Join us for the 17th annual Salem Arts Festival, June 6-8, 2025, 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:

Friday, June 6, 2025

5:30 p.m - 8:30 p.m
Old Town Hall - Juried Art Gallery

5:30 - 6:15 pm, Derby Square
ChagallPAC and Gloucester Student Band
Student music recital

6:15 - 6:30 pm, Derby Square
Cultura Latina Dance Academy

7:00 - 8:00 pm, Old Town Hall upstairs
Tiny Art Spree Fundraiser
New art acquisition fundraiser, free to attend, $20 per art purchase
Salem Halloween Girls

DJ/House Dance Music

Saturday, June 7, 2025

11:00 am to 7:00 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
Tiltawhirl
Folk/Rock

11:30 am - 12:15 pm, Armory Park
Outrageous Fortune
Jug Band

11:45 am  – 12:30 pm, Artists’ Row
Stone Soup Ensemble
Modern Classical

11:45 am – 12:15 pm, Derby Square
Tiny Dance Stage, Group 1
Jarren Kolisnek, Decent Dance, Avery Pelosi, Kaija Schram and Austin Guin, Ellen Oliver, Sarah Soares

12:15 pm - 12:45 pm, Essex Street/PEM Entrance
Cate Great
Circus Street Performance

12:15 pm - 1:00 pm, Derby Square
Everfiner
Shimmer Funk/Folk

1:00 pm - 1:45 pm, Armory Park
Slackademics
Ska Band

1:00 – 1:30 pm, Derby Square
Tiny Dance Stage, Group 2
Decent Dance, Rose Woods Dance Collaborative, Ellen Oliver, Michelle Deane, MAGMA, Jarren Kolisnek

1:00 - 1:45 pm, Artists’ Row
Tea Renee
Singer-songwriter

1:00 - 2:00 pm, roaming
Old Salem Villagers
Dancing Witch Group

1:45 - 3:00 pm, Old Town Hall downstairs
J.D. Scrimgeour, Salem Poet Laureate
Poetry

2:15 - 2:45 pm, Armory Park
Mr. 70
Alternative Reggae

2:15 - 3:15 pm, Old Town Hall upstairs
Dance Block
Avery Pelosi, Caitlin Canty, Julianne Cerreta, Barbie Diewald, Fourth Dimension Tap Company, Last Movement, Nritya Dance Academy

2:30 - 3:15 pm, Artists’ Row
The Pleasing Terrors
Spooky Rockabilly

2:45 pm - 3:15 pm, Essex Street/PEM Entrance
Cate Great
Circus Street Performance

3:15 - 4:00 pm, Armory Park
Solmaria
R&B/Alternative

3:30 - 4:00 pm, Derby Square
Tarot Cabaret
Tarot-Themed Music & Performance

3:45 - 4:30 pm, Artists’ Row
Galush
Beatbox

4:00 - 4:45 pm, Derby Square
Witch City Bellydance
Bellydance

4:30 - 5:15 pm, Armory Park
Reset Button Brass Band
Video Game Cover Brass Band

4:45 – 5:15 pm, Derby Square
Tiny Dance Stage, Group 3
Fourth Dimension Tap Company, Rose Woods Dance Collaborative, Kaija Schram and Austin Guin, Michelle Deane, Sarah Soares, Betsy Miller Dance Projects

5:30 to 6:30 pm, Derby Square
Big Ol’ Dirty Bucket
Big Band Jazz

Sunday, June 8, 2025   

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

Date: June 6 - 8, 2025

Location: Downtown Salem

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