Charlotte Pride Festival and Parade colors Uptown this weekend
One of the city’s largest annual events, and one of the largest LGBTQ+ events in the region, is set to return to Uptown Charlotte this weekend.
The Charlotte Pride Festival and Parade will feature two days of entertainment, music, art exhibits, food, and other activities.
ALSO READ: The faces of pride in Charlotte
The festival will be held from 12 to 11 p.m. on Saturday and 12 to 6 p.m. on Sunday on South Tryon Street. The parade will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday on North Tryon Street.
Main stage performers include Big Freedia and Trina on Saturday, and Greyson Chance and Cassidy King on Sunday.
Admission to the festival and parade is free.
Click here to see the festival and parade map and entertainment schedule.
Charlotte Pride, which hosted its first festival in 2001 and first parade in 2013, welcomed its largest crowd to date in 2022 with 275,000 people in attendance over the festival weekend.
Uptown Street Closures:
Friday (event set-up)
- South Tryon Street will close at 9 a.m. to traffic between Morehead Street and Fourth Street.
- East and West Good Samaritan Way (formerly Hill Street) will be closed to traffic.
- East-west cross streets that will remain open: Brooklyn Village Ave. (formerly Stonewall Ave.); Levine Avenue of the Arts; MLK Blvd.; Third Street.
- Levine Avenue of the Arts will close at 6 p.m. on Friday.
Saturday and Sunday (event days)
- South Tryon Street will remain closed.
- All east-west cross streets will close at 5 a.m. on Saturday.
- Brooklyn Village Ave. will remain open for east-west traffic.
- Northbound and southbound traffic on Tryon Street will be re-routed to College Street (northbound traffic) and Church Street (southbound traffic).
Sunday (event day)
- Tryon Street will be closed to all traffic.
- All east-west cross-streets between Fourth and Morehead will remain closed.
- East-west cross streets between 12th and Fourth will begin closing at 8 a.m.
- Northbound and southbound traffic on Tryon Street will be re-routed to College Street (northbound traffic) and Church Street (southbound traffic).
- Streets used by the Charlotte Pride Festival and Parade will reopen by approximately 11 p.m. on Sunday.
____________________________________
More Pride events:
The Gay Men’s Chorus of Charlotte will perform at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church at 1510 E. 7th Street at 7:30 p.m. on Friday.
Wooden Robot will host a Pride Pre-Party from 6 to 11 p.m. on Friday at its NoDa location (416 E. 36th Street) and a Pre-Parade Brunch from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday at its South End location (1440 South Tryon Street).
Resident Culture Brewing will host the Culture Shock Drag Brunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday at its South End location at 332 W. Bland Street.
Billy Sunday at Optimist Hall will host an After Pride party starting at 3 p.m. on Sunday.
To celebrate Charlotte Pride the Mint Museum Uptown at 500 South Tryon Street will offer free admission Aug. 19-20.
Traffic Team 9: Uptown road closures for Charlotte Pride events
