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Events in the United States, a trip from New York

Big American events with published dates, from the Rose Parade in January to the desert in August — each date as the organiser gave it, and a link to where we read it. New York's own listings are on the rest of the site.

New York events

Upcoming in New York

Rows of small amber lantern discs, each with a carved face, hung close together against a dark ground

Halloween

The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze 2026

Van Cortlandt Manor · Croton-on-Hudson

A stone arched bridge over dark water in front of a large amber disc, with a bare twisted tree at the left and a small red lantern hanging from its trunk

Halloween

Halloween in Sleepy Hollow 2026

Philipsburg Manor · Sleepy Hollow

Three square sheets of paper hung in a row on a dark brown ground, one amber, one russet, one yellow

Exhibitions

Art Basel Miami Beach 2026

Miami Beach · Miami Beach

A long single band of small paper petals in red, orange, cream and pink laid edge to edge across a dark brown ground, empty above and below

Parade

Rose Parade 2027

Colorado Boulevard · Pasadena

A dense grid of small textured paper squares filling the frame, with one larger bright amber square alone in a clear space at the centre

Convention

CES 2027

Las Vegas Convention Center and venues across the city · Las Vegas

A long row of narrow paper bars in amber, ochre and cream, standing together on one level line, on a dark brown ground

Convention

SXSW 2027

Austin Convention Center and venues across the city · Austin

A long flat teal paper band running the width of a dark brown ground, with two narrow magenta paper spires standing on it near the left

Festival

Ultra Miami 2027

Bayfront Park · Miami

Two matching pale yellow paper palm trees standing on small orange sand mounds, one on each side of a wide brown frame

Festival

Coachella 2027

Empire Polo Club · Indio

A wheel of straight yellow and red paper spokes radiating from a small red disc, on a rust-orange ground

Festival

Stagecoach 2027

The country festival that follows Coachella into the same desert, a week later: April 23 to 25, 2027.

Two tall paper crescents facing each other across a brown ground, one yellow and one orange

Racing

Kentucky Derby 2027

Churchill Downs · Louisville

A flat orange paper ring with a red disc inside it, centred on a near-black ground

Festival

EDC Las Vegas 2027

Las Vegas Motor Speedway · Las Vegas

A row of six paper corn cobs in yellow with pale green husk leaves, lying overlapping across a rust-brown ground

Festival

Iowa State Fair 2027

Des Moines

Past New York events

Amber cut-paper hot-air balloons at several heights above two pale sand dunes, on a deep charcoal brown ground

Festival Past

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta 2026

Balloon Fiesta Park · Albuquerque

Six flat green paper trees on short orange trunks standing in a row across a dark brown ground, one of them much smaller than the rest

Festival Past

Austin City Limits 2026

Zilker Park · Austin

Two amber paper rings around a pale disc, with one small upright amber rectangle standing at the centre, on a dark brown ground

Festival Past

Burning Man 2026

Black Rock City, Black Rock Desert · Black Rock City

A cut-paper panel: orange skyscraper silhouettes along a deep navy sky, with a broad green lawn curving across the lower half

Festival Past

Lollapalooza 2026

Grant Park · Chicago

A thick orange paper arch standing behind layered green paper hills against a near-black sky

Festival Past

Bonnaroo 2026

Manchester

New York news

Five paper pumpkins of slightly different sizes standing in a row on a ledge against a dark brown wall

Halloween

A billion dollars of pet costumes

The National Retail Federation's most recent survey puts total Halloween spending at a record $13.1 billion — and $1 billion of that on costumes for animals. The most popular one is a pumpkin.

Two orange paper squares standing side by side on a ledge against a dark brown wall, the right one slightly taller

Convention

SXSW early-bird ends September 17

The cheapest way into Austin next March closes in nine days. SXSW puts the gap between the early-bird badge and the walk-up rate at up to $900.