NEW LOCATION SAME OUTDOOR FAMILY-FRIENDLY MUSIC FESTIVAL! 


WellsFest 2025 is moving down the street! Festival Chairs Anne Karges and Charles Araujo announced recently that WellsFest 2025 will be held at the Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum grounds located right across the parking lot from Jamie Fowler Boyll Park, where the festival has previously been held. The festival will also be held a week later this year – on Saturday, Oct. 4.


The planning committee made the decision to move after much deliberation over what would be the best location for the future as city parks in the metro area continue to cope with dying and falling pine trees impacted by disease and drought. We are so excited about the move and the advantages it brings including access to the whole museum at no charge for festival attendees, indoor restrooms, and electricity for the stages!


Mark your calendars now, and plan join us Saturday, October 4, for the best family-friendly music festival in Jackson! All proceeds go to this year’s beneficiary: The Jackson Free Clinic.


WellsFest 2025

Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025

9:30 a.m. — 4 p.m. 

FREE ADMISSION

The Grounds of the 
MISSISSIPPI AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY MUSEUM
Lakeland Drive in Jackson


BENEFITING THE
JACKSON FREE CLINIC



9:30 a.m. — Entire Festival Opens with Non-Stop Music on Two Stages


What began as a small church-sponsored afternoon of music 41 years ago is now one of Jackson’s major fall festivals with top musical talent on two stages, food trucks, children's activities, arts and crafts vendors, and more!

Since the festival began in 1984, WellsFest has raised more than $1.5 million for local non-profit agencies.


Although the festival is organized and put on by Wells United Methodist Church in partnership with community volunteers, all proceeds go to this year's beneficiary: The Jackson Free Clinic.


Click the links below to find out more about WellsFest 2025.

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WellsFest 2025 Beneficiary 

The beneficiary of WellsFest 2025 is the Jackson Free Clinic, a UMMC medical student-owned, student-run 501(c)(3) non-profit providing free medical, dental, vision, psychiatry, social health, and specialty medical services to uninsured persons in need in the Jackson metro area. 


The clinic serves the state's most vulnerable people while educating the next generation of compassionate health professionals in Mississippi. 


Learn more about the Jackson Free Clinic at https://www.jacksonfreeclinic.org.

Volunteer for WellsFest 2025!

WellsFest is grateful for the support of volunteers who make this event possible, and gladly provides certification of service for students and others who need community service hours.  

Please sign up HERE.


WellsFest Receives 2019 GIVE Award

WellsFest and its volunteers received the 2019 GIVE (Governor's Initiative for Volunteer Excellence) Award for outstanding achievement in community building. The GIVE Awards were established through the Office of the Governor and Volunteer Mississippi to recognize those individuals and organizations that have made an outstanding impact in their communities through their gifts of service, advocacy, and outreach on behalf of the citizens of Mississippi. Read more here.

We Appreciate Sponsors of WellsFest 2024!

WellsFest is grateful for the amazing sponsors that allow it to continue to present a fun, annual event that makes a difference in the community.


Atmos Energy

Brown, Ewing & Co, PA

Ergon

Fuse.Cloud

Golding Barge Line / Golding Foundation

Selby and Richard McRae Foundation

Jackson Advocate

LogoStoreUSA

Tony and Dian Parkinson

Mississippi Link

Paul Moak Subaru

Pigott Law Firm

Raymond James

Regions Bank

Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance

Stages Mississippi


Several anonymous individual donors