Music festivals, carnivals, cultural celebrations, and diaspora events — the world's best Black festivals, curated for the culture.
Coastal Delaware's 37-year-old smooth jazz tradition returns October 15-18, 2026, with headliners like Boney James, Najee, and Sheila E. across five venues in Rehoboth Beach, Lewes, and Dewey Beach.
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Coastal Delaware's 37-year-old smooth jazz tradition returns October 15-18, 2026, with headliners like Boney James, Najee,…
San Jose Jazz Summer Fest returns August 7-9, 2026 with its full three-day format back downtown…
Once the Playboy Jazz Festival, now the Blue Note Jazz Festival — LA's legendary June jazz…
Bonnaroo's headliners were Skrillex, The Strokes, and Noah Kahan — but the real story for Black…
DownBeat calls it "all killer, no filler." Tucked among Sonoma County's vineyards since 1999, Healdsburg Jazz…
Savannah Music Festival isn't a Black cultural festival, but its jazz and blues programming pulls in…
Every July, the working harbor of Rockland, Maine trades lobster boats for blues legends. Here's BTN's…
Since 1994, the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music has gathered mystics and musicians from across…
Since 2000, the Cape Town International Jazz Festival has drawn the world's best jazz artists to…
A half-century-old courthouse-square gathering in Alabama's Black Belt brings together blues, gospel quartets, quilters, and basket…
Three decades of blues on the water — the Tampa Bay Blues Festival returns to Vinoy…
A free downtown riverfront celebration of Louisiana's swamp-blues heritage — BTN's bookmark-and-check-back guide to the Baton…
Every January, blues acts from 200+ affiliated societies around the world descend on Beale Street to…
The world's largest jazz festival (Guinness-certified) returns to Montreal June 25 - July 4, 2027, with…
Ten days of free outdoor Sidewalk Sessions in Bloor-Yorkville and ticketed shows at Danforth Music Hall…
A 30-year Austin riverside tradition blending reggae, ska, and dancehall with a "reggae X Woodstock" spirit…
Portland's Fourth of July blues tradition has raised more than $10 million for the Oregon food…
Since 1958, the Monterey Jazz Festival has drawn jazz's greatest Black legends to California's Central Coast.…
Memphis in May's flagship music weekend has run every year since 1977, filling Memphis's Mississippi riverfront…
A small-town Delta blues festival in Brownsville, TN honoring Black blues pioneers Sleepy John Estes, Hammie…
The world's largest free showcase of Louisiana music returns to the Vieux Carré April 8-11, 2027…
A grown-folks weekend of R&B, soul, and jazz at Hard Rock Stadium — BTN's guide to…
The 24th Annual Juke Joint Festival takes over Clarksdale, Mississippi — birthplace of the Delta blues…
Three days on a Mississippi River levee in the town that put the blues on the…
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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