Tennessee Iris Festival

Tennessee Iris Festival Save the Date for the 2026 Iris Festival! The festival will take place Friday, May 1 thru Wednesday, May 6. Stay tuned for more information!

Message us if you’re interested in being a volunteer or helping with a specific event. The Iris Festival, which began as the Easter Parade in the spring of 1980, has grown into an event anticipated and looked forward to by people of all ages. We have over a full week of activities for people of all ages, ending with our parade which falls on the first Saturday of May each year. Festival time is pe

rhaps the most special time of the year in Dresden. You can expect the festival each year beginning with Opening Ceremonies on the last Saturday of April and ending with a parade on the first Saturday of May. We hope to see you there!

Jr. Miss Hostess Princess, Charley Kate Harrison, representing the Tennessee Iris Festival at the West Tennessee Strawbe...
05/09/2026

Jr. Miss Hostess Princess, Charley Kate Harrison, representing the Tennessee Iris Festival at the West Tennessee Strawberry Festival parade! 💜✨🍓

Miss Avery Stockton representing the Tennessee Iris Festival in the West Tennessee Strawberry Festival parade! 💜✨🍓
05/08/2026

Miss Avery Stockton representing the Tennessee Iris Festival in the West Tennessee Strawberry Festival parade! 💜✨🍓

Leave us a review! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻We would love for festival goers visiting our page to read just how great the Tennessee Iris Fe...
05/08/2026

Leave us a review! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
We would love for festival goers visiting our page to read just how great the Tennessee Iris Festival is!! 💜✨

05/07/2026

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We would love to know what you think after this year’s Iris Festival events!! 💜

Use this QR CODE throughout the week to let us know what you think about the the Iris Festival events.
Instructions for how to work the QR CODE in the comments.

A well deserved THANK YOU to our Dresden City Employees and Parks and Rec Crew. From putting up street pole banners and ...
05/07/2026

A well deserved THANK YOU to our Dresden City Employees and Parks and Rec Crew. From putting up street pole banners and parade route signs, blocking off streets, directing traffic, standing post to keep our citizens safe, stringing lights way up high, taking down and cleaning up after events, moving this and that from here to there…the list goes on and on. They do all these things and much more that we ask of them with a smile, not a hesitation, and at a moments notice. We could not run this festival smoothly and efficiently without them. 💜✨

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05/06/2026

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It was about food and fellowship today! 🍪🍰🎂🍗🥔🫛Baking Contest and Iris Luncheon Gallery below. 👇🏻
05/06/2026

It was about food and fellowship today! 🍪🍰🎂🍗🥔🫛
Baking Contest and Iris Luncheon Gallery below. 👇🏻

Let's wrap up this year's festival in style! 🌸 The Baking Contest is happening at McWherter Civic Center — drop off from...
05/06/2026

Let's wrap up this year's festival in style! 🌸

The Baking Contest is happening at McWherter Civic Center — drop off from 7–10 AM, judging 8–10 AM, and awards at 11 AM with lunch to follow at noon. Speaking of lunch, the Iris Festival Luncheon kicks off at 12 PM, sponsored by the Dresden Senior Citizens Center. Then tonight, grab your $5 tickets for the Pancake Supper at First Baptist Church Family Life Center (5–6:45 PM), and stick around for Community Wide Gospel Singing at 7 PM — featuring Dawson and Taneea Hull on piano and clarinet. Free and open to everyone! 💜

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