20+ Free Concerts in Philadelphia This June & July

Wawa Welcome America’s not the only party in town. The Um Philly Unity Concert for America follows up this year’s festivities with some of music’s biggest names during a gratuito show no Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Sponsored by Wawa and hosted separately by the City of Philadelphia, the concert features live musical performances by Christina Aguilera, Jill Scott, Jordan Davis, The Roots, Will Smith, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Kathy Sledge, State Property, Seal and many more — with the show emceed by comedy legend Wanda Sykes and a big fireworks display at the end. Whew!

Comemore a “liberdade audaciosa” e a cultura negra em esse vibrante festival de Juneteenth ao ar livre do African American Museum in Philadelphia, as Visit Philadelphia (hey, that’s us!) partners with Wawa Welcome America for this year’s celebration.

Philly’s favorite spinner, DJ Jazzy Jeff, brings the verão, verão, verão vibes, headlining this year’s fest alongside hip-hop icons Slick Rick, Doug E. Fresh and Leah Jenea.

The free event also features live performances from local artists, like the Marian Anderson Choir, plus family-friendly activities, opportunities to shop and support Black-owned businesses, and plenty of local food to enjoy.

This isn’t the first time Philadelphia has hosted a major birthday bash for the nation. Way back in 1876, the city hosted an event so spectacular, we’re still talking about it 100 years later.

Philly's Centennial Distrito — the site of the historic Centennial Exhibition — honors the spirit of that 1876 event with a nova comemoração para toda a família that unfolds across three festive days.

Enjoy live performances by Philly music stars Gerald Veasley and Carol Riddick (Saturday, June 20, 2026) and Pink Sweat$ (Sunday, June 21, 2026), among other local performers.

Also on deck: interactive exhibits and activities curated by Philly cultural institutions, like the Philadelphia Zoo, food trucks and fireworks.

Pandeiros, pronto! Philly presta homenagem à música e à cultura negra em esse concerto e festival gratuito e ao ar livre curated by Philly music icon Dyana Williams and headlined by Grammy Award-winning entertainers Eve and Mýa.

A noite para toda a família também conta com comida deliciosa, vendedores locais, muitas atividades e um show de fogos de artifício de tirar o fôlego. Fique de olho no site oficial para conhecer a programação musical completa e obter informações sobre como conseguir ingressos para esse evento anual tão querido.

Isso festa gratuita ao ar livre at Smith Memorial Playground delivers big fun to pint-sized music lovers. Family-friendly acts, like Dendê Macêdo and The Bearded Ladies Cabaret, take the stage as little ones (and their grown-ups!) enjoy tasty treats, interactive art stations, wellness and relaxation activities, great giveaways, and more.

The night comes to a close with a kid-approved fireworks display. Inscrição for the free show is required.

Uma das maiores celebrações de Artes e cultura latinas na Filadélfia, Festa Hispânica do Concilio traz música, dança, gastronomia e elegância ao coração da Filadélfia.

Retornando para AMOR Parque this year, this year’s festival is headlined by “La Reina del Merengue,” Grammy Award-winning and Latin Grammy Award-winning Puerto Rican singer Olga Tañón.

The annual family-friendly festival also features additional live entertainment by Latino artists, interactive exhibits highlighting Latino culture and traditions, a kids’ zone, and food from Latino-owned businesses.

What better way to celebrate the season than with picturesque views and a little yacht rock? This free high-energy concert featuring Tommy Conwell & The Young Rumblers promises a crowd-pleasing show capped off by a 9:30 p.m. fireworks display over the Delaware River.

Round out the night with pay-as-you-go eats and attractions — roller skating, mini-golf, carnival-style games and more — at Independence Blue Cross RiverRink Summerfest.

Levantem todas as vozes e cantem performance gospel com alma set at Parque Histórico Nacional da Independência.

O evento deste ano está maior do que nunca, apresentando uma formação inspiradora de músicos do Philly, um coral gigantesco composto por mais de 250 vozes locais e um headliner inesquecível, o ícone musical Kirk Franklin, vencedor de 20 prêmios Grammy.

Traga um cobertor ou uma cadeira para sentar-se por ordem de chegada e assista ao pôr do sol em um cenário histórico.

Junte-se à U.S. Army Field Band & Soldiers’ Chorus à sombra de Independence Hall as the group lifts up active soldiers and veterans in song.

Pegue seu cobertor ou cadeira e não perca este desempenho poderoso e patriótico apresentando os talentosos músicos do Exército dos EUA, além de uma participação especial da Miss América 2026, Cassie Donegan. O concerto culmina com uma apresentação principal da lenda do entretenimento e ganhadora dos prêmios Grammy, Emmy e NAACP (entre muitos, muitos outros), Queen Latifah.

Também está na programação: uma cerimônia de premiação especial em homenagem ao 250º aniversário da nação.

Não é uma festa sem os Philly Pops. Depois de se apresentar sob o apelido de “No Name Pops” desde 2023, essa adorada tradição de quase 50 anos da Filadélfia retorna às suas raízes para comemorar o 250º aniversário da nação.

The orchestra, known for playing everything from Broadway to Beethoven, sobe ao palco ao lado da cantora e compositora que vendeu vários discos de platina e vencedora do prêmio Tony, Idina Menzel, para uma apresentação que desafia a gravidade.

Bring a blanket — and come early — for a night of open-air music surrounded by history at Parque Histórico Nacional da Independência.

Philly's epic FIFA World Cup celebration finally kicks off 39 days of fútbol fun at Lemon Hill with a live stream of the tournament’s first matches across the festival’s ginormous screens, plus live music, entertainment, family-friendly activities, and pay-as-you-go food and drinks from local vendors.

Dubbed “Soccer Coachella,” the free fest’s opening day culminates with a headlining performance by award-winning Puerto Rican pop star Luis Fonsi, the voice behind megahits like Despacito e Échame La Culpa. Inscrição é necessário.

What started in 1975 with a $100 grant has transformed into one of the largest African American street festivals in North America. The annual (and free!) Festival ODUNDE returns for its 51st year, filling 16 South Philly blocks with thousands of attendees, over 100 marketplace vendors, authentic African, Caribbean and soul food, and more.

Festivalgoers can also expect loads of live entertainment across two stages, including a special headlining performance by legendary R&B trio Bell Biv Devoe.

There’s music in the air in University City as a series of three free concerts at neighborhood greenspace and community hotspot The Lawn at uCity Square.

Join the sea of picnic blankets and lawn chairs for funk-rock, house and R&B performances. On the lineup: the ever-so-funky, always electric Johnny Showcase, Worldtown Soundsystem Collective’s eight-piece band playing dance music, and soulful Philly staple Lady Alma and her band. Inscrição é incentivado.

Looking for a low-key way to celebrate Independence Day in Philadelphia with festive fireworks? Check out Freedom Fest 2026 along the Delaware River waterfront in Nordeste da Filadélfia.

Expect two stages of live music, plus food trucks, vendors, a Ferris wheel and tons of fun for kids, including carnival games and bounce houses. Then, spread out in Pleasant Hill Park’s waterfront green to enjoy a stellar fireworks show over the river, starting around 9 p.m. The festival is free and open to all with no registration required.

Logo na saída da rua principal de West Powelton, o Festival de Jazz e Artes da Lancaster Avenue No Saunders Park, Greene atrai milhares de foliões todos os anos para celebrar a música jazz em todas as suas vertentes.

Este ano, o festival gratuito homenageia o legado e a música de John Coltrane, o lendário artista que já teve o Philly como lar, com uma tarde e uma noite de apresentações. O evento para toda a família normalmente também apresenta compras pagas com vendedores locais e saborosos food trucks.

One thing that has continued to ring true for 250 years and counting: The people who call Philly home are what make the city so vibrant, innovative and historic. Celebrate the Roxborough neighborhood this July at the Jazzing on Ridge Festival, part of the city’s Toque! program — a citywide event series popping up throughout the city.

The free event — now in its sixth year — features live, local music as well as fun activations and giveaways, children’s activities and plenty of food to nosh on.

Celebrate two monumental milestones — the Semiquincentenário and the 150th anniversary of Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church — at this jubilant, show gratuito. Now located in Mt. Airy, Enon was the first African American Baptist church to open in the city’s Germantown bairro, em 1876.

Aprecie os sons de mais de 300 vozes do Enon Tabernacle Mass Choir celebrando essa história enquanto enchem o local leste da igreja com música alegre. O concerto é gratuito para todos, mas os convidados devem registrar-se com antecedência.

What does a revolution sound like? Declaration proclamations? Cannons firing on the battlefield? Or maybe the soulful stylings of jazz vocalist Laurin Talese and genre-bending musician Zeek Burse?

After spending months immersing themselves in the Museum of the American Revolution’s exhibitions, artifacts and programming, the Philly-based artists translate the stories of America’s fight for independence into a series of original compositions for modern times, as part of the new interdisciplinary art festival ArtPhilly: E agora?.

Don’t miss this special encore performance of the duo’s sold-out concert at Awbury Arboretum in Germantown.

Just one part of the much-larger Tarefas pendentes em vermelho, branco e azul em Old City, the WXPN Welcomes the Red, White & Blue Music Series features 28 Philly-based bands and music groups spread across 11 locations, creating an acoustic, neighborhood-wide concert.

Expect a diverse array of music, from drumlines, jazz and choir to traditional Irish, Puerto Rican and West African music.

Em andamento

Antes de Tiny Desk e COLORS, there was WXPN Free at Noon.

In 2005, public radio station WXPN — Philly’s home for rock, blues, indie and folk music — cemented its place in music history with its brand-new live, weekly concert series.

Over 20 years, 1,000 performances, 295,000 concertgoers and millions of listeners later, the weekly tradition lives on, ruling the midday airwaves with live performances from rising stars, local legends and the biggest names in music.

Everyone from Willie Nelson to Adele has graced its stage, and you can experience the show for yourself, live and in person, at World Stage (formerly World Cafe Live) every Friday afternoon at — you guessed it — noon. Tickets are free, but registro é necessário.

Through Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Bust out your picnic blankets and lawn chairs. With the picturesque waters of Edgewood Lake and the lush as its backdrop, FDR Park’s iconic Boathouse transforms into a stage during this summertime concert series.

Celebrating its fifth season, Not Just Jazz — as the name implies — brings live music and performances of all genres, from country to afro-jazz, and a rotating lineup of food trucks to the South Philly park. (There’s even a traditional African dance group in the mix!) The show is free to attend, but snacks are pay as you go.

Até setembro de 2026

Music comes to Philly’s glow-in-the-dark riverside hangout spot with not one, not two, but three different summer concert series taking over Spruce Street Harbor Park’s waterfront perch.

Watch the park transform into a laidback jazz lounge with some help from Philly’s most talented artists, like Ikechi Onyenaka and SNACKTIME (through September 25, 2026, Fridays only).

Or upgrade your playlists — and impress your friends — with new discoveries made at a Summer Sounds ou Live & Local show (through September 24, 2026, select dates). On the lineup of up-and-coming artists: band of siblings Infinity Song, Philly by way of NYC rock outfit Oso Oso, alt-rock group Wild Pink and more.

Inscrição is required for the free shows.