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.

November 2026

Nov 20-22 Corona Capital Festival Mexico City, Mexico with Gorillaz, Mumford & Sons, Twenty One Pilots, The Strokes, The Offspring

Nov 12-15 HRH Prog 16 Great Yarmouth, UK with Oliver Wakeman

January 2027

Jan 12-18 30A Songwriters Festival Santa Rosa Beach, FL with Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Dawes, St. Paul & the Broken Bones, Booker T. Jones, Larkin Poe, Tommy Emmanuel

Jan 14-18 Girls Just Wanna Weekend 7 Riviera Maya, Mexico with Brandi Carlile, Kelly Clarkson, Lucius

March

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

April

Apr 1-4 Big Ears Knoxville, TN with Nathaniel Rateliff, Norah Jones, Mavis Staples, Courtney Barnett, Jeff Tweedy, Natalie Merchant with Erik Della Penna, Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal

Apr TBD Byron Bay Bluesfest Byron Bay, Australia (2026 event was canceled)

Apr 9-11 The Fest For Beatles Fans Meadowlands, NJ

April 9-11 and 16-18 Coachella Indio, CA with Dua Lipa, Madonna, Tame Impala, SZA, Giorgio Moroder, Phoebe Bridgers, Weezer, the Damned

Apr 9-11 Joe Bonamassa’s Soundwave Beach Weekend Miramar Beach, FL with Joe Bonamassa, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Los Lonely Boys

Apr 10-11 Pilgrimage Franklin, TN

Apr 24-25 Sweetwater 420 Festival Atlanta, GA

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

Apr 17-18 High Water N. Charleston, SC with Jack Johnson, Death Cab For Cutie, Mt. Joy

Apr 15-17 Sun Sand and Soul Miramar Beach, FL with Tedeschi Trucks Band, Earth, Wind & FIre, Lukas Nelson, Samantha Fish, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the Wailers

Apr 23-25 Stagecoach Festival Indio, CA with Willie Nelson & Family, Garth Brooks, Journey, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Kelly Clarkson, Pitbull, Turnpike Troubadours, Matchbox Twenty, David Lee Roth, Melissa Etheridge, RIley Green, Brothers Osborne

Apr 22 – May 2 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival New Orleans, LA

Apr TBD Austin Blues Festival Austin, TX

Apr 28 – May 3 Cheltenham Jazz Festival Cheltenham, UK

Apr 30 – May 2 Beachlife Redondo Beach, CA

Apr 30 – May 2 Frontiers Rock Festival Milan, Italy with Lita Ford

May

May TBD Lovin’ Life Music Fest Charlotte, NC

May 6-9 Rockville Festival Daytona Beach, FL

May TBD M3 Rock Fest Columbia, MD

May 13-16 Sonic Temple Festival Columbus, OH

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

May TBD Cruel World Pasadena, CA

May 14-16 Boardwalk Rock Ocean City, MD with Iron Maiden, Korn, Alice in Chains, Judas Priest, Cypress Hill, Slash ftg Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators

May 14-16 Legends of Rock Expo Las Vegas, NV with Gene Simmons

May 26-30 Bearded Theory Festival Derbyshire, UK

May 27-30 Delfest Cumberland, MD

May TBD Summer Camp Festival Chillicothe, IL (2026 event was canceled)

May 27-31 Abbey Road On the River Jeffersonville, IN

May 28-30 Bottlerock Napa, CA

May TBD Sunset Fest Cabo Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

May 29 Greenwich Town Party Greenwich, CT

June

June 4-6 Boston Calling Boston, MA

June TBD Governor’s Ball NYC

June 4-6 Rock am Ring Nuremberg, Germany with Blink-182, Simple Plan

June 4-6 Open Air Festival Nancy, France with Helloween, Marilyn Manson, Slash ft Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators

June TBD Railbird Lexington, KY

June – July Lucca Summer Festival Lucca, Italy with Santana, Toto, Mariah Carey, Muse, Simply Red, Take That

June 9-12 Sweden Rock Festival Solvesborg, Sweden with Motley Crue, Queens of the Stone Age, Alice Cooper, Europe, Accept, Bad Religion

June Hampton Court Palace Festival London, UK

June 2028 Bonnaroo Manchester, TN

June 9-13 Download Donington Park, UK with Blink-182, Motley Crue, Evanescence, Faith No More, 5 Seconds of Summer, Primus

June TBD Firenze Rocks Florence, Italy

June TBD Nocturne Live Oxfordshire, UK

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

June 17-19 Azkena Rock Festival Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain with Bad Religion, Patti Smith Quartet, Wilco, Slash ft Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, Dave Alvin & the Guilty Ones, Billy Bragg, the Waterboys

June 17-20 Isle of Wight Isle of Wight, UK

June 17-20 Graspop Dessel, Belgium with Motley Crue, Faith No More, Blink-182

June 17-20 Hellfest Clisson, France

June TBD Holland International Blues Festival Grolloo, Netherlands

June TBD Mountain Jam Highmount, NY

June 18-20 Pinkpop Landgraaf, The Netherlands with Blink-182, Mumford & Sons, Sting, 5 Seconds of Summer, Kacey Musgraves, The Neighbourhood

June 18-26 Rochester International Jazz Festival Rochester, NY

June 17-18, 24-25, 2028 Rock In Rio Lisbon, Portugal

June 23-26 Copenhell Copenhagen, Denmark with Marilyn Manson, Primus, Sublime

June 23-27 Glastonbury Pilton, Somerset, UK

June 27-29 INMusic Zagreb, Croatia with The Neighbourhood

June 23-26 Tons of Rock Halden, Norway with Motley Crue, Scorpions, Judas Priest, Faith No More, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Slash ft Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators

June 24-26, July 1-3 and July 8-10 Summerfest Milwaukee, WI with Mumford & Sons, Death Cab for Cutie, My Morning Jacket, Foreigner, Zac Brown Band

June 24-26 Blue Ox Music Festival Eau Claire, WI

June TBD BBK Music Legends Festival Bilbao, Spain

June 18-20 State Fayre Chelmsford, UK

June TBD Retro CTrop Tilloloy, France

June – July Carcassonne Festival Carcassonne, France with Chris Isaak

June 26 – July 3 Roskilde Festival Roskilde, Denmark with Tame Impala, Patti Smith Quartet, Kacey Musgraves

June TBD Festival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Canada

June TBD Saratoga Jazz Festival Saratoga, NY

June TBD Peach Music Festival TBD

June 30 – July 3 Open’er Gdynia, Poland with Tame Impala, Patti Smith Quartet, the Neighbourhood, Suki Waterhouse, 5 Seconds of Summer

June 30 – July 4 Lytham Festival Lancashire, UK with Robbie Williams, Kings of Leon, Bastille, Fatboy Slim

June 30 – July 11 Jazz Open Stuttgart Stuttgart, Germany

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

July

July 1-4 Rock Fest Barcelona, Spain

July 2-4 Love Supreme Jazz Festival Glynde Place, Sussex, UK

July 2-4 Rock Imperium Festival Cartagena, Spain with Helloween

July 1-4 Rock Werchter Werchter, Belgium with Tame Impala, the Neighbourhood, Massive Attack, Muse

July 2-17 Montreux Jazz Festival Montreux, Switzerland

July 1-17 Gent Jazz Ghent, Belgium with Robert Plant with Saving Grace, Joe Bonamassa

July 3 Lovely Days Eisenstadt, Austria with Lynyrd Skynyrd, 10cc, the Devon Allman Project, Ten Years After

July TBD Mad Cool Festival Madrid, Spain

July 7-11 Henley Festival Henley on Thames, UK

July TBD Festival d’ete de Quebec Québec, Canada

July 9-11 North Sea Jazz Rotterdam, Netherlands

July TBD Ottawa Bluesfest Lebreton Flats, Ottawa, Canada

July 9-11 Bospop Weert, Netherlands

July 10 Ozzfest UK Milton Keynes, UK with TBA

July TBD Pleasantville Music Festival Pleasantville, NY

July TBD TW Classic Werchter, Belgium

July 17-25 Jazz Open Modena Modena, Italy

July TBD Masters of Rock Vizovice, Czech Republic

July 15-17 Rock Fest Cadott, WI

July 16-18 Under the Big Sky Whitefish, MT with Zach Bryan, Kacey Musgraves, Nathaniel Rateliff, Brandon Flowers

July 17-18 Lollapalooza Berlin Berlin, Germany

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

July 15-18 Vieilles Charrues Carhaix, France with Muse

July TBD Lollapalooza Paris Paris, France

July 19-25 Paleo Nyon, Switzerland

July TBD Floyd Fest Check, VA

July TBD Great South Bay Patchogue, NY

July TBD Red Ants Pants White Sulphur Springs, MT

July 22-25 Latitude Festival Suffolk, UK

July 23-25 Newport Folk Festival Newport, RI

July 23-25 Fuji Rock Festival Niigata Pref., Japan

July TBD Roots Rock Revival Big Indian, NY

July 28-31 Wacken Open Air Wacken, Germany

July TBD Lollapalooza Chicago, IL

July TBD Wickham Hampshire, UK

July TBD Notodden Blues Notodden, Norway

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

July 30 – Aug 1 Newport Jazz Festival Newport, RI

July TBD Lokerse Feesten Lokeren, Belgium

August

Aug TBD Cambridge Folk Festival Cambridge UK

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

Aug 7-8 Party at the Palace Edinburgh, UK

Aug 11-14 Leyendas del Rock Villena, Spain

Aug 12-14 Fairport Cropredy Convention Chipping Norton, UK

Aug TBD Kitchener Blues Festival Kitchener, ON

Aug 6-9 Edmonton Folk Music Festival Edmonton, AB, Canada

Aug 5-8 Bloodstock Walton-On-Trent, UK

Aug 6-8 Outside Lands Golden Gate Park, CA

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

Aug TBD The Fest for Beatles Fans Chicago, IL

Aug 13-14 Telluride Jazz Festival Telluride, CO

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

Aug TBD Folk in the Park Sutton, UK (wasn’t held in 2026)

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

Aug 26-29 Reading Festival Reading, UK

Aug 26-29 Leeds Festival Leeds, UK

Aug TBD Car Fest Overton, Hampshire, UK

Aug 27-30 Shrewsbury Folk Festival Shrewsbury, UK

Aug TBD Great British R&B Festival Colne, UK

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

September 2026

Sept 3-5 Rhythm & Roots Charlestown, RI

Sept 3-5 Rocklahoma Pryor, OK

Sept 3-5 Moseley Folk & Arts Festival Birmingham, UK

Sept 2028 Rock in Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sept 4-5 Bumbershoot Seattle, WA

Sep 11 Ozzfest US San Bernardino, CA with TBA

Sept 9-12 Big Blues Bender Las Vegas, NV with Tedeschi Trucks Band, Samantha Fish, Tab Benoit

Sept TBD Annapolis Songwriters Festival Annapolis, MD

Sept 14-18 Americana Fest Nashville, TN

Sept TBD Louder Than Life Louisville, KY

Sept 17-19 Telluride Blues & Brews Telluride, CO

Sept 17-19 Riot Fest Chicago, IL

Sept TBD Grand Point North Burlington, VT

Sept 18 Ozzfest Mexico City, MX with TBD

Sept 18-19 Annapolis Baygrass Music Festival Annapolis, MD

Sept TBD SeaHearNow Asbury Park, NJ

Sept TBD Shaky Knees Atlanta, GA

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

Sept TBD Farm Aid Virginia Beach, VA

Sept TBD Knotfest TBA

Sept TBD Bourbon & Beyond Louisville, KY

Sept TBD Ohana Festival Dana Point, CA

Sep TBD Ocean’s Calling Ocean City, MD

Sept TBD Global Citizen Festival TBA

Sep 30 – Oct 3 Aftershock Sacramento, CA

October

Oct TBD  Austin City Limits Music Festival Austin, TX

Oct 8-10 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass San Francisco, CA

Oct 21-23 Moon Crush Avett Moon Miramar Beach, FL

Oct TBD Power to the People, Columbia, MD

Oct TBD Gretna Fest Gretna, LA

Oct 7-9 Rockin’ in Paradise With Styx Miramar Beach, FL with Styx, Chicago, 38 Special, Tesla, Don Felder, Marshall Tucker Band, the Outlaws, Edwin McCain. Hosted by Eddie Trunk

Oct TBD King Biscuit Blues Festival Helena, AR

Oct TBD When We Were Young Las Vegas, NV

Nov 1-6 The Sands Cancun, Mexico

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