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.

September 2026

Sept 4-6 Rhythm & Roots Charlestown, RI with Margo Price, Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives, Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Sept 4-6 Rocklahoma Pryor, OK with Slayer, Godsmack, Stone Temple Pilots, Cypress Hill, Black Label Society, Suicidal Tendencies

Sept 4-6 Moseley Folk & Arts Festival Birmingham, UK with Kingfisher, Lucinda Williams

Sept 4-7, 11-13 Rock in Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with Elton John, Maroon 5, Mumford & Sons

Sept 5-6 Bumbershoot Seattle, WA with Death Cab For Cutie, De La Soul

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

Sept 10-13 Annapolis Songwriters Festival Annapolis, MD

Sept 15-19 Americana Fest Nashville, TN

Sept 17-20 Louder Than Life Louisville, KY with Iron Maiden, My Chemical Romance, Alice Cooper, Megadeth, Tool, Pantera, Anthrax, Danzig, Limp Bizkit

Sept 18-20 Telluride Blues & Brews Telluride, CO with Jon Batiste, Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’, Marcus King Band, Samantha Fish, G. Love & Special Sauce

Sept 18-20 Grand Point North Burlington, VT with Grace Potter, Jackson Browne, Dawes, Dark Star Orchestra

Sept 19-20 Annapolis Baygrass Music Festival Annapolis, MD with Little Feat, Bela Fleck

Sept 19-20 SeaHearNow Asbury Park, NJ with Mumford & Sons, the Strokes, Susanna Hoffs, the Offspring, Shaggy, Chaka Khan, Men at Work, Ziggy Marley, Pixies, Goo Goo Dolls

Sept 18-20 Shaky Knees Atlanta, GA with the Strokes, Twenty One Pilots, Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem, Wu-Tang Clan, Danny Elfman, Pavement

Sept 18-20 Riot Fest Chicago, IL with Elvis Costello & the Imposters, Alanis Morissette, Patti Smith and Her Band, Iggy Pop, Bad Religion, Twenty One Pilots, Tool, Nas, Pixies

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

Sept 26 Farm Aid Virginia Beach, VA with Willie Nelson & Family, Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds, Margo Price, Nathaniel Rateliff, Lukas Nelson, Mike Campbell & the Dirty Knobs

Sept 26 Global Citizen Festival, Central Park, New York, NY with Lauryn Hill & Wyclef Jean, Lenny Kravitz, John Legend, Lainey Wilson, Shaboozey (Cancelled due to weather)

Sept TBD Knotfest TBA

Sept 24-27 Bourbon & Beyond Louisville, KY with Foo Fighters, Mumford & Sons, Chris Stapleton, Dave Matthews Band, Squeeze, Cheap Trick, Hootie & the Blowfish, Counting Crows, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, The Flaming Lips, 4 Non Blondes, Gary Clark Jr., Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Queens of the Stone Age, Adam Ant, Better Than Ezra

Sep 25-27 Legends of Rock Expo Las Vegas, NV with Gene Simmons, Bruce Kulick, Dave Davies, John Moyer, Carmine Appice, Vinny Appice

Sept 25-27 Ohana Festival Dana Point, CA with Eddie Vedder & Friends, Pearl Jam, Billy Idol, Alabama Shakes, Bad Religion, Courtney Barnett, Jon Batiste, Pixies

Sep 25-27 Ocean’s Calling Ocean City, MD with Dave Matthews Band, Twenty One Pilots, Mumford & Sons, Hootie & the Blowfish, Gwen Stefani, Hanson, My Morning Jacket, Liz Phair, Susanna Hoffs, Goo Goo Dolls, Better Than Ezra, O.A.R.

Sept TBD Global Citizen Festival TBA

Sept 2027 Pilgrimage Franklin, TN

October

Oct 1-4 Aftershock Sacramento, CA with Tool, My Chemical Romance, Limpbizkit, Sublime, the Offspring, Public Enemy, Queens of the Stone Age

Oct 2-4 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass San Francisco, CA with Emmylou Harris, Robert Plant with Saving Grace, Los Lobos, Lukas Nelson, Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives, Buddy Miller, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams, Mavis Staples, Molly Tuttle, My Morning Jacket, Steve Earle

Oct 1-3 Moon Crush Avett Moon Miramar Beach, FL with Darius Rucker, Old Dominion, Uncle Kracker, Fitz and the Tantrums

Oct 2-4, 9-11  Austin City Limits Music Festival Austin, TX with Charli XCX, Kings of Leon, Lorde, Twenty One Pilots, Bleachers, Suki Waterhouse, the Chainsmokers

Oct 3 Power to the People, Columbia, MD with Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, Tom Morello, Joan Baez, Jack Black, Dropkick Murphys, Cypress Hill, Brittany Howard, Stephen Stills, Nathaniel Rateliff, Geezer Butler and special guest Bruce Springsteen

Oct 2027 Gretna Fest Gretna, LA

Oct 8-10 Rockin’ in Paradise With Styx Miramar Beach, FL with Styx, 38 Special, Tesla, Don Felder, Marshall Tucker Band, the Outlaws, Edwin McCain

Oct 8-10 King Biscuit Blues Festival Helena, AR

Oct 20-25 The Sands Cancun, Mexico with Winger, Sheila E, Cutting Crew, the Smithereens, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, Downtown Julie Brown

Oct 2027 When We Were Young Las Vegas, NV

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

November

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 TBA

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

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 24-25 Sweetwater 420 Festival Atlanta, GA

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

Apr TBD High Water N. Charleston, SC

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

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

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

June 4-6 Open Air Festival Nancy, France

June TBD Railbird Lexington, KY

June – July Lucca Summer Festival Lucca, Italy

June 9-12 Sweden Rock Festival Solvesborg, Sweden

June Hampton Court Palace Festival London, UK

June 2028 Bonnaroo Manchester, TN

June 9-13 Download Donington Park, UK

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

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

June 17-20 Graspop Dessel, Belgium

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 Twenty One Pilots, the Cure, Foo Fighters, Wet Leg, the Pretty Reckless, Yungblud

June 18-26 Rochester International Jazz Festival Rochester, NY

June TBD Rock In Rio Lisbon, Portugal

June 23-26 Copenhell Copenhagen, Denmark

June 27-29 INMusic Zagreb, Croatia

June TBD Glastonbury Pilton, Somerset, UK

June 23-26 Tons of Rock Halden, Norway

June 24-26, July 1-3 and July 8-10 Summerfest Milwaukee, WI

June TBD 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

June TBD Roskilde Festival Roskilde, Denmark

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

June 30 – July 4 Lytham Festival Lancashire, UK with Robbie Williams

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 TBD Rock Werchter Werchter, Belgium

July 2-17 Montreux Jazz Festival Montreux, Switzerland

July TBD Gent Jazz Ghent, Belgium

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 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 TBD Under the Big Sky Whitefish, MT

July 15-17 Rock Fest Cadott, WI

July 17-18 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 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.