- Festival Latinoamericano: Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024
- Carrboro Music Festival: Sept. 28-29, 2024
- West End Poetry Festival: Oct. 17-19, 2024
- Carrboro Film Fest – Jan. 24-26, 2025
CARRBORO, NC – The Town of Carrboro announces festival lineups and date information for some of the Triangle’s most beloved community festivals.
The Town is excited to host El Centro Hispano's 9th annual Festival Latinoamericano on Weaver Street from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25. Dive into a vibrant atmosphere of diverse cultures, music, food and dance at West Weaver Street in Carrboro. This is a free family friendly day that attracts a multicultural audience from Carrboro-Chapel Hill and the surrounding areas and creates a cultural space where residents can discover, learn and experience traditional and contemporary Latin American culture through music, entertainment, arts and food.
Carrboro is proud to continue to showcase a diversity of musicians from the Piedmont with FREE concerts at Town Commons, the Cat’s Cradle, and venues across the town with the return of the Carrboro Music Festival (opening afternoon on Saturday, Sept. 28 with Open Mic from 2 to 4 p.m. at Town Commons, with a full day of outdoor concerts on Sunday, Sept. 29); followed in October by the West End Poetry Festival (Oct. 17-19) featuring Poetry in the Round and a Community Poem Reading.
The Carrboro Film Festival which has historically occurred in November will shift to January (Jan. 24-26, 2025) and continue offering a lineup of independent films that challenge and expand our understanding of Southern culture.
Festival Latinoamericano – Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024
Dive into a vibrant atmosphere of diverse cultures, music, food and dance at West Weaver Street in Carrboro. This is a free family friendly day that attracts a multicultural audience from Carrboro-Chapel Hill and the surrounding areas and creates a cultural space where residents can discover, learn and experience traditional and contemporary Latin American culture through music, entertainment, arts and food.
https://elcentronc.org/fest/
Carrboro Music Festival – Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 28-29, 2024
Established in 1998, the festival was originally held on June 21 as an official affiliate of the Fête de la Musique, which is also known as 'Make Music Day'. One of the largest free music festivals in North Carolina, the Carrboro Music Festival will host more than 100 acts on 20 stages all over Carrboro, all for free. Venues are all over town, from Lanza’s on West Main to the Speakeasy, Cat’s Cradle, Century Center, The ArtsCenter, 401 Main, and many other traditional and new locales.
http://carrboromusicfestival.com/
West End Poetry Festival – Thursday to Friday, October 17-19, 2024
Carrboro held its first poetry festival, organized by then Carrboro Poet Laureate Patrick Herron, in 2005. Since then, many poets from North Carolina and beyond have participated. Participants have included finalists for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; winners of the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Los Angeles Book Prize, the Oregon Book Award, and the Pushcart Prize; recipients of fellowships Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
http://www.westendpoetryfestival.org
Carrboro Film Fest – Jan. 24-26, 2025
Since 2005, the festival brings “Southern films in one of the South’s funkiest small towns.” Embracing its identity as a Southern institution, the festival presents exclusively Southern films in a non-competitive setting. To be held at the future civic building of the Orange County Library and Town of Carrboro located at 203 S. Greensboro St., the Carrboro Film Fest is made possible with support from the Town of Carrboro and the Carrboro Tourism Development Authority.
https://www.carrborofilm.org/
Carrboro named one of America’s Top 5 Small Arts Towns
Carrboro was named one of the top-five small towns for the arts in the U.S. by 24/7 Tempo in spring 2022. Carrboro ranked fifth in a lineup of 25 towns. The town shares the honor with such creative outposts as Santa Fe, N.M., and Marfa, Texas.
In Carrboro, Southern hospitality means everyone is welcome, and the folks here are curious about the world, engaged in their community, and lovers of the arts. The community encourages creativity and innovation. From festivals to farmers’ markets and everything in between, Carrboro strives to be a place where folks from all walks of life can work together to make it the best it can be.
https://visitcarrboro.com/