Best Classic Bands gathers info for festivals around the globe with their dates, locations and a sampling of the top classic rock acts that are scheduled to perform. Lineups are subject to change.

Links are generally for the festivals’ home page (in English, when available). If a festival is sold-out, you can also try StubHub.

October 2025

Oct 2-5 Aftershock Sacramento, CA with Blink-182, Deftones, Korn, Good Charlotte, Rob Zombie

Oct 3-5 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass San Francisco, CA with Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Emmylou Harris, Albert Lee, Rodney Crowell, Rosanne Cash, Patty Griffin, NIck Lowe & Los Straitjackets, Lucinda Williams, Shawn Colvin, Jeff Tweedy, Maria Muldaur

Oct 3-5 Field & Stream Music Fest Winnsboro, SC with ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Miranda Lambert, Eric Church

Oct 3-5 Moon Crush Avett Moon Miramar Beach, FL with the Avett Brothers, Larkin Poe, Asleep at the Wheel, Molly Tuttle, Sierra Ferrell

Oct 3-5, 10-12  Austin City Limits Music Festival Austin, TX with Hozier, Sabrina Carpenter, Luke Combs, the Strokes, Lucius

Oct 4-6 Gretna Fest Gretna, LA

Oct 8-11 King Biscuit Blues Festival Helena, AR

Oct 9-11 Rockin’ in Paradise Miramar Beach, FL with Styx, Cheap Trick, Loverboy, 38 Special, John Waite, Collective Soul

Oct 18 When We Were Young Las Vegas, NV with Panic at the Disco, Blink-182, Weezer, Avril Lavigne, The Offspring, Bad Religion, Simple Plan

Oct 24-26 Sunset Fest Cabo Cabo San Lucas, Mexico with Kenny Loggins, Rick Springfield, Alan Parsons, Christopher Cross, Ambrosia, Pablo Cruise, Al Stewart and the Empty Pockets, John Ford Coley, Walter Egan

Oct 25-26 Black Deer Festival Kent, UK

If a festival is sold-out, you can also try StubHub.

November

Nov 3-8 The Sands Cancun, Mexico with Holly Johnson, 38 Special, Tesla, Howard Jones, Taylor Dayne, the Tubes, Wang Chung, Lisa Lisa, Slaughter, Men Without Hats, Tommy Tutone

Nov 14-16 Corona Capital Festival Mexico City, Mexico with Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Linkin Park, Garbage, 4 Non Blondes, Deftones, Weezer, James, Alabama Shakes, Jet

Nov 13-16 HRH Prog 15 Great Yarmouth, UK with Asia featuring John Payne, Focus, Foghat

January 2026

Jan 9-13 Dead Ahead Riviera Cancun, Mexico with Bobby Weir, Sturgill Simpson, Oteil Burbridge, Brandi Carlile

Jan 16-19 30A Songwriters Festival Santa Rosa Beach, FL with Mavis Staples, 10,000 Maniacs, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Robyn Hitchcock, Benmont Tench, Livingston Taylor

Jan TBD Little Feat – Feat Camp Cancun, Mexico

Jan TBD Girls Just Wanna Weekend 7 TBA

February

March

Mar 26-29 Big Ears Knoxville, TN with Robert Plant and Saving Grace, David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, Richard Thompson, Don Was & the Pan-Detroit Ensemble

Mar TBD The Fest For Beatles Fans TBA

Mar 19-22 Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival Okeechobee, FL

April

Apr 2-5 Byron Bay Bluesfest Byron Bay, Australia

April 10-12 and 17-19 Coachella Indio, CA with Sabrina Carpenter, David Byrne, Devo, The Strokes, Justin Bieber, Iggy Pop

Apr 10-12 Joe Bonamassa’s Soundwave Beach Weekend Miramar Beach, FL with Joe Bonamassa, Gov’t Mule, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Little Feat, Samantha Fish

Apr TBD Sweetwater 420 Festival Atlanta, GA

If a festival is sold-out, you can also try StubHub.

Apr 18-19 High Water N. Charleston, SC with Alabama Shakes, Sheryl Crow, My Morning Jacket, Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers

Apr 23-25 Sun Sand and Soul Miramar Beach, FL Tedeschi Trucks Band, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Taj Mahal, Drive-By Truckers, the Mavericks

Apr 24-26 Stagecoach Festival Indio, CA

Apr TBD – May TBD New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival New Orleans, LA

Apr TBD Cheltenham Jazz Festival Cheltenham, UK

May

TBD Sunfest West Palm Beach, FL

May 1-3 Beachlife Redondo Beach, CA

May TBD Lovin’ Life Music Fest Charlotte, NC

May 7-10 Rockville Festival Daytona Beach, FL

May TBD M3 Rock Fest Columbia, MD

May 14-17 Sonic Temple Festival Columbus, OH

If a festival is sold-out, you can also try StubHub.

May TBD Brandi Carlile’s Mothership Weekend Miramar Beach, FL

May TBD Cruel World Pasadena, CA

May TBD Boardwalk Rock Ocean City, MD

May TBD Bearded Theory Festival Derbyshire, UK

May 21-24 Delfest Cumberland, MD

May TBD Abbey Road On the River Jeffersonville, IN

May 22-24 Bottlerock Napa, CA

May 2027 Boston Calling Boston, MA

May 22-24 Summer Camp Festival Chillicothe, IL

May TBD Greenwich Town Party Greenwich, CT

May TBD Railbird Lexington, KY

If a festival is sold-out, you can also try StubHub.

June

June 3-6 Sweden Rock Festival Solvesborg, Sweden

June TBD Governor’s Ball NYC

June 5-7 Rock am Ring Nuremberg, Germany with Linkin Park

June 5-7 Open Air Festival Nancy, France

June Hampton Court Palace Festival London, UK

June 11-14 Bonnaroo Manchester, TN

June TBD Firenze Rocks Florence, Italy

June TBD BBK Music Legends Festival Bilbao, Spain

June 10-14 Download Donington Park, UK

June – August Stern Grove Festival San Francisco, CA with free Sunday concerts

June TBD Nocturne Live Oxfordshire, UK

June 24-27 Copenhell Copenhagen, Denmark with Alice Cooper, Twisted Sister, Iron Maiden, Queensryche, Anthrax, The Pretty Reckless

June 18-20 Azkena Rock Festival Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

June 18-21 Isle of Wight Isle of Wight, UK

June 18-21 Graspop Dessel, Belgium

June 18-21 Hellfest Clisson, France

June 19-20 Holland International Blues Festival Grolloo, Netherlands

June TBD Mountain Jam Highmount, NY

June 19-21 Pinkpop Landgraaf, The Netherlands

June 19-27 Rochester International Jazz Festival Rochester, NY

June 20-21, 27-28 Rock In Rio Lisbon, Portugal with Linkin Park

June – July Lucca Summer Festival Lucca, Italy

June 22-24 INMusic Zagreb, Croatia

June TBD Glastonbury Pilton, Somerset, UK

June TBD Rock Imperium Festival Cartagena, Spain

June 24-27 Tons of Rock Halden, Norway

June 25-27 and July 2-4 Summerfest Milwaukee, WI

June 25-27 Blue Ox Music Festival Eau Claire, WI

June TBD Retro CTrop Tilloloy, France

June – July Carcassonne Festival Carcassonne, France

June TBD – July TBD Roskilde Festival Roskilde, Denmark

June TBD – July TBD Festival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Canada

June TBD Saratoga Jazz Festival Saratoga, NY

June TBD Peach Music Festival TBD

July

July TBD Open’er Gdynia, Poland

July 1-5 Lytham Festival Lancashire, UK

July 3-5 Rock Fest Barcelona, Spain

July 3-5 Love Supreme Jazz Festival Glynde Place, Sussex, UK

July TBD Rock Werchter Werchter, Belgium

July 4-19 Montreux Jazz Festival Montreux, Switzerland

July 4-19 Gent Jazz Ghent, Belgium

July 4 Lovely Days Eisenstadt, Austria with Foreigner, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band

July 9-19 Festival d’ete de Quebec Québec, Canada

July TBD Mad Cool Festival Madrid, Spain

July TBD Masters of Rock Vizovice, Czech Republic

July 10-12 North Sea Jazz Rotterdam, Netherlands

July TBD Let’s Rock – Shrewsbury – The Retro Festival UK

July 13-18 Jazz Open Stuttgart, Germany

July TBD Ottawa Bluesfest Lebreton Flats, Ottawa, Canada

July 10-12 Bospop Weert, Netherlands

July TBD Under the Big Sky Whitefish, MT

July TBD Pleasantville Music Festival Pleasantville, NY

July 16-18 Rock Fest Cadott, WI

July 18-19 Lollapalooza Berlin Berlin, Germany

If a festival is sold-out, you can also try StubHub.

July TBD Vieilles Charrues Carhaix, France

July TBD Lollapalooza Paris Paris, France

July TBD Kemptville Live Music Festival Kemptville, ON

July 21-26 Paleo Nyon, Switzerland

July TBD Floyd Fest Check, VA

July TBD Great South Bay Patchogue, NY

July 23-26 Red Ants Pants White Sulphur Springs, MT

July 23-26 Latitude Festival Suffolk, UK

July Cambridge Folk Festival Cambridge UK

July 24-26 Newport Folk Festival Newport, RI

July 24-26 Fuji Rock Festival Niigata Pref., Japan

July TBD Roots Rock Revival Big Indian, NY

July 29 – Aug 1 Wacken Open Air Wacken, Germany with Def Leppard, In Flames, Powerwolf, Savatage

July TBD Lollapalooza Chicago, IL

July 30 – Aug 2 Wickham Hampshire, UK

July TBD Notodden Blues Notodden, Norway

July TBD Mammoth Festival of Beers and Bluesapalooza Mammoth Lake, CA

July 31 – Aug 2 Newport Jazz Festival Newport, RI

August

Aug TBD Underneath the Stars South Yorkshire, UK (Was not held in 2025)

Aug TBD Lokerse Feesten Lokeren, Belgium

Aug TBD Party at the Palace Edinburgh, UK

Aug 5-8 Leyendas del Rock Villena, Spain with Helloween, Godsmack

Aug 13-15 Fairport Cropredy Convention Chipping Norton, UK

Aug 6-9 Kitchener Blues Festival Kitchener, ON

Aug TBD Edmonton Folk Music Festival Edmonton, AB, Canada

Aug 6-9 Bloodstock Walton-On-Trent, UK with Judas Priest, Lamb of God

Aug 7-9 Outside Lands Golden Gate Park, CA

If a festival is sold-out, you can also try StubHub.

Aug TBA The Fest for Beatles Fans Chicago, IL

Aug 7-9 Telluride Jazz Festival Telluride, CO

Aug TBD Rewind Festival: South Henley-on-Thames, UK

Aug TBD Folk In the Park Sutton, UK

Aug 27-30 Reading Festival Reading, UK

Aug 27-30 Leeds Festival Leeds, UK

Aug TBD Sunshine Music Festival Upton-Upon-Severn, UK

Aug 28-30 Car Fest Overton, Hampshire, UK

Aug 28-31 Shrewsbury Folk Festival Shrewsbury, UK

Aug TBD Great British R&B Festival Colne, UK

Aug TBD Etheridge Island Playa Mujeres, Mexico

Aug TBD Rocklahoma Pryor, OK

Aug TBD Jazz Aspen Snowmass Aspen, CO

Aug TBD Bumbershoot Seattle, WA

If a festival is sold-out, you can also try StubHub.

September

Sept 4-6 Rhythm & Roots Charlestown, RI

Sept 4-6 Moseley Folk & Arts Festival Birmingham, UK

Sept 4-7, 11-13 Rock in Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sep 10-13 Big Blues Bender Las Vegas, NV with Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal/Keb Mo, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Booker T Jones, Fabulous Thunderbirds

Sept TBD Annapolis Songwriters Festival Annapolis, MD

Sept TBD Americana Fest Nashville, TN

Sept 18-20 Telluride Blues & Brews Telluride, CO

Sept TBD SeaHearNow Asbury Park, NJ

Sept TBD Shaky Knees Atlanta, GA

Sept 18-20 Riot Fest Chicago, IL

If a festival is sold-out, you can also try StubHub.

Sept TBD Farm Aid TBA

Sept TBD Knotfest TBA

Sept 17-20 Louder Than Life Louisville, KY

Sept 24-27 Bourbon & Beyond Louisville, KY

Sept 26-28 Ohana Festival Dana Point, CA

Sep 26-28 Ocean’s Calling Ocean City, MD

Sept TBD Global Citizen Festival TBA

Sept TBD Pilgrimage Franklin, TN

Sept TBD Soundside Music Festival Bridgeport, CT