Buddy Guy brings his 90th birthday tour to the Kravis Center on Saturday, Oct. 24, the Norton Museum of Art marks the harvest moon with taiko drummers on Friday, and the South Florida Fairgrounds runs two Halloween events at once, one for small children in costume and one for haunted-house crowds after dark. Here is what is on in West Palm Beach from Oct. 19 to 25, 2026, with times, prices and where to park.

Thursday: Clematis by Night Brings R&B to the Waterfront

The city's weekly concert series on the downtown waterfront continues Thursday, Oct. 22, from 6 to 9 p.m., with the Dee Dee Wilde Band playing R&B and Top 40 on Centennial Square and the Great Lawn at the foot of Clematis Street. The format has not changed: bring a lawn chair or a blanket, find a spot on the grass facing the Intracoastal, and pick up dinner along Clematis before or after. The city's listing names no ticket for the show.

The series runs every Thursday through Dec. 31, 2026, with two nights off, Nov. 26 for Thanksgiving and Dec. 24. One week later, on Oct. 29, the same lawn turns into Clematis by FRIGHT, a free family Halloween night with hayrides, inflatable games and trick-or-treating from 6 to 9 p.m.

Friday: Moon-Viewing Night at the Norton

The Norton Museum of Art at 1450 S. Dixie Highway stays open until 10 p.m. every Friday for Art After Dark, and this Friday, Oct. 23, the theme is Tsukimi, the Japanese tradition of viewing the autumn harvest moon. The evening runs from 5 to 10 p.m. and includes traditional Japanese treats served outdoors and a performance by Fushu Daiko, a South Florida taiko drumming ensemble founded in 1990 by Yoshiko and Charles Cane, who began building their own drums at home in Plantation. The group has played in Germany, Brazil, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and at the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C.

The rest of the night follows the usual Friday pattern. Docents lead 30-minute highlights tours at 5:30 and 7 p.m. (limited to 25 people each, with wristbands handed out at the membership table an hour ahead), and an open studio from 6 to 9 p.m. lets visitors of any age make art with local teaching artists, materials included. The ArtSpeaks talk features Roxane Ilias, a doctoral fellow at the Sorbonne, on painter Ralph Coburn and how painting changed after World War II.

Admission during Art After Dark is $10 for adults and seniors, $5 for students and free for members. Parking is across the street at 1501 S. Dixie Highway for $3 an hour, with a three-hour maximum. Two exhibitions are also on view: Chang Dai-chien: A Master of Modern Chinese Painting, three early works by the 20th-century painter on view through Jan. 30, 2027, and Cursed Images: Pictures Out of Context, a set of anonymous vernacular snapshots from the Peter J. Cohen Collection, which closes Nov. 1, 2026.

Friday to Sunday: Two Halloweens at the Fairgrounds

Out west at the South Florida Fairgrounds, 9067 Southern Blvd., the season splits by age. Spookyville in Yesteryear Village is the family version: trick-or-treating among the village's historic buildings, live entertainment and costume parades on Sundays. It runs Friday, Oct. 23, from 5 to 9 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 24 and 25, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Admission is $10 for adults and $15 for children, with a family package of two adults and two children for $45. Children 1 and under get in free, and the gates close half an hour before the event ends.

After dark, Fright Nights takes over the fairgrounds Thursday through Saturday. The haunted house event, which began on Clematis Street more than 23 years ago before moving out to the fairgrounds, now fills the 25,000-square-foot Agriplex with indoor haunts and adds a midway of rides, games and food on the south lot, with more than 150 scare actors and volunteers. Hours are 6 to 11 p.m. on Thursdays and 6 p.m. to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, with haunts opening at 7 p.m. General admission is $48.50 and includes 40 Fright Credits for haunts and rides. Parking is $10, card only, through Gate 8 off Fairgrounds Road.

Saturday: Buddy Guy 90 at the Kravis Center

Buddy Guy 90 plays Saturday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Alexander W. Dreyfoos Concert Hall at the Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd. The tour marks the guitarist's 90th year. Guy came up in Chicago's West Side blues scene and has since collected nine Grammy Awards plus a Lifetime Achievement Grammy, a Kennedy Center Honor, the National Medal of Arts and induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Opening the night is Selwyn Birchwood, a Florida blues guitarist and singer. Tickets are sold through the Kravis Center box office and website, with paid self-parking and valet on site.

The details

  • Thursday, Oct. 22: Clematis by Night with the Dee Dee Wilde Band, 6 to 9 p.m., Centennial Square and Great Lawn, downtown waterfront.
  • Friday, Oct. 23: Art After Dark: Tsukimi, 5 to 10 p.m., Norton Museum of Art, 1450 S. Dixie Highway; $10 adults, $5 students.
  • Oct. 23 to 25: Spookyville in Yesteryear Village, South Florida Fairgrounds, 9067 Southern Blvd.; $10 adults, $15 children, $45 family package.
  • Thursday to Saturday nights: Fright Nights, South Florida Fairgrounds, Gate 8; $48.50 general admission.
  • Saturday, Oct. 24: Buddy Guy 90 with Selwyn Birchwood, 7:30 p.m., Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd.

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