Upcoming Classic Rock Festivals

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.

March

Mar 21-24 Big Ears Knoxville, TN with Herbie Hancock, Jon Batiste, Rhiannon Giddens, Laurie Anderson,

Mar 28 – Apr 1 Byron Bay Bluesfest Byron Bay, Australia with Tom Jones, Elvis Costello & the Imposters, Jack Johnson, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Taj Mahal, Rickie Lee Jones

April

April 12-14 and 19-21 Coachella Indio, CA with Lana Del Rey, Blur, Jon Batiste, No Doubt

Apr 26-28 Stagecoach Festival Indio, CA with Willie Nelson & Family, Dwight Yoakam, the Beach Boys, Eric Church, Clint Black, Miranda Lambert

April 20-21 Sweetwater 420 Festival Atlanta, GA

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

Apr 26 – May 5 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival New Orleans, LA with the Rolling Stones, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Heart, Foo Fighters, Bonnie Raitt, the Beach Boys, Chris Stapleton, George Thorogood & the Destroyers

May

May 1-6 Cheltenham Jazz Festival Cheltenham, U.K.

May 3-5 Sunfest West Palm Beach, FL with Billy Idol, Third Eye Blind, The Fixx, Nelly, Shaggy

May 3-5 Shaky Knees Atlanta, GA with Foo Fighters, Billy Idol, Weezer, Queens of the Stone Age, the Offspring

May 2025 Beale Street Memphis, TN

May 3-5 Beachlife Redondo Beach, CA with Sting, ZZ Top, Seal, Devo, My Morning Jacket, Trey Anastasio

May 3-5 Lovin’ Life Music Fest Charlotte, NC with Stevie Nicks, Post Malone

May 4-5 M3 Rock Fest Columbia, MD with Queensryche, Bret Michaels, Dee Snider, Night Ranger, Stryper, Stephen Pearcy

May 9-12 Rockville Festival Daytona Beach, FL with Motley Crue, Foo Fighters, Judas Priest, Anthrax, Slipknot, Mammoth WVH, Disturbed, Queens of the Stone Age, Evanescence, Primus, Greta Van Fleet

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

May 10-12 Brandi Carlile’s Mothership Weekend Miramar Beach, FL with Brandi Carlile, Sara Bareilles, Bonnie Raitt

May 11 Cruel World Pasadena, CA with Duran Duran, Blondie, Simple Minds, Soft Cell, Adam Ant, Gary Numan, Heaven 17, The Motels, General Public

May 16-19 Sonic Temple Festival Columbus, OH with Slipknot, Judas Priest, Pantera, Disturbed, Evanescence

May 23-26 Delfest Cumberland, MD with Del McCoury Band, Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives

May 23-26 Bearded Theory Festival Derbyshire, UK with Jane’s Addiction

May 23-27 Abbey Road On the River Jeffersonville, IN with Dean Torrence, the Cyrkle

May 24-26 Bottlerock Napa, CA with Stevie Nicks, Pearl Jam, Ed Sheeran, Norah Jones, Tower of Power, Queens of the Stone Age

May 24-26 Boston Calling Boston, MA with Ed Sheeran, The Killers, Hozier, Trey Anastasio

May 24-26 Summer Camp Festival Chillicothe, IL

May 25 Greenwich Town Party Greenwich, CT

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

June

June 1-2 Railbird Lexington, KY with Chris Stapleton, Hozier, Counting Crows, Wynonna Judd, Dwight Yoakam

June 7-9 Rock am Ring Nuremberg, Germany with Green Day, Avenged Sevenfold, Queens of the Stone Age, Dropkick Murphys

June 5-8 Sweden Rock Festival Solvesborg, Sweden with Five Finger Death Punch, Steel Panther

June 13-15 Holland International Blues Festival Grolloo, Netherlands with Buddy Guy

June 7-9 Governor’s Ball  NYC with The Killers, Post Malone, SZA

June 11-22 Hampton Court Palace Festival London, UK with Sheryl Crow, Nile Rodgers & Chic, Paloma Faith

June 13-16 Bonnaroo Manchester, TN with Red Hot Chili Peppers, Post Malone, Brittany Howard

June 12-16 Nocturne Live Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, UK with Crowded House, Sheryl Crow, Chaka Khan, Sister Sledge

June 14-15 BBK Music Legends Festival Bilbao, Spain with Pretenders, Deep Purple, Canned Heat

June 14-16 Northern Kin Festival Durham, UK with the Waterboys, 10cc, Hawkwind, Crazy World of Arthur Brown

June 14-16 Download Donington Park, UK with Queens of the Stone Age, Fall Out Boy, Avenged Sevenfold, Limp Bizkit, Pantera

June 14-16 Black Deer Festival Kent, UK with Sheryl Crow

June 19-22 Copenhell Copenhagen, Denmark with Bruce Dickinson, Avenged Sevenfold, Limp Bizkit, The Offspring, Tool

June 20-22 Azkena Rock Festival Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain with Queens of the Stone Age, Sheryl Crow

June 19-22 Rock Imperium Festival Cartagena, Spain with Judas Priest, Extreme, Uriah Heep, Glenn Hughes, Saxon, Accept, Yngwie Malmsteen

June 20-23 Isle of Wight Isle of Wight, UK with Pretenders, Green Day, Pet Shop Boys, Crowded House, Natalie Imbruglia, Keane, Simple Minds

June 20-23 Graspop Dessel, Belgium with Alice Cooper, Scorpions, Judas Priest, Deep Purple, Five Finger Death Punch, Tool, Bruce Dickinson, Extreme, Megadeth

June 21-23 Pinkpop Landgraaf, The Netherlands with Ed Sheeran, Keane, Avril Lavigne

June TBD Firenze Rocks Florence, Italy with Tool

June 21-23 Open Air Festival Nancy, France with Scorpions, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, Extreme, Megadeth, Alice Cooper

June 26-30 Glastonbury Pilton, Somerset, UK with Dua Lipa, Coldplay, Sza, Shania Twain, Cyndi Lauper, Keane, Avril Lavigne

June 21-29 Rochester International Jazz Festival Rochester, NY

June 27-30 Hellfest Clisson, France with Metallica, Foo Fighters, Bruce Dickinson

June 22-23 and 29-30 Rock In Rio Lisbon, Portugal with Ed Sheeran, Scorpions, Evanescence, Extreme

June 24-26 INMusic Zagreb, Croatia with The National, Hozier, Smashing Pumpkins

June 20-22, 27-29 and July 4-6 Summerfest Milwaukee, WI with Motley Crue, Keith Urban, REO Speedwagon, Brittany Howard

June 27-29 Blue Ox Music Festival Eau Claire, WI

June 26-29 Tons of Rock Halden, Norway with Heart, Metallica, Judas Priest, ZZ Top, Uriah Heep, Mammoth WVH

June 28-30 Retro CTrop Tilloloy, France with Deep Purple, Patti Smith Quartet, Suzi Quatro

June 29-30 Saratoga Jazz Festival Saratoga, NY with Norah Jones

June – July Lucca Summer Festival Lucca, Italy with Rod Stewart, Ed Sheeran, Toto, Smashing Pumpkins, Diana Krall

June 29 – July 6 Roskilde Festival Roskilde, Denmark with Foo Fighters

June TBD Peach Music Festival Scranton, PA

July 30 – July 2 Main Square Arras, France with Maroon 5, Spoon

June 27 – July 6 Festival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Canada

June TBD Montreux Jazz Festival Montreux, Switzerland

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

July

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

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

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 Carcassonne Festival Carcassonne, France

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 TBD Ride Festival Telluride, CO

July 4-14 Festival d’ete de Quebec Québec, Canada

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

July 12-14 North Sea Jazz Rotterdam, Netherlands with Sting

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

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

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 TBD Vieilles Charrues Carhaix, France

July TBD Forever Young Festival Kildare, Ireland

July TBD Summer Fog Festival Katowice, Poland

July TBD Canada Rock Fest Grand Forks, BC

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 Glass Tiger

July 18-20 Moondance Jam Walker, MN with Kansas, Blue Oyster Cult, Creed, Switchfoot, Foghat

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

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

July 25-28 Cambridge Folk Festival Cambridge UK

July 24-28 Floyd Fest Check, VA

July 26-28 Newport Folk Festival Newport, RI

July TBD Fuji Rock Festival Niigata Pref., Japan

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 TBD Lollapalooza Chicago, IL

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

Aug 1-4 Wickham Hampshire, UK with Suzi Quatro

Aug 2-4 Newport Jazz Festival Newport, RI

Aug 2-4 Underneath the Stars South Yorkshire, UK

Aug 2-11 Lokerse Feesten Lokeren, Belgium with Korn, Pixies

Aug TBD Boardmasters Cornwall, UK

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 TBD Edmonton Folk Music Festival Edmonton, AB, Canada

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

Aug 9-11 Outside Lands Golden Gate Park, CA

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

Aug 9-11 The Fest for Beatles Fans Chicago, IL

Aug 9-11 Telluride Jazz Festival Telluride, CO

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

Aug TBD Download Japan Nakase, Japan

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

Aug 21-25 Leeds Festival Leeds, UK

Aug 22-25 Sunshine Music Festival Upton-Upon-Severn, UK

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

Aug 2025 Beach Road Weekend Cape Cod, MA

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

Aug TBD Great British R&B Festival Colne, UK

Aug TBD Etheridge Island Playa Mujeres, Mexico

Aug 30 – Sept 1 Rocklahoma Pryor, OK

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

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

September

Sep TBD Jazz Aspen Snowmass Aspen, CO

Sept TBD Bumbershoot Seattle, WA

Sept TBD Rock in Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Sept 7-10 Blue Ridge Rock Festival Danville, VA

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

Sept 7-8 Lollapalooza Berlin Berlin, Germany

Sept 13-15 Telluride Blues & Brews Telluride, CO

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 Neil Young, 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 TBD Annapolis Songwriters Festival Annapolis, MD

Sept 20-22 Riot Fest Chicago, IL

Sept TBD Ribfest Wheaton, IL

Sept TBD Music Midtown Atlanta, GA

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

Sept TBD Life is Beautiful Las Vegas, NV

Sept TBD Beachlife Ranch Redondo Beach, CA

Sept TBD Firefly Festival Dover, DE

Sept TBD Global Citizen Festival Central Park, New York, NY

Sept TBD Farm Aid Location TBA

Sept TBD Knotfest Location TBA

Sept 23-24 Pilgrimage Franklin, TN

Sept TBD Sound on Sound Bridgeport, CT

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

Sept 27-29 Ohana Festival Dana Point, CA

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

October

Oct 4-6 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass San Francisco, CA

Oct TBD  Austin City Limits Music Festival Austin, TX

Oct TBD King Biscuit Blues Festival Helena, AR

Oct 10-13 Aftershock Sacramento, CA

Oct 18-20 ProgStock Rahway, NJ

Oct TBD When We Were Young Las Vegas, NV

November

Nov TBD The Sands Costa Mujeres, Mexico

Nov TBD Darker Waves Huntington Beach, CA

January 2025

Jan 17-20 30A Songwriters Festival Santa Rosa Beach, FL

Jan TBD Playing in the Sand TBD

Jan TBD Little Feat – Feat Camp Cancun, Mexico

Jan TBD Girls Just Wanna Weekend 5 TBD

February

Feb TBD The Fest For Beatles Fans

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  1. Greg Brodsky
    #1 Greg Brodsky 3 March, 2018, 16:39

    Thanks for the heads’ up. We’ve added it but it frankly looks more appropriate for Consequence of Sounds’ readers.

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  2. Greg Brodsky
    #2 Greg Brodsky 3 April, 2018, 22:18

    Just added!

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  3. melody
    #4 melody 6 June, 2019, 17:22

    they actually just cancelled it within the last hour or so.

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  4. Greg Brodsky
    #5 Greg Brodsky 29 March, 2021, 08:32

    Glastonbury is listed in 2022, as they’ve already announced that they are skipping 2021. Knebworth no longer has an annual festival.

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  5. Xfinite Radio
    #6 Xfinite Radio 9 December, 2021, 02:44

    This is such a great blog. Thanks for sharing.

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  6. DJ Palm Beach
    #7 DJ Palm Beach 16 December, 2021, 00:50

    Such a great schedule of music. Doesn’t matter where these artists are always amazing.

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