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 2024
Jan 12-15 30A Songwriters Festival Santa Rosa Beach, FL with Lyle Lovett, Rickie Lee Jones, Gin Blossoms, Steve Earle, Amy Grant, Tom Rush, James McMurtry, Livingston Taylor, Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey
Jan 14-17 Playing in the Sand Riviera Cancun, Mexico with Dead & Company, Goose
Jan 17-20 Little Feat – Feat Camp Cancun, Mexico with Little Feat, Larry Campbell and Theresa Williams
Jan 18-21 Girls Just Wanna Weekend 5 Barcelo Maya Riviera with Brandi Carlile
February
Feb 9-11 The Fest For Beatles Fans 50th anniversary celebration at TWA Hotel at JFK Airport, NYC with Micky Dolenz, Laurence Juber, Billy J. Kramer, Gregg Bissonette, Chris O’Dell, Jenny Boyd, Gary Evans (Mal’s son)
Feb 15-19 Norah Jones in Havana Havana, Cuba
March
March Under the Southern Stars Various cities in Australia
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
Apr TBD Knotfest Japan Tokyo, Japan
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 TBD 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
May 3-5 Shaky Knees Atlanta, GA with Foo Fighters, Billy Idol, Weezer, Queens of the Stone Age, the Offspring
May TBD 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 TBD Midnight Sun Weekender Stornoway, UK
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
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
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 TBD BBK Music Legends Festival Bilbao, Spain with Deep Purple, Canned Heat
June – July Festival Pedralbes Barcelona, Spain
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 14-16 Northern Kin Festival Durham, UK with the Waterboys, 10cc, Hawkwind, Crazy World of Arthur Brown
June 14-16 Download Donington Park, UK
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
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
June TBD Firenze Rocks Florence, Italy
June 21-23 Open Air Festival Nancy, France with Scorpions, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, Extreme, Megadeth, Alice Cooper
June 21-25 Glastonbury Pilton, Somerset, UK
June 21-29 Rochester International Jazz Festival Rochester, NY
June 27-30 Hellfest Clisson, France
June 22-23 and 29-30 Rock In Rio Lisbon, Portugal
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
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 TBD Saratoga Jazz Festival Saratoga, NY
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 TW Classic Werchter, Belgium
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 TBD I-Days Festival Milan, Italy
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 Foo Fighters, Dua Lipa, Avril Lavigne
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 TBD Festival d’ete de Quebec Québec, Canada
July 12-14 North Sea Jazz Rotterdam, Netherlands
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 5-7 Rock Fest Barcelona, Spain with Deep Purple, Europe
July 18-29 Jazz Open Stuttgart, Germany with Sting, Lenny Kravitz, Sam Smith
July 12-14 Bospop Weert, Netherlands with John Fogerty, Alice Cooper, Heart, Toto, the Waterboys, Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
July TBD Pleasantville Music Festival Pleasantville, NY
July 18-20 Rock Fest Cadott, WI
If a festival is sold-out, you can also try StubHub.
July TBD Vieilles Charrues Carhaix, France
July 12-14 Under the Big Sky Whitefish, MT with Miranda Lambert, Billy Strings, Tanya Tucker
July TBD Forever Young Festival Kildare, Ireland
July TBD Summer Fog Festival Katowice, Poland
July 23-28 Paleo Nyon, Switzerland
July TBD Canada Rock Fest Grand Forks, BC
July 18-21 Great South Bay Patchogue, NY
July TBD Lollapalooza Paris Paris, France
July 25-28 Latitude Festival Suffolk, UK with Duran Duran, Keane, Nile Rodgers & Chic, Rick Astley
July 18-21 Kemptville Live Music Festival Kemptville, ONT with Glass Tiger
July 18-20 Moondance Jam Walker, MN with Creed, Switchfoot, Foghat
July 26-28 Newport Folk Festival Newport, RI
July 19-21 Rewind: Scotland Perth, UK
July 25-28 Cambridge Folk Festival Cambridge UK
July 24-28 Floyd Fest Check, VA
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
August
Aug TBD Lollapalooza Chicago, IL
Aug TBD Mammoth Festival of Beers and Bluesapalooza Mammoth Lake, CA
Aug 1-4 Notodden Blues Notodden, Norway
Aug 1-4 Wickham Hampshire, U.K.
Aug 2-4 Newport Jazz Festival Newport, RI
Aug 2-4 Underneath the Stars South Yorkshire, UK
Aug 2-4 Rewind: North Macclesfield, UK
Aug TBD Leyendas del Rock Villena, Spain
Aug 4-13 Lokerse Feesten Lokeren, Belgium
Aug TBD Boardmasters Cornwall, UK
Aug 8-10 Fairport Cropredy Convention Chipping Norton, UK with Rick Wakeman
Aug TBD Edmonton Folk Music Festival Edmonton, AB, Canada
Aug 8-11 Bloodstock Walton-On-Trent, UK
Aug TBD 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 TBD Download Japan Nakase, Japan
Aug TBD Rewind Festival: South Henley-on-Thames, UK
Aug 17 Folk In the Park Sutton, UK
Aug 23-25 W Festival, Oostende, Belgium
Aug 21-25 Reading Festival Reading, UK
Aug 21-25 Leeds Festival Leeds, UK
Aug 23-26 Shrewsbury Folk Festival Shrewsbury, UK
Aug 25-27 Beach Road Weekend Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Aug 30 – Sep 1 Moseley Folk & Arts Festival Birmingham, UK
Aug TBD Great British R&B Festival Colne, UK
Aug TBD Sunshine Music Festival Upton-Upon-Severn, UK
Aug TBD Etheridge Island Playa Mujeres, Mexico
If a festival is sold-out, you can also try StubHub.
September
Sept TBD Rocklahoma Pryor, OK
Sep TBD Jazz Aspen Snowmass Aspen, CO
Sept TBD Bumbershoot Seattle, WA
Sept TBD Rock in Rio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sept TBD 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 19-22 Bourbon & Beyond Louisville, KY
Sept TBD Annapolis Songwriters Festival Annapolis, MD
Sept TBD Riot Fest Chicago, IL
Sept TBD Ribfest Wheaton, IL
Sept TBD Music Midtown Atlanta, GA
Sept TBD SeaHearNow Asbury Park, NJ
Sept TBD Americana Fest Nashville, TN
Sept 26-29 Louder Than Life Louisville, KY
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 TBD Pilgrimage Franklin, TN
Sept TBD Ohana Festival Dana Point, CA
Sep TBD Ocean’s Calling Ocean City, MD
Sept TBD Sound on Sound Bridgeport, CT
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