Folk and Americana artists

We track 287 Folk and Americana artists. 135 are booked at festivals still to come, most at Big Ears and Treefort. 143 have tour dates on sale, 1115 shows in all.

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Who to know

Ranked by festivals still to come, then tour dates, then every booking we have on record.

On tour now

143 Folk and Americana artists with dates on sale, soonest first. From Ticketmaster, refreshed daily.

Playing festivals next

Every festival still to come with Folk and Americana artists on the bill, soonest first. The Folk and Americana festival guide ranks them by how deep they book.

Most headline slots

The names printed in the biggest type, trusted to send everyone home.

  1. 1Mumford & Sons6Banjo-driven crescendos that defined a decade of festival folk, now delivered with the electric guitars left plugged in. The singalongs are never optional.
  2. 2Phoebe Bridgers6Los Angeles songwriter with a near-whispered delivery and a gift for the devastating small detail, also a third of boygenius.
  3. 3Brandi Carlile4Americana's reigning voice, with eleven Grammys of thunder and grace and a catalog that moves from whisper to belt like weather changing.
  4. 4Gillian Welch & David Rawlings2Two voices and two guitars, writing songs that sound a hundred years old and were finished last year.
  5. 5Jack Johnson2Former pro surfer from Oahu's North Shore whose unhurried acoustic songs, 'Better Together' and 'Banana Pancakes' among them, made beach-day folk a mainstream sound.
  6. 6Jesse Welles2The internet's protest-folk bard writes a new topical song every week, with Dylan-grade wit aimed at whatever the news cycle just did.
  7. 7Kacey Musgraves2Deceptively gentle country that smuggles in sharp jokes and sharper edges under the pedal steel, with 'Golden Hour' grace and a Texas smirk.
  8. 8Nathaniel Rateliff2Denver songwriter with two modes: the horn-driven soul revue of the Night Sweats, and quieter solo records carried by his voice alone.
  9. 9Old Crow Medicine Show2'Wagon Wheel' originators and old-time revivalists, a string band that plays with punk-rock urgency.

Most places played

Whose year reads like a world tour that happened to be made of festivals.

  1. 1Violet Grohl15Yes, Dave's daughter, and a genuinely arresting voice striking her own path, closer to torch song than stadium rock.
  2. 2Stella Lefty13Los Angeles songwriter pairing pop hooks with country storytelling, whose breakout 'Boston' spread from TikTok to the Billboard Hot 100.
  3. 3Audrey Hobert8Wry, conversational pop songwriting from Gracie Abrams's longtime collaborator turned solo act, with diaristic detail delivered with sharp comic timing.
  4. 4Mumford & Sons8Banjo-driven crescendos that defined a decade of festival folk, now delivered with the electric guitars left plugged in. The singalongs are never optional.
  5. 5Amble7Irish folk trio with hushed three-part harmonies and homesick story-songs that have been quietly filling rooms far bigger than anyone expected.
  6. 6Cameron Whitcomb6Backflipping former pipefitter with a howl, delivering raw-nerve folk-country redemption songs with gymnastic stage energy and zero polish where it counts.
  7. 7Father John Misty6Josh Tillman's lounge-lizard prophet act, with gorgeous orchestration, acid wit, and a crooner's delivery that sells every barbed line.
  8. 8Jesse Welles6The internet's protest-folk bard writes a new topical song every week, with Dylan-grade wit aimed at whatever the news cycle just did.
  9. 9Max McNown6Oregon folk-country riser, an earnest, streaming-era troubadour with a fanbase that found him one chorus at a time.
  10. 10Phoebe Bridgers6Los Angeles songwriter with a near-whispered delivery and a gift for the devastating small detail, also a third of boygenius.

Most favorited by readers

The Folk and Americana artists people here actually listen to, booked or not.

  1. 1Phoebe BridgersLos Angeles songwriter with a near-whispered delivery and a gift for the devastating small detail, also a third of boygenius.
  2. 2Noah KahanNew England folk-pop about small towns and staying put, delivered with the kind of full-throated chorus that turns an amphitheatre into a choir.
  3. 3Big ThiefAdrianne Lenker's trembling songcraft in band form, and the most quietly devastating live act in indie rock.
  4. 4Mumford & SonsBanjo-driven crescendos that defined a decade of festival folk, now delivered with the electric guitars left plugged in. The singalongs are never optional.
  5. 5Father John MistyJosh Tillman's lounge-lizard prophet act, with gorgeous orchestration, acid wit, and a crooner's delivery that sells every barbed line.
  6. 6Old Crow Medicine Show'Wagon Wheel' originators and old-time revivalists, a string band that plays with punk-rock urgency.
  7. 7Rainbow Kitten SurpriseGenre-fluid Boone collective playing rapid-fire folk-rock with communal fervor, harmonies stacked high and crowds louder still.
  8. 8Alice Phoebe LouBerlin-via-Cape Town dream-folk: honeyed, unhurried songs that grew from street-performance beginnings into a quietly devoted worldwide fanbase.
  9. 9Ben HowardMoody English guitar-folk that runs from the campfire anthems of 'Every Kingdom' to gorgeous, murky experimentalism, following his own quiet obsessions rather than the charts.
  10. 10CAAMPBanjo-led Ohio folk warmth: campfire songs grown to amphitheater size, with ragged harmonies that make sincerity feel like the whole point.

Most saved to a plan

The Folk and Americana artists people are building a Saturday around.

  1. 1Aldous HardingNew Zealand's shapeshifting folk enigma, where every song is a different possession, delivered with unnerving stillness, strange voices, and total command of a silent room.
  2. 2Dove EllisHushed, unhurried songwriting from a new voice with old grace.
  3. 3Mumford & SonsBanjo-driven crescendos that defined a decade of festival folk, now delivered with the electric guitars left plugged in. The singalongs are never optional.
  4. 4Nana GrizolElephant 6-adjacent Athens folk-punk with horn-flecked, big-hearted anthems of queer joy and radical tenderness, community sung into being.
  5. 5WilcoAmerica's great art-rock institution, from 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot' to now, endlessly generous live, Nels Cline solos included.
  6. 6Audrey HobertWry, conversational pop songwriting from Gracie Abrams's longtime collaborator turned solo act, with diaristic detail delivered with sharp comic timing.
  7. 7DowsersMembers of Magic Tuber Stringband, Fust, and Weirs playing slacker-rock folk, with the British folk-rock tradition run through the NC DIY scene.
  8. 8AmbleIrish folk trio with hushed three-part harmonies and homesick story-songs that have been quietly filling rooms far bigger than anyone expected.
  9. 9Folk Bitch TrioMelbourne's deadpan folk harmonists: three voices, one wicked sense of humor, and close-harmony singing with a stand-up's timing.
  10. 10Haley HeynderickxFingerpicked folk parables ('The Bug Collector' and quiet devastation), garden-and-insect imagery hiding songs that cut deep.

All 287 Folk and Americana artists

Sized by how many of the festivals we track have booked each act.

Violet GrohlStella LeftyAudrey HobertCameron WhitcombMax McNownMumford & SonsAmbleCardinalsPhoebe BridgersDove EllisFather John MistyJesse WellesBrandi CarlileKacey MusgravesKingfishrLate Night ThoughtsSierra FerrellStephen Wilson Jr.Tom OdellWyatt Flores

Alice Phoebe LouChance PeñaJonah KagenMt. JoyMyles SmithOld Crow Medicine ShowS.G. GoodmanSteph StringsBec O'MalleyBillie MartenCharles Wesley GodwinFolk Bitch TrioGoldFordhey, nothingJack JohnsonJulien BakerKevin MorbyLucy DacusMolly TuttleMon RovîaNathan Evans & The Saint Phnx BandPorch LightPresley BarkerRainbow Kitten SurpriseSilvana EstradaTash SultanaThe Head and the HeartTim Barry

Aaron Lee TasjanAltanAmos LeeAnnahstasiaBandits On The RunBeans on ToastBen HowardBonnie “Prince” BillyBronwynCAAMPCaleb CaudleCassandra ColemanChatham County LineDashboard ConfessionalDonna The BuffaloDylan GossettDylan John ThomasFaye WebsterGillian Welch & David RawlingsHiss Golden MessengerJacob SharpJamie WebsterJensen McRaeJess WilliamsonJim LauderdaleJohn-RobertJosiah and the BonnevillesJoy OladokunKen PomeroyKevin AtwaterKT TunstallLily SeabirdNathaniel RateliffNell MescalNoah KahanParis JacksonRhiannon GiddensRodrigo AmaranteRyan BeattySamiaSons of the EastStar MolesThe Felice BrothersThe Jerry Douglas BandThe Lancashire HotpotsThe Mary WallopersThe ScratchThe Wilder BlueTrousdaleTurnpike TroubadoursWater TowerWilcoYasmin Williams49 WinchesterAbigail DowdAditya GadhviAdrianne LenkerAldous HardingAlison Krauss & Union StationAllison RussellAmerican AquariumAmigo the DevilAmy GerhartzAmy SpeaceAndrew ScotchieAngus and Julia StoneAni DiFrancoAnjimileAnoushka MaskeyAnuv JainAsha BanksAshley MonroeBaka BeyondBedouineBella WhiteBig ThiefBoy GoldenBrandy ClarkBright EyesBriston MaroneyBrotherkenzieCarol HodgeCarol Hodge BandCarson McHoneChatham RabbitschrysalisClasse MoyenneCorb LundCorey SmithDamien DempseyDaniela SpallaDarren KielyDavid RitschardDenise ChailaDónal Lunny, Máirtín O’Connor & Zoë ConwayDordánDowsersEddie Vedder & FriendsEleanor McEvoyEmily BarkerEmily WurramaraEmmylou HarrisEmperor XEthno USAFenne LilyFlorencia & the FeelingFranklin JonasGab BouchardGigi PerezGillian Welch & David Rawlings play Grateful Dead Acoustic ReckoningGuillem GisbertGwenifer RaymondHaley HeynderickxHayes CarllHermitage GreenHoney DewdropsHot Tuna AcousticHoundmouthHowie DayIlliterate LightJack LawrenceJack SavorettiJake MinchJames Yorkston & Johanna SöderbergJamie Lin Wilsonjasmine.4.tJason EadyJason Isbell and the 400 UnitJeff TweedyJenny Owen YoungsJoaco BurgosJoan ShelleyJoel AlmeJohn Francis FlynnJohn Otway & Wild Willy BarrettJon Tyler Wiley and the Virginia ChoirJordan FoleyJoseph TerrellKaki KingKiely ConnellKruger BrothersLanghorne SlimLaura BoosingerLindsay LouLisa LoebLogan GreeneLonesome Ace StringbandLord HuronLuciusLyn LapidMadison CunninghamMaighread & Tríona Ní DhomhnaillManuel GarcíaMartin Luke BrownMat KearneyMatt MaesonMatt PlessMedium BuildMick FlanneryMicky & The MotorcarsMilkweedMitch Greenhill & Mitch's KitchenNana GrizolNando GarcíaNatalie Merchant with Erik Della PennaNeil YoungNorah JonesOhtisOlivia GarcíaPalmyraPatrick ArmouldPaula ColePeter Stampfel and the Atomic Meta-PagansPickers AnonymousPony BradshawRainbow GirlsRanky TankyRemedy TreeRenRett MadisonRobert Lester FolsomRobert PlantRodrigo y GabrielaRosaliRosanne Cash and John LeventhalRyan BinghamsadurnSam RussoSara ParkmanScythianSean SolomonSearowsSeb LoweShovels & RopeSistaStringsSkyrieSorcha RichardsonStillhouse JunkiesSUSTO StringbandT. Michael ColemanTaper's ChoiceTele NovellaThe 502sThe Brothers ComatoseThe Burney SistersThe Cox FamilyThe Dead SouthThe HeligoatsThe Paper KitesThe Saw DoctorsThe Slocan RamblersThe StunningThe WaybacksThe White BuffaloThe WurzelsThis Is The KitTia WoodTiny HabitsTom WalkerTrampled by TurtlesVan MorrisonVania JuncoVashti BunyanVictoria VictoriaVincent Neil EmersonViv & RileyWeary RamblersWhiskey & Co.Will Hoge and his Rock and Roll BandWilliam PrinceZoh AmbaAllen ShamblinBill CallahanDar WilliamsFrank TurnerIndigo GirlsJames TaylorJohn PrineMipso

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EDM 529Indie 496Alternative 453Rock 390Pop 365Punk 317Hip-Hop 309House 267Metal 261Country 252R&B and Soul 226Hardcore 135Techno 134Dubstep and Bass 124Bluegrass 99Latin 96Jazz 76Emo 66Shoegaze and Dream Pop 62Trance 52Psychedelic 47Reggae and Dancehall 37Blues 32Drum & Bass 32Hardstyle and Hard Dance 22

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