Bisbee Annual Events Calendar
Bisbee hosts a variety of unique and exciting annual events that reflect its eccentric charm, artistic community, and rich history. Coordinate your stay at The Jonquil Motel with one of our community’s legendary events.
Bisbee’s Signature Events
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Bisbee Historic Home Tour
The Bisbee Historic Home Tour, an annual event hosted by the all-volunteer Bisbee Woman’s Club, offers a rare glimpse inside the wonderfully quirky, art-filled, and historic private homes of the greater Bisbee area.
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Bisbee Garden Tour
The Bisbee Garden Tour is a popular self-guided tour showcasing the creativity and ingenuity of local gardeners who transform challenging hillsides into beautiful, vibrant, and unique green spaces.
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4th of July Coaster Races, Parade, and Fireworks
The annual Fourth of July celebration is not merely a holiday; it is a high-speed experiment in suburban physics and collective memory.
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Bisbee 1000 Stair Climb
Often called one of the most unusual physical fitness challenges in the world, the Bisbee 1000 Great Stair Climb combines strenuous exercise with a fascinating architectural tour of the steep, winding hillside community.
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Bisbee’s Return of the Turkey Vultures
The “Return of the Turkey Vultures” is a unique and quirky annual celebration in Bisbee that welcomes the seasonal homecoming of these vital migratory birds.
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Bisbee Pirate Weekend
The Bisbee Pirate Weekend is an annual costume festival that transforms the landlocked, high-desert town of Bisbee into a lively haven for pirates and mermaids.
Bisbee Events in January
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The Great Inflate Parade
The Great Inflate Parade is a spectacle of pressurized vinyl and neon synthetics, where the participants navigate the narrow streets like slow-motion escapees from a forgotten pneumatic dimension.
Bisbee Events in February
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Valentine’s Day in Bisbee
In the high-desert twilight of Bisbee, Valentine’s Day is not a mere calendar event but a slow-motion collision of history and desire.
Bisbee Events in March
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MAKE Youth Arts Festival
The MAKE Youth Arts Festival is a vibrant disruption of the desert’s stillness—a day when the mineral silence of the mountains is replaced by the frantic energy of creation.
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Tales from the Trash
The Tales From The Trash art show is an annual “one-night-only” celebration of “questionable art” found in thrift stores, yard sales, and dumpsters.
Bisbee Events in April
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Burnerella
Burnerella is a free-spirited, annual arts takeover in Bisbee, Arizona, loosely inspired by the radical self-expression and community-focused principles of Burning Man.
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Mile High Music Festival
The Mile High Music Festival is Bisbee’s premier outdoor sonic celebration, transforming the high-desert landscape into a vibrant stage for regional and national acts.
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Copper City Classic Vintage Baseball Tournament
The Copper City Classic is not merely a game, but a temporal rift where the rigid geometry of the diamond meets the nostalgic haze of the early 20th century.
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Alice in Bisbeeland
In the terraced labyrinth of Old Bisbee, the rabbit hole is not a metaphor but a structural reality.
Bisbee Events in May
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Calliope Music & Art Festival
The Calliope Music & Art Festival in Bisbee, AZ, is a vibrant annual event celebrating local women musicians and artists, typically held in late spring.
Bisbee Events in June
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Bisbee Pride
In the shimmering heat-haze of the Mule Pass, Bisbee reveals itself not as a geographic location, but as a psychological state.
Bisbee Events in July
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4th of July Drilling & Mucking Competition
The 4th of July Drilling & Mincing Competition serves as a brutal reenactment of Bisbee’s industrial birth where man and machine collide against the prehistoric silence of the rock.
Bisbee Events in September
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Bisbee Blues, Bluegrass and Country Bar Crawl
The Bisbee Blues, Bluegrass and Country Bar Crawl is a three-day sequence of acoustic strings and slide guitars.
Bisbee Events in October
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Bisbee B.R.A.T.S.
The Bisbee B.R.A.T.S. (Bisbee Rolling Arts Transport Society) is the town’s high-octane answer to the question: “What happens when you give an artist a set of wheels and a steep hill?”
Bisbee Events in November
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ReMake Art Show
The Annual ReMake Art Show is Bisbee’s premier celebration of “creative recycling,” proving that in the Mule Mountains, one person’s trash is another’s masterpiece.
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SidePony Music Festival
Sidepony Express Music Festival functions as a three-day burst of creative feedback and communal static.