Echo Arts Festival 2025
7300 MacArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo, MD 20812
The Echo Arts Festival 2025 will take place on Sunday, September 28, 2025, from 12 PM to 5 PM throughout Glen Echo Park. This free, family-friendly event celebrates visual and performing arts with hands-on activities, live music, dance performances, workshops, and opportunities to explore resident artists’ studios and galleries.
Performances include Emma G, Grupo Fénix, Ernesto Lima-Paret, Washington Revels, DC Casineros, the Culkin School of Traditional Irish Dance, and West Coast Swing with Late Night Early, including Salsa & Bachata sessions.
Attendees can participate in hands-on art projects, view short films highlighting Folklife Apprenticeships & Heritage Awards artists, and explore demonstrations and art sales from resident visual arts organizations such as Glen Echo Pottery, Sculpture Studio, Stone Tower Studio, SilverWorks, Photoworks, Art Glass Center, Glassworks, Yellow Barn Studio & Gallery, and several Park Partnership Galleries including Popcorn Gallery, Stone Tower Gallery, and Park View Gallery.
Food and beverages will be available from the Praline Café and Square Taco food truck. Free parking is provided in the main parking lot at 5801 Oxford Road.
The festival is held rain or shine, providing covered spaces and diverse arts and cultural programs to engage visitors of all ages. RSVP is preferred but not required.
