Downtown Brattleboro

Downtown Brattleboro Downtown Brattleboro supports and nurtures this vibrant community of artists and creatives, locally-owned shops and restaurants, and civic-minded citizens.
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Downtown Brattleboro:
Experience why it’s consistently voted “Best Tourist Destination in the Region”

Food & Drink Destination:
Farm to Table, Vegan, Thai, Fine Dining, Mexican, Italian, local breweries, distillers; Year-Round Farmer’s Market, Natural Foods Co-op

Independent Shops:
Bookstores, Sporting goods, Records, Vintage, Jewelers, Clothing, Galleries! Live Events:
Music, Circus Arts, D

ance, Theatres

Outdoor Action: Trails, Mountains, Rivers & Farms

So much more: brattleboro.com

Downtown Brattleboro: You can’t get this on the Internet! Brought to you by the Downtown Brattleboro Alliance, which supports and nurtures the economic, cultural, residential and educational environment of the Town of Brattleboro with primary emphasis on downtown. Contact us at [email protected] or by calling 802-257-4886
Our mailing address is: PO Box 961, Brattleboro, VT 05302

Bratt First Friday & Gallery Walk was ⚡️ELECTRIC⚡️last night. Go Bratt Go!These events are so much more than a party, th...
09/05/2026

Bratt First Friday & Gallery Walk was ⚡️ELECTRIC⚡️last night. Go Bratt Go!

These events are so much more than a party, though they’re a heck of a party too. At the core, they are a love letter to Brattleboro. A flashy container that reminds us that the people and places here are nothing short of extraordinary. The talent and passion in this community of artists is unparalleled, and its shines so bright at each event.

Till next month! A reminder- Bratt First Fridays is the block party with Maker’s Market, Live Music, Lawson’s Outdoor Beer Garden, Food Trucks, Local Org Tablers and PopUp Performers galore. It’s the street closure and the party that happens there. Bratt First Fridays run May-October.

Gallery Walk is the time honored tradition of gallery stroll in 15 walkable downtown galleries who stay open late, often have artist meet & greets, live music, refreshments. Gallery Walk runs May-Dec, on first Fridays of the month.

So next month, October 3, will be the last Bratt First Friday. But Gallery Walk will continue on in November and December. Next month the events coincide with SuckaPunch Graffiti Jam on Arch Street, so this will be BIG. It promises to be a knock-down all-out showstopper, and YOU are invited!

Brattleboro Vermont is -THE PLACE- to see live music.Our campus of performance venues are bustling incubators of emergin...
09/04/2026

Brattleboro Vermont is -THE PLACE- to see live music.

Our campus of performance venues are bustling incubators of emerging artists. They’re hotbeds of social connection and synergy. These spaces are absolute powerhouses of economic activity driving locals and visitors to our restaurants, shops, and hotels. Here’s the thing: Brattleboro doesn’t have a music scene. It has a music ecosystem, a town of 13,000 people running more stages than towns ten times our size. The Latchis. Stone Church. Midnights. The Vermont Jazz Center. Epsilon Spires. Marigold. Brattleboro Music Center. Retreat Farm. The Heart Rose Club. Tower Bar & Lounge. Rooms for jazz, punk, folk, hip-hop, noise, everything in between. Several are a ten-minute walk of each other. All of them are independently run and operated by locals whose blood, sweat and tears built them from the ground up.

And right now, it’s not just holding steady. It’s growing, and gathering momentum. Stone Church brought thousands of people to Brattleboro last year for more than 140 shows. Brattleboro is in the middle of a genuine moment. But no music venue survives on nostalgia- they survive and thrive when people show up:

☑️Buy the ticket.
☑️Go to the show
☑️Buy the merch
☑️Tell your friends
☑️Share the post

Our music scene is one of our greatest strengths. We need to leverage it. Support it. Talk about it. Show up for it.

Brattleboro is a music town. And it’s just getting started.

Bratt First Friday & Gallery Walk TOMORROW 9/4 5-9pThis party’s so big it takes a whole town to throw it. Let’s GO!
09/03/2026

Bratt First Friday & Gallery Walk
TOMORROW
9/4 5-9p
This party’s so big it takes a whole town to throw it. Let’s GO!

Roll Call! It’s an all-hands on deck kinda thing. Volunteer with us! We need some helping hands this Friday for Bratt Fi...
09/02/2026

Roll Call! It’s an all-hands on deck kinda thing. Volunteer with us! We need some helping hands this Friday for Bratt First Friday and Gallery Walk. The shifts are a snap, and the crew is

Be part of something good! (Link to signup in stories) and at Brattleboro.com

The Downtown Brattleboro Alliance (DBA), in partnership with the Town of Brattleboro, is launching Vacant to Vibrant Bra...
09/02/2026

The Downtown Brattleboro Alliance (DBA), in partnership with the Town of Brattleboro, is launching Vacant to Vibrant Brattleboro, a new pilot program designed to transform vacant and underutilized downtown storefronts into places of creativity, commerce, connection, and opportunity.

The five-month program, running from September through January, will connect downtown property owners with local artists, entrepreneurs, retailers, makers, service-based businesses, nonprofits, and community organizations interested in testing ideas in a physical downtown space.

With a $20,000 pilot investment, Vacant to Vibrant will offer several levels of support, ranging from temporary art and window installations to retail pop-ups and more substantial service-based or experiential business activations.

3 Ways to go Vibrant:
Window to Vibrant will support artists and creative projects that bring vacant storefront windows to life through temporary exhibitions, installations, photography, murals, community storytelling, and other visual displays.

Pop-Up Vibrant will support retail and maker pop-ups, giving entrepreneurs and existing businesses an opportunity to test a brick-and-mortar concept with a lower level of risk.

Vibrant Business Lab will support more substantial temporary activations, including service-based businesses, creative studios, workshops, wellness concepts, educational programs, and other experiential uses.

Participating property owners will be asked to make their spaces available at no or substantially reduced rent during the activation period. DBA and the Town will provide coordination, marketing, technical assistance, and help navigating municipal requirements.

More information about the program, including application details and participating properties, will be available through the Downtown Brattleboro Alliance website: https://www.brattleboro.com/downtown/vacant-to-vibrant/

New England Center for Circus Arts flies high on the lawn at Brattleboro Museum and Art Center THIS FRIDAY at Bratt Firs...
09/01/2026

New England Center for Circus Arts flies high on the lawn at Brattleboro Museum and Art Center THIS FRIDAY at Bratt First Friday & Gallery Walk. Enjoy Aerials & Artistry you’ll have to see to believe right in front of BMAC this Friday at 6/6:45. Step inside the museum to enjoy the stunningly curated exhibits BMAC has prepared for you. What a gift!

08/31/2026

Never miss a Bratt First Friday show! Free music outside and in the center of Downtown Brattleboro with Food Trucks galore and Lawson’s Outdoor Beergarden coming in ICE COLD with Vermont’s Finest. This month:

New Planets
An Ithaca, New York-based collective formed in 2019 that plays an otherworldly blend of psychedelic funk and experimental dance music. Described as “Talking Heads meets Gorillaz on Safari,” the 7-to-8-piece group features a rotating cast of singers and players.

FREE SHOW💕
Downtown Brattleboro VT
Harmony Lot
6-8p

08/31/2026

The best parts of Southern Vermont can’t really be described, you just have to experience them for yourself. Why? Because they’re spontaneous! They’re often juuust below the radar. Impromptu evidence of the strong currents of inspiration that flow through here on the regular. Flotilla on the West River, of course!

🎥: Stacy Salpietro-Babb

08/29/2026

Welcome to Bratt >> Consider this your invitation to an all-out over-the-top ART PARTY meets BLOCK PARTY right here in Downtown Brattleboro.

Bratt First Friday & Gallery Walk
Sept 4 | 5-9p
Downtown Brattleboro- Everywhere!

14 Walkable Galleries open their doors free of charge- it is WILD that we can enjoy this much art in every flavor all walkable in our Downtown Center.

Maker’s Market welcomes 30+ Makers, Artists, Upcyclers

Harmony Lot becomes your outdoor concert hall for one night- this month The New Planets take the stage. Lawson’s Outdoor Beer Garden slings frosty brews. Pop-up performers, tabling orgs, food trucks, make for a block party like no other.

BDCC & DBA host a New Vermonter’s Welcome 5-7p at 57 Elliot St (DBA Office). New to town? Welcome! Come say hello and meet other newcomers and enjoy light refreshments.

New England Circus Arts performs Aerials you’ll have to see to believe on the lawn at BMAC- performances at 6 & 6:45

Arch Street LoFi Lounge & Big Blanket Super Picnic at Centre Congregational Church

Eat dinner al fresco at Peter Haven’s Deck, Echo’s stunning Patio, OR India Masala House’s outdoor seating in Pliny Park. Handmade Pasta? Blue Moose Italian Bistro’s the move. Kiplings Tavern & Halo Hollow are holding it down on Elliot with indisputably some of the tastiest fare around. Quick bites at The Works or The Bratt Food Coop. All of this is to say- you’ve got options!

Bratt First Friday & Gallery Walk is the best of the best. It’s where visitors learn how much there is to love about this place. It’s where locals remember why they fell in love in the first place.

Come for the party, stay because the crystal buried under the town won’t let you leave.

We’ll see you Downtown!

Book Lovers >> Flat StreetThis book store is nestled in Alley Lane, a small alcove between the Brattleboro Transportatio...
08/25/2026

Book Lovers >> Flat Street
This book store is nestled in Alley Lane, a small alcove between the Brattleboro Transportation Center (parking garage) and the DeWitt Building on Flat Street. It’s one of those iykyk kinda things. And at its heart? Book Lovers is a heart-led space for people who adore used books- bibliophiles with a penchant for flipping those aged pages with the utmost appreciation. Stop by and say hello to owner/shopkeep Ian. You’ll often find him outside tidying the space- it’s the care for things inside and out for us.

Book Lovers
49 Flat St
Friday 11 AM–8 PM
Saturday 11 AM–8 PM
Sunday 12–6 PM

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57 Elliot Street
Brattleboro, VT
05301

Telephone

(802) 257-4886

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