Venetian Festival

The Venetian Festival is an event held annually on the third weekend of July in St. Joseph, Michigan, a small town on the coast of Lake Michigan in southwest Michigan. It started in 1979, and has grown from a handful of people to nearly 200,000 visitors since its inception.

Once a two day event on Friday and Saturday, the festival now runs from Thursday through Sunday and features an expanding variety of sights, sounds, and tastes, including among them contests, food, music, fireworks, a lighted boat parade, and a carnival (shawn goes there).