There are few mid-sized music festivals in the United States with the legacy, devoted fanbase, and magical ambience that match Northern California’s High Sierra Music Festival (HSMF). This year’s installment of the annual Fourth of July weekend gathering in Quincy, CA, proved once again why HSMF deserves such accolades.

I’m old enough now that being told on Tuesday that I am going to cover the Northlands Music & Arts Festival on Friday feels rushed. Gone are the carefree days of the early ’00s. Back then, I went on tour with one day’s notice—without a tent.

The High Sierra Music Festival returns to the Plumas County Fairgrounds in Quincy, CA, on July 3-6, 2025. Tickets are available now via the festival website.

This August, for the first time since the inaugural year of the wildly unique music festival, Park City Song Summit, the blending of live performances, open-ended panel discussions, and mountain-air wellness activities will take place in the heart of the city where it was born.

Terrapin Crossroads and Paper Moon Presents are thrilled to announce the lineup for the upcoming Terrapin Roadshow stop at Marin County’s Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, July 18-20.

For its third year, Annapolis Baygrass Music Festival returns to its beachfront location at Sandy Point State Park along the Chesapeake Bay in Annapolis, Maryland, on Saturday and Sunday, September 20-21, 2025. People from all over the region and across North America celebrate in this picturesque destination while listening to the finest music rooted in progressive bluegrass, improvisational jam, and American roots music.

Northlands Music and Arts Festival, the Northeast’s premier event in the Jam Scene, is set to elevate the experience once again in 2025. Starting tomorrow, fans can secure single-day tickets, offering more flexibility to enjoy the dynamic lineup across three full days. From June 13–15, 2025, Northlands will transform the idyllic Cheshire Fairgrounds in Swanzey, NH, into a mecca of music, art, and connection.

Top-tier artists from the worlds of jam, funk, rock, and beyond will converge on the Ardmore Music Hall stage for two full nights of Unlimited Devotion: A Rex Foundation Fundraiser & Grateful Dead Celebration, happening on May 9 and 10.

On January 18, while presenting a collective “rainbow full of sound,” Greensky Bluegrass and Railroad Earth left no doubt that they still possess the character, proficiency, relevance, and charisma that have kept them among the most notable of the so-called “jam bands” in the land for the past 20-plus years.

Prepare for a one-of-a-kind musical adventure as the Everyone Orchestra—helmed by renowned conductor Matt Butler—brings its spellbinding brand of spontaneous, fully improvised performance to the Fox Theatre on Friday, March 21, 2025.