The Tom Tom Festival Block Party April 24 - 25, 2026 The Annual Tom Tom Festival Block Party was a celebration of community at its best. As the Downtown Mall came alive with music echoing through the streets, nearly 30,000 friends and neighbors gathered to celebrate two nights of community, connection, and creativity. Across four main stages, over 50 musicians, artists, performers, and community organizations from Charlottesville and beyond transformed Downtown into a living

House Music. Movement. Connection. Nature Saturday July 25 | 2pm - 11pm For the seventh season of SUN/SETS, we invite you to join a Day Out of Time: a day devoted to reflection and creativity beneath the open sky as the sun sets and the full moon rises. Inspired by traditions that honor July 25 as a pause between cycles -- when time is art -- we will step outside the ordinary rhythms of schedules and screens. Through mind, movement, and music, we will slow down and imagine w

On Wednesday April 22, 2026, at the 14th Annual Tom Tom Festival, bestselling author, John Grisham, joined Deirdre Enright, founder of the University of Virginia Innocence Project, for a fireside chat that blended storytelling, legal insight, and firsthand experience. The audience at The Paramount Theater moved between laughter and stunned silence as Grisham and Enright shared story after story of wrongful convictions—and the heartbreak, determination, and hope that drove th