The temple celebrates Hanuman Jayanti with religious fervor and organizes a five-day festival of classical music and dance. Iconic musicians and artists from across the country take part in this overnight music festival that has been continuing since 1923. For every musician it is a cherished to dream to perform at Sankat Mochan Music festival. Most of the top musicians and dance exponents like Pt Jasraj, Pt Birju Maharaj, Odissi guru Kelucharan Mahapatra and many other performed in temple's premises. Nandini Majumdar in ‘Why the Sankat Mochan Music Festival in Banaras is so special’ writes:
“A festival like Sankat Mochan – in which artists perform for free, citing their devotion to Hanuman as a reason for doing so, in which ordinary people turn up in the hundreds all night long to listen to ‘classical’ music, and in which the overall ethos is one of the intimate, the humble and the humane – is an example of living, practiced, everyday bhakti that is quite amazing to witness, and is a striking reminder of how it continues to infuse life for many in India’s smaller places with meaning.”