No matter when you visit Midland, there is sure to be a festival!  Join us for one of our signature events such as Celebration of the Arts, The Blues Festival, and CAF AIRSHO!  Enhance your conference or event with attractions such as the CAF Airpower Museum, The Petroleum Museum, Midland Community Theater, Midland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale, The Midland RockHounds professional AA baseball team, golf, tennis, and several major shopping centers.

When your event calls for a pre or post trip, allow the Midland Convention and Visitors Bureau to help you make arrangements for a variety of Big Bend National Parks excursions.

JANUARY Improve at the Yucca Back by popular demand! The laughter inducing show is completely made up, on the fly, right onstage. Who knows what will happen? The only thing that is gauranteed is that you will laugh till you cry. For more information call, 432-570-4111.

FEBRUARY Permian Basin Home & Garden Show features the areas top home builders, remodelers, landscaping professionals, and related industries all underneath one roof. Industry professionals will be on hand to show the public how to enhance, beautify, and upgrade their homes and gardens. Call 432-520-7914 or 432-553-7111. Silver Spur Gun & Knife Show

MARCH Annual Scottish-Irish Faire Always the 2nd weekend in March held at the Midland County Horseshoe Arena Complex. Weekend activities include Celtic music, Scottish & Irish dancers, Scottish Clans, geneology seminars, bagpippers & drummers workshop, and all types of Celtic jewelry, clothing, crafts and more for all ages. Call 432-559-5155 for more information.

APRIL Midland Rockhounds Texas League Baseball: Citibank Ball Park Season opener, Mid-to Late April. For tickets and times call 432-520-BALL or visit www.midlandrockhounds.org.  (SEASON CONTINUES THROUGH AUGUST) West Texas United Sockers United Soccer League: For tickets and times go to http://www.wtusockers.com/. (SEASON CONTINUES THROUGH JULY)

MAY Cinco De Mayo; Celebration of Mexico’s Independence from France with a parade and soccer tournament. Early May.  Call 432-682-2960   Celebration of the Arts; Centennial Plaza. Three days of art, entertainment, food and fun featuring juried artists, five stages of entertainment, the annual ‘Run for the Arts’, children’s activities and ‘Experience the Arts’. Late May. Call 432-687-1149 or ww.artsassemblyofmidland.org Haley Library Spring Art Show: Call 432-682-5785 or visit http://www.haleylibrary.com/.

JUNE - AUGUST Summer Concert Series: Enjoy Sunday evening concerts on the lush Museum of the Southwest grounds. Bring a picnic and spend an hour entertained by the best local jazz, pop, country and folk music groups. June-August. No admission. 1705 W. Missouri, 432-682-2653 Summer MuMmers: Catch a production chocked full of mayhem and hilarity performed at the historic Yucca Theater in downtown Midland. Melodrama is a unique theatrical experience invented in America and no one does it quite like Summer MuMmers, the oldest existing theatrical organization of its kind in the country. Bring your friends, bash the villain with popcorn and enjoy side-splitting laughter during the olio. June–Labor Day.  Call for tickets and times 432-682-4111 or www.summermummers.com.

JUNE Mex-Tex: Menudo, Chili, Fajita Cook-Off and Family Festival. Premier Tejano and mariachi music and some of the best Mex-Tex food in Texas. Call 432-682-2960   Juneteenth: Commemorating the end of slavery; come help celebrate with a parade each year in June. Call 432-682-2864 Annual Mariachi Concert

JULY Colonel Theunis Dey Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution Children's 4th of July Parade

AUGUST Rock the Desert: This annual multi-day festival attracts over fifty thousand Christian music fans. Friday nights feature praise and worship, Saturday has inspirational rock and roll.  Also featured; skateboarding, sports tents, family speakers, youth leader training extreme games, kid’s activities, a prayer tent and ‘Talk Back Live’ with bands. Call 432-697-4548 or www.rockthedesert.com

We encourage all our guests to visit our Community Calendar on our website at www.VisitMidlandTexas.com/coe.   As events are subject to change, this will give you all of our upcoming events to enrich your stay in our great city!