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

Nov 1-3 Moon Crush “Cowboy Moon” Miramar Beach, FL with Little Feat, Lyle Lovett & His Large Band, Jason Isbell, The Mavericks

Nov 4-9 The Sands Cancun, Mexico with Bret Michaels, The Fixx, the English Beat, Ace Frehley, Level 42, Lou Gramm, Billy Ocean, John Cafferty, Young MC, Cherie Currie

Nov 15-17 Corona Capital Festival Mexico City, Mexico with Paul McCartney, Green Day, Toto, Queens of the Stone Age, Beck, Iggy Pop

January 2025

Jan 9-13 Dead Ahead Riviera Cancun, Mexico with Bobby Weir, Sturgill Simpson, Oteil Burbridge, Don Was and very special guest Brandi Carlile

Jan 10-12 Harvest Nights Charity Music Festival Immokalee, FL with Def Leppard, Train, Don Felder, Tesla, Brad Paisley

Jan 16-20 30A Songwriters Festival Santa Rosa Beach, FL with Melissa Etheridge, the Devon Allman Project, Amos Lee, the Jayhawks

Jan TBD Little Feat – Feat Camp Cancun, Mexico

Jan 16-20 Girls Just Wanna Weekend 5 Riviera Maya, Mexico with Brandi Carlile, Shania Twain, Lucius

February

March

Mar 27-30 Big Ears Knoxville, TN with Anoushka Shankar, Bill Frisell, Rufus Wainwright

Mar 28-30 The Fest For Beatles Fans Jersey City, NJ

April

April 11-13 and 18-20 Coachella Indio, CA with Lady Gaga, Green Day, the Go-Go’s, Charli XCX, Post Malone, Missy Elliott, Kraftwerk, Megan Thee Stallion

Apr 12 Sick New World Las Vegas, NV with Metallica, Linkin Park, Queens of the Stone Age, Evanescence, Ministry, The Flaming Lips, The Sisters of Mercy

Apr 17-20 Byron Bay Bluesfest Byron Bay, Australia with Crowded House, Gary Clark Jr.

Apr 25-27 Stagecoach Festival Indio, CA with Zach Bryan, Sammy Hagar, Jelly Roll, Luke Combs, Lana Del Ray, Goo Goo Dolls

Apr 18-20 Sweetwater 420 Festival Atlanta, GA

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

Apr 24 – May 4 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival New Orleans, LA

Apr 30 – May 5 Cheltenham Jazz Festival Cheltenham, UK

May

May TBD Sunfest West Palm Beach, FL

May TBD Shaky Knees Atlanta, GA

May TBD Beale Street Memphis, TN

May 2-4 Beachlife Redondo Beach, CA

May 2-4 Lovin’ Life Music Fest Charlotte, NC

May 8-11 Sonic Temple Festival Columbus, OH with Metallica, Linkin Park, Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper, Korn, Incubus, Alice in Chains

May TBD M3 Rock Fest Columbia, MD

May 15-18 Rockville Festival Daytona Beach, FL

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

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

May 17 Cruel World Pasadena, CA with The Go-Go’s, New Order, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Devo, OMD, Madness, Til Tuesday, Alison Moyet, Garbage

May 21-25 Bearded Theory Festival Derbyshire, UK

May 22-25 Delfest Cumberland, MD

May 22-26 Abbey Road On the River Jeffersonville, IN

May TBD Bottlerock Napa, CA

May TBD Boston Calling Boston, MA

May TBD Summer Camp Festival Chillicothe, IL

May TBD Greenwich Town Party Greenwich, CT

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

June

June TBD Railbird Lexington, KY

June 6-8 Rock am Ring Nuremberg, Germany

June 4-7 Sweden Rock Festival Solvesborg, Sweden

June TBD Governor’s Ball  NYC

June TBD Hampton Court Palace Festival London, UK

June 12-15 Bonnaroo Manchester, TN

June TBD BBK Music Legends Festival Bilbao, Spain

June 13-15 Download Donington Park, UK

June TBD Black Deer Festival Kent, UK

June 18-22 Nocturne Live Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, UK

June TBD Copenhell Copenhagen, Denmark

June 19-21 Azkena Rock Festival Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

June 19-22 Isle of Wight Isle of Wight, UK

June 19-22 Graspop Dessel, Belgium

June 20-21 Holland International Blues Festival Grolloo, Netherlands

June TBD Pinkpop Landgraaf, The Netherlands

June TBD Firenze Rocks Florence, Italy

June TBD Open Air Festival Nancy, France

June TBD Glastonbury Pilton, Somerset, UK

June TBD Rochester International Jazz Festival Rochester, NY

June TBD Hellfest Clisson, France

June 2026 Rock In Rio Lisbon, Portugal

June – July Lucca Summer Festival Lucca, Italy

June TBD INMusic Zagreb, Croatia

June and July TBD Summerfest Milwaukee, WI

June 26-29 Rock Imperium Festival Cartagena, Spain

June 26-29 Rock Fest Barcelona, Spain with Scorpions, Judas Priest

June TBD Blue Ox Music Festival Eau Claire, WI

June 25-28 Tons of Rock Halden, Norway

June TBD Retro CTrop Tilloloy, France

June TBD Carcassonne Festival Carcassonne, France

June – July TBD Roskilde Festival Roskilde, Denmark

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

June TBD Saratoga Jazz Festival Saratoga, NY

June TBD Peach Music Festival Atlantic City, NJ

July

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

July 2-5 Open’er Gdynia, Poland

July 2-6 Lytham Festival Lancashire, UK

July 2-13 Jazz Open Stuttgart, Germany

July 3-13 Festival d’ete de Quebec Québec, Canada

July TBD Main Square Arras, France

July TBD Rock Werchter Werchter, Belgium

July TBD Montreux Jazz Festival Montreux, Switzerland

July 4-6 Love Supreme Jazz Festival Glynde Place, Sussex, UK

July 5 Lovely Days Eisenstadt, Austria with Mothers’ Day, Slade, The Sweet

July TBD Mad Cool Festival Madrid, Spain

July TBD Masters of Rock Vizovice, Czech Republic

July 11-13 North Sea Jazz Rotterdam, Netherlands

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

July TBD Ottawa Bluesfest Lebreton Flats, Ottawa

July 11-13 Bospop Weert, Netherlands

July 18-20 Under the Big Sky Whitefish, MT with Mumford & Sons, Wynonna Judd, Tyler Childers

July TBD Pleasantville Music Festival Pleasantville, NY

July 17-19 Rock Fest Cadott, WI

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

July TBD Vieilles Charrues Carhaix, France

July TBD Forever Young Festival Kildare, Ireland

July TBD Summer Fog Festival Katowice, Poland

July TBD Great South Bay Patchogue, NY

July 18-20 Lollapalooza Paris Paris, France

July TBD Kemptville Live Music Festival Kemptville, ON

July TBD Rewind: Scotland Perth, UK

July 22-27 Paleo Nyon, Switzerland

July TBD Floyd Fest Check, VA

July 24-27 Red Ants Pants White Sulphur Springs, MT

July 24-27 Latitude Festival Suffolk, UK

July TBD Cambridge Folk Festival Cambridge UK

July 25-27 Newport Folk Festival Newport, RI

July TBD Fuji Rock Festival Niigata Pref., Japan

July TBD Roots Rock Revival Big Indian, NY

July 30 – Aug 2 Wacken Open Air Wacken, Germany

July 31 – Aug 3 Wickham Hampshire, UK

July 31 – Aug 3 Notodden Blues Notodden, Norway

August

Aug TBD Lollapalooza Chicago, IL

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

Aug 1-3 Newport Jazz Festival Newport, RI

Aug 1-3 Northern Kin Festival Durham, UK

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

Aug 1-10 Lokerse Feesten Lokeren, Belgium

Aug TBD Leyendas del Rock Villena, Spain

Aug 7-9 Fairport Cropredy Convention Chipping Norton, UK

Aug TBD Edmonton Folk Music Festival Edmonton, AB, Canada

Aug 7-11 Bloodstock Walton-On-Trent, UK

Aug 8-10 Outside Lands Golden Gate Park, CA

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

Aug 8-10 The Fest for Beatles Fans Chicago, IL

Aug 8-10 Telluride Jazz Festival Telluride, CO

Aug TBD Party at the Palace Edinburgh, UK

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

Aug TBD Folk In the Park Sutton, UK

Aug 21-24 Reading Festival Reading, UK

Aug 21-24 Leeds Festival Leeds, UK

Aug 21-24 Sunshine Music Festival Upton-Upon-Severn, UK

Aug TBD The Mountain Music Festival Gatlinburg, TN

Aug TBD W Festival, Oostende, Belgium

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 TBD Great British R&B Festival Colne, UK

Aug TBD Etheridge Island Playa Mujeres, Mexico

Aug TBD Rocklahoma Pryor, OK

Aug 29-31 Rhythm & Roots Charlestown, RI

Aug 29-31 Moseley Folk & Arts Festival Birmingham, UK

Aug TBD Jazz Aspen Snowmass Aspen, CO

Aug TBD Fool in Love Hollywood Park, CA

Aug TBD Bumbershoot Seattle, WA

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

September

Sep TBD Big Blues Bender Las Vegas, NV

Sept TBD Blue Ridge Rock Festival Danville, VA

Sept TBD Lollapalooza Berlin Berlin, Germany

Sept TBD Annapolis Songwriters Festival Annapolis, MD

Sept 12-14 Telluride Blues & Brews Telluride, CO

Sept TBD Rock in Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sept TBD SeaHearNow Asbury Park, NJ

Sept TBD Americana Fest Nashville, TN

Sept TBD Bourbon & Beyond Louisville, KY

Sept TBD Riot Fest Chicago, IL

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

Sept TBD Beachlife Ranch Redondo Beach, CA

Sept TBD Farm Aid TBA

Sept TBD Knotfest TBA

Sept TBD Louder Than Life Louisville, KY

Sept TBD Ohana Festival Dana Point, CA

Sep TBD Ocean’s Calling Ocean City, MD

Sept TBD Global Citizen Festival TBA

Sept TBD Sound on Sound Bridgeport, CT

Sept TBD Pilgrimage Franklin, TN

Sept TBD Soundside Music Festival Bridgeport, CT

October

Oct TBD Hardly Strictly Bluegrass San Francisco, CA

Oct TBD Gretna Fest Gretna, LA

Oct TBD  Austin City Limits Music Festival Austin, TX

Oct TBD King Biscuit Blues Festival Helena, AR

Oct TBD Aftershock Sacramento, CA

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