True Maine Events
For more information on events, visit facebook.com/DownEastAcadia/events.  Our local visitor centers and Chambers of Commerce also provide events calendars on their websites.
Featured Spring Events
Spring Birding Festivals
DownEast Acadia is a renowned destination for birders. Our 3 different spring birding festivals offer a combination of lectures, walks, and boat tours led by experienced birders to connect birding enthusiasts with DownEast Acadia’s many bird species and diverse habitats, some of them rare and unusual. Wings, Waves & Woods Birding Festival - Deer Isle - May 19-21, 2023. Annual Down East Spring Birding Festival, Lubec area - May 26-29, 2023. Acadia Birding Festival - Mount Desert Island - June 1-4, 2023.
Abbe Museum Indian Market
The Abbe Museum Indian Market returns to Bar Harbor June 2-4, 2023! This multifaceted event will feature more than 50 Native artists working in forms ranging from baskets and pottery to jewelry and sculpture - along with musical and storytelling performances, demonstrations, and educational programs.
Rhubarb Festival
The Rhubarb Festival (June 3, 2023) features a variety of rhubarb-themed activities, including a rhubarb tasting and competition, games for all ages, a rhubarb stalk eating contest, demos on perfecting crusts, planting and caring for plants, and wine-making and mocktail tutorials. Enjoy live local music, and sample rhubarb-flavored foods from local farms and vendors.
Margaretta Days
History comes alive June 16-18 with an encampment of soldier re-enactors and period demonstrations such as blacksmithing, timber framing and weaving, plus Passamaquoddy Tribal members, entertainment (music, storytelling, informative talks, historical presentations, etc.) children’s activities, fun, games, food, and contemporary crafters and artists. The Festival celebrates our community’s unique history as the “Lexington of the Sea”.
Annual True Maine Events
MARCH
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MAY
Down East Spring Birding Festival, Cobscook Bay Area
East Grand Adventure Race, Danforth
Spring Birds of Acadia with Puffin Cruise, Schoodic Institute, Winter Harbor
Wings Waves & Woods Birding Festival, Stonington & Deer Isle
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JUNE
Acadia Birding Festival, Mount Desert Island
Art in the Park, Bar Harbor
Margaretta Days, Machias
Monteux Music Festival, Hancock
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JULY
Bastille Day, Castine
Campobello Fogfest, Campobello Island, NB, CA
Down East Sunrise Trail Relay, Ellsworth to Eastport
Flamingo Festival, Southwest Harbor
Grand Lake Stream Folk Art Festival
Monteux Music Festival, Hancock
Native American Festival and Basket Makers Market, Bar Harbor
Puckerbrush Primitive Gathering, Columbia Falls
AUGUST
International Homecoming, Calais and St. Stephen, NB, CA
Machias Wild Blueberry Festival
Schoodic Arts Festival, Winter Harbor
Winter Harbor Lobster Festival
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SEPTEMBER
Acadia Night Sky Festival, Acadia National Park
Eastport Salmon and Seafood Festival
International Maritime Film Festival, Bucksport
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OCTOBER
Acadia’s Oktoberfest, Mount Desert Island
Autumn Gold, Ellsworth
Fright at the Fort, Bucksport
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NOVEMBER
Downeast Cider + Cheese Festival, Ellsworth
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DECEMBER
The Great Sardine & Maple Leaf Drop, Eastport
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