appropriate wines to accompany these gourmet delights.

Texas Maritime Museum/ACND Festival Grounds at Rockport Harbor

Wine and Food Week

Wine and Food Week is one of the largest and most comprehensive wine & food events in America.

Over 50 events, 500 wines, 50 restaurants and 10,000+ attendees.

Features four Polka & Waltz style bands.

Exhibits, raffle, Czech Heritage Museum, arts & crafts, children's games, auction, pastry wheel, live music, baking, quilting, beer & wine making demonstrations...and more!

10am-8pm