Windsor Harvest Festival Adds New Drone Show for 2026

For over 100 years, Windsor, Colorado, has held a festival to unofficially wrap up the summer. It brings thousands from across Northern Colorado to the small-"ish" town for music, food, live music and more.

Windsor Harvest Festival Adds Drone Show with 2026 Weekend

With the 2026 Windsor Harvest Festival, festival goers will be treated a drone show  Saturday, September 5, right before the fireworks show. Word has it, that a Windsor High School graduate is one of the designers of the drone show, as well. How cool is that?

Many will say that drone shows "aren't as good/fun as fireworks;" but, there will still be fireworks, beginning at 9:20 that night, so it's a "win win" for Windsor. The fireworks have been a highlight for many years, like the Picture the Sky Balloon Rally, happening Saturday and Sunday mornings, each day starting at 6:30 a.m. (weather permitting.)

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What Bands are Playing the Windsor Harvest Festival in 2026?

The Windsor Harvest Festival has some great bands lined up for 2026:

• Saturday, September 5 - 6:00 p.m. - Luck of the Draw (Bonnie Raitt Tribute)
• Saturday, September 5 - 7:30 p.m.  Aubrey Dale.
• Drone Show and Fireworks follow Aubrey Dale (9:05 p.m.)

• Sunday, September 6 - 11:30 a.m. - Stuck on Vinyl.
• Sunday, September 6 - 1:00 p.m. - Colorado Swing Big Band.
• Sunday, September 6 - 3::00 p.m. - Kelsey Jo and the Wildcards.

• Monday, September 7 - 11:00 a.m. - Michael Morrow & The Culprits.
• Monday, September 7 - 12:30 p.m. - Israeli Dancers.
• Monday, September 7 - 1:30 p.m. - Heart 'N Soul
• Monday, September 7 - 3:30 p.m. - George Gray and the Elvis Experience Band.

The weekend will also have a pie eating contest, a petting zoo, beer garden, food vendors, the annual parade on Labor Day Monday, carriage wagon rides, and a lot more.The festival is an old favorite of mine, I used to take my nephew to it for the Bingo and other events; now, he's started taking his young family.