Tulip Time has only just ended, but next year’s celebration could make history.
Tulip Time 2027, scheduled for roughly eleven months from now, will start in the month of April — which, according to officials, is likely a first.
Gwen Auwerda, the event’s executive director, confirmed Tulip Time 2027 will run April 30-May 9. In an email to The Sentinel, she said April 30 is “probably” the earliest the festival has ever gotten underway.
The timing, she said, is due to the calendar — not in response to early-blooming tulips (though the possibility led to much conversation in 2026).
“Tulip Time generally begins the first Saturday of May,” Auwerda told The Sentinel — noting that, next year, that date is May 1. “(We’ve) added programming on Friday for the last couple of years, (so) next year the date includes the last day of April.”
According to a history presented on the event’s website, officials decided in 2001 to move the festival forward one week “to better coincide with the blooming of the tulips.”
To learn more, visit tuliptime.com.
— Contact reporter Mitchell Boatman at mboatman@hollandsentinel.com.
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Reporting by Mitchell Boatman, Holland Sentinel / The Holland Sentinel
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