Phoenix: Events

While the period from October to May is dotted with community events in Phoenix, the city comes to a cultural standstill during the searing summer. One of the region's biggest parades kicks off the Fiesta Bowl college football game on New Year's Day at the ASU Sun Devil Stadium. Late January and early February catch residents of Scottsdale dusting off their chaps and Stetsons for a string of rodeos, hoedowns, Pony Express reenactments and an All-Arabian Horse Show . The Heard Museum hosts the Guild Indian Fair and Market during the first weekend in March, where you can eat Native American food and peruse top-quality arts and crafts. In mid-March, the Phoenix Rodeo of Rodeos is held at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The costumed Yaqui Indian Easter Ceremonies are held Friday afternoons during Lent in the main plaza of the village of Guadalupe, just south of Tempe. The Arizona State Fair takes place in the last two weeks of October.