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Celebrate Nashville Cultural Festival
Nashville, TN · Arts & Culture
- When
- October 3, 2026
- Where
- Centennial Park · Nashville · TN
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
Celebrate Nashville Cultural Festival is a free multicultural festival held annually at Centennial Park, featuring dance and music performances on multiple stages, food from dozens of countries, and a global marketplace. It began in 1995 as the Scarritt-Bennett Center's Celebration of Cultures and moved to Centennial Park in 2006, adopting its current name in 2011. It now draws more than 40,000 attendees.
The history within reach
Celebrate Nashville Cultural Festival is a free multicultural festival held annually at Centennial Park, featuring dance and music performances on multiple stages, food from dozens of countries, and a global marketplace.
The Nashville Shakespeare Festival stages a free production each late summer at the historic Bandshell in Centennial Park, drawing crowds who bring blankets and picnics for evening performances.
- Fall Tennessee Craft Fairsame spot
Tennessee Craft's fall fair fills Centennial Park with roughly 200 juried craft artists selling pottery, jewelry, woodwork, and fiber art alongside live demonstrations and food vendors.
- The Parthenon builtsame spot
A full-scale replica raised for the state's centennial exposition, when Nashville called itself the Athens of the South.
A six-month world's fair held a year late for the state's centennial, drawing around 1.8 million people to a fairground of temporary plaster palaces, a Parthenon, a pyramid, a Chinese pavilion, a giant seesaw.