Winona is home to the Great River Shakespeare Festival, many university productions and other theatrical events throughout the year.
Many of Winona’s iconic festivals are centered around music. Rock, Beethoven, bluegrass and jazz top the list.
Please see the event calendar for individual performances.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
This nationally recognized festival, which draws audiences from across the Midwest and acclaimed actors from across the country, fills each Winona summer with a full slate of world-class entertainment.
Live music and concert venues
In Winona’s theatres and concert halls or its auditoriums, parks and cafes, someone is always performing.
The bluffs are alive… with sound of sonatas
The Minnesota Beethoven Festival fills salons, auditoriums, and a majestic outdoor band shell with the delicate refrains of history’s most important classical works, performed by some of its most celebrated names.
Dixieland tradition
Monthly jazz band performances, a Dixieland Jazz Festival, and even our own Mardi Gras celebration keeps the toe-tapping music alive here year-round.
Find your roots
For a knee slapping, boot-scooting, family-friendly good time, Winona’s legendary Boats and Bluegrass Festival on the shores of the Mississippi River has no rival.
Come one, come all
Each spring, music lovers of all ages and bands of all genres collide in a city-wide celebration of music that rocks for three days and rolls from every venue in town.
Theater and performance arts for everyone
Home to two universities and an array of independent theater and arts companies, Winona offers a vibrant mix year round of performance in every form.
