The Big List

Rising Nashville country act Dylan Wolfe plays a free set at Tin Roof's Hits the Roof series, which once featured Luke Combs before he was famous.

Raleigh's Caribbean carnival week wraps in a Saturday parade down a new downtown Fayetteville Street route, with mas bands, soca, and island food; watching the parade itself costs nothing.

Raleigh's long-running neighborhood gay bar — free karaoke Sundays and Mondays, drag shows, country dancing, cheap drinks. Come as you are; everyone does.