Casselberry After Dark: Food Truck Fridays, Jazz Festivals and iLLuminart
Second-Friday food trucks, spring jazz, a fall food and wine festival and illuminated sculpture nights — how Lake Concord Park became Casselberry's year-round event stage.
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Casselberry does not have a downtown. It has something better for a calendar: a nine-acre lakefront park behind City Hall that the city programs like a venue. Lake Concord Park has been Casselberry’s premier outdoor event space since 2010, and between the monthly food truck nights, the jazz festivals and the illuminated sculpture evenings, there is a version of the park for every season. This is the events chapter of our Casselberry hub.
Second Fridays: food trucks on the lake
The rhythm of the Casselberry calendar is monthly. On the second Friday of each month, the food truck event takes over Lake Concord Park in the early evening — around ten trucks spanning barbecue to Mexican to ice cream, live music on the amphitheater side, artisan vendors, and free admission and parking beside City Hall at 95 Triplet Lake Drive. It is the city’s standing block party: families picnic on the lawn, the sculpture garden becomes the stroll between courses, and the whole thing wraps by nine. If you attend one Casselberry event to understand the city, attend this one. The park itself is profiled in our Lake Concord Park guide.
The festival spine
Layered over the monthly rhythm is a festival year. Spring brings the Spring Jazz and Art Festival, a free evening of smooth-jazz headliners, food trucks and open galleries across the art campus. A Latin Jazz and Art Festival carries the same formula into another tradition. Earth Fest anchors the environmental end of the calendar, fitting for a city of thirty lakes. In the fall, the Casselberry Food and Wine Festival — an annual tasting event at the park that reached its fifteenth edition in 2025 — turns the lawn into a walk-around sampling of local restaurants and pours. Rock programming gets its own nights too, with rock shows staged on the lake under the Rock on Lake Concord banner.
Art after dark: iLLuminart
The most Casselberry-specific event is iLLuminart, the illuminated sculpture program centered on the Art House and Lake Concord Park. Temporary light installations join the permanent sculpture garden after dark, and the campus — Art House, Sculpture House, Arts Center, boardwalk and fountains — becomes a single glowing exhibition. It is the moment the city’s two identities, lakes and art, fully merge, and it draws the kind of crowd that a city this size is not supposed to be able to draw. The galleries behind it are covered in our art campus guide.
How to work the calendar
Three habits make Casselberry events easy. First, treat the second Friday as a standing appointment and check the city’s events page for the month’s music and truck lineup. Second, arrive by the City Hall lot and give yourself the Promenade side of the park as well — the expansion across the street adds fountains, a small amphitheater area and more sculpture to the evening circuit. Third, pair an event night with the corridor: dinner at Vinzo’s or a pour at Bowigens before or after turns a park event into a full Casselberry evening, as laid out in where to eat in Casselberry.
Dates and lineups shift with the seasons and the weather, so confirm the current schedule on the city’s calendar before you drive — then go. A free concert on a lake, under 150-year-old oaks, surrounded by sculpture: Casselberry’s event calendar is the argument that the city’s best room has no roof. Every venue mentioned sits on the Orlando Top Spots Map.
The calendar also has a civic layer worth knowing: the park hosts community fixtures through the year, from holiday lighting moments on the lawn to National Night Out gatherings at Secret Lake Park across the city. Even the off-season weeks tend to carry a gallery opening or a class showcase somewhere on the campus, which is the advantage of building your event venue around working art buildings rather than a bare stage.
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