Arcosanti Concert Season
(928) 632-6217
http://www.arcosanti.org
May-September. Dinner followed by a Concert, from Jazz to Opera. Juneteenth Jazz Splash Festival in June.

Yavapai College Center for the Arts
Performance Hall, Sculpture Garden & Gallery
1100 E. Sheldon, Prescott, AZ 86301
1-877-928-4253
http://www.yavapai.cc.az.us/ycevents.nsf
A great line-up of performances is scheduled annually. Visit the four acre contemporary sculpture garden and changing exhibits in the gallery.

Pecan and Wine Festival and Antique Show
February 13-15
Camp Verde
(928) 567.9294
http://www.campverde.org

Sedona International Film Festival
Sedona
(928) 282-1177
http://www.sedonafilmfestival.com
The Sedona International Film Festival has the distinction of being in the top twenty film festivals. Plans for 2004-2005 include monthly film events with guest filmmakers, a student scholarship program and, of course, an exciting and eventful Sedona Film Festival & Workshop in March.

Phippen Museum Western Art Show and Sale
Memorial Day Weekend
(928) 778-1385
http://www.phippenaartmuseum.org
One of the top ten outdoor western art shows in the country. This juried show includes the works of over 120 nationally and internationally exhibited artists.

Chino Valley Spring Fest
May 22
928-636-9780
http://www.chinovalley.org
Doo-Dah Parade, vendors, bands, food and dancing.

Festival of the Pai
Yavapai-Prescott Reservation
(928) 445-8790 x137
http://www.ypit.com
This special gathering is hosted by five tribes in celebration of their history and traditions. It includes traditional food, storytelling, demonstrations, arts and crafts, dance competitions and other activities. The public is welcome.

2nd Annual Gourd and Garlic Festival
June 11-12, Saturday 9:00am to 5:00pm and Sunday, 10:00am to 4:00pm
Camp Verde Community Center
(928) 567-9294
http://www.cvaz.org
This event features several of Arizona’s finest Gourd artists as well as garlic vendors from the Verde Valley. Both Gourd and Garlic demonstrations are conducted during the Festival. Gourd art as well as raw gourds are available for sale. In addition, raw garlic as well as various garlic items are also available for sale.
The festival is located at the Camp Verde Community Center, 395 S. Main Street, Camp Verde, Arizona.

Garlic Festival
June 26-27, 9am to 4pm
Young’s Farm, Dewey
(928) 632-7272
http://www.youngsfarminc.com
Enjoy a weekend of fresh produce and cooking demonstrations. Be there for the opening of Young's Farm Produce Barn and an outdoor BBQ

Folk Arts Fair
June 5-6, 10 am to 5 pm
Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott
(928)445-3122
http://www.sharlot.org
The Sharlot Hall Museum Folk Arts Fair was started in 1973 as a public celebration of old ways and entertainments. It is not a craft fair; no sales are allowed. It is a place where hundreds of community residents demonstrate the arts, skills, and entertainments of Arizona's Territorial and early Statehood years.
The Folk Arts Fair is fun and educational for the whole family. It includes sheep shearing; washing, carding, spinning and dyeing wool; woodcarving; weaving; pine-needle basket-making, and chair caning. Entertainment includes fiddlers, string bands, acoustic bands, and several types of folk dancing.

Shakespeare Sedona
602-356-3047
http://www.shakespearesedona.com
Richard III is an unforgettable tragedy about one man’s wickedness. Love’s Labours Lost is one of Shakespeare’s early romantic comedies about four young men who give up the pursuit of women in favor of their studies.

Prescott Indian Art Market
Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott
(928)445-3122
http://www.sharlot.org
Over 100 accomplished Native American Artists from 6 tribes showcase their traditional native arts each July. Music, dance & entertainment. Annual art market in July.

Prescott Frontier Days & Worlds Oldest Rodeo
Prescott Rodeo Grounds
800-358-1888
http://www.worldsoldestrodeo.com
Prescott is home to the World’s Oldest Rodeo. Begun in 1888, this event celebrates the skills of hard-working cowboys. Fourth of July week is jam-packed with fun events and rip snortin’ rodeo performances.

Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering
Sharlot Hall Museum, 415 West Gurley, Prescott, AZ 86301
(928)445-3122
http://www.sharlot.org
A three-day roundup of cowboy poets, storytellers, and singers that describe the life of Arizona’s working cowboys.

Fall Colors Tour
Verde Canyon Railroad, Clarkdale
800-293-7245
http://www.verdecanyonrr.com
The Verde Canyon Railroad adds more trains to the schedule as Midas
casts his golden touch upon the Verde Canyon.

30th Annual Yavapai County Fair
September 16-19, 10 AM – 9 PM
Yavapai County Fair Grounds, Prescott Valley
(928) 775-8000
It is a fun-filled family event.

Prescott Book Festival
September 18
Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott
(928)445-3122
http://www.sharlot.org
Prescott’s Book Festival, third year, will be held amidst the pleasant gardens of the Sharlot Hall Museum. Festival-goers will find new books, rare books, used books, entertainment, and popular authors signing their works as well as unique sandwiches and fine coffees and teas.

The George Phippen Retrospective
September 11-30, Mon-Sat 10AM – 4PM; Sun 1PM – 4PM
Phippen Art Museum
928-778-1385
George Phippen mentored many of the current Cowboy Artists of America. His son, Darrell, has assembled a marvelous collection of Phippen’s paintings and bronzes. The George Phippen Retrospective will be exhibited at the Phippen Art Museum, 6 miles north of Prescott, from. The works contained in this exhibit are on loan from private collections throughout the United States to celebrate the Museum’s 20th Anniversary.

Camera Work: A Centennial Celebration
September 17-Oct 15
Yavapai College Center for the Arts Gallery
(928)776-2031
The Yavapai College Art Gallery in Prescott is the only venue west of the Mississippi to host this nationally significant photography exhibit. The exhibit commemorates the 100th anniversary of the founding of Alfred Stieglitz's seminal journal, Camera Work. Camera Work: A Centennial Celebration was organized by the James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Arizona Classical Theater
September 17-19, 24-26, October 1-3
Granite Creek Park, Prescott
For tickets and information call (928) 443-9220
Arizona Classical Theatre (ACT) presents the 2004 Arizona Shakespeare Festival with performances of Titus Andronicus and Twelfth Night. ACT brings to life the great author’s plays in a beautiful outdoor setting.

Sedona Jazz on the Rocks Festival
September 23 – 26, 2004
(928) 282-1985
http://www.sedonajazz.com
The 23rd Annual Benefit Jazz Festival Weekend -- a four day feast for jazz fans showcasing jazz's brightest stars. This year's event promises to continue Sedona's great jazz weekend tradition. Featured performers include vocalist Janiece, Walter Bell and the Latin Jazz Unit Jazz Festival, Dave Koz, Vanessa Rubin, T. S. Monk, Fattburger, SJOR Youth Band, Andy Margolis, and Chris Calloway.

World’s Art Festival
September 25-26, Sat 10AM – 9 PM Sun 10AM-6 PM
Prescott Valley Civic Center
(928) 759-3027
http://www.pvaz.net/
Celebrate the amazing diversity and breadth of cultures of the world through music, art and food. This year, musical performers include the Fushicho Daiko Drummers , the Yellowbird Apache Dancers, Meadowlark, the Southwest Brass Band, Ruth Vichules, local Jazz master Milt Cannon, and a performance by the Yavapai Apache Nation Women Singers and Dancers. Local food vendors will serve up a tasty blend of foods and the wine tasting venue will have samples of the finest from local wineries.

Taste of Prescott
September 25th, Food Tasting Noon – 6 PM, Wine and Beer Garden Noon – 7 PM
Prescott – Yavapai Casino on Highway 69 (928) 775-5255
The best restaurants in the Prescott area will provide a tasting of their finest culinary delights. This annual event is sponsored by Yavapai Prescott Indian Tribe to benefit Yavapai Food Bank.

Ales on the Rails
Verde Canyon Railroad, Clarkdale
800-293-7245
http://www.verdecanyonrr.com
Sunday afternoons in October feature Ales on the Rails, as the Verde Canyon Railroad presents its version of Oktoberfest Beer Festival.

19th Annual Pumpkin Festival
October 1-24th, 9am to 4pm
Young’s Farm, Dewey
(928) 632-7272
http://www.youngsfarminc.com
Every weekend, except Halloween, Friday-Sunday the Pumpkin Festival features wagon rides out to the pumpkin patch and back, a critter corral, outdoor food booths featuring fresh winter squash and Indian corn, and pumpkins galore! Treat yourself to homemade pies, Texas sheet cake, cherry nut bars, and ice cream. Enjoy live entertainment while you browse the booths of numerous vendors and crafters. There’s fun for everyone. There is a $2 admission charge.

25th Annual Folk Music Festival
October 2-3, Sharlot Hall Museum-Prescott
(928) 445-3122
Traditional music is alive and well in Prescott, Arizona. Six venues present concerts, workshops and dancing. This legendary event features outstanding folk performers from near and far. Visitors to the Folk Music Festival will find great opportunities to learn to play simple instruments, learn new techniques for fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin and more. Join in a gospel sing and enjoy performances by old time fiddlers, string bands, cowboy singers, storytellers and original song writers.

Sedona Arts Festival
October 9 – 10, 10:00 AM
(928) 204-9456
http://www.sedonaartsfestival.org
Admission: $7/adult, kids under 12 free when accompanied by an adult.
Rated "one of the nation's top art festivals," this cultural celebration features fine arts and crafts, cuisine from Sedona restaurants and continuous entertainment at Sedona Red Rock High School. It features over 110 of the nation's finest artists and craftspersons, continuous live entertainment, a raffle with great prizes, a Kidzone, the Barbara Antonsen Sedona Artist Invitational and more! Come share in all the fun at our 14th annual event. All proceeds support arts and cultural programming within Sedona schools.

Different Skies
October 9
Arcosanti, Cordes Junction
928.632.6217
info@arcosanti.org
Concert & Dinner: $30 ($15 Concert only)
Electronic and experimental Space Music is quickly becoming one of the world’s most popular genres of music. This special concert concludes a week-long international event at Arcosanti in which many of the leading composers share their work and ideas about this new electronic medium.

Chamber Music in Sedona
October 17
(928)204-2415
http://www.chambermusicsedona.org
The first concert is October 17 featuring music of Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi and other baroque favorites performed by Allan Vogel and friends. The 22nd season of magical music in the red rocks ranges from Bach to the Santa Fe guitar quartet of Argentina. A series of eight concerts from October through May. Visit the website for more information.

FallFest In The Park
October 9th and 10th, Prescott
800 266-7534
This free, family oriented event takes place in downtown Prescott on Courthouse Plaza and features entertainment, arts, crafts and more.

Founders Ride
October 9, Mayer
Grand Canyon Harley-Davidson at 1-877-888-GCHD or
Bucky’s Casino at 1-800-SLOTS-44.
The second annual Founders Motorcycle Ride is sponsored by Bucky’s and Yavapai Casinos. The ride through the Red Rocks will raise funds for Make-A-Wish Foundation of Northern Arizona. Funds will go toward the granting of wishes to children between 2 1/2 and18 who suffer from life-threatening medical conditions.
The poker run will leave Grand Canyon Harley-Davidson in Mayer, wind through the red rocks of Sedona, up to the historic mining town of Jerome, across Mingus Mountain through downtown Prescott, then up the mountain to Bucky’s Casino at the Prescott Resort, approximately 125 miles.

Old West Octoberfest
October 16th, Prescott
(928) 443-5220
Quality ales and lagers produced by members of the Arizona Craft Brewers Guild will be available, along with German music, dancers, food and kids entertainment.

Holiday Electric Light Parade
November 27, 6:00 PM, Prescott
A brilliant parade of lights adorning people, pets and floats celebrating the spirit of the season in downtown Prescott.

Eagle Watch
Verde Canyon Railroad, Clarkdale
800-293-7245
http://www.verdecanyonrr.com
From December to April, migratory waterfowl have arrived for the winter. Bald and golden eagles can be seen in the Verde Canyon, one of the few remaining areas in Arizona where nesting bald eagles can be seen in their natural habitat. Ride the rails and catch a glimpse these remarkable birds of prey.

World’s Largest Gingerbread Village
November 22 through December 28
928.776.1666
More than 100 gingerbread structures in a winter wonderland that includes electric trains. Located in the lobby of the Prescott Resort. Open 24 hours.

Valley of Lights
November 25 - December 30, Prescott Valley
928.772.8857
A spectacular one-mile drive through Fain Park through hundreds of thousands of lights and animated displays.

Holiday Festival of Lights
December 3 – A spectacular parade of lights around the Prescott Valley Civic Center. 6pm; 928.772.8857.

A Christmas Carol
December 3-5; 10-12
Elks Opera House, Prescott
928.443.9220 for times
Arizona Classical Theatre presents the traditional holiday tale.

Christmas Parade and Courthouse Lighting
December 2, Prescott
928.445.2000
Parade 1 pm; Courthouse Lighting 6 pm
Santa visits Arizona’s Christmas City in this fun and festive parade around Prescott’s Courthouse Plaza. In the evening, the Christmas Story will be read from the steps of the Courthouse as a part of the Courthouse Lighting ceremony. It is an ideal way to celebrate the Season with family, friends and neighbors.

Frontier Christmas Open House
December 2, 6-8 pm
Sharlot Hall Museum, Prescott
928.445.3122
Come see how Christmas was celebrated in 1865. Enjoy live entertainment and refreshments at Sharlot Hall Museum.

Jungle Bell 5K Run
December 2, 10am, Prescott
928.771.0580
5K run sponsored by Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe to benefit the Arthritis Foundation.

Christmas Around the Kiva
December 2 and 5, Sat. 10am-4 pm and Sun Noon-4 pm;
Smoki Museum, Prescott
928.445.1230
This festive holiday event features Native American Guest Artists. Other highlights include live music, refreshments, holiday cheer, and a great selection of Indian-made hand-crafted gifts in the Smoki Museum Trading Post. It’s also a great time to visit the museum gift shop for unique gifts.

Acker Musical Showcase
December 10, 5:30-8:30 pm
Courthouse Plaza, Prescott
928.776.4456
This outstanding event is a holiday favorite. Festive luminaria lights surround Courthouse Plaza and local merchants open their doors and host over 100 of the area’s entertainers for this downtown open house.

Festival of Lights
December 11, Sedona-Tlaquepaque
(928) 282-4838
The Festival of Lights, a tradition involving the lighting of 6,000 luminaries in the courtyards and walkways of Tlaquepaque. Tlaquepaque is the home to more than 40 shops and galleries and four restaurants, visited by more than one million tourists each year.

Religious Attractions
Chapel of the Valley (E-6) with turn of the century European stained glass windows, 2215 5th St., 759-0752. Open weekends. Group tours during the week by appointment, 775-0552.
Shrine Of Saint Joseph Of The Mountains (G-4) on Shrine Rd in Yarnell.

For additions to the event calendar e-mail: info@arcosanti.org