Guatemalan Events in the USA 2026: Festivals, Independence Celebrations and Concerts

We found no single calendar of Guatemalan events in the United States. The concerts sell through one Latin ticketing platform, the community festivals sell through another, and the consulate and embassy events are published only on their own pages. So this page is the calendar, built the slow way: every row below was opened at its own source page on September 4, 2026, and the date, venue, address and admission were copied from what that page actually said.

If a listing did not publish something, this page says so instead of filling the gap.

Verified events, September-October 2026

What the sources say about the Guatemalan connection. Most of these name Guatemala outright: the Providence and Moore festivals, the Embassy of Guatemala event, the Lynn celebration, and the Charlotte tour all carry it in the event name or organizer name. For the rest, the source states it in the body — Tickeri calls Alux Nahual “la legendaria y querida banda guatemalteca”; Common Hope describes Noche de Colores as its gala “celebrating 40 years of hope and opportunity in Guatemala”; the White Plains listing describes “una celebración de la mujer guatemalteca”; Eduardo Halfon’s page notes he holds the Guatemalan National Prize in Literature; and the Mayab’ page describes Aurora Chaj as “a K’iche’ Maya architect, researcher, musician, and artist from Guatemala”. The Pawtucket listing has no description at all — the name is the only signal.

Two Houston listings without a published price

Two Tickeri listings sit on Guatemalan independence dates in Houston, both billing Dulce Banda — the same act as the Charlotte tour date. Both had no tickets on sale and no price published when read, and neither listing names a country on its own page:

The recurring festivals

This table tracks seven recurring Guatemalan festivals, parades and nights in the US with a dated source, and they are at very different stages of publishing a next edition. Each has its own page where the sources support one. On its own site, only festivalchapin.com publishes an edition history; Chapines Fest’s ticket listing numbers its 2026 edition.

Also seen, with a dated source but no page of their own yet: the Feria Cultural Chapina in Los Angeles (4th edition, June 13-14, 2026, per the Government of Guatemala’s press office); the Feria Internacional Tacaná in Georgetown, Delaware (held the Saturday before News From The States’ report of August 18, 2026); Festival Guatemala Georgia in Norcross (September 21, 2025, AllEvents listing); Festival de Independencia Guatemala at La Guatemalteca in Denver (September 13-15, 2025, AllEvents listing); and a consulate-organized independence celebration in Omaha (September 14, 2024, Mundo Latino Network).

Festival Chapín L.A. — the 2026 edition, which the Daily News and Calonews both call the 10th annual, ran August 29-30, 2026 at Lafayette Park, and festivalchapin.com states the event is free and that no reservation is required. It is organized by Chapín Summer Festival Inc., a nonprofit registered in the State of California. The 2025 edition was postponed to October 11-12, 2025 by the organizer, not cancelled. As of September 25, 2026 no 2027 date is published. Full detail on its own page.

Festival Guatemala 2026, Providence — one of two recurring festivals on this list still ahead (with the Guatemala County Fair, from November 14), and it has moved. The Guatemalan Center of New England now lists Sunday, October 4, 2026, 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM, at Dexter Park, 73 Dexter St, Providence, and says “Due to weather conditions, we have a new date and location!” (re-read September 25, 2026). The original date, Sunday, September 13 at the Temple to Music in Roger Williams Park, no longer applies. Full detail, including what changed, on its own page. If you are travelling in for it and also need consular paperwork done, the Guatemalan Consulate in Providence, which covers Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine, lists a Sábado Consular for October 3, 2026, the day before the new date; confirm with the consulate before travelling.

Chapines Fest New York: the 2026 edition has already happened. Its Tickeri listing, read on September 25, 2026, gives Sunday, July 26, 2026 at Industry City Courtyard 1/2, 254 36th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232, doors at 1:00 PM, all ages, and describes 2026 as its fifth edition (“celebra su quinta edición”). When we checked chapinesfest.com and Tickeri on September 4, neither showed a date; the Tickeri listing we found on September 25 is for the July edition, which had already passed. No 2027 date appears on that listing. Full detail on its own page.

Guatemala County Fair: the next edition is listed by the organizer from Saturday, November 14, 2026, 12:00 p.m., at Pico Rivera Sports Arena, 11003 Sports Arena Dr, Pico Rivera, CA 90601, as a two-day fair with tickets sold on its own site (no price shown). The 2025 edition was on July 26-27, 2025 at Exposition Park in Los Angeles. Full detail, including an end time on the listing that needs confirming, on its own page.

Dodgers Guatemalan Heritage Night: a Dodgers ticket package for the Thursday, July 30, 2026, 7:10pm PT game at UNIQLO Field at Dodger Stadium, which included an exclusive Guatemalan Heritage Night jersey only when bought through the Dodgers’ link or a Group Sales rep. No 2027 date on the Dodgers’ page.

Festival Chapín (Oklahoma): the Comité Guatemalteco Oklahoma festival was listed on Eventbrite for Saturday, September 12, 2026, 10:00 AM-11:00 PM, at 701 Southwest 22nd Street, Moore, free with registration (read September 4, 2026; row in the table above). The Guatemalan site El Hit Guate also reported a September 12 Oklahoma festival in June 2026. The 2025 edition was cancelled by its organizers, as reported by Soy Migrante on August 30, 2025, which quoted the committee’s statement. We found no 2027 date: the Visit OKC listing for the festival returned HTTP 410 (gone) when we checked on September 25, 2026. It is unrelated to Festival Chapín L.A.

Trenton Guatemalan parade: the Guatemalan Merchants Association’s Desfile y Festival Guatemalteco de Independencia on Hamilton Avenue, Trenton, New Jersey. The association postponed the 2025 edition “hasta nuevo aviso”, and no 2026 date appears in its posts that we could read as of September 25, 2026. The last edition we can confirm was the parade of September 15, 2024, per the association’s own post.

December and January

On September 25, 2026 we searched Eventbrite’s US listings for guatemalan and posada guatemalteca for December 2026 and January 2027 events. Neither search returned a December or January listing that named Guatemala or a Guatemalan organizer: the posadas it did return did not say whose tradition they were, so they are not in the table. If a Guatemalan community group publishes a posada, a Quema del Diablo or a Christmas concert, it goes in the table with its source and read date. What the season looks like in Guatemala itself is on our Christmas in Guatemala and Las Posadas guides.

How to find the rest

These are the places the events above were actually found, named as sources rather than as recommendations:

• Tickeri — where the Guatemalan and Central American concert circuit sells. Of the search terms tried on September 4, 2026: “alux nahual” surfaced both Alux Nahual dates; “marimba” surfaced the Pawtucket listing; “independencia guatemala” surfaced the Charlotte date and both Houston listings; and “guatemala”, “guatemalteco”, “chapin” and “chapines” each returned only the Charlotte date.
• Eventbrite’s Guatemala search for the United States — where the nonprofit galas, embassy events, city-hall celebrations and book talks are. This is where the DC, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, California and New York events came from.
• Your nearest Guatemalan consulate — the consulates publish their own civic events, and they are the only source for consular flag-raisings. Addresses and contacts are in our consulates directory.
• The organizers’ own sites — Festival Guatemala’s date, hours and free admission came only from guatemalancenter.org, and Festival Chapín L.A.’s only from festivalchapin.com. Neither was on a ticketing platform.

Ticketmaster does not carry these events

Worth saying plainly, because it saves a search: not one of the fourteen events verified here links to Ticketmaster. The paid concerts are all on Tickeri, the community and nonprofit events are all on Eventbrite, and Festival Guatemala in Providence is handled by the organizer with no ticketing platform at all. If you are looking for a Guatemalan festival, a marimba show or a Guatemalan rock concert in the US, Ticketmaster is the wrong place to start.

More events from the daily feed

Since September 25, 2026 this table fills itself daily only from organizer websites whose robots.txt allows automated reading and whose terms, where published, do not forbid it, so it can be short or empty. We stopped reading Eventbrite, Tickeri and guatemalancenter.org automatically because their terms or robots.txt do not allow it; events from those sites appear only in the lists on this page that we checked by hand. Every row links to its source and carries the read date. Verify with the source before travelling.

It applies stricter gates than the table above — it requires a named organizer, and it reads admission from structured fields — so an event in the hand-verified table can be missing here, or labelled differently. Where the two disagree, the table above is the one we checked by eye on 4 September 2026.

Frequently asked questions

Are these dates confirmed?

Each row was read at its own source page on September 4, 2026 and reflects what that page said on that day. Organizers move dates and sell out; the source link in every row is there so you can re-check before you drive. One has already moved: Festival Guatemala in Providence went from September 13 at Roger Williams Park to October 4 at Dexter Park, which we caught on a re-read on September 25, 2026. The two Houston listings had no tickets on sale at all when read.

Which of these are family events rather than nightlife?

By what the sources publish: the Providence festival (now October 4, 11:00 AM-6:00 PM; free on its original listing), the Moore, Oklahoma festival (10:00 AM-11:00 PM, free), the Lynn, Massachusetts civic celebration (5:00-7:30 PM, free) and the NYU book conversation (11:30 AM, free) are daytime and carry no age restriction on their listings. Every Tickeri concert here carries an age restriction — 21+ in Berwyn, Adelphi and Pawtucket; 18+ in Charlotte and both Houston listings.

Is there anything in October?

Two verified events: Festival Guatemala in Providence, moved by its organizer to Sunday October 4, 2026 at Dexter Park, and Mayab’: Live Folktrónica with Aurora Nohemi, Sunday October 25, 2026 at the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles. Of the fourteen listings verified here, twelve now fall in September and two in October.

Is there a “Guatemala Day” parade in New York City?

Not one we could find. People search for “guatemala day nyc”, but on September 25, 2026 we found no source for a Guatemala-only parade or “Guatemala Day” in New York City. The Guatemalan festival with a published New York date is Chapines Fest, held in Brooklyn on July 26, 2026. In the region, the Guatemalan independence parade we could source is Trenton’s, in New Jersey, and it has no 2026 date.

The parade in New York that does include Guatemala is multinational and Honduran-led: the Bronx Central American Independence Day Parade. According to New York Latin Culture, a third-party events site, its 30th edition was on Sunday, September 13, 2026, with the parade down Southern Blvd at 12pm and a festival in Crotona Park from 2-6pm, organized by the International Honduran and Central American Parade, Inc. The site says it celebrates the independence of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, and calls it “largely a Honduran Garifuna celebration”.

Related guides

• Festival Chapín Los Angeles · Festival Guatemala, Providence · Chapines Fest New York · Guatemala County Fair · Dodgers Guatemalan Heritage Night · Trenton Guatemalan parade: one page per recurring festival
• Guatemala Independence Day 2026 — the September 15 holiday itself, the Antorcha, and the official calendar in Guatemala
• Guatemalan diaspora services from the USA — passports, DPI, voting and consular paperwork
• Guatemala events calendar — the recurring national calendar
• Feria calendar: 340+ patron-saint fairs — if you are looking for your town’s feria back home