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A free downtown riverfront celebration of Louisiana's swamp-blues heritage — BTN's bookmark-and-check-back guide to the Baton Rouge Blues Festival while 2027 dates await announcement.
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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…
New Orleans's own Caribbean Carnival: a masquerade parade of feathers, steel pan, and soca, organized by…
For 23 years, the Atlanta Underground Film Festival has given fearless independent filmmakers a stage in…
North America's longest-running competitive film festival returns to Chicago this October, with its Black Perspectives Committee…
Minnesota's largest African-American-sponsored event honors the historic Black Rondo neighborhood, displaced by I-94 in the 1960s,…
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…
Sundance's annual Black Filmmakers Spotlight is heading to a brand-new home for 2027 — Boulder, Colorado,…
Every spring, downtown Memphis dedicates four days to a different African nation — parade, drummers, dancers,…
Uptown Charlotte's 13-year African-American heritage celebration is back at the Carole Hoefener Center — free entry,…
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…
One of the largest Black parades in America returns to Harlem on Sept 20, 2026 —…
Detroit's Hart Plaza transforms into a riverside celebration of the African Diaspora every summer, produced by…
Atlanta's largest free multicultural street festival returns to Historic Auburn Avenue — the birthplace of Dr.…
The diaspora homecoming festival that grew out of Afrochella now anchors Ghana's Detty December season. Here's…
St. Croix's Christmas-season carnival turns Frederiksted into a week-plus street party of parades, Festival Village food…
Widely considered the "mother of all Caribbean carnivals," Trinidad Carnival is where J'ouvert, mas, soca, and…
One of the nation's longest-running MLK Day celebrations rolls through Midtown Houston with marching bands, floats,…
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