Festival Entertainment 12 - 7pm

The costume parade, live performance stages, steel drums, and our KidsFest areas are some of the entertainment highlights of Cambridge Carnival. This year, we will feature seven entertainment zones: a band stage featuring Soca, Calypso, Brazilian and African Music, a Rhythm Stage with an eclectic performance of music, drumming and dance from around the globe, a KidsFest zone, three zones representing a variety of music from the Caribbean.

Costume Parade: 12:30 - 4PM

The parade, which has a new route that spans1.5 miles starts at 1pm and begins near the Charles River at River Street and Blackstone Street, passes through Central Square along Massachusetts Avenue, continues up Main Street and ends in Kendall Square near MIT, Cambridge.

Musicians/Performers: 12 - 6:30pm
Musical accompaniments have set the tone for worldwide carnival celebrations. Bands representing several island and South American nations provide the sounds of Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Caribbean, Calypso, Reggae, Compa, Punta, and Salsa music.

DJ Zones: At end of Parade Until 6PM

DJ Illabash will be featured at the Globe near the Kendall Square T Stop. Two Static DJ stations will be positioned on Main Street after the judging is over and will spin until 6pm.

KidsFest
A KidsFest zone offers free, interactive activities for children ages 4+ and we have partnered over the years with the Children's Museum and Open Air Circus.

The Children’s Museum will feature "Meet Me at the Table," and will focus on food and art activities that relate to six different cultures around Boston: Brazilian, Haitian/Caribbean, Puerto Rican and Dominican, Cape Verdean, Chinese and Vietnamese. They will be setting a table with beautiful, artist-made play food, and will encourage festival participants to eat and play together. Activities will include making collage placemats that will then go back to the museum for use at our big end-of-summer party in September.

Other free activities include stilt walking from Open Air Circus; a moon bounce; and we have arts and craft activities, including origami. And, of course, we always have popcorn!