Luxembourg Events and Festivals
Music is the main theme of Luxembourg’s line-up of impressive festivals and events, with Luxembourg City naturally seeing the best of them. The towns of Echternach and Wiltz are also popular destinations to enjoy some Luxembourgian culture.
January
New Years Day: a national holiday in Luxembourg and a time for reflection and relaxation. Most of the celebrations take place the night before, with nationals generally spending family time at home on this day.
February
 Carnival: is celebrated every year countrywide by just about all cultures that live here with street parties, parades, concerts, dancing, and feasting and drinking galore.
March
 Printemps Festival: kicks off in Luxembourg City in early March running to early June, with concert venues throughout the city full to the brim and featuring jazz and world music artists.
April
Easter: is a particularly fun time to be in Luxembourg and one in which the people of the Grand Duchy seem to celebrate more than most others in Europe. Parents make and hide eggs for the kids, women offer their boyfriends and husbands chocolate Easter eggs full of praline and fairs go off in Luxembourg City on Easter Monday.
May
 Echternach Sprangpressessioun: is a pagan dance festival that takes place in the popular abbey town of Echternach to the northeast of Luxembourg City, which is right on the German border. The event culminates in a procession of musicians from all over Luxembourg which goes through the streets of the old town.
June
 National Day: is perhaps the most special day for Luxembourgians showing respect for the royal family, with reviewing of the troops by the Grand Duke, a torch-lit parade past the Grand Ducal Palace in Luxembourg City and an impressive fireworks display on Adolphe Bridge. A party then goes off in all major squares in the city featuring musicians, clowns, fire-eaters and loads of other fun attractions.
International Music Festival: has been happening annually in Echternach since 1975, with top musicians and composers from Luxembourg and overseas performing sounds from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic periods.
August
 International Theatre and Music Festival: takes place in the small northern town of Wiltz every year with theatrical works and classical music performed by up-and-coming directors and actors.
 Schueberfouer: in late August is an ancient fair which arrives in Glacis Square in the capital every year; a lot of fun for families with kids. Schueberfouer goes right back to the mid-1300s, originally founded by the Count of Luxembourg, John the Blind.
September
Streetartnimation: is another of Luxembourg City’s main events featuring street artist painters, musicians and other entertainers performing their acts.
October
 Trauliicht gët gebrannt: in the northern village of Munshausen is a bit of a bizarre Luxembourg tradition involving the guarding of the village cattle by the frightening of little girls by little boys. The event starts at the Living Rural Museum.
November
 Winter Lights Festival: late November/early January annually in Luxembourg City features many fun Christmas-themed events and exhibitions with the main event being the celebration of the culture of Luxembourg in early December.
December
 Christmas and New Year’s Eve: are pretty big in Luxembourg, as with elsewhere in the world, with many events dedicated to Christmas, including the Christmas Markets which happen throughout the month. New Year’s Eve sees the squares and main thoroughfares of cities throughout the land thronging with people and parties.
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