Best Spring Festivals Near Detroit

Detroit is home to many of the Midwest's best festivals, including some that are known worldwide. Each spring, Detroiters are understandably anxious to get out of the house after a long and cold winter and back to many of the festivals that help make the Motor City the wonderful place that it is! Here are some of the top upcoming festivals this spring that you and your family and friends should already be prepping for. This year promises to be one of the best in Detroit history!

Movement Electronic Music Festival
Hart Plaza
1 Hart Plaza
Detroit, MI 48226
(313) 877-8057
movement.us

Date: May 28-30, 2016 at 12 p.m.

One of the biggest parties each year in Detroit is the Movement Electronic Music Festival, held each May in the heart of the Motor City. The Movement festival is the most well-known and famous EDM and Techno music festival around the world. With Detroit being the birthplace of electronic music, it only makes sense that the city has created one of the biggest EDM spring festivals of all time. Thousands upon thousands of people will join hundreds of artists for the massive party in Hart Plaza over the last weekend of May. It was also recently announced that legendary electronic band Kraftwerk will headline the show, so it will certainly be one to see. Check out their website as tickets are available, but could sell out at any time!

Date: April 2, 2016 at 12 p.m.

Known worldwide as the famous annual "Hash Bash," the Monroe Street Fair & Hash Bash takes place each year in Ann Arbor and has done so for decades. Ann Arbor has long been one of the most progressive cities when it comes to stances on marijuana use and legalization. Though the drug is not currently legal for open public use for non-medicinal reasons, many young and old alike still gather to look at artful creations, enjoy to local bands and listen to celebrities and social speakers talk about what they believe makes pot so great.

Date: June 5-6, 2016 at 4 p.m. to 11 p.m.

This year, one of the most popular festivals in all of Detroit is moving to its new home. The Downtown Hoedown, formerly held for the past few years at Ford Field, and before that Hart Plaza, will now be relocating to the brand new park on Detroit's beautiful river, the West Riverfront Park. The park is also home to the Mo Pop Festival, which also hosted its first-ever show at the new park back in 2015 to much acclaim, despite the bad weather. This year's Downtown Hoedown will feature some of the same country music artists that fans loved before, such as A Thousand Horses, but will also feature a host of new and big name top country artists, as well! The outdoor setting of the park near the Detroit River is an ideal place for a country music festival, so we predict that fans will take quite kindly to this new location. Tickets are on sale now for $35 each or at the door the day of the festival for $40.

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Bringin' Back The 80s Festival 
Harvey Kern Community Pavilion
601 Weiss St.
Frankenmuth, MI 48734
(989) 652-8008
www.80sfest.org

Date: April 22 and 23, 2016 at 6 p.m. and 4 p.m.

For those Millennials and 80s and 90s kids and even those whom may be older, but miss elements of the past, there's a fantastic spring festival happening in Frankenmuth that's right up your alley. The Bringin' Back the 80s Festival, which happens each spring in the city, celebrates everything that happened in the 80s, from the music, to the clothes, sights and surroundings. Plenty of 80s bands and tribute bands will be on-hand to play your favorite 80s music. Best of all, all proceeds go to various cancer research foundations, so you can feel good partying like it's 1985 again!

Detroit Music Awards
The Fillmore Detroit
2115 Woodward Ave.
Detroit, MI 48201
(313) 961-5451
www.detroitmusicawards.net

Date: April 29, 2016 at 6 p.m.

This year is a very special year for the Detroit Music Awards (though every year is truly special), as 2016 marks the 25th anniversary of the festival of music right in the heart of downtown Motown. Music is interwoven within the fabric of the city, and on this special day, all of downtown will be lit up with the excitement over another year's award party. The Fillmore Detroit will be the host for this year's spring festival, though other venues and locations around the city will be holding their own parties, as well. If you want to see the best of the best in Detroit's eclectic music scene, you'd better show up in downtown Motown on this day! The Fillmore event is also open to the public.

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