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.

August 2026

Aug 1-3 Newport Jazz Festival Newport, RI with The Roots, Janelle Monae, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Dianne Reeves, Esperanza Spalding, De La Soul, Ron Carter Quartet

Aug 1-3 Northern Kin Festival Durham, UK with Michael Schenker, Midge Ure, the Undertones

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

Aug 1-10 Lokerse Feesten Lokeren, Belgium with Smashing Pumpkins, Goose, Pet Shop Boys, Sex Pistols

Aug 2-3 Party at the Palace Edinburgh, UK with Squeeze, Boney M

Aug 6-9 Leyendas del Rock Villena, Spain with Powerwolf

Aug 7-9 Fairport Cropredy Convention Chipping Norton, UK with the Trevor Horn Band, Martin Barre, Albert Lee

Aug 7-10 Kitchener Blues Festival Kitchener, ON with Burton Cummings

Aug 7-10 Edmonton Folk Music Festival Edmonton, AB, Canada with Taj Mahal, the Roots

Aug 7-11 Bloodstock Walton-On-Trent, UK with Mastodon, Ministry

Aug 8-10 Outside Lands Golden Gate Park, CA with Tyler the Creator, Hozier, Vampire Weekend, Ludacris

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

Aug 8-10 The Fest for Beatles Fans Chicago, IL with Peter Asher, Simon Kirke, Billy J. Kramer, Jenny Boyd, Jim McCarty

Aug 8-10 Telluride Jazz Festival Telluride, CO with Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue

Aug 15-17 Rewind Festival: South Henley-on-Thames, UK with Soft Cell, ABC, Cutting Crew, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, Wang Chung, Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey

Aug 16 Folk In the Park Sutton, UK with Richard Thompson, Tom Robinson Band

Aug 21-24 Reading Festival Reading, UK with Hozier, Limp Bizkit

Aug 21-24 Leeds Festival Leeds, UK with Hozier, Limp Bizkit

Aug 21-24 Sunshine Music Festival Upton-Upon-Severn, UK with Adam Ant, Lulu, Toyah, Haircut 100

Aug 22-24 Car Fest Overton, Hampshire, UK with Squeeze, Madness

Aug 22-25 Shrewsbury Folk Festival Shrewsbury, UK

Aug TBD Beach Road Weekend Cape Cod, MA

Aug 22-24 Great British R&B Festival Colne, UK

Aug TBD Etheridge Island Playa Mujeres, Mexico

Aug 29-31 Rocklahoma Pryor, OK with Five Finger Death Punch, Bruce Dickinson, Alice Cooper, Tom Morello

Aug 29-31 Rhythm & Roots Charlestown, RI with Little Feat, Steve Earle, Asleep at the Wheel, Molly Tuttle

Aug 29-31 Moseley Folk & Arts Festival Birmingham, UK with the Waterboys, Mercury Rev, Peter Doherty

Aug 29-31 Jazz Aspen Snowmass Aspen, CO with Imagine Dragons, Lenny Kravitz, Luke Combs

Aug 30-31 Bumbershoot Seattle, WA with Weezer

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

September

Sep 4-7 Big Blues Bender Las Vegas, NV with Larkin Poe, The Mavericks, the Teskey Brothers, Tab Benoit, Walter Trout, Devon Allman’s Blues Summit

Sept TBD Lollapalooza Berlin Berlin, Germany

Sept 11-14 Annapolis Songwriters Festival Annapolis, MD

Sept 9-13 Americana Fest Nashville, TN

Sept 11-14 Bourbon & Beyond Louisville, KY with Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band, Pat Benatar & Neil Girlado, Phish, Jack White, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Nightsweats, Marc Cohn, Foreigner, the Lumineers, Alabama Shakes, Joe Bonamassa, Collective Soul, Blues Traveler, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Gin Blossoms, Dawes, Robert Cray Band, John Waite, Marshall Crenshaw, NRBQ

Sept 12-14 Telluride Blues & Brews Telluride, CO with the Black Crowes, Lukas Nelson, Samantha Fish, Devon Allman’s Blues Summit

Sept TBD Rock in Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sept 13-14 SeaHearNow Asbury Park, NJ with ZZ Top, Hozier, Lenny Kravitz, Blink-182, UB40, Alabama Shakes, De La Soul, Spoon, 4 Non Blondes, Public Enemy

Sept 19-21 Shaky Knees Atlanta, GA with Deftones, Lenny Kravitz, the Black Keys, Blink-182, Alabama Shakes, Pixies, My Chemical Romance, 4 Non Blondes, Devo

Sept 19-21 Riot Fest Chicago, IL with Green Day, Weezer, the Beach Boys, Jack White, Dropkick Murphys, Blink-182, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Sparks, Hanson, Bad Religion, James

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

Sept 20 Farm Aid Minneapolis, MN with Willie Nelson and Family, Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews & TIm Reynolds, Margo Price, Billy Strings, Nathaniel Ratelif & the Night Sweats

Sept TBD Knotfest TBA

Sept 18-21 Louder Than Life Louisville, KY with Slayer, Deftones, Avenged Sevenfold, Rob Zombie, Lamb of God

Sept 26-28 Ohana Festival Dana Point, CA with Eddie Vedder, Kings of Leon, Green Day, Hozier, James, Garbage, Lukas Nelson, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Margo Price

Sep 26-28 Ocean’s Calling Ocean City, MD with Green Day, Lenny Kravitz, Fall Out Boy, Weezer, Train, Devo, the Black Crowes, Collective Soul, En Vogue, Ziggy Marley, 4 Non Blondes, Michelle Branch

Sept TBD Global Citizen Festival TBA

Sept 27-28 Pilgrimage Franklin, TN with John Mayer (Full band), Kings of Leon, Grace Potter, Better Than Ezra

Sept 27-28 (Cancelled) Soundside Music Festival Bridgeport, CT with the Killers, Weezer, Hozier, Vampire Weekend

October

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

Oct 3-5 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass San Francisco, CA

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 TBD Moon Crush “Cowboy Moon” Miramar Beach, FL

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 TBD Corona Capital Festival Mexico City, Mexico

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 Melissa Etheridge, Devon Allman Project, the Jayhawks

Jan TBD Little Feat – Feat Camp Cancun, Mexico

Jan TBD Girls Just Wanna Weekend 7 TBA

February

March

Mar TBD Big Ears Knoxville, TN

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

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 Stagecoach Festival Indio, CA

Apr TBD Sweetwater 420 Festival Atlanta, GA

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

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 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 TBD 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 Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, UK

June TBD Copenhell Copenhagen, Denmark

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

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

June TBD 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 and July TBD Summerfest Milwaukee, WI

June 22-24 INMusic Zagreb, Croatia

June TBD Glastonbury Pilton, Somerset, UK

June TBD Rock Imperium Festival Cartagena, Spain

June TBD Blue Ox Music Festival Eau Claire, WI

June 24-27 Tons of Rock Halden, Norway

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

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