CARRBORO, NC – The Town of Carrboro announces festival lineups and date information for some of the Triangle’s most beloved community festivals from August through October.
Carrboro is excited to host El Centro Hispano's 10th annual Fiestas en la Calle on Weaver Street from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 24. 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. 27 with Open Mic from 2 to 4 p.m. at Town Commons and a show at the Cat’s Cradle Back Room followed by a full day of outdoor concerts on Sunday, Sept. 28); followed in October by the West End Poetry Festival (Oct. 16-18) featuring Poetry in the Round and a Community Poem Reading.
Festival Latinoamericano – Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025
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/
28th Annual Carrboro Music Festival – Saturday (Kick-off & Open Mic) and Sunday (Main Event), Sept. 27-28, 2025
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 Drakeford Library Complex, The ArtsCenter, and many other traditional and new locales. We also have fun music workshops available to the public.
http://carrboromusicfestival.com/
West End Poetry Festival – Thursday to Friday, October 16-18, 2025
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
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