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Bourbon & Beyond 2026 Lineup
Rock, roots and Americana over four days in Louisville, with bourbon and food billed alongside the bands.
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About Bourbon & Beyond 2026
Bourbon & Beyond is the roots-music half of Louisville's September double-header: the same Highland Festival Grounds as Louder Than Life the week before, and an almost entirely different crowd. Four days, 110 acts, and a bill built on the overlap between rock, Americana, and country: Foo Fighters, Mumford & Sons, Chris Stapleton, and Dave Matthews Band take a night each, with Kacey Musgraves, Jason Isbell, Charley Crockett, The Flaming Lips, and Portugal. The Man underneath them. The bourbon and the food programming are billed alongside the music rather than behind it, which sets the pace of the day: a distillery talk in the afternoon, a headliner after dark, and a long, unhurried stretch of bluegrass and soul in between.
Expect country, alt-rock, folk and bluegrass across 110 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Thursday to Sunday, four days
- Where
- Highland Festival Grounds at KY Expo Center, Louisville, KY
- Lineup
- 110 acts
- Website
- Official site
Bourbon & Beyond 2026 lineup & schedule: all 110 acts
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Banjo-driven crescendos that defined a decade of festival folk, now delivered with the electric guitars left plugged in. The singalongs are never optional.
Folk rockIndie folk
A songwriter's songwriter with a howl that turns Nashville craft into something closer to Muscle Shoals soul. 'Tennessee Whiskey' is just the entry point of a stacked catalog.
CountrySouthern soul
Violin, saxophone, and Matthews's rhythmic yelp make this a jam institution whose setlists still never repeat, and whose players still surprise each other nightly.
JamRoots rock
A restless folk singer who performs like the songs might get away from him if he stops moving, bringing pew-jumping revival energy nightly.
FolkAmericana
Southern rock grit on the undercard.
Rock
The Return Of Jackie & Judy
Power-pop hall-of-famers with a five-neck guitar and a catalogue built entirely out of choruses, and 'Surrender' still the correct answer to most questions.
Power-popHard rock
Fuzz-drenched Texas blues that keeps sliding into soul and hip-hop without ever losing the guitar, Austin's modern guitar hero at full sprawl.
Blues rockSoul
Loop-pedal singer-songwriter fare from the era when one guy and a guitar could still chart, where 'Collide' remains the slow-dance evidence.
Singer-songwriterPop-rock
'What's Up?' is one enormous, unavoidable song with a Linda Perry vocal nobody has managed to imitate since, reunited so a whole field can scream the hey-yeah-yeahs together.
Alt-rock
Throwing Copper made them inescapable in 1994 and the songs never really left. Ed Kowalczyk's clenched, searching delivery sits over guitar figures built to fill a field, with 'Lightning Crashes' still the moment a crowd goes quiet.
Alt-rockPost-grunge
Power-pop with one indelible turn-of-the-century single and a catalogue worth more than that, where 'Story of a Girl' still smiles when it cries.
Power-popAlt-rock
A mandolin virtuoso since childhood, now writing songs that justify the technique, with a bluegrass pedigree stretched into something personal.
BluegrassNewgrass
The jam scene's current standard-bearers are song-first, patient, and capable of going anywhere after the second chorus, with a fanbase growing by the tour.
JamIndie rock
Pop-punk lifers best known for an acoustic song that ate the world for a summer: 'Hey There Delilah' and sturdier rock behind it.
Pop-punkPop-rock
Motorik heartland rock: Springsteen refracted through a synth haze, transcendent live, 'Under the Pressure' as the long exhale.
Heartland rockIndie
Dancing electric-violin spectacle: classical chops at festival scale, choreography and pyrotechnics included, a one-woman production that earns the word spectacle.
Electronic violin
Josh Homme's robot-boogie riffs: heavy music with a lounge singer's sense of swing and menace, desert-rock royalty at full strut.
Desert rockAlt-rock
Piano-led mid-2000s radio balladry that soundtracked more television drama than most composers manage, with 'How to Save a Life' forever mid-montage.
Piano rockPop-rock
Noah Rinker
Songwriter from Shaver Lake in California's Sierra Nevada who learned on his church's piano; 'Save My Soul' spread online and led to a Warner Records deal.
Singer-songwriterCountry
Gabriella Rose
North Idaho singer-songwriter with a vintage country sound, heard as the featured voice on Zach Bryan's 2025 single 'Madeline'.
Alternative
Drumless string-band punk about drinking and dying, played fast enough to dance to: gallows humor at hoedown tempo.
Folk punkRagtime
Paul Janeway in a sequined jumpsuit, singing like a preacher over an eight-piece Alabama soul revue: testimony with a horn section.
SoulR&B
Banjo murder ballads delivered with genuine warmth and a stand-up comic's crowd work, the rare dark-folk act that leaves the whole room grinning.
FolkMurderfolk
Sibling harmonies over hushed, sun-faded folk: Australian soft-focus songs whose whispered intimacy has somehow scaled all the way to headline size.
Indie folkDream-pop
Henrik
Folk
Greenville, South Carolina bandleader who sings and plays guitar with a weight well beyond his years, playing blues-rock rooted in Southern soul rather than revivalism.
Blues rockSouthern soul
'Are You Gonna Be My Girl' and Aussie garage swagger, reunited, with enough riff-rock singles to keep the tank full.
Rock
Montana 'galaxy grass' is bluegrass instrumentation pushed toward psychedelia and volume, jamgrass with actual gravitational pull.
BluegrassJamgrass
Josh Tillman's lounge-lizard prophet act, with gorgeous orchestration, acid wit, and a crooner's delivery that sells every barbed line.
Indie folkChamber pop
Hawaiian island reggae built on a genuinely soulful lead vocal, with Maui warmth and country-soul phrasing.
Island reggaeR&B
A committed, captain's-hat-wearing tribute to smooth '70s AM radio, played entirely straight, because the smoothness is non-negotiable.
Yacht rockCovers
Iceland's stomp-and-holler exports bring 'Little Talks' and a decade of widescreen indie-pop, hey!-shouts included, Icelandic warmth at singalong scale.
Indie folk-pop
'Blister in the Sun' and the strangest great American songbook: acoustic punk forever, xylophone solos included.
Folk-punk
Sunny indie-pop hooks concealing consistently dark lyrics: a trick they've never stopped pulling since 'Pumped Up Kicks' snuck onto every radio.
Indie-popSynth-pop
Confetti cannons, giant balloons, and Wayne Coyne's cracked falsetto: a live show engineered as a sensory event, 'Do You Realize??' as the group hug.
Psych-rockArt-rock
Deceptively gentle country that smuggles in sharp jokes and sharper edges under the pedal steel, with 'Golden Hour' grace and a Texas smirk.
Country-popAmericana
Arizona-raised songwriter who broke through online, singing heartbreak country with a crack left in it.
Country
Buffalo Traffic Jam
Folk
The Creekers
Country
Teenage country singer who arrived with an enormous social-media following already in place, with polished radio instincts from someone barely old enough to drive.
Country
Retro-soul made by people who studied the records, with two voices trading leads over immaculate rhythm work, from falsetto sweetness to preacher grit.
SoulR&B
Red dirt country with a theatrical streak and a sense of humour that cuts, in Oklahoma storytelling that plays like a one-woman show with a band.
CountryRed dirt
Backflipping former pipefitter with a howl, delivering raw-nerve folk-country redemption songs with gymnastic stage energy and zero polish where it counts.
FolkCountry
Sardonic alt-country-rock from David Lowery, still funnier and stranger than its radio singles let on: 'Low' the gateway, the deep cuts the reward.
Alt-rockCountry-rock
Honky-tonk and Gulf Coast blues delivered by a genuine road-worn troubadour with a hat and a story to match, and an album-a-year work rate straight from the old school.
CountryBlues
California pop songwriter who found his audience online first, trading in blunt, bruised confessionals set to big radio-shaped hooks.
Pop
Burundi drums, pirate costumes, and glam swagger: 'Stand and Deliver', 'Prince Charming', and the rest of a hits catalog that defined new wave's dress-up era at its most gleefully theatrical.
New wavePost-punk
Progressive bluegrass played by a band happy to jam a traditional tune well past its natural length, with Grammy-winning chops and festival stamina.
BluegrassNewgrass
A rasp built for heartbreak, dragging country songwriting through trap drums and open-wound honesty, with genre lines treated as suggestions.
Alternative
Los Angeles songwriter pairing pop hooks with country storytelling, whose breakout 'Boston' spread from TikTok to the Billboard Hot 100.
Singer/songwriter
Unsparing, novelistic songwriting about the South, played by a band that can still level a room with a guitar solo.
AmericanaSouthern rock
Difford and Tilbrook's kitchen-sink character sketches set to some of the sharpest pop writing of the era, with 'Up the Junction' a short story in song.
New wavePower-pop
Gulf Coast southern rock with a frontman who sounds like he learned to sing in a revival tent, and 'Wondering Why' as the slow-burn breakout.
Southern rockCountry soul
Country-leaning confessional songwriting that stepped decisively out of a very long family shadow, with hushed duets and high-lonesome ache.
Alt-countryIndie-pop
Michigan alt-rock whose biggest song is far bleaker than its radio ubiquity suggested, and 'The Freshmen' still lands heavier than remembered.
Alt-rock
Texas southern rock with an organ in the mix and a slow-burn approach to a payoff, with 'Keep the Wolves Away' the campfire hymn.
Southern rockRed dirt
Late-'90s alt-rock with a warm, unfussy approach to a big chorus, and 'If You Could Only See' still glowing.
Post-grungeAlt-rock
Sons of Legion
Nashville outfit pulling blues, soul and Southern rock into their country, heavier and grittier than the format usually allows.
Country
Turn-of-the-millennium radio rock with a bigger acoustic-folk backstory than the hits suggest, and 'Everything You Want' still inescapable.
Alt-rockPost-grunge
Horn-driven neo-soul-pop with 'HandClap' engineered for exactly this kind of afternoon, and a two-vocalist front line that works every inch of stage.
Indie pop-soul
Lilith-era songwriting with jazz training underneath and a voice that goes places the radio edits never showed, and the cowboys question still stands.
Singer-songwriterAlt-pop
A former schoolteacher with a honeyed, understated folk-soul voice built for the late-afternoon slot, and an easy warmth that has aged into deep-catalog dependability.
Folk-soulSinger-songwriter
Canadian alt-rock with Raine Maida's distinctive strangled falsetto sitting above the crunch, plus 'Superman's Dead' and national-institution status up north.
Alt-rockPost-grunge
Oregon folk-country riser, an earnest, streaming-era troubadour with a fanbase that found him one chorus at a time.
Country-folk
A Kentucky native coming home, with a blues-soaked voice that outlived the one song everyone remembers, and 'One of Us' just the front door.
Blues rockRoots rock
Alaskan psych-rockers who backed into a global pop hit and kept the weirdness in the live set anyway, with 'Feel It Still' plus deep-catalog detours.
Psych-popIndie rock
The internet's protest-folk bard writes a new topical song every week, with Dylan-grade wit aimed at whatever the news cycle just did.
FolkProtest
'Good' still is, and so are these New Orleans alt-rock lifers, with easy charm and a '90s catalog deeper than the one-hit tag suggests.
Alt-rock
Adam Duritz rewriting his own lyrics live every night means the songs never quite settle into their recorded shape, which is exactly the appeal three decades in.
Alt-rockRoots rock
A Broadway-honed Telecaster player pushing honky-tonk into long-form psychedelic territory, with country chops and a jam band's appetite for the unknown.
Cosmic countryJam
Cat-eye glasses and precise, conversational songwriting from the last great era of the coffeehouse single, where 'Stay' still lands soft and exact.
Singer-songwriterAlt-pop
Darius Rucker's warm baritone over songs that sold fifteen million copies and never once tried to be cool, which is precisely why they aged well.
Roots rockPop-rock
The Stews
Auburn, Alabama band formed in 2020, working a loose, guitar-forward rock sound honed on the Southeastern college circuit.
Rock
Caitlynne Curtis
Country
As You Were
Pop
Stanley Simmons
Rock
Penelope Road
Atlanta group that came together in 2022, working a guitar-led strain of indie rock.
Alternative
Nashville acoustic band of veteran touring and session players, bluegrass at the core with country, blues and jazz in Josh Martin's songs.
Country
Kevian Kraemer
Alternative
Kentucky drawl, punk heart: swampy Southern storytelling with teeth, farm-town detail delivered with DIY conviction.
Southern rockFolk
Mason Via
Carolina-raised singer and songwriter who toured as a member of Old Crow Medicine Show before returning to his own bluegrass songs.
BluegrassAmericana
Magoo
Denver band formed in 2022, stretching bluegrass instrumentation into loose, improvisation-heavy sets.
Country
Hushed southern-gothic folk duo trading harmonies over songs that sound like they were recorded in a room at 3am, with Georgia intimacy that silences a tent.
Indie folkChamber-folk
Berklee-bred horn-pop that's tighter and sweeter than a band this young has any right to be. Boston funk with genuine pop songcraft up front.
FunkSoul-pop
Nathan Bess
Country
Virginia trio built on three-part harmony and rotating lead vocals, with folk songwriting and string-band bones.
Folk
Lou Ridley
Country
Ben Chapman
Southern songwriter who calls his sound country-fried funky-tonk, with the 2025 album 'Feet on Fire' produced by Anderson East.
CountryFunk
Asheville five-piece pushing string-band instrumentation toward progressive folk, with tight ensemble playing and a taste for the unexpected turn.
Bluegrass
Jason Scott & the High Heat
Oklahoma band pushing Red Dirt songwriting toward heartland rock, with a frontman's plainspoken storytelling carried by a loud, road-tested band.
Country
'Look At The Time' broke him overnight, and it comes with big-voiced Southern alt-rock, grunge shadows and arena aims.
RockAlt-rock
Northern California trio whose close harmonies carry songs that swing between hushed intimacy and raucous, politically pointed singalongs.
Alternative folk
Shelby Means
Folk
Atlus
Pop
Louisiana singer with a gravel baritone and a hard-edged, outlaw-leaning streak, who built his audience through streaming rather than country radio.
Country
Levi Turner
Country
Rattlesnake Milk
Austin band running honky-tonk through a cowpunk filter, with country songcraft played with rock and roll looseness.
Country
Still Unknown
Bluegrass
Haircut 100
Pop
The Fretliners
Colorado string band working the fast, tight end of contemporary bluegrass, with traditional instrumentation and original writing.
Folk
Meels
Singer/songwriter
Hunter Hawkins
Singer/songwriter
Clover County
Alternative
Emerging indie songwriter.
Pop
World Famous Pets
Folk-rock
Vickie Vaughn Band
Country
Caleb & Reeb
The Steel Wheels
Americana
The headliners
Foo Fighters · Thirty years of Dave Grohl turning grief and volume into the most reliably cathartic rock show going, with a hits catalog three hours deep, played like it's still a club gig.
Mumford & Sons · Banjo-driven crescendos that defined a decade of festival folk, now delivered with the electric guitars left plugged in. The singalongs are never optional.
Chris Stapleton · A songwriter's songwriter with a howl that turns Nashville craft into something closer to Muscle Shoals soul. 'Tennessee Whiskey' is just the entry point of a stacked catalog.
Dave Matthews Band · Violin, saxophone, and Matthews's rhythmic yelp make this a jam institution whose setlists still never repeat, and whose players still surprise each other nightly.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Jesse Welles · A new protest song on the internet most weeks, and better live than the phone videos suggest.
Cameron Whitcomb · Ex-pipefitter with a howl and a backflip: the rawest half hour of Saturday.
hey, nothing · Two voices and not much else. Go early, stand close, and let the field fill up behind you.
Couch · Berklee-trained horn-pop; the most purely fun forty-five minutes on the Thursday bill.
Sawyer Hill · One song broke him overnight. The rest of the set explains why it stuck.
Max McNown · Streaming-era folk-country with a voice that quiets a field on the Sunday bill.
Other acts worth planning around
Kacey Musgraves · Nashville craft with the jokes and the knives left in, the sharpest writing on the weekend.
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit · Songs specific enough to feel like eavesdropping, played loud enough to still be a rock show.
The Flaming Lips · Confetti, balloons, and Wayne Coyne. Stand somewhere you can see the whole stage.
Live · Added to the Thursday bill in August: 'Throwing Copper' front to back is not promised, but the songs that made 1994 still land like they did.
Charley Crockett · Prolific to the point of absurdity, and every record another dispatch from the road.
St. Paul and the Broken Bones · An eight-piece Alabama revue with a frontman who works a crowd like a congregation.
Adam Ant · Burundi drums and pirate costumes, played entirely straight and better than it has any right to be.
Yachtley Crew · Smooth '70s AM radio in captain's hats, performed with total sincerity, the weekend's best palate cleanser.
The lineup by day
Thursday lineup (September 24)
Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Goose, The War on Drugs, 4 Non Blondes, Gary Clark Jr. + 23 more
Thursday set times (29 sets)
- The Stews · Barrel Stage
- Caitlynne Curtis · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Langhorne Slim · Oak Stage
- Congress The Band · Barrel Stage
- As You Were · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Stanley Simmons · 100 Proof Stage
- The Return Of Jackie & Judy · Oak Stage
- Penelope Road · Revival Stage
- Wood Box Heroes · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Cheap Trick · Barrel Stage
- Kevian Kraemer · 100 Proof Stage
- S.G. Goodman · Revival Stage
- Gary Clark Jr. · Oak Stage
- Mason Via · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Howie Day · 100 Proof Stage
- 4 Non Blondes · Barrel Stage
- Magoo · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- hey, nothing · Revival Stage
- Live · Oak Stage
- Nine Days · 100 Proof Stage
- Sierra Hull · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Couch · Revival Stage
- Goose · Barrel Stage
- Plain White T's · 100 Proof Stage
- The War on Drugs · Oak Stage
- Lindsey Stirling · Revival Stage
- Queens of the Stone Age · Barrel Stage
- The Fray · 100 Proof Stage
- Foo Fighters · Oak Stage
Friday lineup (September 25)
Mumford & Sons, Kacey Musgraves, Foster the People, Of Monsters and Men, The Flaming Lips, Father John Misty + 22 more
Friday set times (28 sets)
- Nathan Bess · Barrel Stage
- Noah Rinker · Oak Stage
- Palmyra · Revival Stage
- Lou Ridley · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Ben Chapman · 100 Proof Stage
- Gabriella Rose · Barrel Stage
- Jason Scott & the High Heat · Revival Stage
- Fireside Collective · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- The Devil Makes Three · Oak Stage
- Sawyer Hill · 100 Proof Stage
- St. Paul and the Broken Bones · Barrel Stage
- Amigo the Devil · Revival Stage
- Rainbow Girls · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Angus and Julia Stone · Oak Stage
- Henrik · 100 Proof Stage
- Shelby Means · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Marcus King Band · Barrel Stage
- Jet · Revival Stage
- Kitchen Dwellers · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Father John Misty · Oak Stage
- Maoli · 100 Proof Stage
- Yachtley Crew · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Of Monsters and Men · Barrel Stage
- Violent Femmes · Revival Stage
- Foster the People · Oak Stage
- The Flaming Lips · 100 Proof Stage
- Kacey Musgraves · Barrel Stage
- Mumford & Sons · Oak Stage
Saturday lineup (September 26)
Chris Stapleton, The Red Clay Strays, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Jessie Murph, Charley Crockett, Squeeze + 21 more
Saturday set times (27 sets)
- Atlus · Barrel Stage
- Bryan Martin · Oak Stage
- Avery Anna · Barrel Stage
- Levi Turner · 100 Proof Stage
- Buffalo Traffic Jam · Oak Stage
- Rattlesnake Milk · Revival Stage
- The Creekers · 100 Proof Stage
- Maddox Batson · Barrel Stage
- Still Unknown · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Haircut 100 · Revival Stage
- Durand Jones & the Indications · Oak Stage
- Kaitlin Butts · 100 Proof Stage
- The Fretliners · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Cameron Whitcomb · Barrel Stage
- Cracker · Revival Stage
- Meels · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Charley Crockett · Oak Stage
- Matt Hansen · 100 Proof Stage
- Adam Ant · Revival Stage
- The Infamous Stringdusters · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Jessie Murph · Barrel Stage
- Stella Lefty · 100 Proof Stage
- Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit · Oak Stage
- Squeeze · Revival Stage
- The Red Clay Strays · Barrel Stage
- Noah Cyrus · 100 Proof Stage
- Chris Stapleton · Oak Stage
Sunday lineup (September 27)
Dave Matthews Band, Hootie and the Blowfish, Counting Crows, Jesse Welles, Portugal. The Man, Max McNown + 20 more
Sunday set times (26 sets)
- Hunter Hawkins · Barrel Stage
- The Verve Pipe · 100 Proof Stage
- Uncle Lucius · Oak Stage
- Clover County · Revival Stage
- Ryman · Barrel Stage
- Tonic · 100 Proof Stage
- Sons of Legion · Oak Stage
- World Famous Pets · Revival Stage
- Vertical Horizon · 100 Proof Stage
- Fitz and the Tantrums · Barrel Stage
- Paula Cole · Revival Stage
- Amos Lee · Oak Stage
- Vickie Vaughn Band · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Our Lady Peace · 100 Proof Stage
- Max McNown · Barrel Stage
- Caleb & Reeb · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Joan Osborne · Revival Stage
- Portugal. The Man · Oak Stage
- The Steel Wheels · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Jesse Welles · Barrel Stage
- Better than Ezra · 100 Proof Stage
- Counting Crows · Oak Stage
- Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Lisa Loeb · Revival Stage
- Hootie and the Blowfish · Barrel Stage
- Dave Matthews Band · Oak Stage
Bourbon & Beyond 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Bourbon & Beyond 2026?
September 24–27, 2026 (Thursday through Sunday).
Where does Bourbon & Beyond take place?
Highland Festival Grounds at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville: the same site as Louder Than Life the week before.
Who is headlining Bourbon & Beyond 2026?
Foo Fighters (Thursday), Mumford & Sons (Friday), Chris Stapleton (Saturday), and Dave Matthews Band (Sunday).
How many acts are playing Bourbon & Beyond 2026?
110 announced acts across four days.
Is the bourbon part actually a big deal?
It's billed alongside the music, not behind it. Tastings, distillery sessions, and chef demos run through the afternoon. Details and ticket add-ons are on the official festival site.
What days do specific acts play?
Every act now has a day, a stage and a set time. Expand the full lineup below, or use the day-by-day breakdown. The festival published its full schedule on 12 August.
How do I figure out which of the 110 acts I'd actually like?
Tell the finder at the top of this page a few bands you love. It'll match you with your must-see sets, with reasons why.
When is Bourbon & Beyond 2027?
Bourbon & Beyond is expected back in September 2027; the festival has not announced the 2027 dates yet. The 2026 lineup stays on this page until it does.
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