Here's what's happening in and around Carmel for 2012. January • February • March • April • May • June • July • August • September • October • November • December
JANUARY 2012
Monday, 17th • Martin Luther King Day
FEBRUARY 2012
Monday, 6th – 12th • AT&T Tuesday, 14th • Valentine’s Day Monday, 20th • President’s Day
MARCH 2012 Friday, 2nd-4th • Dixieland Monterey’s Jazz Bash by the Bay Sunday, 17th • St. Patrick’s Day Saturday, 24th • Big Sur Mud Run Sunday, 25th • Taste of Pacific Grove Friday, 30th • Next Generation Jazz Festival
APRIL 2012 Sunday, 8th • Easter Thursday, 12th-15th • Pebble Beach Food and Wine Thursday, 19th-22nd • Sea Otter Classic Sunday, 29th • Big Sur International Marathon
MAY 2012 Saturday, 5th • Quail Lodge Motorcycle Gathering Friday, 11th-12th • American Le Mans Monterey Sunday, 13th • Mother’s Day Friday, 18th-20th • Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Cooking for Solutions Friday, 18th-20th • Ferrari Racing Days Monday, 28th • Memorial Day
JUNE 2012 Friday, 8th-9th • Monterey Wine Festival Saturday, 9th • Monterey Beer Festival Sunday, 17th • Father’s Day Saturday, 23rd • Carmel Heritage Society’s House and Garden Tour
JULY 2012 Tuesday, 3rd-8th • First Tee Open, Pebble Beach Saturday, 7th-8th • Monterey Scottish Games Thursday, 19th-22nd • California Rodeo, Salinas Saturday, 14th-28th • 75th Annual Carmel Bach Festival Friday, 27th-29th • Red Bull Grand Prix MotoGP, Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca
AUGUST 2012 Saturday, 6th • Carmel Valley Fiesta Parade Monday, 13th-19th • Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance Tuesday, 14th • Carmel’s ‘Concours on the Avenue’ Friday, 17th • Concorso Italiano Friday, 17th • The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering Friday, 17th-19th • Rolex Motorsports Reunion at Laguna Seca Raceway Sunday, 19th • Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance
SEPTEMBER 2012 Monday, 3rd • Labor Day Friday, 7th • Continental Tiresports Car Festival at Laguna Seca Raceway Friday, 7th-9th • Pacific Grove Triathlon Wednesday, 12th-16th • Cherry’s Jubilee Friday, 21st-23rd • Monterey Jazz Festival Friday, 28th-30th • Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival Saturday, 29th • Poodle Day
OCTOBER 2012 Thursday, 4th • A Taste of Carmel Friday, 5th-7th • Robinson Jeffers Fall Festival Monday, 10th • Columbus Day Wednesday, 10th-14th • Carmel Art and Film Festival
NOVEMBER 2012 Thursday, 1st-3rd • Big Sur Food and Wine Festival Sunday, 11th • Veteran’s Day Tuesday, 13th-18th • Callaway Golf Invitational, Pebble Beach Sunday, 18th • Big Sur Half Marathon Thursday, 22nd • Thanksgiving
DECEMBER 2012 Friday, 7th • Carmel Tree Lighting Ceremony Tuesday, 25th • Christmas Monday, 31st • New Years Eve