R&B and Soul festivals

7 festivals still to come with R&B and Soul on the bill, carrying 43 of the 153 R&B and Soul acts we track. Every act has a page: which festivals they play, what time they go on once the festival says, and what they sound like if the name is new to you.

Most of these acts travel with a full band, so the drums hit harder outdoors than they do on record and a horn section cuts clean through open air. Singers stretch songs out, holding a note well past where the recording ends. Backing vocalists carry whole choruses on their own, and the crowd hears every word.

Soul and funk sets tend to land in the late afternoon and early evening, when the light is good and there is room to move. Alt-r&b and electro-soul run later, under a tent or indoors, with low light and bass you feel in the chest. Expect people singing back at the stage.

R&B and Soul festivals in 2026

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

Who carries R&B and Soul this season

All 153 acts we have tagged R&B and Soul, 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 R&B and Soul acts who spent 2026 on the road. Go to more than one festival and you have probably seen a few of them already.

  1. 1Blood Orange14Dev Hynes's velvety art-R&B — '80s soul textures, jazz chords, and quiet heartbreak from one of pop's most sought-after collaborators.
  2. 2Balu Brigada9Kiwi brothers making slinky, falsetto-led alt-funk — Auckland groove-pop polished to a late-night sheen, with basslines that do most of the flirting.
  3. 3Lola Young8'Messy' made her unavoidable — raw South London soul-pop with a busted-heart snarl and a voice that earns the Winehouse comparisons.
  4. 4Jessie Murph7A rasp built for heartbreak, dragging country songwriting through trap drums and open-wound honesty — genre lines treated as suggestions.
  5. 5Teddy Swims7A tattooed Georgian with a genuinely enormous soul voice, who covered his way to a following and then wrote the heartbreak records to match.
  6. 6GRiZ6Saxophone-wielding electro-funk — half of the GRIZTRONICS b2b with Subtronics, and a solo catalog of brass-blasted future-funk joy.
  7. 7Rochelle Jordan6UK-garage-inflected R&B — Kaytranada's favorite-vocalist energy, silk delivery over broken beats, two-step rhythms under velvet vocals.
  8. 8Dijon5Songs that sound recorded live in a crowded room by accident — ragged, intimate, and completely singular, with a live band that pushes them even further loose.
  9. 9Skye Newman5UK breakout with a smoky retro-soul voice and diaristic pop instincts — old-soul phrasing on new-school subjects.
  10. 10Bricknasty4Dublin band bending neo-soul and funk into something scruffier and more Irish than either genre expects — jagged, jazzy, and completely their own.

Most upcoming bookings

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

  1. 1Lola Young3'Messy' made her unavoidable — raw South London soul-pop with a busted-heart snarl and a voice that earns the Winehouse comparisons.
  2. 2Balu Brigada2Kiwi brothers making slinky, falsetto-led alt-funk — Auckland groove-pop polished to a late-night sheen, with basslines that do most of the flirting.
  3. 3Blood Orange2Dev Hynes's velvety art-R&B — '80s soul textures, jazz chords, and quiet heartbreak from one of pop's most sought-after collaborators.
  4. 4GRiZ2Saxophone-wielding electro-funk — half of the GRIZTRONICS b2b with Subtronics, and a solo catalog of brass-blasted future-funk joy.
  5. 5Leon Thomas2'Mutt' made him R&B's breakout craftsman — a producer-writer's touch with a showman's voice, years of behind-the-scenes credits finally center stage.

Most headline slots

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

  1. 1Teddy Swims4A tattooed Georgian with a genuinely enormous soul voice, who covered his way to a following and then wrote the heartbreak records to match.
  2. 2GRiZ3Saxophone-wielding electro-funk — half of the GRIZTRONICS b2b with Subtronics, and a solo catalog of brass-blasted future-funk joy.
  3. 3Kali Uchis3Velvet-toned bilingual soul that drifts between doo-wop pastiche and perreo without ever raising its voice — 'Telepatía' cool as a permanent state.
  4. 4Lola Young3'Messy' made her unavoidable — raw South London soul-pop with a busted-heart snarl and a voice that earns the Winehouse comparisons.
  5. 5RAYE3Britain's Grammy-and-BRIT-sweeping songwriter freed from label limbo — big-band soul-pop with real stakes, and a live show that earns every award.
  6. 6Chris Stapleton2A songwriter's songwriter with a howl that turns Nashville craft into something closer to Muscle Shoals soul — 'Tennessee Whiskey' just the entry point of a stacked catalog.
  7. 7Doechii2Switches cadence mid-bar like she's changing characters — theatrical, technically ferocious rap that never sits still long enough to be filed.
  8. 8Don Toliver2Sings trap like a psychedelic crooner — a warped, weightless voice floating over beats built for a stadium's worth of low end.
  9. 9Jennie2BLACKPINK's coolest-in-the-room star gone solo — sleek K-pop, R&B, and fashion-week poise at main-stage scale, with solo hits that stand on their own.
  10. 10Olivia Dean2The UK's warmest new pop-soul voice — effortless, jazz-schooled songwriting that's conquered charts on both sides of the Atlantic, charm fully intact live.

Most places played

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

  1. 1Blood Orange14Dev Hynes's velvety art-R&B — '80s soul textures, jazz chords, and quiet heartbreak from one of pop's most sought-after collaborators.
  2. 2Balu Brigada10Kiwi brothers making slinky, falsetto-led alt-funk — Auckland groove-pop polished to a late-night sheen, with basslines that do most of the flirting.
  3. 3Lola Young9'Messy' made her unavoidable — raw South London soul-pop with a busted-heart snarl and a voice that earns the Winehouse comparisons.
  4. 4Jessie Murph7A rasp built for heartbreak, dragging country songwriting through trap drums and open-wound honesty — genre lines treated as suggestions.
  5. 5GRiZ6Saxophone-wielding electro-funk — half of the GRIZTRONICS b2b with Subtronics, and a solo catalog of brass-blasted future-funk joy.
  6. 6Rochelle Jordan6UK-garage-inflected R&B — Kaytranada's favorite-vocalist energy, silk delivery over broken beats, two-step rhythms under velvet vocals.
  7. 7Doechii5Switches cadence mid-bar like she's changing characters — theatrical, technically ferocious rap that never sits still long enough to be filed.
  8. 8Bricknasty4Dublin band bending neo-soul and funk into something scruffier and more Irish than either genre expects — jagged, jazzy, and completely their own.
  9. 9Daily Bread4Dusty, hip-hop-rooted electro-soul that would sound at home on a boom-bap record if you slowed it down — Atlanta sample-craft in the Pretty Lights lineage.
  10. 10Dijon4Songs that sound recorded live in a crowded room by accident — ragged, intimate, and completely singular, with a live band that pushes them even further loose.

Most saved to a plan

The R&B and Soul acts people are building a Saturday around.

  1. 1Cory WongThe rhythm-guitar machine of Vulfpeck fame — relentlessly upbeat, impossibly tight funk with a horn-powered live band and a clinic's worth of right-hand technique.
  2. 2DUCKWRTHGenre-fluid alt-rap showman blending funk, punk energy, and silky R&B into one of the most danceable live sets in hip-hop.
  3. 3ISTABrooklyn collective throwing a cosmic dance party — garage grit, fuzzed-out disco shimmer, and deep-groove psychedelia from a many-limbed live band.
  4. 4Leo Brooks BandGrammy-winning Miami bassist for Pitbull and Lauryn Hill fronting his own band — country twang filtered through Caribbean roots and island-funk muscle.
  5. 5Jessie MurphA rasp built for heartbreak, dragging country songwriting through trap drums and open-wound honesty — genre lines treated as suggestions.
  6. 6Balu BrigadaKiwi brothers making slinky, falsetto-led alt-funk — Auckland groove-pop polished to a late-night sheen, with basslines that do most of the flirting.
  7. 7Blood OrangeDev Hynes's velvety art-R&B — '80s soul textures, jazz chords, and quiet heartbreak from one of pop's most sought-after collaborators.
  8. 8Chris StapletonA songwriter's songwriter with a howl that turns Nashville craft into something closer to Muscle Shoals soul — 'Tennessee Whiskey' just the entry point of a stacked catalog.
  9. 9CelesteSmoke-voiced British soul — torch songs with modern nerve, a BRIT-anointed voice built for the spotlight and the string section.
  10. 10E'lon JDBass-forward progressive jazz and soul — virtuosic low end under soulful, socially minded songwriting, in the Thundercat school of lead-instrument bass.

All 153 R&B and Soul acts

Blood OrangeBalu BrigadaLola YoungJessie MurphTeddy SwimsGRiZRochelle JordanDijonDoechiiSkye NewmanBricknastyDaily BreadKali UchisMariah the ScientistRavyn LenaeRAYEAlabama ShakesAmber MarkAUDREY NUNACelesteDestin ConradDon ToliverJim LegxacyJMSNKhamariLeon ThomasMalcolm ToddsosocamoThe Marcus King BandAZULCA7RIEL & Paco AmorosoChaka KhanChris StapletonClara La SanCory WongCouchDaniel CaesarDon WestDurand Jones & the IndicationsFKA TwigsGoldFordJalen NgondaJennieJon BatisteJorja SmithKelelaMaoliNourished by TimeOlivia DeanPawPaw RodSonny MilesSt. Paul and the Broken BonesSydTemsThee Sacred SoulsThundercatTinasheAlemedaAmaAmy GerhartzAndy Frasco & The U.N.AnnahstasiaBellahBig GramatikBLK ODYSSYBlu DeTigerCaitlin Krisko & The BroadcastChildish GambinoCommon SaintsCorinne Bailey RaeDabeullDeb NeverDemaeDUCKWRTHDurand BernarrE'lon JDElla MaiElmieneENNYErika de CasierFabiana PalladinoFernieFLOFlorencia & the FeelingFousheéFujii KazeGary Clark Jr.Gavin DeGrawGeezerGiveonGramatikhalf•aliveInfinity SongIsaiah RashadISTAJackie VensonJae StephensJamiroquaiJoé Dwèt FiléJustin BieberJustine SkyeKean KavanaghKilo KishKool & The GangLeo Brooks BandLettuceLila IkéMaddy O'NealMagnus FerrellManic FocusMarzzMaverick SabreMerebaMik PyroNe-YoNEZZANile Rodgers & ChicNu GeneaOdealOPIUOPJ MortonPretty LightsQur'an ShaheedRaelRebirth Brass BandSarah PotenzaSasha KeableSekouShawnee KishShinyribsSminoSneezySt. Paul & The Broken BonesSteve LacySwae LeeT-PainTedeschi Trucks BandTeezo TouchdownThe Brook & The BluffThe California HoneydropsThe Fairfield FourThe Gospel JubilatorsThe RootsTia WoodTinashe (DJ Set)Trombone Shorty & Orleans AvenueTrue LovesTyreseVan MorrisonVicky FarewellWesley JosephWHATUPRGYebba

R&B and Soul festivals: common questions

What festivals have the most R&B and Soul in 2026?

Camp Flog Gnaw 2026 (10 R&B and Soul acts), Hulaween 2026 (10 R&B and Soul acts), Austin City Limits 2026 (9 R&B and Soul acts). We count the acts on each published lineup rather than going by how a festival bills itself, so this is the depth of the actual R&B and Soul booking.

Where can I see R&B and Soul live in 2026?

7 festivals still to come have R&B and Soul on the bill. The next is Raleigh Wide Open 2026, October 1–3, 2026 at Downtown Raleigh, NC, with 4 R&B and Soul acts playing.

Which R&B and Soul artists are playing the most festivals in 2026?

Blood Orange (14), Balu Brigada (9), Lola Young (8), Jessie Murph (7), Teddy Swims (7). Counted per festival across the whole season, finished bills included.

How many R&B and Soul acts are playing festivals in 2026?

153 R&B and Soul acts appear on the lineups we track, across 7 festivals still to come. Each one has a page with its dates, stages and set times wherever the festival has published them.

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