Visitors and residents enjoy festivals throughout the year, celebrating the different seasons. In the fall, Grove celebrates the arrival of hundreds of American White Pelicans on their winter migration path with the Pelican Festival, as well as a 50 s Cruise Night. Three music festivals are held in Grove each summer, featuring some of the nation s best fiddle players performing an eclectic repertoire that includes folk, classical and Cajun selections. The spacious Civic Center, complete with stage and a full-service catering kitchen, is also host to an annual Home and Garden Show, and the Grand Lake Boat Show. The downtown Community Center is available for meetings to a myriad of civic and special interest clubs such as Kiwanis, Lions, Rotary, the Audubon Society, Photography Club, two garden clubs, Quilting Club, Square Dance, Bridge Club, Weight Watchers, Sweet Annies Herb Club, and many senior activities and civic meetings.
Grove also offers a variety of performing arts.
The Off Broadway Arts building in downtown Grove is home for The Playmakers, a community theater group which brings live drama, dance and music to the Grand Lake area, along with the Performance Arts Dance troupe and the Community Chorale. The Grove Arts and Humanities Council promotes all these productions, and hosts an annual Evening of Art in the Garden at Lendonwood Gardens. A live biblical production with dramatic audio and visual effects plays in an outdoor amphitheater during the summer months. A day-long list of activities is on board for residents and visitors, including a watermelon picnic at the park, a free live outdoor concert, and a fabulous fireworks display. New attractions in the Grove area include Lendonwood Garden s new Japanese Tea House surrounded by an oriental garden pond containing over 500 koi fish, and three acres of lush blooming rhododendrons and azaleas.