Annual Events
Below is a list of upcoming and annual events. Visit the City calendar page to for details on events happening later this year. Use the calendar widget on the left side of the page to navigate to different months. Click on the event name for more details.
Annual Events
January
- Martin Luther King Jr. Memory March
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration
February
- Black History Month
March
- Leprechaun Leap 5k/10k
April
- Bootlegger 100
- Easter Egg Hunt
May
- End of School Blast
- Mayor’s Breakfast for the National Day of Prayer
- National Day of Prayer
- Lenoir Bicycle Festival
- Memorial Day Celebration
June
- Movie Night on the Square
- Neon Night Ride
- Summer Music Madness
July
- Firecracker 5K/10K/Fun Run
- July 4th Celebration & Fireworks
- North Carolina Blackberry Festival
- Movie Night on the Square
- Summer Music Madness
- Jazz Festival
August
- Harambee Arts Festival
- Sundown 4 Miler
September
- Carolina Tattoo and Arts Gathering
- Constitution Day Ceremony at Charters of Freedom
- Sculpture Celebration
October
- 9K Trail Race
- National Night Out
- Halloween Carnival
- Mad Hatter's Pumpkin Patch Parade and Downtown Trick-Or-Treating
November
- Light Up Lenoir
- Small Business Saturday
- Turkey Tuesday
- Veterans Day Ceremony
December
- Carriage Rides in Downtown Lenoir
- Luminary Display at Blue Ridge Memorial Park
- Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
- Starry Night Christmas Parade