Charivari Detroit festival celebrates 10 years this weekend

Plenty of pre- and after-parties are also planned to keep the music going

Aug 9, 2023 at 9:00 am

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Revelers at Charivari 2021.

For the past decade, Detroit’s Charivari festival has celebrated the city’s techno and house music, almost like a mini Movement Music Festival. (Its name is a nod to the local party crew Charivari, immortalized in the 1981 single “Sharevari” by A Number of Names, considered to be one of the first Detroit techno discs.)

It returns to Detroit’s Historic Fort Wayne this weekend with a lineup featuring local favorites like DJ Minx, Eddie Fowlkes, Rick Wilhite, Delano Smith, and many more.

With this year being a special anniversary and all, a variety of auxiliary events is planned, including a pre-party by Sauced and Found at the Tangent Gallery on Thursday, and after-parties at TV Lounge each night of the festival, among others.

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Everyone we saw partying at Charivari Detroit Music Festival 2022 at Fort Wayne

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