Folk and Americana festivals

Folk and Americana festivals in 2026

Every bill still ahead of you with real Folk and Americana on it, deepest first. A festival needs at least 2 Folk and Americana acts to be here, so one stray booking on a bill about something else does not count.

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  Austin City Limits 2026October 2–11, 2026 · Zilker Park, Austin, TX10 Folk and Americana acts on the bill →
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  Raleigh Wide Open 2026October 1–3, 2026 · Downtown Raleigh, NC7 Folk and Americana acts on the bill →
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  Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2026October 2–4, 2026 · Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA6 Folk and Americana acts on the bill →
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  The Fest 2026October 23–25, 2026 · Gainesville, FL4 Folk and Americana acts on the bill →
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  World of Bluegrass 2026October 20–24, 2026 · Downtown Chattanooga, TN3 Folk and Americana acts on the bill →
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  Lollapalooza India 2027January 23–24, 2027 · Mahalaxmi Racecourse, Mumbai, India3 Folk and Americana acts on the bill →
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  Big Ears 2027April 1–4, 2027 · Downtown Knoxville, TN2 Folk and Americana acts on the bill →
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  Corona Capital 2026November 20–22, 2026 · Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City, Mexico2 Folk and Americana acts on the bill →
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  Good Moon 2026October 8–10, 2026 · Downtown Durham, NC2 Folk and Americana acts on the bill →

Who carries Folk and Americana this season

All 183 acts we have tagged Folk and Americana, sorted six ways. The lists disagree with each other, and the names they disagree about are usually the ones worth hearing.

Booked the most in 2026

The Folk and Americana acts who spent 2026 on the road. Go to more than one festival and you have probably seen a few of them already.

1. 1Audrey Hobert8Wry, conversational pop songwriting from Gracie Abrams's longtime collaborator turned solo act — diaristic detail delivered with sharp comic timing.
2. 2Cardinals7Cork's melodica-toting indie romantics — Fontaines-adjacent and rising fast, with a windswept, literary streak all their own.
3. 3Mumford & Sons7Banjo-driven crescendos that defined a decade of festival folk, now delivered with the electric guitars left plugged in — the singalongs never optional.
4. 4Violet Grohl7Yes, Dave's daughter — and a genuinely arresting voice striking her own path, closer to torch song than stadium rock.
5. 5Amble6Irish folk trio — hushed three-part harmonies and homesick story-songs that have been quietly filling rooms far bigger than anyone expected.
6. 6Max McNown6Oregon folk-country riser — earnest, streaming-era troubadour with a fanbase that found him one chorus at a time.
7. 7Father John Misty5Josh Tillman's lounge-lizard prophet act — gorgeous orchestration, acid wit, and a crooner's delivery that sells every barbed line.
8. 8Kingfishr5Anthemic Irish folk-rock — banjo-driven singalongs built for fields, Limerick lads on a steep national rise.
9. 9Alice Phoebe Lou4Berlin-via-Cape Town dream-folk — honeyed, unhurried songs that grew from street-performance beginnings into a quietly devoted worldwide fanbase.
10. 10Cameron Whitcomb4Backflipping former pipefitter with a howl — raw-nerve folk-country redemption songs delivered with gymnastic stage energy and zero polish where it counts.

Most upcoming bookings

Everything still ahead of us, for anyone with festivals left on the calendar.

1. 1Jesse Welles2The internet's protest-folk bard — a new topical song every week, Dylan-grade wit aimed at whatever the news cycle just did.

Most headline slots

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

1. 1Mumford & Sons5Banjo-driven crescendos that defined a decade of festival folk, now delivered with the electric guitars left plugged in — the singalongs never optional.
2. 2Brandi Carlile2Americana's reigning voice — eleven Grammys of thunder and grace, with a catalog that moves from whisper to belt like weather changing.

Most places played

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

1. 1Audrey Hobert8Wry, conversational pop songwriting from Gracie Abrams's longtime collaborator turned solo act — diaristic detail delivered with sharp comic timing.
2. 2Mumford & Sons7Banjo-driven crescendos that defined a decade of festival folk, now delivered with the electric guitars left plugged in — the singalongs never optional.
3. 3Amble6Irish folk trio — hushed three-part harmonies and homesick story-songs that have been quietly filling rooms far bigger than anyone expected.
4. 4Father John Misty6Josh Tillman's lounge-lizard prophet act — gorgeous orchestration, acid wit, and a crooner's delivery that sells every barbed line.
5. 5Violet Grohl6Yes, Dave's daughter — and a genuinely arresting voice striking her own path, closer to torch song than stadium rock.
6. 6Cardinals5Cork's melodica-toting indie romantics — Fontaines-adjacent and rising fast, with a windswept, literary streak all their own.
7. 7Max McNown5Oregon folk-country riser — earnest, streaming-era troubadour with a fanbase that found him one chorus at a time.
8. 8Alice Phoebe Lou4Berlin-via-Cape Town dream-folk — honeyed, unhurried songs that grew from street-performance beginnings into a quietly devoted worldwide fanbase.
9. 9Cameron Whitcomb4Backflipping former pipefitter with a howl — raw-nerve folk-country redemption songs delivered with gymnastic stage energy and zero polish where it counts.
10. 10Jesse Welles4The internet's protest-folk bard — a new topical song every week, Dylan-grade wit aimed at whatever the news cycle just did.

Most favorited by readers

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

1. 1Big ThiefAdrianne Lenker's trembling songcraft in band form — the most quietly devastating live act in indie rock.
2. 2Mumford & SonsBanjo-driven crescendos that defined a decade of festival folk, now delivered with the electric guitars left plugged in — the singalongs never optional.
3. 3Noah 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.
4. 4Alice Phoebe LouBerlin-via-Cape Town dream-folk — honeyed, unhurried songs that grew from street-performance beginnings into a quietly devoted worldwide fanbase.
5. 5Ben HowardMoody English guitar-folk — from the campfire anthems of 'Every Kingdom' to gorgeous, murky experimentalism, following his own quiet obsessions rather than the charts.
6. 6CAAMPBanjo-led Ohio folk warmth — campfire songs grown to amphitheater size, with ragged harmonies that make sincerity feel like the whole point.
7. 7Father John MistyJosh Tillman's lounge-lizard prophet act — gorgeous orchestration, acid wit, and a crooner's delivery that sells every barbed line.
8. 8Frank TurnerEnglish songwriter who came out of hardcore into acoustic singalongs, touring relentlessly with the Sleeping Souls and a crowd that knows every word.
9. 9James TaylorThe fingerpicked template for American confessional songwriting, carried by "Fire and Rain" and a voice that has barely shifted in fifty years.
10. 10John PrineA Chicago mail carrier who wrote "Sam Stone" and "Angel from Montgomery" and spent five decades finding the joke inside the heartbreak. Died in 2020.

Most saved to a plan

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

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

All 183 Folk and Americana acts

Audrey HobertCardinalsMumford & SonsViolet GrohlAmbleFather John MistyMax McNownKingfishrTom OdellAlice Phoebe LouCameron WhitcombDove EllisJesse WellesS.G. GoodmanBillie MartenBrandi CarlileFolk Bitch TrioJonah KagenKevin MorbyLucy DacusMolly TuttleMt. JoyPorch LightSierra FerrellSilvana EstradaSteph StringsTash SultanaWyatt FloresAaron Lee TasjanAmos LeeBandits On The RunBen HowardCaleb CaudleCassandra ColemanChance PeñaCharles Wesley GodwinDylan John ThomasFaye WebsterGoldFordJacob SharpJamie WebsterJensen McRaeJim LauderdaleJohn-RobertKacey MusgravesKen PomeroyKevin AtwaterKT TunstallMon RovîaNell MescalNoah KahanOld Crow Medicine ShowRainbow Kitten SurpriseRhiannon GiddensRyan BeattySamiaStephen Wilson Jr.The Head and the HeartThe Wilder BlueTim BarryWilcoYasmin WilliamsAbigail DowdAditya GadhviAldous HardingAlison Krauss & Union StationAltanAmigo the DevilAmy GerhartzAmy SpeaceAndrew ScotchieAngus and Julia StoneAni DiFrancoAnnahstasiaAnoushka MaskeyAnuv JainAsha BanksBaka BeyondBeans on ToastBig ThiefBonnie “Prince” BillyBright EyesBriston MaroneyCAAMPCarol HodgeCarol Hodge BandCarson McHonechrysalisClasse MoyenneDamien DempseyDarren KielyDashboard ConfessionalDavid RitschardDenise ChailaDónal Lunny, Máirtín O’Connor & Zoë ConwayDordánDowsersEddie Vedder & FriendsEleanor McEvoyEmperor XEthno USAFlorencia & the FeelingGab BouchardGigi PerezHaley HeynderickxHermitage Greenhey, nothingHoney DewdropsHoundmouthHowie DayIlliterate LightJake MinchJames Yorkston & Johanna SöderbergJason Isbell and the 400 UnitJess WilliamsonJoel AlmeJohn Francis FlynnJohn Otway & Wild Willy BarrettJon Tyler Wiley and the Virginia ChoirJoseph TerrellJoy OladokunKiely ConnellLanghorne SlimLaura BoosingerLily SeabirdLisa LoebLonesome Ace StringbandLord HuronLyn LapidMadison CunninghamMaighread & Tríona Ní DhomhnaillManuel GarcíaMatt MaesonMick FlanneryMilkweedMyles SmithNana GrizolNeil YoungOhtisPalmyraParis JacksonPatrick ArmouldPaula ColePresley BarkerRainbow GirlsRenRett MadisonRobert PlantRodrigo y GabrielaSam RussoSara ParkmanSeb LoweShovels & RopeSkyrieSons of the EastSorcha RichardsonSUSTO StringbandTaper's ChoiceThe Burney SistersThe Cox FamilyThe Felice BrothersThe Jerry Douglas BandThe Mary WallopersThe Paper KitesThe Saw DoctorsThe ScratchThe Slocan RamblersThe StunningThe WurzelsTia WoodTiny HabitsTom WalkerTrousdaleTurnpike TroubadoursVan MorrisonVictoria VictoriaViv & RileyWhiskey & Co.Will Hoge and his Rock and Roll BandWilliam PrinceFrank TurnerJames TaylorJohn Prine

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