Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Fall Festival, October 10-14, 2024

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 (October 10, 2024) - This weekend and throughout October, literary and popular culture fans and scholars from across the United States and around the world are heading to Lowell, Massachusetts for the annual Lowell Celebrates Kerouac 2024 Fall Festival, taking place on October 10-14 in the city Kerouac famously memorialized in his writings.

The event is organized by Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! Inc. (LCK!), a non-profit group whose mission is to promote a better understanding and appreciation of Jack Kerouac’s life and literature. 

David Amram

The Jack Kerouac Fall Festival features dozens of events, including live jazz, films, poetry readings and open mic events, literary discussions, book signings and tours of Kerouac's childhood haunts, including the French Canadian cemetery where many of Kerouac’s family members were buried.  Legendary jazz artist David Amram, who collaborated with Kerouac, is performing Saturday night at the Back Page Cafe + Bar in Kearney Square. 

Photo courtesy of the Jack Kerouac Foundation

A highlight of the festival takes place on Sunday, October 13 at 11 a.m. when a stunning new mural commemorating Kerouac is being officially unveiled at the former St. Jean Baptiste Church, where Kerouac once served as an altar boy. The building is the proposed future home of the Jack Kerouac Center, a cultural hub dedicated to celebrating the life and work of the acclaimed author. Read details here.

And later in October, literary fans have organized a Poe in Lowell Festival on October 19-20, to celebrate the writings of two great American writers, Edgar Allen Poe and Jack Kerouac.  

The Poe event is followed on the following day, October 21, with a Jack Kerouac Memorial Walk to mark the anniversary of his death on that day in 1969. 

The Jack Lowell Fall Festival is just one of many great things happening this fall and throughout the year in Lowell. Find out more by visiting the Greater Merrimack Valley visitors bureau. 



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