Spring Festivals in Missouri (2024)

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Missouri Cherry Blossom Festival in Marshfield, MO.

The 2024 festival season includes The Barber of Seville (May 25 to June 29), La bohème (June 1 to 30), Julius Caesar (June 9 to 28) and Galileo Galilei (June 15 to 29). All the operas will be sung in English and accompanied by the Grammy Award-winning St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.

Late winter and early spring—February and March—is a time of sloppy snows alternating with refreshing warm days. Beneath sheer cabin fever lies the need to the feel warmth of the sun and see fresh green growth—and, yes, flowers! As the days get longer, subtle signs of spring begin to appear.

The Chinese New Year (新年) is also known as the Spring Festival (春节). It is the most solemn festival of the year for every Chinese and has been celebrated in China for thousands of years, with various forms of activities among the diverse regions of China.

In the George Washington Carver Garden, the Mount Fuji cherry 'Shirotae' produces white blossoms that are both light pink and fragrant in late March to early April.

2024 FESTIVAL: MARCH 20 - APRIL 14, WASHINGTON, DC

The National Cherry Blossom Festival commemorates the 1912 gift of 3,000 cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo to the city of Washington, DC, and celebrates the enduring friendship between the people of the United States and Japan.

Photo courtesy of the Missouri Historical Society. Festival Hall at the 1904 World's Fair was built as a temporary structure and demolished when the fair closed.

Set to welcome more than 800 of the world's best electronic artists across 16 mesmerizing stages during two weekends of magic in the beautiful scenery of De Schorre in Boom, Tomorrowland Belgium 2024 will take place from July 19-21 and July 26-28, uniting 400.000 People of Tomorrow from over 200 countries.

Every year there are a bunch of carnivals in St. Louis organized for families to have a ball of a time. Some seasonal carnivals while some festive ones, but there are just too many that you can attend. You can look forward to some exciting activities for you and your kids.

In spring, eastern redbud's rose-purple flowers cover the bare branches before the leaves. The hot pink flowers of eastern redbud have a nutty, sweet taste similar to sugar snap peas.

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All trees produce flowers, but some of our native trees produce eye-popping masses of blooms in the spring. These are the white-flowering serviceberry, wild plum, flowering dogwood and hawthorn, the brilliant pink red bud, and the striking red buckeye.

Spring Festival (Chun Jie in Chinese), the first day of the lunar January, is regarded as the most important traditional festival in China. It is celebrated for the coming of the Lunar New Year. During the festival, people will have the holiday and get together with family members.

The Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is celebrated from the first to the fifth day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar.

The vernal or spring equinox occurs around March 21st and is the moment at which the center of the visible sun is directly above the equator. Marking the first official day of spring in the northern hemisphere, the equinox is when daytime and nighttime are of approximately equal duration.

Japan's cherry blossom festivals are a centuries-old cultural tradition. Taking place throughout the entire country, these festivals are commemorated with picnics, parties, sake, and viewing parties, also referred to as hanami, which means “viewing flowers.”

With the arrival of spring and its warm, breezy temperatures come blooming cherry blossom trees at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The cherry blossom, also called sakura in Japanese, fills the garden with vivid white and soft pink hues every March and April.

The Japanese tradition of cherry blossom festival (hanami) is a celebration that is centuries old. It is held throughout Japan and in many other places around the world. The celebration consists of holding parties under the short-lived cherry blossoms as they bloom.