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Row 9 · November 2026
Lead: Dated November 2026, the town's documented live-entertainment scene is real, busy and entirely without a comedy line. Its anchor is Hometown Days, the late-July festival in Memorial Park — July 24–26 in the 2026 listings — billed across the South Bend Tribune's festival guide and the town's own schedule as family-friendly fun with Friday-night fireworks, a parade, games, competitions, a community church service and live music; a 2026 account of the summer's festival adds the food fair and a Wiffle Ball competition that draws competitors from a distance. Around it sit the Sugar Camp Days and Christmas-season events and the Stephen Vojtko Concert Series — a concert series, music again. In the listings searched for this row — the Tribune's 2026 festival and events guides, the festival directories, the town's event coverage — no open mic billed as comedy, no festival comedy set, no improv troupe seated in town and no named working comic of New Carlisle appears. The working comics of the county work the South Bend room named at Row 8. Printed at documented size: as of November 2026 the town has a working festival-and-music scene, and no working comedy scene that any listing records.
Sources:
- South Bend Tribune 2026 festival guide and July 20–26, 2026 events roundup: New Carlisle Hometown Days, July 24–26, Memorial Park — fireworks, parade, live music, games; schedule at hometowndays.net.
- 2026 Hometown Days account (Platform Books, August 25, 2026): parade, food fair, Wiffle Ball competition; Amazon support for Hometown Days and Christmas events noted.
- Real-estate and festival listings naming the town's event calendar (Hometown Days, Sugar Camp Days, Stephen Vojtko Concert Series) — music and community events; no comedy listing returned.