Raleigh festivals and markets

The fundraiser features oysters, other food, drinks, and a performance by the Band of Oz.

Festival at Ponder Lane on Friday.

Community celebration of Diwali featuring lights, food, and cultural performances

This touring festival features shoegaze and dreampop music and arts.

Market at The Commons on Saturday.

Visit an outdoor market with vendors and local products

Browse vendors offering aura readings, energy work, and mystical services.

Festival at Ponder Lane on Saturday.

International wine and beer festival with food and live entertainment

Visit an outdoor market with vendors and local products

Festival at Ponder Lane on Sunday.

DJs play music alongside a patio market with local vendors and shopping.

Attendees visit the State Fair and watch a tractor pull together.

This free community festival features carnival games, refreshments, and candy for attendees.

The farmstand offers locally harvested produce on a pay what you can basis.

Community line dance group visits state fair for group day out.

Browse and shop local artisan products at this evening market.

Visit an outdoor market with vendors and local products

The neighborhood block party features a pop-up market, local makers, artists, produce, and flowers.

North Carolina's largest indie games festival with developers and presentations.

Visitors can tour model homes, explore lakeside amenities, and enjoy live music and family activities.

Browse handcrafted goods, gifts, and custom finds from more than 35 local vendors.

The state park's birthday celebration includes a concert, dinner, and other activities.

This market brings local makers, music, food, and tarot readings together.

A group walks around the fairgrounds with cameras, beginning shortly before sunset and continuing later.

Meet horror authors, browse dark fiction, and celebrate scary books.

Visit an outdoor market with vendors and local products

Visitors can tour model homes, explore lakeside amenities, and enjoy live music and family activities.

Wellness Fest brings people together for wellness activities and resources.

The farmstand offers locally harvested produce on a pay what you can basis.

Local authors and bookish vendors gather for a Halloween themed book fair.

Visit an outdoor market with vendors and local products

Kings hosts Halloween activities, including family trick-or-treating and an adults-only experience later.

A Halloween themed book fair takes place at Raleigh Iron Works.

This community fall festival features free food, games, face painting, a DJ, and trunk-or-treating.

Visit an outdoor market with vendors and local products

Local creators and makers offer their work at a free, all-ages monthly art market.

Visitors can attend a fair focused on passport services and information.

The annual expo brings vendors and visitors together at a marketplace.

Guests preview the garden lights with dinner, desserts, food trucks, beer, and wine.

Visitors explore an illuminated garden with live music, food trucks, fire pits, and hot apple cider.

Handbell players gather for the 37th annual Capital Area Handbell Festival.

The First Friday gathering features live music, local art, craft beer, and one-of-a-kind vendors.

This free daytime festival combines a Friendsgiving celebration, holiday kickoff, food, music, and local shopping.

This recurring market features local artists, live music, museum galleries, and park access.

Visitors explore an illuminated garden with live music, food trucks, fire pits, and hot apple cider.

The Holt Brothers Foundation's annual fundraiser brings supporters together with music and food for children affected by cancer.

Visitors wander illuminated gardens after dark, with live music, food trucks, and fire pits.

Visitors explore an illuminated garden with live music, food trucks, fire pits, and hot apple cider.

Museum members gather for a holiday celebration.