Lowell Celebrates Kerouac! 2024 Fall Festival
Oct. 10-14

Join Kerouac fans and scholars from across the United States and around the world at our annual festival, featuring tours of Kerouac’s Lowell places–including many sites described in his Lowell-based novels–panel discussions, readings, jazz music, films, open mic events, book signings, and more.

Highlights of this year’s festival include discussions of Kerouac’s poetic legacy and interest in Buddhism, and his novel Pic, a bus tour to the French Canadian cemetery where many of Kerouac’s family members were buried, and the annual appearance of legendary jazz man and Kerouac collaborator David Amram. See the full schedule.