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…
Houston's biggest Caribbean carnival brings feathered mas bands, soca, and reggae to the streets every summer.…
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…
Mas bands, soca, calypso, and Caribbean food take over historic Charleston each June. BTN's guide to…
Cannes 2026 delivered a landmark moment for African cinema and Black Hollywood style alike — a…
Chicago's free, world-famous food festival returns to Grant Park every summer — here's what to expect…
Founded in 1986, Black International Cinema Berlin is Europe's longest-running Black film festival — pairing African…
Miami's IFE-ILE Afro-Cuban Dance Festival celebrates the African roots of Cuban dance through folkloric workshops, academic…
A multi-week showcase of Black contemporary dance at San Francisco's Dance Mission Theater since the early…
San Francisco's AfroSolo Arts Festival has spent more than three decades spotlighting Black solo performance, storytelling,…
Since 1994, the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music has gathered mystics and musicians from across…
Every October, Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall turns into one of the East Coast's biggest stand-up stages,…
Iowa's premiere African American cultural celebration returns to the Des Moines metro every Black History Month.…
Every January, more than 100,000 people walk nearly three miles through San Antonio's Historic East Side…
Since 2000, the Cape Town International Jazz Festival has drawn the world's best jazz artists to…
Miami hosted the nation's first MLK Day parade back in 1977. In 2027 it turns 50…
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…
Tribeca Festival has become one of the biggest stages for Black storytelling in film. Here's what…
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,…
Africa's biggest street party returns to Calabar, Nigeria — a month of masquerade, music, and costumed…
Forty years of art, music, and community in the shadow of the Rockies. Here's everything to…
For 35-plus years, Washington Park has turned into a recreated African village every Labor Day weekend…
Trinidad-style mas, J'ouvert paint, and soca take over South Florida every Columbus Day weekend. BTN's guide…
A grown-folks weekend of R&B, soul, and jazz at Hard Rock Stadium — BTN's guide to…
Boston's largest festival celebrating people of color returns to the Museum of Fine Arts and Roxbury…
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…
Since 1998, the San Francisco Black Film Festival has paired premiere screenings at the Main Library's…
Mississippi's longest-running jazz festival brings HBCU student talent and jazz legends together on Alcorn State's rural…
A cozy, off-season Black cinema weekend on the Delaware shore — BTN's guide to the Rehoboth…
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…
The largest Black film festival in the US returns to Los Angeles for its 35th year…
A boutique San Diego film festival that's been kicking off Black History Month with screenings, panels,…
America's largest African American street festival brings a Yoruba New Year river procession, a 16-block marketplace,…
LA's official MLK Day parade rolls through Crenshaw and Leimert Park with marching bands, celebrity grand…
Tennessee's only Black-founded film festival brings independent cinema, industry panels, and a red-carpet finale to Music…
Canada's premier Black cinema showcase returns to Toronto for Black History Month — six days of…
Mississippi is the birthplace of the blues, and for one rare three-year stretch, the nation's oldest…
Urbanworld turns 30 in 2026 — the HBO-founded festival that's been the industry launchpad for Black…
Labor Day weekend belongs to Detroit. Four days, three downtown stages, 60+ world-class acts, and zero…
Charleston's MOJA Arts Festival returns Sept 24-Oct 4, 2026 with 11 days of street parades, juried…
Since 1970, New Orleans has poured its Black musical soul — brass bands, gospel, Mardi Gras…
Towson's Patriots Plaza marks 30 years of the Baltimore County African American Cultural Festival on September…
The LA Sentinel's free street festival takes over Crenshaw Boulevard every October with soul food, gospel…
Born in the terreiros of the African diaspora and perfected on the hills of Rio, Carnival's…
Atlanta's premier stage for Black playwrights and performers packs a week of original theatre, workshops, and…
Seattle Center's Festival Sundiata brings Black arts, music, and culture to the Pacific Northwest as part…
Kentucky's largest African American cultural celebration transforms Lexington's East End with a parade, music, and history…
This small-town Delaware festival brings African American heritage, music, and family fun to the Eastern Shore…
The Shoals region celebrates the "Father of the Blues," W.C. Handy, with nearly two weeks of…
Harlem's summer-long celebration of Black culture, music, and history marks its 52nd year with concerts, a…
Atlanta's premier festival championing Black filmmakers and diverse storytelling returns for its 17th year — two…
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…
Black Hollywood's favorite summer island destination hosts a week of films, beach parties, and star-studded panels…
America's touring Black rodeo circuit — now in its 42nd year — spotlights Black cowboy and…
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…
Milwaukee's African World Festival has been reborn as Black Arts Fest MKE, keeping the city's largest…
Winston-Salem's legendary Black theatre festival — rebranded International — packs a week with mainstage productions, workshops,…
The Caribbean's most stylish summer carnival climaxes in Grand Kadooment Day's road march — feathered costumes,…
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 —…
Essence Festival is the premier gathering of Black culture in America — four days of world-class…
Notting Hill Carnival is Europe's biggest street festival — two days of Caribbean culture, mas bands,…
Lagos Carnival is Nigeria's most vibrant street festival — a spectacular parade of elaborate costumes, Afrobeats…
Caribana is North America's largest Caribbean cultural festival — two weeks of mas bands, steelpan, soca…
Afro Nation Portugal is the world's biggest Afrobeats festival — three days of non-stop music, culture,…
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