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The sun will be out this summer and so should you. Below is everything worth knowing about festivals and fairs across North London in 2026. We cover Camden, Islington, Haringey, Barnet, Enfield and Brent from June through September. Some festivals were cancelled this year, while others need tickets, but most are free.
As always, I'll keep you updated on weekly events every Thursday.
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Summer Festivals & Fairs
JUNE
Stoke Newington Early Music Festival | 📍Various venues, N16 | 18 June - 1 July | (£)
Two weeks of medieval, Renaissance and baroque music performed in Stoke Newington's churches, chapels and hidden neighbourhood venues. This year's theme is plus ça change. Tickets selling fast for some events.
Barnet Medieval Festival | 📍Lewis of London Farm, EN5 | 6 - 7 June | (£)
The Barnet Medieval Festival marks the 555th anniversary of the Battle of Barnet, fought just up the road in 1471. Two days of battle re-enactments, jousting from two equestrian teams, falconry displays, cannon firing, archery, a medieval market and live music at Lewis of London Ice Cream Farm just north of Barnet. Adults £10, children 12 to 17 £5, under 12s free. 10.30am to 5pm both days.
Summer Street Fiesta | 📍Camden High Street, NW1 | 6 June | Free
Camden High Street closes to traffic for the afternoon as part of a pedestrianisation trial, with samba from London School of Samba, Babel Brass, dance workshops, face painting, arts and crafts and table football. 1pm to 5pm between Camden Town tube and Buck Street.
Fair in the Square | 📍Pond Square, Highgate, N6 | 13 June | Free
Pond Square in Highgate is one of London's few genuine village squares, and every June it hosts a free community fair. Over 100 stalls from local schools, charities and businesses, live entertainment, street food, stilt walkers, church tower tours and a dog show. New this year is a raffle with prizes from local pubs and restaurants. Run by volunteers. 12.30pm to 5.30pm.
Crouch End Festival | 📍Hornsey Town Hall and across N8 | 12 - 18 June | Free
Crouch End Festival is a week of community arts events across N8, run by volunteers, funded entirely by local businesses and free to attend. Now in its 15th year. Saturday 13 June is the main day at Hornsey Town Hall with live music from 11am to 11pm, a craft market, food stalls and Poets in a Phone Box on the green. Sunday moves to Priory Park for a family day and an evening of bands including Croc of Bones and Interfunk. Wednesday 17 June is a night of music at Holy Innocents with Kate Short and the London Balkan Orkestar. Events all week across Crouch End and Hornsey.
Cocoa Kids Fest: Vibin' for Windrush | 📍Bernie Grant Arts Centre, N15 | 20 June | Free/（£)
A children's music festival at Bernie Grant Arts Centre celebrating Caribbean culture and the Windrush generation. Free outdoor festival with food market from Black Eats LDN, kids craft workshops and a live DJ. Plus two ticketed theatre shows (1pm and 3.30pm) with singing, dancing and high-energy performances from young performers including headline act Princess Thomas, a 12-year-old dancer from Leicester. Theatre tickets £10 kids, £15 adults. Outdoor festival free, 12pm to 6pm.
Clissold Park FEASTival | 📍Clissold Park, N16 | 12 - 14 June | Free
A free street food festival in Clissold Park across the second weekend of June. Street food, bars, live music, children's rides and a land train. Andy White plays Friday, Limelight Band on Saturday, Ian Fox on Sunday. Enter via the Green Lanes Fink's Pump House entrance. Friday 10am to 7pm, Saturday 9am to 7pm, Sunday 10am to 6pm.
Windrush Homecoming Celebration | 📍Talacre Gardens, NW5 | 20 June | Free
Camden's annual celebration of the Windrush generation and Caribbean heritage returns to Talacre Gardens in Kentish Town. Live music and DJ sets, Caribbean food and drink, arts and crafts, sports activities for kids and community stalls. No tickets needed, just turn up. 12pm to 6pm.
Into the Park Festival | 📍Queen's Park Bandstand, NW6 | 13 June | Free
Kilburn State of Mind is a local charity that tackles inequality and isolation through community events, and this is their annual summer festival at Queen's Park Bandstand. Live music, street food, craft stalls, kids' activities and a wellbeing zone. 11am to 5pm.
Fitzrovia Arts Festival | 📍Various venues, W1 | 15 - 21 June | Free Fitzrovia throws a week-long arts festival every June, free and open to everyone. Concerts, poetry, walks and performances scattered across the neighbourhood: jazz in a hairdresser on Riding House Street, poetry and music in the chapel that's all that remains of the Middlesex Hospital, Pre-Raphaelite walking tours, lunchtime concerts in Fitzroy Square. Ten years and still free.
East Finchley Festival | 📍Cherry Tree Wood, N2 | 21 June | Free
East Finchley Festival has been going since 1972, when locals marked the first one by parading a whole roast sheep down the High Road to Cherry Tree Wood. It's a free all-day community festival in the park and it's still going strong. Two music stages, street food, licensed bars, over 100 local makers, sports, laser tag, storytelling and Lego. 12pm to 6pm.
High Barnet Chamber Music Festival | 📍High Barnet, EN5 | 6 - 28 June | Free/(£)
Chamber music means small groups of musicians playing together in intimate spaces. High Barnet's festival does exactly that, four concerts across June in local churches and a school hall, now in its sixth year. It opens with a free family concert on 6 June, followed by contemporary music on 13 June, the Elmore Quartet playing Ravel and Shostakovich on 20 June, and The Portrait Players closing on 28 June. Check the HBCMF website for tickets.
Highgate Festival 2026 | 📍Highgate, N6 | 13 - 21 June | Free/(£)
Highgate Festival is a nine-day neighbourhood festival that uses the whole village as its venue, from pubs and parks to churches and community halls. This year's programme is built around the 10th anniversary of George Michael's death, with a community sing-along in Pond Square on 20 June. Other highlights include a BAFTA-winning composer's listening party at an immersive sound space, a performance about the Lost Girls of Highgate Cemetery, a plague pit walk, Fair in the Square on 13 June and talks from Will Hutton and Nell Frizzell. Live music at the Boogaloo and Red Hedgehog throughout.
Seven Sisters Market Community Summer Festival | 📍Seven Sisters Market, N15 | 13 - 28 June | Free
Bad Bunny is playing Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, a 15-minute walk away and Seven Sisters Market is throwing a two-week fiesta to match. Parties, workshops, freestyle competitions, a Create Your Own Outfit workshop and a summer DJ lineup at the Latin quarter of Tottenham. Full programme to be announced.
Hampstead Summer Festival 2026 | 📍Keats House and Heath Street, NW3 | 21 June - 5 July | Free/(£)
Keats House in Hampstead is where the Romantic poet John Keats lived and wrote in the 1820s. It's now a museum, and every summer its garden becomes the setting for a community festival that has been running since 2011. This year there are five events: an Art Fair on 21 June, open air performances of Northanger Abbey from 25 June, a Family Garden Party on 28 June with birds of prey, ballet and a magician, and the Big Fair on Heath Street on 5 July with 110 stalls, a funfair and live music. Art Street in Keats Grove runs throughout. Theatre tickets from £20, everything else free. All proceeds to Hampstead School of Art and Keats Community Library.
Proms at St Jude's Music and Literary Festival | 📍Hampstead Garden Suburb, NW11 | 27 June - 5 July | (£)
Nine nights of evening concerts in Hampstead Garden Suburb, running since 1993. Highlights include Wolf Hall in Concert with Debbie Wiseman and BAFTA-nominated Anton Lesser, the Van Morrison Alumni Band, and Lizzie Ball and James Pearson's jazz celebration fresh from a sell-out at Ronnie Scott's. Free lunchtime concerts, a literary weekend and late night comedy too. Surplus funds go to Toynbee Hall and North London Hospice.
JULY
The Cally Festival | 📍Caledonian Road, N1 | 5 July | Free
Once a year, they close Caledonian Road and 7,000 people throw a party in it. Music, performance, art, workshops, street food and a market. 12pm to 6pm.
De Beauvoir Jazz Festival | 📍De Beauvoir Town, N1 | 10 - 12 July | (£)
Three days of jazz across a little neighbourhood between Hackney and Islington. Shows at St Peter's Church, Hoxton Hall, Mildmay Club and the Vortex. Highlights include Ego Ella May (R&B and neo-soul singer, JAZZ FM Best Vocalist winner), Theon Cross (tuba player who blends jazz with dub, grime and sound-system culture) and Mercury Prize nominee Joe Webb on piano. Plus a New Orleans-inspired block party on the Saturday and a special Sunday show from Tuba Skinny, one of the great contemporary New Orleans bands.
Kaleidoscope Festival | 📍Alexandra Palace Park, N22 | 11 July | (£)
A one-day music and comedy festival in Alexandra Palace Park with views across London. Rudimental headline, with Groove Armada (DJ set), MJ Cole, Black Grape, Roni Size and The Amy Winehouse Band. Russell Kane leads the comedy. Multiple stages, immersive experiences under the Palace, and a family area. Gates open 1pm. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult over 21.
Bar Rioja Festival | 📍Bar Rioja, N1 | 4 July | (£)
Starts as a wine tasting, ends as a party. Sixteen Riojas to work through in a hidden Victorian courtyard off Pentonville Road, with someone carving Ibérico ham, paella when you need it, and a DJ who runs from mid-afternoon well into the evening.
Jester Festival | 📍Fortune Green, NW6 | 4 July | Free
For 52 years, a handful of volunteers have put on a festival on Fortune Green, and they're still at it. This is the day West Hampstead comes out for its own: live music, a funfair, circus skills and a climbing wall, the raffle with prizes from every shop on the high street, and whatever the volunteers have dreamed up this year. What money it makes goes to the West Hampstead Food Hub, feeding neighbours who need it. Come down between 11.15am and 6.30pm.
Bowes Park Pride | 📍Myddleton Road, N22 | 5 July | Free
London Pride is the day before, but if big crowds aren't your thing, Bowes Park has its own. Myddleton Road closes to traffic for a neighbourhood Pride celebration with live music, performances, food stalls and local businesses. Relaxed, family friendly and rooted in the local community. 12pm to 6pm.
Somers Town Festival | 📍Charlton Street, NW1 | 11 July | Free
Camden's biggest street festival lands a real one this year: P.P. Arnold headlines, the soul singer behind The First Cut Is the Deepest and Angel of the Morning, who came up with Ike and Tina Turner and went on to record with the Rolling Stones and the Small Faces. All free, on four stages, with a South American dance parade, a hip hop stage, a funfair, Irish and Bangladeshi dancing, and local acts like Somers Town's own Greedy Soul and Shae O'Leary. Food stalls, a kids area and a museum trail too. 12pm to 6.30pm on Charlton Street.
Noel Park Festival | 📍Russell Park, N22 | 12 July | Free
Noel Park's own summer festival returns for a fourth year, held in Russell Park, the biggest green space on this historic Wood Green estate. There's a live music stage, community stalls, food, and an eco-village with activities for all ages. A free afternoon put on for the people who live in and around the estate, and anyone else who wants to come along. 12pm to 5pm.
London Brick Festival | 📍Royal National Hotel, WC1 | 26 July | (£)
Not just a kids' day out. The London Brick Festival pulls in serious adult builders and collectors alongside the families, with huge LEGO displays to gawp at, speed building competitions, a hands-on building area, and traders selling everything from loose bricks to long-retired sets. Standard entry is £8 adults, £6 children, or £22 for a family of four, under 5s free. Early entry at 10am is £15 and gets you an extra hour plus a free LEGO gift. Runs until 4pm.
Kilburn High Road Festival | 📍Kilburn High Road, NW6 | 31 July - 15 August | Free
Sixteen days of free performances, music and exhibitions along Kilburn High Road, made by and for the people who live here. Highlights include Passages, a promenade walk drawing on 95 real stories of Kilburn nights out; Reel Kilburn, an evening of local film history; and the Kilburn House Band playing live at Kilburn Market. Presented by Kiln Theatre.
Islington Festival of Music and Art | 📍Various venues across Islington | 24 July - 2 August | (£)
This started as garden concerts during lockdown in 2020 and has since grown into a ten-day festival across Islington. Yoga with a harp, swing dancing at the Angel piazza, Sidney Bechet-inspired jazz, and Edward Elgar meets Oscar Wilde. The theme this year is music inspired by literature, from Shakespeare to Tolstoy and Dante to Wilde. Intimate venues throughout the borough including Little Angel Theatre, Old Sessions House and Christ Church Highbury.
AUGUST
Clocktower Festival | 📍Caledonian Park, N7 | 2 August | Free Caledonian Park's annual community festival returns under the clocktower. Live music, local traders and a dog competition. More details to come.
📍Inverness Street, NW1 | 29 August | Free
Inverness Street in Camden closes for a free outdoor street party celebrating UK dance music. DJ sets, live performances, sound systems, street food and pub takeovers nearby. This year marks 30 years of UK House and Garage. Family friendly. 12pm to 7pm.
SEPTEMBER
Angel Canal Festival | 📍City Road Basin, N1 | 6 September | Free
Forty years ago a back garden party was held to save City Road Basin from development. The festival that grew from it is still going, now one of Islington's most loved free community days. Live music, puppetry, art workshops, water sports, street food and traditional canal boats along the towpath. 11am to 4pm.
Palmers Green Festival | 📍Broomfield Park, N13 | 6 September | Free
Palmers Green Festival has been part of the local calendar since 2008 and this year returns to Broomfield Park for a full afternoon. Live music at the bandstand, a vintage village, artisan food and crafts, the Starfish Art Exhibition, a dance zone, model boats on the boating lake, donkey rides and Biddall's Fun Fair, which has been visiting the park for over 100 years. Fun dog show in the Broomfield Bowl. Run entirely by local volunteers and organisations. 12pm to 5pm
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