Summerfest is not simply the most important music pageant in the US. It additionally has among the lowest general-admission ticket costs you will discover wherever.

And generally, you do not even must pay in any respect.

Over the previous three years, a mean of almost 15% of festivalgoers have gotten into the pageant totally free by means of a sequence of promo offers, a lot of them supporting native nonprofits, in keeping with Summerfest officers.  

And 2022 shall be no exception, with 16 freebie offers for the nine-day fest, operating June 23 to 25, June 30 to July 2 and July 7 to 9.

This is how one can get in at no cost to the Milwaukee music pageant. Notice that normal admission does not embrace American Household Insurance coverage Amphitheater exhibits or reserved seats for night headliners on the BMO Harris Pavilion.

This is the Summerfest 2022 lineup by date, time and stage for the Milwaukee music pageant

Find out how to get tickets and discover offers to Summerfest 2022 in Milwaukee

June 23: Everybody who arrives between midday and three p.m. and donates not less than two jars of peanut butter for the Starvation Activity Drive will get in free. And anybody who makes a $10 donation at hungertaskforce.org/summerfest by means of June 10 will obtain a proposal code totally free admission that may be redeemed between midday and three p.m. June 23. 

June 24: Everybody arriving between midday and three p.m. will get in free for Lou Malnati’s Youngsters’s Fest Day. Bonus offers: Choose distributors will supply meals and beverage reductions. 

June 25: The primary 1,500 individuals who arrive between midday and three p.m. on the Mid Gate and donate new deodorant, female hygiene merchandise and/or socks (a minimal $10 worth) will get in free. All donations will go to Mary Lou’s Closet, a program offering hygiene provides for in-need youth in space public faculties, and can particularly profit the United Method of Higher Milwaukee & Waukesha County’s group faculties. 

June 30: Choose ‘n Save consumers can stand up to 4 free tickets for each $50 spent by means of Might 17. The unique receipt have to be offered between midday and 6 p.m., with a restrict of 12 tickets per receipt. Bonus deal: All drinks (excluding frozen drinks, speciality espresso drinks and smoothies) are additionally 50% off, and admission is $5 off, from midday to six p.m. 

July 1: All active-duty army personnel and veterans who current a sound army ID, copy or a photograph of a DD-214 type or a driver’s license with a veteran classification get in free by means of 6 p.m., together with as much as 4 relations. July 1 can be Navy Appreciation Day, with a ceremony at 3 p.m. on the Generac Energy Stage that features a speech from Bronze Star recipient Keni Thomas. 

The primary 2,000 individuals who donate three nonperishable meals objects (cooking oil and fruit snack packs, low-sugar applesauce and mandarin oranges most popular) to the Mid Gate between midday and three p.m. additionally get in free, with donations benefiting the Kinship Neighborhood Meals Middle. 

July 2: The primary 2,500 individuals who donate new or gently used youngsters’s books (minimal $10 worth) on the Mid Gate by means of 3 p.m. get in free. Image books and books for early readers by means of age 10 most popular, with all books being donated to Subsequent Door. 

July 7: The primary 2,000 individuals who present up earlier than 3 p.m. on the Mid Gate and donate three nonperishable meals objects (canned fruit and veggies most popular) get in free. The meals is to be donated to the Starvation Activity Drive. And everybody age 60 and up who exhibits up between midday and 4 p.m. will get in free. Bonus offers: Seniors who get in free will obtain a $2 off voucher for a meals or non-alcoholic beverage buy legitimate for a purchase order over $10. Wheelchairs additionally shall be supplied free whereas provides final. 

July 8: Everybody exhibiting up between midday and three p.m. sporting a shirt or hat representing one in all seven faculties — Cardinal Stritch College, Carthage Faculty, Marquette College, Milwaukee Space Technical Faculty, College of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, College of Wisconsin-Platteville and College of Wisconsin-Whitewater — will get in free. And all highschool college students who full their FAFSA by July 8 will obtain a free general-admission ticket. 

July 9: Everybody arriving between midday and three p.m. will get in free, and the primary 30,000 folks by means of the turnstiles obtain a free Summerfest general-admission ticket for 2023. 

Ticket promos all through Summerfest 

• Obtain the Summerfest app to obtain a general-admission ticket legitimate on Thursdays and Fridays, whereas provides final (10,000 tickets are being made out there by means of the app). 
• Between Might 25 and June 14, if you are going to buy $25 at space Choose ‘n Save and Metro Market in a single transaction on Pepsi, Dietz & Watson, Purple Bull, Palermo’s, Klement’s, Sargento and Koops’ merchandise, you’ll obtain two free tickets. (Restrict of 4 tickets per transaction, 12 tickets redeemed per day.) Go to picknsave.com/summerfest and metromarket.internet/summerfest for an inventory of relevant merchandise. 
• Everybody who donates blood at a Versiti Blood Middle cellular drive in Might will get one free ticket, whereas provides final. 

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