November 2026 arrives in Sedona quietly, with frost on the windshields in West Sedona at dawn and a sun that burns it off before the second cup of coffee. The cottonwoods along Oak Creek hold the last of their gold, and the October trail crowds thin out until the trailheads start to feel like they belong to the people who live here again.
This is the month Sedona, Arizona turns inward, toward concert halls, gallery openings, and the small rituals of a town getting ready for the holidays. If you are asking what’s happening in Sedona in November 2026, the honest answer is less spectacle and more gratitude, and the things to do in Sedona this month follow that mood.
Gratitude has a sound, and eleven days before Thanksgiving it fills a stage on Upper Red Rock Loop Road. The Sedona Symphony calls it Simple Gifts.
Sedona Symphony Simple Gifts, November 15
The Sedona Symphony performs Simple Gifts, an American music celebration, on Sunday, November 15, 2026, at the Sedona Performing Arts Center in Sedona, Arizona, a concert Visit Sedona pairs with the lead-up to Thanksgiving. The program gathers a range of American sounds and closes with Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring, the suite that includes variations on the Shaker melody that gives the afternoon its name, which makes it a fitting soundtrack for a town that lives under this much sky.
The concert runs from 3 PM to 5 PM at 995 Upper Red Rock Loop Road, with a pre-concert talk at 2 PM, a running time of about two hours with a 20-minute intermission, and tickets sold through the Sedona Symphony. Violinist Rachel Lee Priday is the featured soloist in a new violin concerto Carlos Garcia wrote for her, on a program that also includes works by Karen Amrhein and Henry Cowell.
For more information please visit the Sedona Symphony Simple Gifts website.
1st Friday in the Galleries, November 6
1st Friday in the Galleries opens Sedona’s art galleries for an evening of new exhibitions, receptions with the artists, and visiting guests on Friday, November 6, 2026, from Tlaquepaque Arts and Shopping Village in Uptown to the galleries along West State Route 89A. In a town with an arts identity this established, it is an evening when galleries from Tlaquepaque to Sinagua Plaza to West Sedona take part on the same night.
The event is free and open to everyone, with core hours of 4 PM to 7 PM that vary by gallery, and participating stops include Mountain Trails Galleries and Rowe Fine Art Gallery at Tlaquepaque, Touchstone Gallery in Sinagua Plaza, and the Sedona Artist Market in West Sedona.
For more information please visit the 1st Friday in the Galleries website.
Veterans Day Tribute, November 11
The Veterans Day Tribute takes place at the Sedona Heritage Museum in Uptown on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, for the town’s official observance, hosted with the City of Sedona. A flag ceremony, dignitaries, a tribute to veterans, and music unfold at the museum in Jordan Historical Park, where the Sedona Heritage Museum and the City of Sedona host the tribute each year.
The program runs from 11 AM to 1 PM at 735 Jordan Road, admission is free, and food and entertainment at no charge follow the ceremony, with every veteran and active-duty service member invited to attend and be honored, and the tribute is open to anyone who wishes to attend.
For more information please visit the Veterans Day Tribute website.
Get Loud Community Celebration, November 14
The 3rd Annual Get Loud Community Celebration fills Community Library Sedona with games, food, and performances on Saturday, November 14, 2026, a free afternoon among the Sedona community events built for every age. The afternoon brings an obstacle slide, an inflatable maze, a bungee run, and a baseball speed pitch game, with face painting and balloon animals for guests of every age.
The celebration runs from 2 PM to 5 PM at 3250 White Bear Drive, with free tacos, popcorn, and cotton candy until they run out, and guests can park free at Red Rock High School and ride a free trolley that runs every 5 to 10 minutes with magicians on board.
For more information please visit the Get Loud Community Celebration website.
Sedona Turkey Trot, Thanksgiving Morning
The 17th annual Sedona Turkey Trot sends runners on a 5K course through the red rocks from Posse Grounds Park on Thanksgiving morning, Thursday, November 26, 2026, according to the race registration page. It welcomes seasoned runners and first-timers alike, and finishing a 5K under the red rocks before the oven goes on is about as Sedona as a holiday tradition gets.
The race starts at 9 AM at 525 Posse Ground Road, where there is plenty of parking, and every finisher receives a medal and race shirt, though Visit Sedona lists the date as November 27, so confirm the day on the race page before you set an alarm.
For more information please visit the Sedona Annual Turkey Trot website.
Set beside the Sedona events for October, the Sedona events November 2026 calendar moves from October’s festivals to a concert stage, a gallery walk, a flag ceremony, and a 5K before Thanksgiving dinner, with every listing above via Visit Sedona and, for the Sedona Symphony and the Turkey Trot, the organizer’s own page, plus the City of Sedona for the museum’s Jordan Historical Park setting. Angelo Davis, Associate Broker at RE/MAX Sedona, gathers this calendar each month for anyone weighing a move to Sedona, Arizona, and a Sedona November is the month that shows what an ordinary week here holds.
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