With Might across the nook, music festivals are gearing up throughout the nation.
For many who take pleasure in dwell music within the open air, the Information-Chief has compiled an inventory of regional music festivals.
Missouri
Dates: Might 19-22
Location: Astral Valley Artwork Park in French Village
ReKinection is a women-ran music, wellness and humanities pageant, positioned about 45 minutes from St. Louis. The three-day pageant contains music on three phases, yoga, aerial performances and dwell visionary artwork.
Tickets: rekinection.com/celebration-festival-tickets
Date: Might 21
Location: Hollywood On line casino Amphitheatre in Maryland Heights
Pointfest, hosted by 105.7 The Level, is an out of doors rock music pageant. Acts embody Papa Roach, Extremely Suspect, Halestorm, Mammoth WVH, Jelly Roll, Palaye Royale, Shaman’s Harvest, Brookroyal and The Ricters.
Tickets: live shows.livenation.com/occasion/06005C2686E01629
Dates: Might 20-21
Location: Grinders KC in Kansas Metropolis
Bluegrass within the Bottoms is a bluegrass music pageant. Musical acts embody Railroad Earth, Sam Bush, Yonder Mountain String Band, Unsafe At Any Velocity and extra.
Tickets: bluegrassinthebottoms.com/tickets
Date: June 4
Location: Reeds Spring
The sixteenth annual Rock Home Music Pageant is a yard BBQ, dwell music occasion. Headliners embody Huge Smith of Springfield and The Means Down Wanderers of Chicago and Peoria, Illinois.
Tickets: rockhousecenterforthearts.org/calendar-tickets?fbclid=IwAR1ez1IP-QwhYCr87e7CkaRnhdNa5KMpDhpFKTaR6lw4qJIJWldFbdl777Q
Date: June 11
Location: Neighborhood Blood Middle of the Ozarks in Springfield
Springfield music lovers do not should journey far for the eleventh annual Stomp The Blues Pageant. The pageant’s mission is to supply “direct help to those that are homeless and close to homeless by way of current organizations,” based on the pageant’s web site. Supporting organizations embody Girls In Want of the Ozarks, The Uncommon Breed, Laura’s Residence, Darr Home and Play it Ahead SWMO.
Tickets: stompthebluesoutofhomelessness.com/tickets.html
Dates: June 17-18
Location: Grand Boulevard at Crown Middle in Kansas Metropolis
Boulevardia is a beer, meals and music pageant — Kansas Metropolis’s largest city road pageant. Along with the music pageant, Trip 2 Boulevardia — a charity bike journey — is obtainable June 18. Cyclists can select between 15-mile, 30-mile and 40-mile rides round Kansas Metropolis.
Boulevardia tickets: boulevardia.com/tickets
Trip 2 Boulevardia tickets: ride2boulevardia.com/register
Date: June 24
Location: Hollywood On line casino Amphitheatre in Maryland Heights
Outlaw Music Pageant is a touring rock music pageant, touring to cities throughout the nation June by way of September. Headlining acts embody Willie Nelson & Household, Chris Stapleton, ZZ High, Billy Strings and Brittney Spencer.
Tickets: live shows.livenation.com/occasion/06005C70D1EA7BB9
Dates: July 1-4
Location: Ozzie Smith Sports activities Advanced in O’Fallon
Heritage & Freedom Fest is an Independence Day family-friendly pageant, together with a carnival, parade, dwell music and two nights of fireworks.
Tickets: Admission is free
Dates: July 7-10
Location: Misplaced Hill Lake in St. Clair
Celebrating its fifth yr, Pickin’ On Picknic is an out of doors bluegrass music pageant centered round dwell music, meals, workshops and bonfires with collaborative “pickin’” jams.
Tickets: pickinfestival.com/order-tickets/
Dates: Aug. 5-7
Location: Black Silo Vineyard in Trenton
Mid-America Music Pageant is a rustic music pageant about 90 miles north of Kansas Metropolis. This yr’s pageant options 12 completely different nation music artists. Headlining acts embody Lauren Alaina and Travis Tritt. The pageant serves as a fundraiser for the Black Silo Basis, a nonprofit devoted to boosting rural group improvement in northern Missouri.
Tickets: eventbrite.com/e/mid-america-music-festival-presented-by-cfm-insurance-tickets-227470248637
Dates: Aug. 11-14
Location: Pulaski County Shrine Camp in Waynesville
Gnomestock is a family-friendly, grassroots pageant. Musical acts embody The Stone Sugar Shakedown, One Means Site visitors, Clusterpluck and others.
Tickets: gnomestock.com/tickets-1
Dates: Sept. 2-5
Location: Historic Independence Sq. in Independence
The SantaCaliGon Days Pageant is the state’s oldest music pageant, relationship again to 1940. The primary pageant was held in celebration of the Metropolis of Independence as the place to begin of the Santa Fe, California and Oregon Trails, based on the pageant’s web site. A second pageant was held in 1947, but it surely was not held once more till 1973. Initially the pageant was generally known as Three Path Days. It was renamed in 1974 to SantaCaliGon Days.
Tickets: Admission is free
Dates: Sept. 10-11
Location: Grand Middle Arts District in St. Louis
In its second yr, Music at The Intersection tells the story of St. Louis’ “musical, cultural and inventive heritage,” based on the pageant’s web site. The pageant options blues, jazz, soul, R&B, hip-hop, and rock musicians.
Tickets: musicattheintersection.org/tickets/
Date: Sept. 10
Location: Rose Music Corridor in Columbia
Hosted by the Jazz Ahead Initiative, the Mo Jazz Music Pageant’s mission is to supply free jazz music to Missourians.
Tickets: Admission is free
Dates: Oct. 7-9
Location: Stephens Lake Park in Columbia
Roots N Blues Pageant options native and nationwide roots, blues, nation and people artists. This yr’s lineup contains Wilco, Jon Batiste, Bleachers, Tanya Tucker, Hippo Campus and others.
Tickets: rootsnbluesfestival.com/tickets/
Dates: Oct. 14-15
Location: Iron County Courthouse in Ironton
The Arcadia Valley Mountain Music Pageant is a bluegrass and “old-time mountain” music pageant held every Might and October, about 80 miles south of St. Louis.
Tickets: Admission is free
Arkansas
For folk who want to take pleasure in dwell music in the Ozarks, northern Arkansas provides quite a lot of festivals all through the spring, summer season and fall. The Information-Chief compiled an inventory of Arkansas festivals which are inside a few three-hour drive from Springfield.
Dates: Might 20-21
Location: The Momentary in Bentonville
FreshGrass is a family-friendly bluegrass and roots music pageant, held in Arkansas and Massachusetts annually. The FreshGrass Basis, which hosts annually’s pageant, has a mission to create a sustainable pageant expertise by reusing and upcycling current supplies.
Tickets: themomentary.org/calendar/freshgrass-bentonville
Dates: July 29-30
Location: Riverfront Amphitheater in Fort Smith
This fall is the eighth annual Peacemaker music pageant, which options nation, rock, blues, crimson dust and Americana music. Headlining acts embody Zach Bryan, Lukas Nelson and POTR, Charley Crockett, and The Metal Woods.
Tickets: peacemakerfest.com/tickets/
Dates: Sept. 16-17
Location: Byrds Journey Middle in Ozark, Arkansas
A weekend camp-out live performance expertise, ByrdFest options quite a lot of rock tribute performances, together with Grateful Useless, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Phish.
Tickets: byrdfest.com/tickets.html
Dates: Sept. 23-25
Location: Sugar Creek Airstrip in Bentonville
A brand new music, artwork and expertise pageant, FORMAT will function greater than 80 dwell music acts with visible performances, simply 5 minutes away from downtown Bentonville. The pageant is in partnership with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Artwork and the Momentary. Musical acts embody Seaside Home, The Struggle on Medication, The Flaming Lips, Fatboy Slim and others.
Tickets: format-festival.com/tickets
Dates: Sept. 28-Oct. 1
Location: Mulberry Mountain in Ozark, Arkansas
After a two-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wakaan, an EDM music pageant, returns this fall.
Tickets: wl.seetickets.us/occasion/Wakaan-Music-Pageant-2022/467825?afflky=WakaanMusicFestival
Dates: Sept. 29-Oct. 2
Location: The Farm in Eureka Springs
Described as “The Harvest Moon Pageant,” Hillberry is an Americana, bluegrass and funk musical pageant.
Tickets: stubs.internet/tickets/4366/hillberry-music-festival-9-28-10-2
Date: July 1
Location: Walmart AMP in Rogers
Following the efficiency at Hollywood On line casino Amphitheatre in Maryland Heights in June, the Outlaw Music Pageant visits the Walmart AMP in Rogers, Arkansas.
Tickets: amptickets.queue-it.internet/?c=amptickets&e=amponsales42222&ver=v3-aspnet-3.5.1&cver=66&l=Customized+Amp+Structure+with+bgimage+Tag&t=httpspercent3apercent2fpercent2fbuy.amptickets.compercent2f24002
Are we lacking any regional music festivals? If there are any festivals that should be listed, e-mail gcross@gannett.com.
Greta Cross is the trending subjects reporter for the Springfield Information-Chief. Comply with her on Twitter and Instagram @gretacrossphoto.