Longtime attendees of the California Roots Music and Arts Festival have been counting down the days until their return to California’s Monterey County Fairgrounds to see friends, family, and their favorite artists take the stage over the weekend of May 23-25, 2025. Today, Good Vibez Presents—the longtime festival organizers of the beloved festival—have given fans even more to be hyped about: the first installment of the 2025 Cali Roots lineup.

For the past 16 years, the 30A Songwriters Festival has attracted thousands of dedicated live music fans from around the world to hear original songwriters spanning multiple genres perform their songs. The beach resort towns along Scenic Highway 30A on the Gulf of Mexico become a music mecca featuring 25+ venues presenting over 120 songwriters and 200+ solo, band, and in-the-round performances throughout the weekend of January 16 – 20, 2025.

Today, Morgan Wallen, AEG Presents (producers of Stagecoach, California’s Country Music Festival and Hangout Music Festival) and the Hangout Festival are proud to announce the debut of Sand In My Boots. The new three-day music festival and beach vacation is set to take place on the Hangout Festival site on the idyllic shores of Gulf Shores, Alabama, May 16-18, 2025.

Presented by prolific independent promoter Relentless Beats, Better Together is a two-night event in the tradition of marquee events Goldrush Music Festival, Super Unnatural, Phoenix Lights, and Decadence AZ- celebrating a ‘Decade of Decadence’ this New Year’s.

If there’s one event that’s become synonymous with ringing in the New Year in Texas, it’s the iconic Lights all Night Festival (LAN) which returns for two unforgettable nights on December 28 and 29 at Dallas Market Hall.  Texas’ biggest independent promoter, Disco Presents is proud to announce that the festival is on its way to a fifth consecutive sell out for the 14th edition of this legendary event.

Bourbon & Beyond and Danny Wimmer Presents are thrilled to announce that the festival was named the 2024 Festival of the Year by leading live entertainment organization IBEA. IEBA honored the best in live entertainment at its Honors & Awards Ceremony on Tuesday night (Oct. 8), capping off its annual conference in Nashville.

This year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival (“HSBG”) in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park was—as usual, and as expected—a joyous and magical celebration for young and old, family and friends, musicians and music fans.

WinterWonderGrass is thrilled to welcome back friends old and new, musicians, and outdoor enthusiasts to Steamboat Springs Feb 28-March 2, 2025.

Gifting sprouts has become popular with festival attendees recently. The little green shoots are exchanged as a token symbolizing hope for a new friendship. The sprout is a new beginning, but it needs good ground, sun, and water to flourish. Festivals too are like the sprout. They need the right balance of an excellent location and vendors providing the foundation, sunny, warm entertainers, and the flow of patrons. Jamboozled 2024 was a first-time festival held at the Country Ranch in Mendota, Illinois, this September.

The Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance is delighted to announce its 33rd annual return to Trumansburg, New York, scheduled for July 17–20, 2025. This four-day event features five stages of continuous music, dance, art, and community activities, solidifying its reputation as a music lover's paradise nestled in the heart of the beautiful Finger Lakes region of upstate New York.