Brass Roots Fest

September 13, 2026

12pm - 7pm

Logo for Brass Roots Fest featuring a fountain with water and a lighthouse in the background, surrounded by colorful confetti, pine trees, a trumpet, and text indicating the event date September 13th, 2026, at Bug Light Park, South Portland, Maine.

Brass Roots Fest is a free, one-day music and arts festival open to the public on September 13, 2026 at Bug Light Park in South Portland from 12pm - 7pm. Designed to celebrate creativity and community, the festival will bring people together with live music, visual art, food trucks, and family-friendly activities against one of the city’s most iconic waterfront backdrops.

The event emerges from more than a decade of vision and planning, and from months of collaboration with city officials to establish a partnership focused on expanding access to the arts. The project has already received enthusiastic support from the mayor and city leadership, with a shared goal of developing an annual festival that highlights music, dance, sculpture, theater, and performance art in 2027. While this first year is being independently funded and organized by Brass Roots Productions, the festival reflects a deep commitment to public arts programming.

Brass Roots Productions invites community members, visitors, donors, and sponsors to help shape an event that can grow into an annual tradition that celebrates the arts, strengthens community connections, and showcases the creative spirit of South Portland.

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Black circular design with white text reading "EQUAL MEASURE ART" in the center.
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Brass Roots Fest is proud to announce Equal Measure Arts as the fiscal sponsor of the festival. EMA is a local nonprofit organization making professional studio recording and audio engineering training more accessible for aspiring recording artists and producers. They aim to diversify the stories and voices represented in Maine’s music industry.

Black and white drawing of ruins with a large classical columned structure at the center, surrounded by smaller ruins and a group of people in the foreground.

Bug Light (built in 1875) - This small lighthouse is one of the most distinctive in Casco Bay. Inspired by an ancient Greek monument, its design celebrates the historic tradition of patrons supporting music, theater, and the arts.

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