Festivals - Nantucket

Nantucket Festivals

Nantucket Daffodil Festival

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April 25 - 28, 2024

Nantucket Wine & Food Festival

The 25th annual Nantucket Wine & Food Fest will be held May 17-21. All festival events are for ages 21+ and include seminars, tastings, luncheons, and other festive events. Tickets will be available online in the springtime.

May 15 - 19, 2024

Nantucket Book Festival

Talks, panels, author signings, gatherings, and festivities in several island locations that celebrate authors, readers, and books. Save the dates for the Nantucket Book Festival.

June 13-16, 2024

Nantucket Film Festival

The mission of this festival is to promote the cultural awareness and appreciation of the arts of screenwriting & storytelling. Preview screenings, Late Night Storytelling, chats with industry professionals, & other gatherings.

June 19-24, 2024

Nantucket Dance Festival

A fundraiser for Nantucket Dance Theater Expanding dance education and performance opportunities for island youth. Performances, parties, and master classes featuring dancers from the New York City Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Broadway, and beyond!

Nantucket Garden Festival

The Nantucket Garden Festival highlights the unique and beautiful garden ecosystems on Nantucket and focuses on the importance of sustainability, conservation, and gardening ethics for the long-term health of the island. In-person and virtual lectures, workshops, garden tours, and more will be held.

Nantucket Comedy Festival

This annual summer festival brings top comedic talent to Nantucket Island as the major fundraiser for Stand Up & LearnTM, an island-based, year-round comedy education program serving the children of Nantucket. The Nantucket Comedy Festival envisions Nantucket as a community connected by laughter.

July 11-13, 2024

Weekend at the Atheneum

This new summer event will honor outstanding thought leaders, musicians, and authors while raising vital funds to support Nantucket’s public library.

Boston Pops on Nantucket

This beloved summer event brings together thousands of community members for a night of entertainment in support of Nantucket Cottage Hospital. The fundraiser brings in millions of dollars to help support and sustain the hospital’s operations and its year-round commitment the health and wellbeing of the island community.

August 10, 2024

Nantucket Race Week

This 9-day experience is a week of regattas, awards ceremonies, and parties. Races provide sport for the young dinghy sailors and families in household One Designs to Grand Prix racers at the top of their profession. Race Week culminates in the Opera House Cup, an all-wooden, single-hulled classic boat regatta.

August 14 - 18, 2024

Nantucket Christmas Stroll

The 49th annual Christmas Stroll will include caroling, live entertainment, book signings, walking tours, special sales, concerts, Christmas fairs, receptions, and theatre productions. Nantucket’s Town Crier will ring in Stroll and lead Santa’s parade through town.

December 1-3, 2023