2025 Season: May-December
DBA (Downtown Brattleboro Alliance) has new home! You can find us at 57 Elliot Street, the old Artrageous location. DBA is tasked with keeping downtown VIBRANT through programs like First Fridays & Gallery Walk, The Bloom Program, and so much more. Visit us at brattleboro.com or stop in and say hello- we can’t wait to meet you!
The first Friday of May-December! This is a rain or shine event. 5:00-9:00pm
Here we go with another season of ART & COMMUNITY, of course it’s Brattleboro First Fridays & Gallery Walk! That’s right, from here on out we’ll refer to the 16 walkable gallery stroll as Gallery Walk (May-December), and the Block Party style festivities with street closure, the Maker’s Market, live music, food & libations as Brattleboro First Fridays (May-October).
June Details:
Elliot Street & Harmony Lot will be closed to traffic making a big ol’ hub of festivities in the center of downtown, including…
Outdoor Beer Garden: Stone Church will once again be slinging beer, wine and seltzers, and frosty ones at that!
The Stage: Every month Harmony Lot becomes an outdoor music hall featuring live music from 6-9pm. This month we welcome: The All Night Boogie Band- a blues, rock & roll, and soul-inspired band hailing from the Green Mountains of Burlington, Vermont. Formed in late 2021, the young yet experienced quintet expresses a unique sound full of originality, vigor, and dedication to the resonance of great American music. All Night Boogie Band won “Vermont Rising Stars” in the 2023 New England Music Awards and were nominated for “Best Blues Artist” in the 2023 & 2024 Seven Daysies Awards.
Food Trucks: You can expect a rotating group of 10-12 food trucks at each event. Some of our vendors include:
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Sustainable Eats
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Cousins’ Lobster
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Anon’s Thai
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Amy’s Macs
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Hidden Bean
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Frisky Cow
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Keene Cookie Co
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Smokin’ Bowls
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Taza Naan
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Crossroads Street Tacos
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802 Soul Kitchen
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Susan’s Lemonade
Sometimes, there are extras–extra performances, extra activities, opportunities to become part of the art-making. Sometimes a sprinkler! May’s Extra Fun includes:
BMAC (at BMAC): Fluxus line dancing, inspired by “Nye Ffarrabas: Truth IS A Verb!,” on the lawn in front of the museum. Details at BrattleboroMuseum.org
NEYT: Every month a contingent of NEYT actors will claim a small stage in Harmony Lot and dazzle you with their chops at 5:30pm
Cheshire Cats Jump-Roping Team: For the third year running, the Cheshire Cats will perform
Vermont Armored Combat: Knights clashing steel for entertainment, we’re in!
Viscera Nefarious performs a circus sideshow act that will shock & amaze
New England Center for Circus Arts brings their aerial rig downtown for a gravity defying performance
Jesse Q Thomas lights it up in Harmony Lot with his fire-spinning show
