A historic look at Sonoma County festivals

Take a look at historic photos from festivals past and learn about all the events coming up soon you won't want to miss.|

Festival season has arrived in Sonoma County. Many of our spring and summer celebrations are rooted in our rich agricultural history, others promote our love of music and the arts.

Click through our gallery of past festivals past to see what all the fuss is about.

Here is a list of some upcoming festivals and events you won't want to miss.

April 29 & 30: Butter & Egg Days Festival and Parade, Petaluma. 36 continuous years. petalumadowntown.com

May 20: Luther Burbank Rose Parade & Festival, Santa Rosa. 126th year. roseparadefestival.com

May 25: Healdsburg Twilight Parade. 68th year. healdsburgfair.squarespace.com/twilight-parade

May 26-28: BottleRock Napa Valley. 5th year. bottlerocknapavalley.com

June 3-4 and June 10-11: Art at the Source, western Sonoma County. 23rd year. artatthesource.org

June 9-10: Huichica Music Festival, Sonoma. 8th year. huichica.com

June 10-11: Sonoma County Hot Air Balloon Classic, Windsor. 27th year. schabc.org

June 2-11: Healdsburg Jazz Festival, 19th year. healdsburgjazzfestival.org

June 16-18: Country Summer, Santa Rosa. 4th year. countrysummer.com

July 29th: Fort Ross Festival fortross.org/events.htm

August 3- 13: Sonoma County Fair, Santa Rosa. 81st year. sonomacountyfair.com

August 12 & 13: Gravenstein Apple Fair, Sebastopol. 44th year. gravensteinapplefair.com

June 21- 25: Sonoma-Marin Fair, Petaluma. sonoma-marinfair.org

June 23: Sonoma-Marin Fair's World's Ugliest Dog Contest, 41st year. sonoma-marinfair.org/worlds-ugliest-dog

June 22-25: Kate Wolf Festival, Laytonville. 22nd year. katewolfmusicfestival.com

June 24 & 25: Russian River Rodeo, Duncans Mills. 51st year. russianriverrodeo.org

July 1: “World's Largest” Salmon BBQ, Fort Bragg. salmonrestoration.com/the-world-largest-salmon-bbq

July 15-16: Civil War Days, Duncans Mills civilwardays.net

July 22: Rivertown Revival, Petaluma, 8th year. rivertownrevival.com

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