🎉 Festival
Festival of Friends
Gage Park · Ages not listed
Annual, late July/early August (2026: July 31–Aug 2) — see festivaloffriends.ca for exact dates
Free
1000 Main St E, Hamilton, ON L8M 1N2 Directions
One of Canada's largest and longest-running free music and arts festivals — three days of live entertainment, local vendors, food, a midway, pony rides, bouncy castles, and face painting at Gage Park. Distinct from Imagine in the Park (a smaller, kids-arts-focused June event at the same park); Festival of Friends runs in late summer with broader family-midway attractions. Gage Park's own grounds have wheelchair-accessible paths and a wheelchair-accessible playground.
RSVPSource: Fomogo research
Accuracy: From the venue’s own info — confirm before you go