Events and festivals in Grand Est on 29 and 30 August 2026: the Châlons-en-Champagne fair opens for eleven days, beer flows in Saverne, Eguisheim honours its winegrowers and Metz closes the Mirabelle festivities.
The Capitole en Champagne, avenue du Président Roosevelt. The Foire de Châlons-en-Champagne starts there on Friday 28 August, eleven days of stands, an agricultural village and free concerts. Events and festivals in Grand Est on 29 and 30 August 2026: the Châlons-en-Champagne fair opens for eleven days, beer flows in Saverne, Eguisheim honours its winegrowers and Metz closes the Mirabelle festivities.
Eleven days of fair at the Capitole en Champagne
The Foire de Châlons-en-Champagne ranks among the biggest events in Grand Est. More than 200,000 visitors walk its aisles every year, between the stands of over 800 exhibitors, the agricultural village, family entertainment and free evening concerts. The 2026 edition runs at the Capitole, 68 avenue du Président Roosevelt, from 28 August to 7 September.
The first one was held in 1947, and the event has grown into a fixture of the regional calendar.
The weekend of 29 August is the first of this edition, and the only one in August: two full days to roam the aisles, the agricultural village and the family entertainment without taking leave.
Every evening, the stage lights up. Foire en Scène, the fair's music festival created in the early 2000s, lines up free concerts by artists of national and international standing, and draws tens of thousands of spectators with a mix of French chanson, pop and rock across the whole run.
From Saverne's beer to the cows of Soultzeren
Alsace concentrates the local traditions. The Fête de la Bière de Saverne, run by the Licorne brewery since 2012 and now the largest beer festival in France with close to 49,000 visitors over four days, pours craft beers in the park of the Château des Rohan until Sunday 30. In Eguisheim, a circular village listed among the Plus Beaux Villages de France, the Winegrowers' Festival turns the streets into an open-air cellar on 29-30/08, grand cru tastings included, as it has every last weekend of August since 1960. On Sunday, Geispolsheim parades the floats built by its associations for the Fête de la Choucroute, complete with a flea market and exhibitions in the farm courtyards, a village affair since 1966.
Metz wraps up ten days of Fêtes de la Mirabelle on Sunday 30 August, between the crowning of the Queen, the Marché des Saveurs and the nautical parade on the water, a ritual born in 1947.
Strasbourg takes to the street. The FARSe sets three days of circus, theatre, dance and music on place Kléber, the Austerlitz basin and the Petite France, until Sunday and without a ticket to buy, as every late summer since 2015.
Two music bills stop on Saturday 29. The Watts à Bar Festival, created in 2012 by the Be Real association, mixes rock, metal, reggae, electro and hip-hop in the park of the Château de Marbeaumont in Bar-le-Duc, with acts rarely booked in Grand Est, while the Open Air Meuh'Zik raises its stage on the pastures of the Glasborn farm-inn in Soultzeren, among the Vosges cows, a hundred volunteers at work and mountain-farm cooking on the menu.
In Haute-Marne, Chasse et Nature en Fête gathers more than 200 exhibitors, falconry shows and hunting-dog demonstrations at the Parc aux Daims in Châteauvillain on Saturday and Sunday, an open-air fair drawing 25,000 to 30,000 visitors since 1991.
The fair itself carries on at the Capitole until Monday 7 September, with a free concert every evening.