Join us for the 17th annual Salem Arts Festival in historic downtown Salem, featuring a vibrant celebration of local art, music, dance, and theatre performances across outdoor stages. This free, family-friendly event showcases our community's creative talent through interactive art-making, a makers' marketplace, pop-up exhibitions, a live mural slam, and public art installations, drawing over 7,500 attendees annually.

Schedule:

11:00 am to 6:00 pm
Juried Art Gallery - Old Town Hall

Street Fair and Art-Making Activities - throughout the festival
Mural Slam - Artists’ Row
History Community Art installation - Artists’ Row / Front Street

11:00 - 11:45 am, Derby Square
Matt Savage Groove Experiment
Jazz/Funk

11:00 to 11:45 am, Armory Park
The Northshoremen Chorus
Barbershop Quartet and Chorus

11:45 am to 12:30 pm, Artists’ Row
Jay Felitto
Soundhealing

11:30 am – 12:00 pm, Derby Square
Tiny Dance Stage, Group 1
Off Beat Tap Company, Katherine Berman, Leaps and Bounds Movement Co., Exceptional Dance Company, Cas Glover, Ava D'Eon

1:30 - 2:15 pm, Armory Park
North Shore Big Band
Jazz Swing

1:30 - 2:00 pm, Front Street
Baechtold & Abel Aerial Artistry
Aerial performance

1:30 - 2:15 pm, Old Town Hall downstairs
Salem Literary Coven - Jo Bova, Mae Fraser, Noah Phoenix, and Jennifer Puzzo
Spoken Word / Poetry

2:00 - 3:00 pm, roaming
Lynn Modell / Making Dances
Dance

2:15 - 3:00 pm, Artists’ Row
Gabriella Simpkins
Folk/Singer-songwriter

2:15 – 3:15 pm, Old Town Hall, upstairs
Dance Block
detritus dance, Maine Dance Company, Andrea Muñiz, Jackie Bowden, Souls of India, North Shore Dance Collaborative

2:30 - 3:15 pm, Armory Park
Big Brotha Sadi
Hip Hop / Spoken Word

2:45 - 3:15 pm, Old Town Hall downstairs
Diana Norma Szokolyai Shafer
Poetry

3:15 - 4:00 pm, roaming
WhistlePig Morris Dancers
English Traditional Folk Dance

3:30 - 4:00 pm, Artists’ Row
Sylvia North
Alternative Acoustic

3:30 - 4:00 pm, Front Street
Baechtold & Abel Aerial Artistry
Aerial performance

3:45 - 4:30 pm, Armory Park
Conical Cacophony
Balkan Brass Band

4:00 - 4:45 pm, Derby Square
Terrafunk
Funk

4:30 - 5:15 pm, Artists’ Row
Dad Bods and the Father Figures

90s Cover Band

4:45 - 5:15 pm, Derby Square
Tiny Dance Stage, Group 3
Sophie Nash, Leaps and Bounds Movement Co., Cas Glover, Xinyi Zhang, Kaylee Kuehne, Off Beat Tap Company

5:15 - 6:00 pm, Derby Square
Flamenco Boston
Flamenco