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.

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, Jill Sobule, Livingston Taylor, Vicki Peterson & John Cowsill

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, Toto, George Thorogood & the Destroyers, Christopher Cross, Gary Clark Jr., Chaka Khan

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 with The Revivalists, Marcus King, Greensky Bluegrass, Cypress Hill, Drive-By Truckers

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 Beale Street Memphis, TN

May 2-4 Beachlife Redondo Beach, CA with Pretenders, Jackson Browne, Lenny Kravitz, Sublime, Alanis Morissette, Train, the Beach Boys, Susanna Hoffs, O.A.R.

May 2-4 Lovin’ Life Music Fest Charlotte, NC with Dave Matthew Band, Gwen Stefani

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 with Green Day, Linkin Park, Korn, Alice in Chains, Rob Zombie, Shinedown

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 17-18 Boardwalk Rock Ocean City, MD with Def Leppard, Motley Crue, Nickelback, Alice Cooper, Halestorm, Shinedown, 3 Doors Down, Night Ranger, Bret Michaels

May 21-25 Bearded Theory Festival Derbyshire, UK

May 22-25 Delfest Cumberland, MD with the Del McCoury Band, Larkin Poe, Asleep at the Wheel

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

May 23-25 Bottlerock Napa, CA with Green Day, Justin Timberlake, Ice Cube, Cage the Elephant, 4 Non Blondes, Robby Krieger

May 23-25 Boston Calling Boston, MA with Dave Matthews Band, Sheryl Crow, Avril Lavigne, the Black Crowes, Public Enemy, Tom Morello, Luke Combs, Cage the Elephant

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 4-7 Sweden Rock Festival Solvesborg, Sweden with Slipknot, Scorpions, Korn, Sex Pistols

June 6-8 Governor’s Ball  NYC with Olivia Rodrigo, Hozier, Tyler the Creator

June 6-8 Rock am Ring Nuremberg, Germany with Slipknot, Korn

June 6-8 Open Air Festival Nancy, France with Slipknot, Saxon, Powerwolf, Europe

June Hampton Court Palace Festival London, UK with Bananarama, James, Chaka Khan

June 12-15 Bonnaroo Manchester, TN with Olivia Rodrigo, Avril Lavigne, Luke Combs, Megadeth, Queens of the Stone Age

June 13-14 BBK Music Legends Festival Bilbao, Spain with Alan Parsons Live Project, Lita Ford

June 13-15 Download Donington Park, UK with Green Day, Korn

June 2026 Black Deer Festival Kent, UK

June 18-22 Nocturne Live Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, UK with Richard Ashcroft

June 18-21 Copenhell Copenhagen, Denmark with Slipknot, Powerwolf

June 19-21 Azkena Rock Festival Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain with Buzzcocks, Dead Kennedys, Melissa Etheridge, the Flaming Lips, Lucinda Williams, P.I.L.

June 19-22 Isle of Wight Isle of Wight, UK with Sting, Justin Timberlake, James, Texas, Alison Moyet

June 19-22 Graspop Dessel, Belgium with Iron Maiden, Slipknot, Savatage, Eagles of Death Metal, Korn, Powerwolf

June 19-22 Hellfest Clisson, France with Scorpions, Linkin Park, Muse, Korn, Judas Priest, Sex Pistols, The Cult

June 20-21 Holland International Blues Festival Grolloo, Netherlands with Bonnie Raitt, the Robert Cray Band, Melissa Etheridge

June TBD Firenze Rocks Florence, Italy with Green Day, Guns N’ Roses, Korn

June 20-22 Pinkpop Landgraaf, The Netherlands with Justin Timberlake, Olivia Rodrigo, Muse, Weezer, Korn

June 20-28 Rochester International Jazz Festival Rochester, NY with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

June 2026 Rock In Rio Lisbon, Portugal

June – July Lucca Summer Festival Lucca, Italy with Scorpions, Nile Rodgers & Chic, Bryan Adams, Alanis Morissette, Simple Minds

June 19-21, 26-28 and July 3-5 Summerfest Milwaukee, WI with James Taylor, Def Leppard, Tesla, The Avett Brothers, Megan Thee Stallion, Chicago, Jason Mraz, Lainey Wilson, Gary Clark, Jr., Hozier

June 23-25 INMusic Zagreb, Croatia with Kings of Leon, Massive Attack

June 25-29 Glastonbury Pilton, Somerset, UK with Neil Young, Rod Stewart

June 26-29 Rock Imperium Festival Cartagena, Spain with Scorpions, Stryper

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

June 26-28 Blue Ox Music Festival Eau Claire, WI with Greensky Bluegrass, Margo Price, Warren Haynes Band

June 25-28 Tons of Rock Halden, Norway with Green Day, Weezer, Muse, Avenged Sevenfold, Megadeth, Sex Pistols

June 27-29 Retro CTrop Tilloloy, France with Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop, Sweet

June – July Carcassonne Festival Carcassonne, France with Robert Plant & Saving Grace, Judas Priest, Alanis Morissette

June 28 – July 5 Roskilde Festival Roskilde, Denmark with Olivia Rodrigo, Deftones

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

June 28-29 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 with Linkin Park, St. Vincent, Massive Attack

July 2-6 Lytham Festival Lancashire, UK with Simple Minds, Alanis Morissette, Texas, Justin Timberlake, Kings of Leon

July 2-13 Jazz Open Stuttgart, Germany with Kraftwerk, Joe Bonamassa, Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, Kylie Minogue, Jean-Michel Jarre

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

July 3-6 Rock Werchter Werchter, Belgium with Linkin Park, Green Day, Iggy Pop, Olivia Rodrigo, Simple Minds

July 4-19 Montreux Jazz Festival Montreux, Switzerland

July 4-6 Love Supreme Jazz Festival Glynde Place, Sussex, UK with Smokey Robinson, En Vogue, Branford Marsalis Quartet, Stanley Clarke, War

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

July 10-12 Mad Cool Festival Madrid, Spain with Alanis Morissette, Kings of Leon, Iggy Pop

July TBD Masters of Rock Vizovice, Czech Republic with Powerwolf, Lita Ford

July 11-13 North Sea Jazz Rotterdam, Netherlands

July 12 Let’s Rock – Shrewsbury – The Retro Festival UK with Holly Johnson

July 10-20 Ottawa Bluesfest Lebreton Flats, Ottawa

July 11-13 Bospop Weert, Netherlands with Simple Minds, Train, the Black Keys, Joe Bonamassa, Melissa Etheridge

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

July 12 Pleasantville Music Festival Pleasantville, NY

July 17-19 Rock Fest Cadott, WI

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

July 17-20 Vieilles Charrues Carhaix, France with Alanis Morissette, Sex Pistols, Macklemore

July TBD Summer Fog Festival Katowice, Poland

July 18-20 Lollapalooza Paris Paris, France with Olivia Rodrigo, Justin Timberlake, Macklemore

July TBD Kemptville Live Music Festival Kemptville, ON

July 22-27 Paleo Nyon, Switzerland

July 23-27 Floyd Fest Check, VA with the Black Crowes, Gov’t Mule

July 24-27 Great South Bay Patchogue, NY

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

July 24-27 Latitude Festival Suffolk, UK with Sting, Fatboy Slim

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 with Guns N’ Roses, Lita Ford, Boomtown Rats, Michael Schenker, Mastodon, Saxon

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 2-3 Party at the Palace Edinburgh, UK

Aug TBD Leyendas del Rock Villena, Spain

Aug 7-9 Fairport Cropredy Convention Chipping Norton, UK

Aug 7-10 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 15-17 Rewind Festival: South Henley-on-Thames, UK

Aug 16 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 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 29-31 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 30-31 Bumbershoot Seattle, WA

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 Blue Ridge Rock Festival Danville, VA

Sept TBD Lollapalooza Berlin Berlin, Germany

Sept TBD Annapolis Songwriters Festival Annapolis, MD

Sept 11-14 Bourbon & Beyond Louisville, KY

Sept 12-14 Telluride Blues & Brews Telluride, CO

Sept TBD Rock in Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sept TBD SeaHearNow Asbury Park, NJ

Sept 9-13 Americana Fest Nashville, TN

Sept 19-21 Shaky Knees Atlanta, GA

Sept 19-21 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 18-21 Louder Than Life Louisville, KY with Slayer

Sept TBD Ohana Festival Dana Point, CA

Sep TBD Ocean’s Calling Ocean City, MD

Sept TBD Global Citizen Festival TBA

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

Oct 3-5, 10-12  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

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

Nov TBD Corona Capital Festival Mexico City, Mexico

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