Rochester Lilac Festival runs from May 1o to 19, 2024 at Highland Park, Rochester, NY  featuring more than 1800 bushes and over 500 different varieties.

May 10 -FREE Concerts- every night starting at 5:30pm

May 11- Parade and Art in the Park

May 15- Seniors Day

May 19 – 5K, 10K and Dunkin Dash

FREE Concerts

May 10- 4pm – Bellwether Breaks, 5:30pm – Left Handed 2nd Baseman, and at 7pm- Rayland Baxter

May 11- Noon- Girls Rock, 2:30pm – Sage Bava, 4pm Aaron Rizzo Band, 5:30pm – Zahyla and 7pm – Butcher Brown

May 12- Noon –  Roc Star Academy, 2:30pm – Fall Creek Brass Band, 4pm – Head to the Roots, 5:30pm – Grace Serene and the Super Clean, 7pm – Ghost Note

May 13- 4pm -Nuyorican Project, 5:30pm- The Medicinals, 7pm – Pachyman

May 14- 4pm – Ellen Pieroni and the Encyclopedia of Soul, 5:30pm – Horacio and La Fama Salsa Band, 7pm – Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

May 15- 4pm – Adrianna Noone, 5:30pm – Teagan and the Tweedds, 7pm – Skycoasters

May 16- 4pm – EKUA, 5:30pm – Chi the Realist, 7pm – Soul created by Danielle Ponder

May 17- 4pm – The Sideways, 5:30pm – Claude Bennington’s Fever Dream, 7pm – Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

May 18 – Noon – Submarine School of Music, 2:3-pm – Judah, 4pm, The Peter Griffith Group, 7pm – Dopapod

May 19 – 1pm – AKOMA Choir, 2:30pm – Meg Williams and Travis Bowlin, 4pm- The Honey Smugglers, 5:30pm – Claudia Hoyser, 7pm – Trousdale