Name: Downtown Mall Block Party!
Start: 2025-03-19T17:00:00-0400
End: 2025-03-19T22:00:00-0400

Wednesday March 19, 2025 5:00pm - 10:00pm EDT

Downtown Mall - E Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902

The Downtown Mall Block Party is back!

Featuring the West Stage, Central Stage, and East Stage.

Enjoy two days of music, dancing, performances, new friends, great food, and so many surprises. Bring your friends and family and hit the historic bricks of the Mall to experience several stages of non-stop entertainment from Cville’s finest, check out local galleries, grab a drink from a local bar, and make memories! This is an event you don’t want to miss. It’s an all-out community celebration.

Stage map at bottom of page.

The 3rd Annual Downtown Mall Block Party is brought to you by these CoHosts: The City of Charlottesville, Virginia Tourism, Friends of Downtown, RL Beyer Custom Homes, and Ludwig Kuttner and also with support from Woodard Properties

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Artists

AKAdeMiX Dance Crew

AKAdeMiX Dance Crew, also known as the Mix, was formed in 2010 by students at the University of Virginia who prided themselves on diversity in dance and culture. As an open style dance crew, AKAdeMiX aims to embolden the UVa and DMV dance community by acknowledging the inspiration... Read More →

Bad Hat Fire

NA, Rusty Iris Art Bus

Bad Hat Fire is full of CVL natives and members have been entranced by the forced focus of fire for over 20 years. A group of like-minded fire artists emerged easily in Charlottesville after the IX warehouse's fire circus in 2006, McGuffey Art Center fire circles, Afton Mountain... Read More →

Capoeira Resistência Cville

Capoeira(Cah-po-ay-ra), most often recognized by its fluid, dance-like movements, is an Afro-Brazilian martial art disguised as dance developed by Angolan slaves in Brazil during the colonial period. Because slaves were not permitted to arm themselves and fight, capoeira allowed them... Read More →

DJ Double U

N/A, N/A

DJ Double U is an open format DJ based in Charlottesville, VA. He has 13+ years of experience DJing professionally in Central Va. Whether he is DJing local bars at UVA or on the downtown mall, sharing the stage with local and mainstream artists, or creating unforgettable memories... Read More →

DJ Flatline Lay

DND Dancers

The D.N.D. Dance Team is a community formed competitive hip-hop majorette team from Charlottesville, VA. The team was formed in 2018, and since then has grown to over 30 members with girls ranging from 6 - 17 years old .The team has preformed locally and have competed up and down... Read More →

Elite Empire

Banks Collage Elite Empire is a 501(c)(3) Non Profit Organization that reaches out to young people in the community to empower them through the art of Majorette Hip Hop dance. Majorette Hip Hop is a very high energy dance style. It utilizes a combination of many different dance styles... Read More →

Foreign Playerz

N/A, N/A

Foreign Playerz is a dynamic and vibrant organization that specializes in creating social dance events for Latin dances such as bachata, salsa, zouk, Cumbia, merengue, and many other types of Latin dance. Founded by passionate dancers, Foreign Playerz aims to promote the love and... Read More →

Kara Leona

Kara Leona singing her new single 'On My Own' along with other Latin favorites!

Markeese Allen

NA, NA

Keese is an aspiring artist from Charlottesville, VA. I’ve done numerous shows throughout the area, including UVA, the Jefferson, the southern, etc. I’ve been featured in the daily progress, C-Ville weekly, the local radio stations. My mission is to put this city on the map for... Read More →

The Rusty Iris Art Bus

The Rusty Iris is a culmination of over a decade of community action. Scintillation Fire Troupe, Tet'nus Art Car, Burning Man, Full Moon Fire Jams, KDub Unival, IX Art Park, and Bad Hat Fire have all contributed to the drive to manifest The Rusty Iris. Rusty's artistic team is remarkable... Read More →

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