Events & FestivalsVisit Hannibal2019-04-22T16:31:58+00:00

Events in Hannibal & Hannibal Festivals

Name: Haunted Hannibal's Halloween Festival
Start: 2019-10-26T00-00-00-00
End: 2019-10-27T23-23-59-00
Location: Historic Downtown Hannibal

Looking for year-round fun? You don’t have to look any further than Hannibal, MO. There are great events in Hannibal scheduled throughout the year, with Missouri festivals for every occasion.

Annual Hannibal Festivals

Looking for fun the whole family can enjoy? Hannibal hosts a variety of annual festivals each year. Kick off your summer with the Twain on Main Festival each May during Memorial Day weekend. This weekend of fun features art, crafts, great food, and entertainment for the whole family. Meet your favorite characters, shop local artisans and experience some of the best food in the Midwest.

Hannibal is also the proud host of National Tom Sawyer Days for more than 60 years. Our free street festival includes a huge Missouri craft festival, carnival rides, and fun children’s events. No Fourth of July would be complete without fireworks, and this Hannibal event delivers with fireworks over the Mississippi! Celebrate Mark Twain and Hannibal’s rich local history. Unique Hannibal events can easily be found as well. The Big River Steampunk Festival, held each Labor Day Weekend, has to be seen to be believed! The annual Victorian Festival of Christmas in December offers Holiday cheer for everyone.

Browse our calendar for a complete list of upcoming festivals hosted in Hannibal.

Hannibal, Missouri Events

Hannibal plays host to a number of exciting events each year. Discover car shows, live entertainment, exhibits, sporting events, and more in our annual calendar. New events are constantly added in this scenic Mississippi river town.

View upcoming events in Hannibal below!

october, 2019

17oct7:30 pm9:00 pmMark Twain and the Wheelhouse Rousters

Event Details

The Wheelhouse Rousters are a string band from Western Kentucky. Founding members Josh Coffey, Eddie Coffey and Nathan Lynn formed the band originally in hopes of drawing new attention to the forgotten songs of the American steamboat roustabouts as collected by musicologist Mary Wheeler.
“The Wheelhouse Rousters could be the most important folk band of the 21st Century. Why’s that? Because they are the only group I know who plumb the last untapped source of American folk music: the work shanties of our national waterways. With our focus having been strained forever upon bluegrass & blues music, we may now sit back, close our eyes & let the Rousters mark the twain of the last thing left. The rhythm of the old river workers, channeled amidst Kentucky’s haunted coastline.” – JD Wilkes, The Legendary Shack Shakers
In 2014 the band released their first studio album, Steamboatin,’ and were featured artists at the The Belle of Louisville’s Centennial Festival of Riverboats. The band’s second studio album, Times of Uncertainty, recorded live at the Historic Hotel Metropolitan in Paducah, was released in the summer of 2016 and helped secure the band a residency on the Queen of the Mississippi and the America through the next three years. They have performed at numerous festivals including Terrapin Hill Harvest Festival, Lowertown Arts and Music Festival, John Hartford Memorial Festival, Bourbon and Beyond, Homplace Pickin’ Party, and many more.
River Folk, the band’s third studio album, was released in May of 2019. Recorded at Time on the String in Paducah, KY, the album highlights the band’s songwriting and features longtime friends J.D. Wilkes, the Solid Rock’it Boosters, Tim May, and more.

Time

(Thursday) 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Location

Hannibal LaGrange University Roland Fine Arts Center

2800 Palmyra Rd, Hannibal, MO

Calendar GoogleCal

19oct(oct 19)10:00 am20(oct 20)4:00 pmFeatured43rd Annual Autumn Historic Folklife Festival

26octAll Day27FeaturedHaunted Hannibal's Halloween Festival

Event Details

A festival for adults and kids alike, the Haunted Hannibal Festival dedicates celebrates pumpkins, fall, spooks, tricks, and treats. Join us in downtown Hannibal for spooktacular fun. From trick-or-treating, haunted houses, Haunted Hannibal Ghost Tours, spooky storytelling, pumpkin decorating contests, a Halloween parade, and many more surprises!

Halloween Living Dead Windows – OCT 26TH from 5-8 PM

Dress up and join the Halloween Parade and then stay for Living Dead windows where downtown businesses will be hosting scary montages with real people in their windows. Enjoy a hot drink or snack and walk the streets after dark.

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The downtown merchants of historic Hannibal bring you Living Dead Windows! Much like our Christmas Living Windows each window of the downtown comes to life with a haunted Halloween scene. Stroll downtown and interact with the live scenes that make historic downtown Hannibal the place to be Halloween weekend.

Halloween Parades – Oct. 26th, 6 PM

Also during the festivities will be not one, but TWO Halloween parades! Both start at 6:00pm. The Hannibal Jaycees Parade begins on Broadway and head left down North Main. The 2 Besties Biscuits and NEMO Humane Society HOWLoween Pet Parade begins on North Main ending on the M.UT.S. Stage for a pet costume contest.

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Main Street Trick-or-Treat – OCT 31ST 5-8 PM

Enjoy a traditional, outdoor, door-to-door and trunk or treating event all on Main Street in historic downtown Hannibal! Halloween activities, booths, and decorated trunk or treats will line the street while downtown merchants will pass out candy from their stores. Also present will be monster machines (vehicles and displays from the Army, Hannibal Fire Dept., Big Rigs, and more). The event will start on 5pm on Halloween day and run until 8pm.

5-8 pm: DARE Trick or Treat

Jaycees Haunted House – Warehouse of Nightmares

Oct. 25 & 26

Every Friday & Saturday in October!

More info here: Haunted Hannibal Festival