Carrboro Music Festival returns on Sunday, October 2nd, 2022. This will be the first in-person Carrboro Music Festival since 2019. The festival is free, and will feature roughly 100 bands and performers at 19 venues around Carrboro.
Please tip the performers!
Please note that the performances at some outdoor venues will be canceled in the case of rain, but there are plenty of indoor shows too.
Find the full schedule and festival map here.

Present Day on Main
901 W Main Street, Carrboro
- 1 p.m.: CodeRedaktor
- 2:15 pm.: Ctrl-Alt-Del
- 3:30 p.m.: The Whiskey Honeys
Carrboro Town Hall
301 W Main Street, Carrboro
- 4 p.m.: Find Your Own Voice Singers
Carrboro Town Commons
301 W Main Street, Carrboro
- 1:15 p.m.: Rhonda Robichaux & Meaux
- 2:30 p.m.: Dmitri Resnike & Bootleg Beat
- 3:45 p.m.: Daniel DeLorenzo Trio
- 5 p.m.: The Unsustainables
- 6:15 p.m.: Sound System Seven
Pizzeria Mercato
408 W Weaver STreet, Carrboro
- 1 p.m.: Turquoise Trader
- 2:15 p.m.: Zealotrous
- 3:30 p.m.: Tracksuit
- 4:45 p.m.: The Yardarm
- 6 p.m.: Mad Crush
Carrboro Family Vision
100 Weaver Street, Carrboro
- 1 p.m.: The Latecomers
- 2:15 p.m.: The Blusterfields
- 3:30 p.m.: Pagan Hellcats
- 4:45 p.m.: cuffing season
- 6 p.m.: The Fabulous Nite-life Boogie
Steel String Brewery
106 S Greensboro Street, Carrboro
- 1 p.m.: The Dovetails
- 2:15 p.m.: The K. James Project
- 3:30 p.m.: Bellflower
- 4:45 p.m.: Tim Smith Eileen Regan and Jeff Engel
- 6 p.m.: Burns
- 7:15 p.m.: Adam Lee Decker Music
- 8:30 p.m.: Ron Wayne Band
South Green
501 S Greensboro Street, Carrboro
- 1 p.m.: Raleigh Jazz Sextet
- 2:15 p.m.: Tokyo Rosenthal
- 3:30 p.m.: Sad Magazine
- 4:45 p.m.: Tim Smith Band
- 6 p.m.: Last Men Standing
Speakeasy
100 E Main Street, Carrboro
- 1:30 p.m.: Oakboro
- 2:45 p.m.: Beats Working
- 4:45 p.m.: Tre. Charles
- 5:15 p.m.: Elora Dash
- 6:30 p.m.: Elijah Rosario
- 7:45 p.m.: Too Much Fun
- 9 p.m.: The Artist 336
- 10:15 p.m.: bodyshots
Century Center
100 N Greensboro Street, Carrboro
- 1 p.m.: PB HEndrix & The Jam
- 2:15 p.m.: Off the Road Band
- 3:30 p.m.: The Carrborators
- 4:45 p.m.: The Twists
- 6 p.m.: Rooster Logic
- 7:15 p.m.: The Paul Messinger Band
- 8:30 p.m.: Stephen Smith
Weaver Street Market
101 E Weaver Street, Carrboro
- 1:15 p.m.: Kirk Ridge and Friends
- 2:30 p.m. Simon Dunson Quartet
- 3:45 p.m.: The River Otters
- 6 p.m.: Tea Cup Gin
- 6:15 p.m.: Boom Unit Brass Band
Dingo Dog Brewing
410 N Greensboro Street, Carrboro
- 1:15 p.m.: Sam Boswell
- 2:30 p.m.: Andrew Kasab
- 3:45 p.m.: JazzTones
- 5 p.m.: Pippa Hoover
- 6:15 p.m.: Blue Tango
Armadillo Grill
120 E Main Street, Carrboro
- 1 p.m.: Fair to Middlin
- 2:15 p.m.: The Hey Brothers
- 3:30 p.m.: Devon Flaherty
- 4:45 p.m.: Brad Newell’s String Thing
- 6 p.m.: Michael Melia
- 7:15 p.m.: Spring Lane
The Station
201 E Main Street, Carrboro
- 1:15 p.m.: Organ Failure
- 2:30 p.m.: Analog Mountains
- 3:45 p.m.: Gallus Mag
- 5 p.m.: The Gone Ghosts
- 6:15 p.m.: Erie Choir
- 7:30 p.m.: Winfield
- 8:45 p.m.: Slow Teeth
- 10 p.m.: Ins kino
- 11:15 p.m.: Mellow Swells
Cat’s Cradle Front Room
300 E Main Street, Carrboro
- 2 p.m.: Sugaree String Society
- 3:15 p.m.: Honey Magpie
- 4:30 p.m.: Country Cruel
- 5:45 p.m.: Charles Latham and the Borrowed Band
- 7 p.m.: Jefferson Hart & The Ghosts of the Old North State
- 8:15 p.m.: Jimmy Ray Swagger and the Fussy Eaters
- 9:30 p.m.: C. Albert Blomquist Band
Cat’s Cradle Back Room
300 E Main Street, Carrboro
Hip Hop Showcase
- 2 p.m.: B-U-D
- 2:30 p.m.: ANTimus Prime
- 3 p.m.: D’Slikk
- 3:35 p.m.: $en
- 4 p.m.: Larry the Poet
- 4:30 p.m.: David D’Angelo
- 5 p.m.: MayDay
- 5:30 p.m.: ResoNate
- 6 p.m.: Sarah Kaboom
- 6:30 p.m.: Mallz
- 7 p.m.: ABNormal Music Grou
- 7:30 p.m.: ArtGod
- 8 p.m.: JuztKP
- 8:30 p.m.: Drew Shamir
- 9 p.m.: SkyBlew
ArtsCenter West End
300-G East Main Street, Carrboro
- 1:15 p.m.: Neal Z. Shipe
- 2:30 p.m.: Michael and Earleen Burch
- 3:45 p.m.: Floy Doy
- 5 p.m.: Mebanesville
- 6:15 p.m.: Magnolia Klezmer Band
- 7:30 p.m.: The Holland Brothers
- 8:45 p.m.: DTL Trio
ArtsCenter Wynn
300-G Main Street, Carrboro
- 1 p.m.: Live Music by Evan
- 2:15 p.m.: School of Rock Chapel Hill House Band
- 3:30 p.m.: Durham Ukulele Orchestra
- 4:45 p.m.: The LIDS
- 6 p.m.: Sisters’ Voices
- 7:15 p.m.: Project Mastana
- 8:15 p.m.: Will McBride Group
Luna
307 E Main Street, Carrboro
- 1 p.m.: New Morning Jazz
- 2:15 p.m.: RyDiSco
- 3:30 p.m.: Nantahala
- 4:45 p.m.: 3-Day Weekendz
- 6 p.m.: Lemon Sparks
- 7;15 p.m.: Jack the Songman
- 8:30 p.m.: Ancestor Pirates
401 Main
401 E Main Street, Carrboro
- 1:15 p.m.: The 8:59’s
- 2:30 p.m.: Prithu Neog
- 3:45 p.m.: Step Over Mars
- 5 p.m.: Pretend I’m a Genius
- 6:15 p.m.: Thirsty Curses
List of performers
- 3-Day Weekendz
- Adam Lee Decker Music
- Analog Mountains
- Ancestor Piratas,
- Andrew Kasab
- Beats Working
- Bellflower
- Blue Tango
- Bodyshots
- Boom Unit
- Brass Band
- Brad Newell’s String Thing
- Burns
- C. Albert Blomquist
- Charles Latham and the Borrowed Band
- CodeRedaktor, Country Cruel, Ctrl-Alt-Del,
- Cuffing Season
- Daniel DeLorenzo Trio
- Devon Flaherty
- Dmitri Resnik & Bootleg Beat
- DTL Trio
- Durham Ukulele Orchestra
- Elijah Rosario
- Elora Dash
- Erie Choir,
- Fair to Middlin
- Floy Doy
- Gallus Mag
- Honey Magpie
- Ins Kino
- Jack The Songman
- JazzTones
- Jefferson Hart & The Ghosts of the Old North State
- Jimmy Ray Swagger and the Fussy Eaters
- Kirk Ridge Trio
- Last Men Standing
- Live Music by Evan
- Mad Crush
- Magnolia Klezmer Band
- Mebanesville
- Mellow Swells
- Michael and Earleen Burch
- Michael Melia
- Nantahala
- Neal Z. Shipe
- New Morning Jazz
- Oakboro
- Off the Road Band
- Pagan Hellcats
- PB Hendrix & The Jam
- Pippa Hoover
- Pretend I’m a Genius
- Prithu Neog
- Project Mastana,
- Raleigh Jazz (Sextet)
- Rhonda Robichaux & Meaux
- Ron Wayne Band
- Rooster Logic
- RyDiSco
- Sad Magazine
- Sam Boswell
- School of Rock Chapel Hill House Band
- Simon Dunson Quartet
- Sisters’ Voices
- Slow Teeth
- Sound System Seven
- Spring Lane
- Step Over Mars
- Stephen Smith
- Sugaree String Society
- TEA CUP GIN
- The 8:59’s
- The Artist 336
- The Blusterfields
- The Carrborators
- The Dovetails
- The Fabulous Nite-life Boogie
- The Gone Ghosts
- The Hey Brothers
- The Holland Brothers
- The K. James Project
- The Latecomers
- The LIDS
- The Paul Messinger Band
- The River Otters
- The Twits
- The Unsustainables
- The Whiskey Honeys
- The Yardarm
- Thirsty Curses
- Tim Smith Band
- Tim Smith Eileen Regan and Jeff Engel
- Tokyo Rosenthal
- Too Much Fun
- Tracksuit
- Tre. Charles
- Turquoise Trader
- Will McBride Group
- Winfield
- Zealotrous
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