Year of Festivals
Great music, mouth-watering eats and a Maritime vibe are all waiting for you at Fredericton’s festivals! From the top international festival experience on Canada’s East Coast, the Harvest Music Festival, to Atlantic Canada’s largest winter celebration, Fredericton FROSTival, there’s something to pique everyone’s interest!
Bard in the Barracks presents: Julius Caesar in Downtown Fredericton
As You Like It is a pastoral comical musical romantic Shakespearean delight, filled with buffoonish clowns, lovelorn shepherds and shepherdesses, bad poets, dyspeptic philosophers, fearsome wrestlers, and whole lot of love at first sight.
June 30 – July 2, 2022
Join us at the Sir Douglas Hazen Park Green as we celebrate Canada Day 2022!
Lots of family fun, including:
Join the fun as Fredericton celebrates the Nation’s birthday, complete with a huge fireworks display over the Saint John River!
Canada Day Free Entertainment -Exhibition Grounds Main Stage:
New Brunswick’s summer festival lineup just got a little edgier with the announcement of the first NB Punk Fest is set to take place Canada Day weekend in downtown Fredericton.
The Rotary Club of Fredericton Sunrise and SNAP! A Burlesque Revue welcome you to join us on the Bill Thorpe Walking Bridge in Fredericton for a festival of the spirits!
From the organizers of the Shivering Songs Festival, the second annual Sweltering Songs Festival will take place July 15-17 in downtown Fredericton on Carleton Street.
The festival features nightly mainstage performances by acclaimed and emerging dramatists, along with free outdoor street theatre and readings by New Brunswick playwrights.
A fun-filled family weekend on the grounds of historic Government House.
A New Brunswick Day long-weekend Music Festival.
Enjoy East Coast music, camping, arts crafts village, food vendors, children’s play area and jam tents.
Clean, safe, and fun!
(30 minutes north of Fredericton)
A two-week festival celebrating classical chamber music, featuring the works of selected composers played by Canada’s most talented classical musicians.
Festival includes concerts, emerging artists and free community performances.
For nearly 50 years, Festival on the Bend (formerly Community Days) has been a highlight of summer in Nackawic!
We invite you to join us between August 13 – 21 on the unceded, traditional lands of the Wolastoqiyik Peoples for Pride 2022.
We will be offering both in-person and virtual programming, with appropriate precautions.
Held annually since 1851, the Stanley Fair is Canada’s longest continuously running agricultural fair.
(approx. 40 minutes from Fredericton)
On Labor Day Weekend, downtown Fredericton comes alive with Atlantic Canada's biggest Afro Caribbean, Latin and African music festival.
Atlantic Canada's equestrian event/county fair.
3 days of equestrian competition, country market, river run and craft beer.
Free admission
A tradition since 1827, the NBEX is fun for all ages.
It’s Atlantic Canada’s Premiere music festival experience!
With 6 incredible days, over 150 performances across 20 stages located in the beautiful historic downtown of Fredericton.
Midway, light and heavy horse shows, hauling matches, ox pull, antique tractor display, livestock exhibits, musical entertainment, woodsman’s competition and much more.
Interested in getting to know the farmers in your community?
Open Farm Day allows visitors to interact with participating farms, their food, and the people that keep our families fed.
Fredericton’s most anticipated fall road race consists of 5km, 10km, half marathon and youth distance events will take place September 24 & 25th.
Discover some of Fredericton’s most historically and culturally interesting buildings not usually open to the public.
Fredericton's Literary Festival brings together some of the best national and local authors for readings, school visits, workshops and talks in both official languages.
Celebrate words, music and the arts.
