Downtown Burlington, Iowa

06/13/2026

🎡🌊 IT'S HAPPENING! Burlington River Days Continues Saturday, June 13! 🌊🎡

If you missed opening night, don't worry. Saturday is packed with fun from morning to night on the Burlington riverfront!

🚤 10 AM Boat Parade
🏅 11 AM - 2 PM River Days Olympics
🐶 11 AM Dog Beauty Pageant with The Beancounter Coffeehouse & Drinkery
🔥 12:30 PM BBQ Competition Tasting
🎡 Carnival on the Riverfront
🎶 Live Music All Day Featuring:
🎸 Probable Cause
🤘 Paralandra
🎤 Hinder
🎵 Old School Overdrive

Whether you're cheering on boats, petting adorable pups, sampling championship BBQ, riding carnival rides, or rocking out to live music under the summer sky, Burlington River Days has something for everyone!

Grab your lawn chairs, bring your friends, and make a day of it on the riverfront.

☀️ Summer.
🎶 Music.
🔥 BBQ.
🚤 Boats.
🐶 Dogs.
🎡 Carnival.

What more could you ask for?

IT'S HAPPENING in Downtown Burlington! 🎉🌊🎸

06/12/2026

🎡🌊 IT'S HAPPENING! Burlington River Days Weekend is HERE! 🌊🎡

Last night kicked off the fun, but Downtown Burlington is just getting started! Between Burlington River Days, live music, dancing, the Jefferson St Farmers Market, books, jazz, and community events, there is something happening around every corner.

🎶 June 12

🎡 Burlington River Days/Carnival on the Riverfront
🎤 David Graham: The King of Honky-Tonks Live at The Washington
🎵 Name That Tune Karaoke at Farneys
🎧 DJ DeJaynes Live on the Patio at The Drake Restaurant

🚤 June 13

🎡 Burlington River Days
🎶 Live Music featuring Probable Cause, Paralandra, Hinder & Old School Overdrive
🐶 Dog Beauty Pageant
🔥 Smoke on the Water BBQ Contest
🏅 River Days Olympics
🚤 Boat Parade
🎠 Carnival on the Riverfront
🎤 Tim Smith Live on the Patio of The Drake Restaurant

💃 June 16

👢 Swing Line Dancing Lessons at The Washington

🎼 June 17

🎻 Arvo Pärt & W.A. Mozart featuring Phillips, Ellis & Pirtle at Burlington's First United Methodist Church

🌽 June 18

🛍️ Jefferson St Farmers Market
🎶 Live Music by Ruby Orr
📚 Book Signing with Erin Corman at BurlingtonBytheBook
🎷 3rd Thursday Jazz Showcase at The Washington

Whether you're looking for live music, shopping, great food, dancing, books, family fun, or a weekend on the riverfront, Downtown Burlington has you covered.

☀️ Grab your friends, bring the family, and come see why Downtown Burlington is the place to be this week!

IT'S HAPPENING in Downtown Burlington!🎉🎶🌽🚤🎡

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06/11/2026

🌧️☔ Rain, Rain, Go Away... It's Jefferson Street Farmers Market Day! ☔🌧️

Mother Nature may be trying to crash the party, but we're not letting a little rain stop us from supporting our local vendors!

🚨 TODAY'S MARKET IS MOVING INDOORS 🚨

Join us at the Burlington Senior Center, 501 Jefferson Street, from 3:30-6:30 PM for an indoor Jefferson Street Farmers Market experience.

🥕 Fresh produce
🥧 Homemade baked goods
🛍️ Handmade products
🎶 Live music by Jared Rouggly
❤️ Your favorite local vendors

Vendors can begin selling as soon as they are set up, so feel free to stop by early!

A huge thank you to the Burlington Steamboat Senior Center for opening their doors and helping us keep the market going. While space is limited, we're doing our best to accommodate as many vendors as possible.

So grab your umbrella, bring a friend, and come enjoy an evening of shopping, music, and community support.

It's Happening at the Jefferson Street Farmers Market... just with a roof over our heads today! 🌽🏠🎶💚

Thank you to Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa for sponsoring our June markets and to F&M Bank & Trust for keeping the music playing all season long!

🌽🎶☔🛍️💚

06/11/2026

🌧️☔ Rain, Rain, Go Away... It's Jefferson St Farmers Market Day! ☔🌧️

Mother Nature may be trying to crash the party, but we're not letting a little rain stop us from supporting our local vendors!
🚨 TODAY'S MARKET IS MOVING INDOORS 🚨

Join us at the Burlington Senior Center, 501 Jefferson Street, from 3:30-6:30 PM for an indoor Jefferson Street Farmers Market experience.

🥕 Fresh produce
🥧 Homemade baked goods
🛍️ Handmade products
🎶 Live music by Jared Rouggly
❤️ Your favorite local vendors

Vendors can begin selling as soon as they are set up, so feel free to stop by early!

A huge thank you to The Burlington Steamboat Senior Center for opening their doors and helping us keep the market going. While space is limited, we're doing our best to accommodate as many vendors as possible.

So grab your umbrella, bring a friend, and come enjoy an evening of shopping, music, and community support.

It's Happening at the Jefferson Street Farmers Market... just with a roof over our heads today! 🌽🏠🎶💚

Thank you to Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa
for sponsoring our June markets and to F&M Bank & Trust for keeping the music playing all season long!

🌽🎶☔🛍️💚

06/11/2026

🎸🎤 EXCELLENT NEWS, DUDES! 🎤🎸

We're hanging out with our MOST EXCELLENT friends at F&M Bank & Trust, Member FDIC, the official Entertainment Sponsor of the Jefferson Street Farmers Market! 🤘

Without their righteous support, our Thursday nights wouldn't be nearly as bodacious.
Check out this totally tubular lineup coming to Downtown Burlington:
🎶 June 11 – Jared Rouggly
🎶 June 18 – Ruby Orr
🎶 June 25 – Diane DeJaynes
🎶 July 2 – Lillian Chavez
🎶 July 9 – Jared Rouggly

That's weeks of awesome local music, dancing in the streets, singing along when nobody's looking, and making memories with friends and family.

So be excellent to each other, support local music, support local businesses, and join us every Thursday from 4:30-7 PM at the Jefferson Street Farmers Market!

A most triumphant THANK YOU to F&M Bank & Trust, Member FDIC for helping keep the music playing in Downtown Burlington! 🎸🎶

It's Happening! 🤘😎🎤

06/10/2026

🌽🍗🍷 IT'S HAPPENING! 🍷🍗🌽

For one unforgettable evening, we're turning Jefferson Street into Burlington's longest dinner table.

Introducing Downtown to Table, a brand-new outdoor dining experience celebrating the incredible restaurants, eateries, drinkeries, and people that make Downtown Burlington special.

📅 Monday, August 31
⏰ 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM
📍 Jefferson Street, Downtown Burlington

Join us for a family-style evening featuring a delicious four-course meal prepared by 11 Downtown Burlington businesses, live music by Owen Wolfe, beautiful centerpieces by Downtown Daisy, and great company under the open sky.

🍸 Your ticket includes one complimentary cocktail or mocktail from La Bohème
🍺 Beer available from The Busted Cup Brewery
🍷 Wine available from Cedar & Vine

Featured Menu:
🥖 Fresh Rolls – The Collective Food Hub
🧀 Charcuterie Cups – Corked 101
🍓 Mixed Berry Salad – The Beancounter Coffeehouse & Drinkery
🍗 Smothered Chicken – The Drake Restaurant
🫘 Green Beans – Martini's Grille
🥔 Au Gratin Potatoes – Hawaiiowan Cafe
🍒 Cherry Cobbler – Taste & Seek
🍫 Fudge – Thyme & Spice
🏛️ Hosting - 300 Block and Art Center of Burlington
⛺ Tent & Tables - Sherwood Company

💐 Most importantly, every ticket supports Downtown Partners, Inc. and our efforts to beautify Downtown Burlington, including replacing the beloved downtown flower planters that have welcomed visitors for decades.

🎟️ Tickets are $100 per person
🎟️ Guests must be 18+
🎟️ Limited seating available
🎟️ Ticket sales close August 14

And here's the best part...

🔥 We launched ticket sales today and sold ONE-THIRD of the event in just the first few minutes!

If you want a seat at Burlington's newest table, don't wait.

Because when Downtown Burlington comes together around one table...

❤️ Great food happens.
❤️ Great conversations happen.
❤️ Great community happens.

Buy tickets here:
https://members.greaterburlington.com/ap/Events/Register/wZFBkOnueCxCw

06/09/2026

🎉🤷‍♀️ Public Service Announcement: Your June Calendar Is About to Get Booked. 🤷‍♂️🎉

If you've been sitting around saying, "There's never anything to do..." we have some news for you.

😂 We checked. There is.

🎶 Burlington River Days
📅 June 11-13
Live music, food, fun, carnival, river views, and enough entertainment to keep you from reorganizing your junk drawer for the third time.

🎨 Snake Alley Art Fair
📅 June 21
Amazing artists, unique creations, and the perfect opportunity to buy something you absolutely didn't know you needed until you saw it.

Whether you're a music lover, art enthusiast, foodie, shopper, people-watcher, or just looking for an excuse to leave the house in stretchy pants, Downtown Burlington has you covered.

❤️ Come for the music.
💙 Come for the art.
💚 Come for the food.
💛 Come because your spouse said, "We're getting out of the house today."

The best part? We don't all have to like the same things to enjoy living in the same community. There's room for everyone downtown.

So mark your calendars, gather your friends, and get ready because...

🎉 It's Happening in Downtown Burlington! 🎉

😆🎶🎨🍔❤️

06/06/2026

🚗📣 ATTENTION, PROFESSIONAL PARKERS, Curb-Huggers, Alley-Sneakers, and "I'll Only Be Here for a Minute" People...

We need your help!

The last Downtown Burlington Parking Study was completed in 2016. Since then, Downtown Burlington has seen:

🏗️ More than $75 million in investment
🏪 52 new businesses opened
🏠 200+ new residential units added
🎉 Thousands more people visiting, working, dining, shopping, and living downtown

A lot has changed in 10 years, and now it's time to find out what YOU think about parking.

Is there enough parking?
Do you always find a spot?
Should employees park differently?
Do you secretly guard "your" parking space like a family heirloom?

Whatever your opinion, we want to hear it.

This survey will help shape future parking decisions, improvements, and planning for Downtown Burlington. The more voices we hear, the better the results.

📝 Take the survey here:
[https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BurlingtonParking2026](https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BurlingtonParking2026)

It only takes a few minutes, and unlike searching for parking during a festival, this is guaranteed to be painless.

Tell us what works. Tell us what doesn't. Tell us where you park. Tell us where everyone else should park. 😆

Let your voice be heard, Burlington!

06/05/2026

🎉 It's Happening in Downtown Burlington! | June 2026 🎉

Summer has officially arrived, school is out, the patios are open, the music is playing, and Downtown Burlington is packed with things to do all month long! ☀️🎶🍹🎨

Whether you're looking for live music, comedy, art, dancing, shopping, food, or one of the biggest riverfront celebrations of the year, you'll find it happening downtown.

🎵 June 5
✨ School's Out GLOW Party - Burlington Black Water Mini Golf & Mississippi Moon Ice Cream Parlor
🎨 Friday Night Art Hop for Kids - Art Center of Burlington
🎶 Gallery Lounge featuring Lucy Lu and the Nobodies - Art Center of Burlington
🤠 Cory Waller & the Wicked Things with Collin Donley - The Washington
🎤 $ RichyRich $ Live - Cedar & Vine

🎵 June 6
🍺 Outdoor Biergarten featuring Ruby Orr - The Busted Cup Brewery
🎸 Nick Stika Live on the Patio - The Drake Restaurant
🎶 Matt Landon Live - La Bohème- Burlington,IA
🎤 Ivory Blue Live - Cedar & Vine
😂 Hot Girl Summer Comedy Event - The Capitol Theater

🎭 June 7
🏛️ Burlington Capitol Theater Open House

💃 June 10
🤠 Line Dancing Lessons - The Washington

🌽 June 11
🥕 Jefferson St Farmers Market with live music by Jared Rouggly
🍸 Art of the Cocktail - Night Cap Listening Lounge

🎶 June 12
🎤 David Graham: The King of Honky-Tonks - The Washington

🚤 Burlington River Days | June 11-13 🚤
Three days of music, food, carnival rides, competitions, riverfront fun, and chances to win a boat!

🎡 Carnival on the Riverfront | June 10-13

🎸 Live Music Includes:
• HINDER
• Paralandra
• Old Skool Overdrive
• Probable Cause
• Captain Geech & The Shrimp Shack Shooters
• Roseland
• Stone Cold Cowboys
• Linc & The Drifters
• Stumptown

🚤 Boat Giveaway
🚤 Boat Show & Boat Parade
🔥 Smoke on the Water BBQ Competition
🏆 River Days Olympics
🎟️ All Access Passes Available

Learn more at: burlingtonriverdays.com

From farmers markets and family fun to concerts, comedy, cocktails, and carnival rides, there is something happening every week in Downtown Burlington.

📍 Shop local. Eat local. Explore local.

☀️🎶🚤🍻🎨🌽

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06/04/2026

🌽☀️ SCHOOL'S OUT, PRODUCE IS IN, AND IT'S FARMERS MARKET DAY! ☀️🌽

The kids are officially out of school, the gardens are showing off, and Jefferson Street is ready for another beautiful evening of fresh food, live music, and community!

🍅 Fresh local produce
🥩 Farm-fresh meats
🥧 Homemade baked goods
🌮 Dinner on the go
🍦 Sweet treats and desserts
🛍️ Handmade goods and unique finds

Plus, grab a lawn chair and enjoy Diane DeJaynes Live while you stroll, shop, eat, and catch up with friends and neighbors. 🎶

There's just something special about a Thursday evening in Downtown Burlington. Kids laughing, music playing, bags filling with fresh goodies, and the community coming together on Jefferson Street. ❤️

A huge thank you to our June sponsor, Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa, for helping us promote healthy living and healthy communities, and to F&M Bank & Trust, Member FDIC for keeping the music playing all season long!

📍 Jefferson St Farmers Market
🕟 Thursday | 4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
🎶 Music by Diane DeJaynes

Come hungry. Leave happy.

🌽🍅🎶❤️