Events
The year, as Cincinnati keeps it
Opening Day is a holiday here. So is the night the fireworks close out summer. These are the dates locals build their calendars around.
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- Late March / early AprilDowntown
Opening Day & Findlay Market Parade
Cincinnati's unofficial civic holiday. The parade steps off from Findlay Market and ends at the ballpark.
- Memorial Day weekendFifth Street
Taste of Cincinnati
One of the country's longest-running street food festivals, stretched along Fifth Street downtown.
- October, biennialDowntown & OTR
BLINK
Projection mapping, murals and light installations across downtown, OTR and the bridge.
- SeptemberSecond Street
Oktoberfest Zinzinnati
The largest Oktoberfest in the United States, with the Running of the Wieners to start it.
- Labor Day weekendOhio riverfront
Riverfest & WEBN Fireworks
Hundreds of thousands line both riverbanks for the fireworks that close out summer.
- JulyPaycor Stadium
Cincinnati Music Festival
Two nights of R&B and soul inside Paycor Stadium, running since 1962.
- Early MarchOver-the-Rhine
Bockfest
A brewery-district parade and bock beer festival marking the end of winter in Over-the-Rhine.
- November–JanuaryDowntown
Holiday Junction & Fountain Square skating
Union Terminal's train display and the downtown ice rink under the tree at Fountain Square.
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