Salem Arts Festival 2022

Downtown Salem MA

Art will heal us and help us recover from the challenges we have and continue to face. Arts and Culture are an integral part of day-to-day life in Salem and this annual festival has become a source of pride and revenue for hundreds of creative professionals and a major economic boost to the local community with over 6000 attendees annually. ... Read More

Gabriella Simpkins

Coffeehouse Stage 21 Front Street, Salem, Massachusetts, United States

Gabriella Simpkins is an award-winning singer-songwriter, composer, arranger, and musician hailing from Cape Cod, MA and studying at Salem State University. Informed by her vast experiences across many genres, her work exists at the intersections of folk, indie rock, jazz, and classical music.

Miracle Fish Puppets

Derby Square 32 Derby Square, Salem, MA, United States

Great friends of the Salem Arts Festival the Miracle Fish Puppets bring another gentle, jovial, Giant to this year’s celebration.

Outrageous Fortune

Derby Square 32 Derby Square, Salem, MA, United States

Outrageous Fortune is a Boston-based jug band. They play innovative arrangements of early jazz (Ellington and Armstrong), blues and jug band music (Robert Johnson and the Memphis Jug Band). The trio is Chris Welles on guitar; Rod Thomas on mouth harp & Dan Dick on jug, washboard and bass.

Crowes Pasture

Coffeehouse Stage 21 Front Street, Salem, Massachusetts, United States

Crowes Pasture, a roots infused folk duo, performs songs that reflect a mutual passion, sense of discovery and celebration of the human connection. Monique’s romantic clawhammer banjo playing and Andy’s expressive guitar picking are enlivened by their personal chemistry and transcendent harmonies.

Bunker Hill Jazz

Artists' Row 21 Front Street, Salem, Massachusetts, United States

Musicians from Boston’s historic Bunker Hill community come together for a joyous celebration of jazz and the art of improvisational music. Gerardo Rivas - Tenor Saxophone Joshua Ziemann - Piano Joshua Bonifas - Double Bass Mathew Villacis - Drums

Gatto

Derby Square 32 Derby Square, Salem, MA, United States

“Gatto”, is an American Tribal Style® belly dance troupe based out of Salem, MA. ATS is an improvisational form where dancers take turns leading and following, using cues and a common vocabulary of moves to create a dance that looks choreographed but is not. Everything is created in the moment.

Calamus

Derby Square 32 Derby Square, Salem, MA, United States

Bruce-guitar. Aaron-drums. Michael-bass. Gret-keyboard.

Moonrise Fae

Derby Square 32 Derby Square, Salem, MA, United States

We are a Fellowship of mystical Fae, here to inspire play and radical self-love through song, dance, art, storytelling, laughter, and universal love.

Flight Or Visibility

Artists' Row 21 Front Street, Salem, Massachusetts, United States

Best known for their music video “My Name (is Joanna), Flight Or Visibility uses violin and voice together to create classical punk music about gender euphoria and mutual care. They are the artistic director of School of Arts and Social Justice Boston and on faculty at Wholetone Music Academy.

Wangari Fahari

Derby Square 32 Derby Square, Salem, MA, United States

Wangari has a purity and sensitivity in her voice that is clear and evident from the moment she begins to sing. Mentored by two of the most powerful female singers of all time (Joan Baez/Mariam Makeba)entrusted with the responsibility of not just singing, but singing with intention and vision.