Upcoming Classic Rock Festivals

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.

July

June – August Stern Grove Festival San Francisco, CA with free Sunday concerts with Herbie Hancock, Lucinda Williams

July 3-6 Open’er Gdynia, Poland with Foo Fighters, Dua Lipa

July 3-7 Lytham Festival Lancashire, UK with Hozier, Brittany Howard, Madness, Rick Astley, James

July 4-7 Main Square Arras, France with Lenny Kravitz, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats Avril Lavigne, Sam Smith

July 4-7 Rock Werchter Werchter, Belgium with Pretenders, Foo Fighters, Dua Lipa, Lenny Kravitz, Avril Lavigne, Gary Clark Jr., Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats

July 5-20 Montreux Jazz Festival Montreux, Switzerland with Alice Cooper, Sting, Deep Purple, Diana Krall, Kraftwerk, Lenny Kravitz, Soft Cell, Duran Duran, Trombone Shorty

July 5-7 Love Supreme Jazz Festival Glynde Place, Sussex, UK with Chaka Khan, Kool & the Gang, Sergio Mendes, Joss Stone

July 6 Lovely Days Eisenstadt, Austria with Status Quo, Uriah Heep, Nazareth, Canned Heat, Ten Years After

July 10-13 Mad Cool Festival Madrid, Spain with Pearl Jam, Dua Lipa, Smashing Pumpkins, Avril Lavigne, Garbage, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Keane

July 11-14 Masters of Rock Vizovice, Czech Republic with Judas Priest, Bruce Dickinson, Accept

July 4-14 Festival d’ete de Quebec Québec, Canada with Motley Crue, Kansas, Post Malone, The Offspring

July 5-7 Rock Fest Barcelona, Spain with Pantera, Deep Purple, Europe

July 12-14 North Sea Jazz Rotterdam, Netherlands with Sting, Al Di Meola, Brittany Howard, Joss Stone

July 13 Let’s Rock – Shrewsbury – The Retro Festival UK with Squeeze, Bananarama, Go West, Nik Kershaw, Jason Donovan

July 4-14 Ottawa Bluesfest Lebreton Flats, Ottawa with Motley Crue, Neil Young and Crazy Horse

July 12-14 Bospop Weert, Netherlands with John Fogerty, Alice Cooper, Heart, Toto, the Waterboys, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes

July 12-14 Under the Big Sky Whitefish, MT with Miranda Lambert, Billy Strings, Tanya Tucker

July 13 Pleasantville Music Festival Pleasantville, NY with Better Than Ezra, the Record Company, the Wailers, Jill Sobule

July 18-20 Rock Fest Cadott, WI with Jelly Roll, Vince Neil, Quiet Riot

July 18-29 Jazz Open Stuttgart, Germany with Sting, Lenny Kravitz, Sam Smith

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

July 11-14 Vieilles Charrues Carhaix, France with Sting, Kings of Leon, Simple Minds

July TBD Forever Young Festival Kildare, Ireland

July TBD Summer Fog Festival Katowice, Poland

July 4-6 Canada Rock Fest Grand Forks, BC (Cancelled)

July 18-21 Great South Bay Patchogue, NY with Jon Anderson, Justin Heyward, Martin Barre, Joe Bonamassa, Jim Messina

July TBD Lollapalooza Paris Paris, France

July 18-21 Kemptville Live Music Festival Kemptville, ONT with Burton Cummings, Glass Tiger

July 19-21 Rewind: Scotland Perth, UK with The Boomtown Rats, Billy Ocean, Kim Wilde, Midge Ure, Nik Kershaw, Roland Gift, Tiffany

July 23-28 Paleo Nyon, Switzerland with Patti Smith Quartet, Nile Rodgers & Chic

July 24-28 Floyd Fest Check, VA

July 25-28 Red Ants Pants White Sulphur Springs, MT with Lukas Nelson, Los Lobos, Sarah Jarosz, KT Tunstall

July 25-28 Latitude Festival Suffolk, UK with Duran Duran, Keane, Nile Rodgers & Chic, Rick Astley

July 25-28 Cambridge Folk Festival Cambridge UK with Robert Plant presents Saving Grace

July 26-28 Newport Folk Festival Newport, RI with Brittany Howard, Billy Bragg, Allison Russell

July 26-28 Fuji Rock Festival Niigata Pref., Japan with Kraftwerk, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Allman Betts Band

July 29 – Aug 2 Roots Rock Revival Big Indian, NY with Oteil Burbridge

July 31 – Aug 3 Wacken Open Air Wacken, Germany with Scorpions, Dokken, Korn, Mr. Big, Suzi Quatro

August

Aug 1-4 Lollapalooza Chicago, IL with the Killers, Blink-182, Sza, Tyler the Creator

Aug 1-4 Mammoth Festival of Beers and Bluesapalooza Mammoth Lake, CA with Los Lobos, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue

Aug 1-4 Notodden Blues Notodden, Norway with Deep Purple, TNT, the Fabulous Thunderbirds

Aug 1-4 Wickham Hampshire, UK with Suzi Quatro, Curtis Stigers

Aug 2-4 Newport Jazz Festival Newport, RI with Elvis Costello, Nile Rodgers & Chic, Brittany Howard

Aug 2-4 Underneath the Stars South Yorkshire, UK

Aug 2-11 Lokerse Feesten Lokeren, Belgium with Korn, Pixies, Chris Isaak, Richard Ashcroft, The Roots

Aug 7-10 Leyendas del Rock Villena, Spain

Aug 8-10 Fairport Cropredy Convention Chipping Norton, UK with Rick Wakeman, Fairport Convention & Friends, the Trevor Horn Band, Focus

Aug 8-11 Edmonton Folk Music Festival Edmonton, AB, Canada with Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Aug 8-11 Bloodstock Walton-On-Trent, UK

Aug 9-11 Outside Lands Golden Gate Park, CA with the Killers, Grace Jones, Tyler the Creator, Sturgill Simpson

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

Aug 9-11 The Fest for Beatles Fans Chicago, IL with Randy Bachman, Micky Dolenz, Billy J. Kramer, Laurence Juber

Aug 9-11 Telluride Jazz Festival Telluride, CO

Aug 9-11 Northern Kin Festival Durham, UK with the Waterboys, Hawkwind, Jools Holland and His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, Billy Bragg, Crazy World of Arthur Brown

Aug 10-11 Party at the Palace Edinburgh, UK with UB40 Ftg Ali Campbell, Lulu, Bananarama, ABC, Heaven 17, Big Country

Aug 16-18 Rewind Festival: South Henley-on-Thames, UK with Billy Ocean, The Jacksons, Kim Wilde, Jason Donovan, Tiffany, Men Without Hats, Roland Gift, Nik Kershaw

Aug 17 Folk In the Park Sutton, UK

Aug 21-25 Reading Festival Reading, UK with Lana Del Rey, Blink-182, Liam Gallagher

Aug 21-25 Leeds Festival Leeds, UK with Lana Del Rey, Blink-182, Liam Gallagher

Aug 22-25 Sunshine Music Festival Upton-Upon-Severn, UK with David Essex, The Selecter, Bananarama, Jason Donovan

Aug 23-25 The Mountain Music Festival Gatlinburg, TN with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Tesla, Night Ranger, 38 Special, Foghat, Aldo Nova, Quiet Riot, Slaughter, Vixen

Aug 23-25 W Festival, Oostende, Belgium with Adam Ant, Bonnie Tyler, Berlin, Thomas Dolby, Men Without Hats, Kid Creole & the Coconuts

Aug 23-26 Shrewsbury Folk Festival Shrewsbury, UK with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Beth Nielsen Chapman

Aug 2025 Beach Road Weekend Cape Cod, MA

Aug 23-25 Great British R&B Festival Colne, UK

Aug TBD Etheridge Island Playa Mujeres, Mexico

Aug 30 – Sept 1 Rocklahoma Pryor, OK with Slipknot, Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold, Anthrax, Evanescence, Winger, Tom Keifer, Vixen

Aug 30 – Sept 1 Rhythm & Roots Charlestown, RI with Emmylou Harris, Old Crow Medicine Show, Drive-By Truckers,

Aug 30 – Sep 1 Moseley Folk & Arts Festival Birmingham, UK

Aug 30 – Sep 1 Jazz Aspen Snowmass Aspen, CO with Sting, Brandi Carlile, Lukas Nelson, Tim McGraw, the Black Crowes

Aug 31 Fool in Love Hollywood Park, CA with Lionel Richie, Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, Santana, Al Green, Gladys Knight, Nile Rodgers & Chic, Chaka Khan, Eric Burdon, Gladys Knight, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Kool & the Gang, Morris Day & the Time, the Isley Brothers

Aug 31 – Sept 1 Bumbershoot Seattle, WA with Pavement, Courtney Barnett, James Blake, Cypress Hill

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

September

Sep 5-8 Big Blues Bender Las Vegas, NV with Beth Hart, Los Lobos, Canned Heat

Sept TBD Blue Ridge Rock Festival Danville, VA

Sept 7-8 Lollapalooza Berlin Berlin, Germany with Sam Smith, the Chainsmokers, Martin Garrix, OneRepublic

Sept 12-15 Annapolis Songwriters Festival Annapolis, MD with Marc Cohn, Citizen Cope

Sept 13-15 Telluride Blues & Brews Telluride, CO with Gary Clark Jr., Joe Bonamassa, Samantha Fish, Eric Gales

Sept 13-15, 19-22 Rock in Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with Deep Purple, Journey, Avenged Sevenfold, Imagine Dragons, Ed Sheeran, Joss Stone, Mariah Carey, Katy Perry, Cyndi Lauper, Gloria Gaynor

Sept 14-15 SeaHearNow Asbury Park, NJ with Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, the Black Crowes, Trey Anastasio Band, Norah Jones, Kool & the Gang, Grace Potter

Sept 17-21 Americana Fest Nashville, TN

Sept 19-22 Bourbon & Beyond Louisville, KY with Sting, Dave Matthews Band, Beck, Matchbox Twenty, the Beach Boys, Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers, Melissa Etheridge, Patty Smyth, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Chris Isaak, Lyle Lovett, Lucius, the Bacon Brothers, Suzanne Vega, KT Tunstall

Sept 20-22 Riot Fest Chicago, IL with Slayer

Sept TBD Music Midtown Atlanta, GA

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

Sept TBD Beachlife Ranch Redondo Beach, CA

Sept TBD Farm Aid Location TBA

Sept 21 Knotfest Des Moines, Iowa with Slipknot, Gwar

Sept 26-29 Louder Than Life Louisville, KY with Motley Crue, Slipknot, Slayer, Korn

Sept 27-29 Ohana Festival Dana Point, CA with Pearl Jam, Alanis Morissette, Garbage, Crowded House

Sep 27-29 Ocean’s Calling Ocean City, MD with the Dave Matthews Band, the Beach Boys, the Killers, Blink-182, Sublime, Counting Crows, Barenaked Ladies, Lisa Loeb, Sugar Ray

Sept 28 Global Citizen Festival Central Park, New York, NY with Chris Martin, Post Malone, Hugh Jackman

Sept 28-29 Sound on Sound Bridgeport, CT with Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Norah Jones

Sept 28-29 Pilgrimage Franklin, TN with Dave Matthews Band, Hozier, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, Lukas Nelson, Better Than Ezra

Sept 28-29 Soundside Music Festival Bridgeport, CT with Foo Fighters, Norah Jones, Goo Goo Dolls, Queens of the Stone Age, Grace Potter, Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories

October

Oct 4-6 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass San Francisco, CA with Greensky Bluegrass, Robyn Hitchcock, Big Star’s Radio City 50th anniversary, Bobby Rush

Oct 4-6 Gretna Fest Gretna, LA with Steve Miller Band, Dierks Bentley, Foghat, Blue Oyster Cult, Morris Day & the Time

Oct 4-6, 11-13 Austin City Limits Music Festival Austin, TX with Dua Lipa, Chris Stapleton, Norah Jones, Blink-182

Oct 9-12 King Biscuit Blues Festival Helena, AR

Oct 10-13 Aftershock Sacramento, CA with Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, Slipknot, Slayer, Judas Priest, Disturbed, Pantera, Evanescence, Anthrax

Oct 18-20 ProgStock Rutherford, NJ with Patrick Moraz, Larry Fast, Saga

Oct 19-20 When We Were Young Las Vegas, NV with My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Jimmy Eat World, Simple Plan

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

Nov TBD Darker Waves Huntington Beach, CA