Annual Downtown Festival and Art Show

Visit the 43rd annual Gainesville Downtown Festival and Art Show downtown Gainesville to experience North Florida’s largest free street festival! The Downtown Festival transforms the historic brick streets at the heart of Gainesville into a celebration of art, culture and creativity complete with a giant street arts market, live music, dance, aerial & circus arts and numerous local and traveling food vendors. The festival features 100+ bands and performers, 5 stages, and 200+ local and national artists displaying original oils and acrylics, vibrant watercolors, unique sculptures, dazzling jewelry, decorative ceramics and vivid photography.

Produced by City of Gainesville Parks, Recreation, & Cultural Affairs and funded in part by Visit Gainesville, Alachua County and the Florida Division of Arts & Culture