Festivals

A broad mountain stream and towering red rock bluffs surround the Planet Bluegrass Ranch in Lyons, Colorado. It’s a stunning and peaceful refuge, and to the delight of music fans nationwide, there’s also a stage! For over 30 years, festivalgoers (or “Festivarians'' as they’ve been dubbed by Planet Bluegrass), have been making the trek to Colorado’s front range for the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival; three days of music, camping, and inspiration from songwriters of all genres.

Elements Music & Arts Festival, the Northeast’s premier boutique festival experience, has announced the phase two lineup for its 2023 edition. Best described as an escape unlike any other, Elements is co-created by all those who embark on the journey, fostering a creative getaway aimed to inspire and offer a break from the stresses of everyday life.

Steeltown has long been a flourishing and legendary music city, and that tradition continues with the city’s latest live music event, Smokestack Festival & Concert Series. Taking place May 26 & 27, 2023 at Bridgeworks (200 Caroline St. N.), the new event property, a stellar line-up of some of the best and brightest on the Canadian blues scene, is the result of a collaboration between local label and events producers Sonic Unyon and award-winning Hamilton bluesman Steve Strongman.

Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival has announced the lineup for its renowned Camping Plazas, as ever showcasing the most inclusive and creative camping experience of any festival, anywhere in the world. Bonnaroo 2023 takes place June 15-18, 2023, on the Bonnaroo Farm, located just 60 miles southeast of Nashville in Manchester, TN.

From Where in the Woods to the Toyota Music Den and Galactic Giddy-Up to House of Yes, the campgrounds at Bonnaroo host a festival within a festival.

With DelFest 2023 just a few weeks away, festival organizers—including DelFest brainchild and namesake Del McCoury and his extended McCoury family—are finalizing every last detail to make this year’s festival the best one yet. Returning to its longstanding home in Cumberland, Maryland, over Memorial Day Weekend (May 25-28), DelFest has just announced the 2023 late-night lineup and added one more very special act to the bill: Jason Carter & Friends.

Annapolis Baygrass Music Festival has announced the exciting lineup for its 2-day beachfront music festival at Sandy Point State Park in Annapolis, MD on September 30 and October 1, 2023.
 
By celebrating the best in regional and national bluegrass, jamgrass, and Americana music, the festival expects to attract fans from across the region as well as throughout the country to enjoy the special destination of Annapolis, Maryland, and the entire Chesapeake Bay area.

Join Celebrating David Bowie musicians, Bowie aficionados, friends, and former collaborators for Camp Stardust at Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, New York (just a half hour west of Woodstock) from Tuesday, July 4 to Friday, July 7, 2023. Camp Stardust participants will find themselves immersed in fifty years of music from one of the past century's most creative geniuses.

North Carolina’s own J. Cole and his Dreamville team successfully kicked off their third annual Dreamville Festival this past weekend in Raleigh, welcoming 100,000 festival attendees from around the globe to his home state – including all 50 U.S. states and 23 countries across four continents – during the two-day outdoor music festival.

The Punk in the Park music and brew festival returned to the Ventura County Fairgrounds on a beautiful sunny Saturday afternoon, March 25th. After a cold, wet winter, it was a breath of fresh air to see a sunny cloudless sky for the event. About 5000 multi-generational punk music aficionados gathered for the 10-hour concert, many coming early to take advantage of free beer samples from over 80 microbreweries.

Suwannee Hulaween has unveiled its historic, genre-crossing lineup to celebrate the festival’s tenth anniversary celebration edition, returning home to the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida from Thursday, October 26 - Sunday, October 29, 2023.

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