Annual Norwich Rose Arts Festival on Chelsea Parade

The 2021 Norwich Rose Arts Festival has been cancelled. The 2022 Rose Arts Festival will be held on Saturday, June 25, 2022 from 10 am to 6 pm. The festival will be held on Chelsea Parade Park by day and Historic Downtown by night. Activities for all ages, including road races, interactive art displays and classes, free live music, contests, performing art, food and vendors.

Schedules and information at RoseArtsFestival.com and follow the hashtag #RoseArtsFestival on social media

Contact email: info@roseartsfestival.com

The free event will begin with a Rose Arts 5K &10K race at 8:30 a.m. and a parade at 10 a.m. The festival will include live music and food trucks. After 6 p.m., the festival will move to the Historic District for Downtown After Dark.

Rose Arts Festival Rose Court 2022

The Rose Court will be held on Saturday, June 11, 2022 at 7 pm. A long-standing tradition of the Rose of New England’s history has been re-imagined! Today’s Rose Court is an inclusive scholarship competition open to all genders while honoring tradition by demanding that candidates exemplify community pride, community involvement, intellect, and leadership.

2022 Rose Arts Festival tentative music lineup

• Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band (featuring founding member of The Allman Brothers Band)
• Wild Adriatic
• Sophistafunk
• Rustic Overtones
• Hayley Jane
• Frank Viele
• Van Gordon Martin
• The Meadows Brothers
• No Mind
• The Medicinal Purpose
• The New Mosaic (feat: Erica T Bryan of West End Blend)
• The Wolff Sisters
• Seth Adam
• Jeremiah Hazed
• Nikita
• Fleet
• The Jampson Jubilee
• Ramblin’ Dan Stevens
• Kathleen Parks & Brad Bensko
• Evie Joy
• Gracie Day
• Sue Menhart
• Carl Franklin
• Will Leet
• FaTE
• Kyle Fleming
• Matt Hamilton
• Roy Dunn MacLean
• Victim Or Victor
• Driving Route 9
• and more!

WHAT IS ROSE ARTS? Rose Arts is an interactive community, emerging music, public art movement with deep roots in the Rose of New England—Norwich, Connecticut.