Tommy Bynum Heating & Cooling is the EXCLUSIVE Presenting Sponsor of Garibaldi Festival 2023!

The Gaston County Art Guild in partnership with City of Belmont is sponsoring a two-day Plein Air painting competition and wet paint sale during the Garibaldi Festival in downtown Belmont. The event will be focused on plein air paintings within the city limits of the scenic town of Belmont. This is a judged event with prizes totaling more than $2,000! Paintings will be hung in Stowe Park.

Coming Up Brass (CUB) is a 10 piece Dance & Variety band from near Charlotte, North Carolina. CUB has been entertaining in the Southeast since 1991 for festivals, reunions, parties, and wedding receptions. With 4 horns, 4 rhythm, and male and female vocals, CUB offers song selections in the tradition of the horn bands of the 70’s and 80’s. Plus … we give a big sound to Carolina Beach music, R&B, Motown, Rock, and Pop. You might even hear a country tune occasionally.

JazzGroupProject plays jazz standards that folks know and love, including swing, Latin, blues, and ragtime.

Catch a performance by Hood Memorial Gospel on the upper field of Stowe Park

Don't miss the finale of Garibaldi Festival, featuring Caleb Davis and The Album Series Band, a two album tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd.

As an extension of Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden's featured exhibit, the City of Belmont is “Opening Doors to Spring." Select pieces of the exhibit, created by art students at Highland School of Technology, illustrate iconic scenes from Belmont's past, present, and future. Under the direction of fine arts instructor, Marty Hutchins, students were asked to complete works inspired by Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden and Springtime. Not traditional works on canvas, but on doors that will greet Belmont residents and visitors at Garibaldi Festival, along with members and guests of Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden as they stroll the garden paths.