Music festivals, carnivals, cultural celebrations, and diaspora events — the world's best Black festivals, curated for the culture.
Mississippi's longest-running jazz festival brings HBCU student talent and jazz legends together on Alcorn State's rural Lorman campus. BTN's guide pairs it with a Natchez/Vicksburg getaway.
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Mississippi's longest-running jazz festival brings HBCU student talent and jazz legends together on Alcorn State's rural…
Free, legendary, and 50 years strong — the Atlanta Jazz Festival fills Piedmont Park with world-class…
The world's largest free blues festival traces a direct line from the Great Migration and Maxwell…
Labor Day weekend belongs to Detroit. Four days, three downtown stages, 60+ world-class acts, and zero…
Since 1970, New Orleans has poured its Black musical soul — brass bands, gospel, Mardi Gras…
The Shoals region celebrates the "Father of the Blues," W.C. Handy, with nearly two weeks of…
Where Black alternative culture, fashion, and music collide every summer in Brooklyn — BTN's guide to…
One of America's longest-running blues festivals lights up the Duluth waterfront on Lake Superior for its…
A free week-long tribute to Black jazz trumpet legend Clifford Brown fills downtown Wilmington's Rodney Square…
New Orleans honors hometown son Louis Armstrong with a jazz-soaked summer tribute at the historic Old…
A free riverfront weekend pairing a jazz lineup with competitive barbecue rib vendors on Columbus's Scioto…
The festival that invented modern jazz-festival culture in 1954 returns to a historic seaside fort in…
A legacy Black R&B and soul festival running since 1962, filling downtown Cincinnati and Paycor Stadium…
Forty years of Chicago's Black gospel tradition, free and open to everyone at Millennium Park —…
Afro Nation Portugal is the world's biggest Afrobeats festival — three days of non-stop music, culture,…
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