Event Calendar

We’d love to see you at the Farmers’ Market at the Independence Uptown Market. Come shop around and see the selection or make a beeline for your favorite vendor to grab your usual stuff.

All fresh foods and crafts are of good quality and have been made within a 100-mile radius of the city limits of Independence. Independence Farmers’ market vendors offer a variety of fresh produce, plants, honey, jams, jellies, eggs, soaps, birdhouses, and a variety of handcrafted items. The market will be opened at least 25 Saturdays and 16 Wednesdays in the 2019 season.

There are restrooms available for public use at the market location.

Join us on from 7 a.m. – 1 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays for the Farmers Market at the Independence Uptown Market.

Watch MMA fighters from all over the Midwest converge for an epic battle, presented by 98.9 The Rock. FAC MMA Fight Night will feature 15 thrilling bouts, including Kevin Croom, Deryck Ripley and Anthony Goldfield. FAC Fight Night isn’t boys only, as local favorite, Marissa Ellis, makes her professional debut.

It’s a full night of non-stop MMA action at Silverstein Eye Centers Arena.

Tickets start as low as $11 at the SEC Arena box office or at TicketMaster.com

David Kroese, the author of the first published narrative through all 419 sites in our National Park System, will share a pictorial tour of the NPS sites on and connected to our great western trails of the 19th century. The author will be signing books and copies will be available for purchase. Free event.

Every so often, one of Jackson County’s more than 250 small pioneer and family cemeteries is threatened by development and progress. Local historian and preservationist David W. Jackson uses the historic Davis-Smith Cemetery as a case study on how to unearth details about these sacred spaces and ways to preserve them.

We’d love to see you at the Farmers’ Market at the Independence Uptown Market. Come shop around and see the selection or make a beeline for your favorite vendor to grab your usual stuff.

All fresh foods and crafts are of good quality and have been made within a 100-mile radius of the city limits of Independence. Independence Farmers’ market vendors offer a variety of fresh produce, plants, honey, jams, jellies, eggs, soaps, birdhouses, and a variety of handcrafted items. The market will be opened at least 25 Saturdays and 16 Wednesdays in the 2019 season.

There are restrooms available for public use at the market location.

Join us on from 7 a.m. – 1 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays for the Farmers Market at the Independence Uptown Market.

Don’t miss the 47th annual SantaCaliGon Days Festival this Labor Day Weekend.

SantaCaliGon is more than the premier festival in Independence; it’s a celebration of family and fun, heritage and history. This free, four-day festival is sure to please. Join our more than 300,000 attendees for a weekend of live music, shopping, food and drink and entertainment.

The 2019 SantaCaliGon Festival will kick off with a free concert at 9:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 30 featuring Wynonna & the Big Noise. Whitey Morgan and the 78’s will follow up with a free show at the same time on Saturday, Aug. 31. Go to SantaCaliGon.com for more on the festival’s entertainment lineup.

Live music not your thing? No problem. Shop from more than 500 craft and vendor booths, enjoy thrills at the Wade Shows Carnival, step back in time on Main Street 1849, where entertainment and education meet for the weekend.

The 47th Annual SantaCaliGon Days Festival in Independence, commemorates the origin of the Santa Fe, California, and Oregon trails during the country’s great westward expansion in the 1800s by adventurous pioneers. Today, the festival celebrates family and fun. More than 300,000 festival-goers spend Labor Day weekend at the region’s longest-standing and largest 4-day festival.

We’d love to see you at the Farmers’ Market at the Independence Uptown Market. Come shop around and see the selection or make a beeline for your favorite vendor to grab your usual stuff.

All fresh foods and crafts are of good quality and have been made within a 100-mile radius of the city limits of Independence. Independence Farmers’ market vendors offer a variety of fresh produce, plants, honey, jams, jellies, eggs, soaps, birdhouses, and a variety of handcrafted items. The market will be opened at least 25 Saturdays and 16 Wednesdays in the 2019 season.

There are restrooms available for public use at the market location.

Join us on from 7 a.m. – 1 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays for the Farmers Market at the Independence Uptown Market.