10 Confirmed Festivals For 2021 You Can Start Planning For Now

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Remember that feeling that you got when you were planning which festivals to attend? While we may not have experienced that giddiness in a minute, festivals have been preparing for next year, and now you can too.

Let’s face it. 2020 is a wash as far as festivals go. There’s no point to dwelling on it, so let’s look ahead at what’s to come. A handful of festivals have already announced their lineups for next year, and are even available to buy tickets to. Not that there’s any rush, but knowing you have something to look forward to can seriously be therapeutic, and we could all use a little happiness in our lives right now.

You can get an early start on your 2021 festival planning with these ten festivals we know are happening next year. Enjoy!

Outside Lands

Date: August 6-8, 2021
Location: San Francisco, California
Most excited for: The City by the Bay will be hosting some of our favorites such as Tame Impala, Tyler, The Creator, ZHU, Khruangbin, and Polo & Pan.
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Primavera Sound

Date: June 2-6, 2021
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Most excited for: Gorillaz, Jamie xx, Disclosure… just to name a few. This is one easily worth traveling overseas for and is considered by many to be one of the best music festivals in the world.
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Summer Camp

Date: May 29-31, 2021
Location: Chillicothe, Illinois
Most excited for: The one festival where you can enjoy jam bands, bass-heavy DJs, and hip-hop legends Three 6 Mafia. Yeah, count us in. There will not be a single dull moment at Summer Camp next year.
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Riot Fest

Date: September 17-19, 2021
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Most excited for: With My Chemical Romance confirmed, along with Lupe Fiasco performing 2007’s The Cool, Riot Fest is gearing up to be a full on nostalgia overload. These are some rare performances that we are NOT going to miss.
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Imagine Festival

Date: September 17-19, 2021
Location: Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia
Most excited for: Running into the Chattahoochee hills to see some of the best acts EDM has to offer, including some wild b2b performances. We’re dying to see how the other two headliners are.
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The following festivals may not have lineups confirmed yet for next year, but they have officially announced that they will be hosting their events. You can definitely include these during your

Buku

Date: March 19-20, 2021
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Most excited for: Buku has the opportunity of being one of the first festivals to take place in 2021. If they’re able to move forward, it would be a glorious celebration of our return to music festivals. We have seven months to conquer this pandemic so we can all go party in New Orleans.

Hangout Fest

Date: May 15-17, 2021
Location: Gulf Shores, Alabama
Most excited for: Does anything sound better than hanging out on the beach with your friends while some of the biggest names in music play on a massive stage in front of you? That’s all we want right now.

EDC Las Vegas

Date: May 21-23, 2021
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Most excited for: All levels of PLUR will be exponentially amplified when over 100,000 of the world’s happiest ravers come together in Las Vegas again. A festival that radiates positivity will be taken to levels in 2021.

Ultra

Date: March 26-28, 2021
Location: Miami, Florida
Most excited for: With Ultra and WMC being music mecca at the beginning of each spring, you can bet that Miami is going to absolutely explode once it’s time to reconvene in 2021. We want to be there for every second of Miami Music Week next year.

Electric Forest

Date: TBA (estimated late June 2021)
Location: Rothbury, Michigan
Most excited for: Forest was getting ready to deliver their highly-anticipated Decade One celebration for 2020 after 10 wildly successful years. With a full year off, you can bet the folks at Forest HQ are going to put everything they got into 2021, making this edition one of the most epic festivals in their history.