New Brunswick Day 2024

You’re invited to celebrate New Brunswick Day in the Capital City on Monday, August 5! Enjoy celebrations on the front lawn of the New Brunswick Legislature in Fredericton from Noon to 10pm as we celebrate the province we are so proud to live in.

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The day will be filled with great entertainment and fun activities for all, plus most downtown restaurants and a few businesses will also be open! This free, all-inclusive event will take place rain or shine. Queen Street will become a pedestrian walkway for the duration of the event; bring your lawn chairs and spend the day.

Celebrations begin at noon and continue through 10 p.m. The fireworks display over the Westmorland Street Bridge will begin around 9:45 p.m.

Performers on the main stage will start at noon:

• Ktopatapasipon “bringing the people together” with Elder Hubert Francis
  – Elder Hubert Francis Opening Prayer
  – Indigenous Dancers
• Emcee Rose Arsenault
• Multicultural Performances
• Calithumpians
• Flag Raising and Official Remarks
• The Big River Ramblers
• New Brunswick Youth Orchestra
  • MEKA String Quartet
  • Cello Quartet
• One8tea
• Dr. Mary McCarthy Brandt
• YELE 1
• Corsa
• Acoustic Ease
• Hubert Francis Solo Performance
• The Cunningham Haines Band
• McKinley Morrison & Williams
• La Patente

Happening at the Fun Zone on the Beaverbrook Art Gallery Green & Christ Church Cathedral Green:

Free activities: 12-4pm

• Bouncy Castles
• Bubbles
• Cotton Candy
• Face Painting
• Jump Rope
• Hula Hoops
• Bouncy slides
• Snow Cones
• Popcorn
• Balloon Artists
• Sidewalk Chalk
• Colouring Pages

The Beaverbrook Art Gallery will have FREE admission and workshops at the gallery

New Brunswick Day Walking Tour – Join two NB historians who will take you on a 90 minute accessible walk. Meet at 4pm on the steps of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery

There will be a New Brunswick Day market set up on the lawn, with New Brunswick vendors selling their unique wares.

Jesse Campbell Magic – Jesse will host a magic show on the green at 2:30pm

Unveiling of the NEw Brunswick Great Blue Herons on Stilts – 2pm – near the main stage.

Bannock-Making Experience, 2pm

Explore NB Street Team – find out what to do in New Brunswick this summer along with games & swag open from noon – 4pm

Street performers: jugglers, roaming performers, and stilt walkers. The Calithumpians will have a performance at noon on the lawn of Christ Church Cathedral.

Emancipation Day celebrations will take place from 12pm-5pm at Officers’ Square with a FREE barbeque, entertainment, DJ Saa Wakanda, and a photo booth

Fireworks Finale – Grand finale fireworks to be launched off the Westmorland Street Bridge at approx. 9:45pm

Restaurants and businesses open on NB Day: