Festivals

The Artica festival, a gathering for site-specific artworks and offbeat performances, has a home for its 2024 event after months of uncertainty. The event comes to Chouteau’s Landing in October.

The Arctica festival draws experimental artists and performers to a spot near the St. Louis waterfront for two days every year. Organizers say the site’s new owners told them to find a new location.

The Evolution Festival will return to Forest Park for its second year. The late-September event will include performances by nearly 30 artists spread across three stages, including The Killers, Beck, Jane’s Addiction and Killer Mike.

Music at the Intersection will return to Grand Center in September with kickoff and finale concerts, and partnerships with MvsterCamp and werQfest. Festival headliners will include Big Boi, Esperanza Spalding, Trombone Shorty and Chahka Khan.

Music at the Intersection returns to Grand Center this weekend for its third year. Festival headliners will include Herbie Hancock, Thundercat and Snarky Puppy.

Festival producers sold 25,000 tickets across two days. They plan to return with another version in 2024.

The Evolution Festival features headliners the Black Keys and Brandi Carlisle, plus a focus on local barbecue. Its producers hope to build it into a signature event in St. Louis but are counting on a strong first year.

St. Louis’ only Irish music festival will take place April 20-23.

Tenor sax player Kamasi Washington and his band are in St. Louis this weekend for Music at the Intersection. For Washington, who has worked with rap and R&B artists and scored a former first lady’s documentary, it’s a chance to bring his artistic vision to life.

The work of the late Don Nedobeck, whose whimsical art regularly delighted festival goers, will also be displayed.