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Billboard’s Music Industry Events Calendar

By Billboard · May 27, 2026 · 10 min read Billboard ↗

As part of our continuing efforts to serve the music industry and its creators, Billboard Pro now features a music industry events calendar for readers.

The calendar will act as music’s most complete summary major national and international industry events, from conferences to festivals to networking mixers and more. Just as Billboard is music’s must-read source for news, charts and analysis, now it also is the go-to for business happenings.

May 2026

May 16-28 – DanceAfrica Festival (New York)
May 25-June 6 – bamX — Black Music Week (Atlanta)
May 27-29 – Bridge Conference (Umag, Croatia)
May 28-30 – Dusty Vaquero Days festival (Gillette, Wyo.)
May 29-31 – The Night Temple Music in Visual Media Conference (Los Angeles)
May 30-31 – Roots Picnic (Philadelphia)

June 2026

June 1 – Darius & Friends Benefiting St. Jude (Nashville)
June 1-6 – SXSW London (London)
June 1-July 1 – Blue Note Jazz Festival (New York)
June 3 – New York Music Month Conference (New York)
June 3-5 – AIMS: AI Music Summit (Boston)
June 4 – CISAC General Assembly (Paris)
June 4-5 – Billboard Country Live (Nashville)
June 4-6 – HIGH END Vienna (Vienna)
June 4-6 – Primavera Sound Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
June 4-7 – Carolina Country Music Fest (Myrtle Beach, S.C.)
June 4-7 – CMA Fest (Nashville)
June 5-7 – Governors Ball Festival (New York)
June 5-7 – Rock am Ring (Nürburg, Germany)
June 5-7- Rock im Park (Nuremberg, Germany)
June 6-7 – All Things Go Toronto festival (Toronto)
June 6-7 – Railbird Music Festival (Lexington, Ky.)
June 7 – Tony Awards (New York)
June 7-10 – NIVA ’26 (Minneapolis)
June 8 – Libera Awards (New York)
June 8 – UJA Federation of New York Music Visionary of the Year gala (New York)
June 8-11 – A2IM Indie Week (New York)
June 9 – AIMP Global Music Publishing Summit (New York)
June 9 – DIMA Summer Members Meeting & Industry Gathering (New York)
June 9-11 – Hull Music Cities Convention (Kingston upon Hull, England)
June 10 – National Music Publishers’ Association annual meeting (New York)
June 10-11 – NAMM NeXT Europe (Amsterdam)
June 10-14 – Download Festival (Leicestershire, U.K.)
June 11 – Songs in Stages: A Music Gala Brunch Benefitting The SONA Foundation/NYU Langone Health (New York)
June 11-13 – Rock the South festival (Decatur, Ala.)
June 11-14 – Bonnaroo (Manchester, Tenn.)
June 11-21 – Meltdown festival (London)
June 12 – The Connie Orlando Foundation Black Women in Music Dinner (Los Angeles)
June 12-13 – 5 O’Clock Somewhere Fest (West Palm Beach, Fla.)
June 12-14 – SmashFest music summit (Nashville)
June 12-14 – Summer Smash festival (Bridgeview, Ill.)
June 13 – Braves Country Fest (Atlanta)
June 13 – MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN (Tokyo)
June 13-14 – All Good Now festival (Columbia, Md.)
June 18 – Global Citizen Live: Tokyo (Tokyo)
June 18-20 – Sónar Festival (Barcelona, Spain)
June 18-20 – Summerfest weekend 1 (Milwaukee)
June 18-21 – Barefoot Country Music Fest (Wildwood, N.J.)
June 18-21 – Hellfest (Clisson, France)
June 18-21 – The Isle of Wight Festival (Newport, England)
June 18-21 – Tailgate N’ Tallboys festival (Bloomington, Ill.)
June 19-21 – Green River Festival (Greenfield, Mass.)
June 19-21 – Sónar Week (Barcelona)
June 19-20 – Zootown Music Festival (Missoula, Mont.)
June 19-21 – We Belong Here Brooklyn festival (New York)
June 25-27 – Summerfest weekend 2 (Milwaukee)
June 25-28 – Electric Forest festival (Rothbury, Mich.)
June 25-July 4 – Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (Montreal)
June 26-28 – Wilco’s Solid Sound festival (North Adams, Mass.)

July 2026

July 2-4 – Summerfest weekend 3 (Milwaukee)
July 2-5 – Rock Werchter festival (Rotselaar, Belgium)
July 3 – Roundhay Festival (Leeds, England)
July 3-5 – ESSENCE Festival of Culture (New Orleans)
July 3-5 – Kappa FuturFestival (Torino, Italy)
July 3-5 – Love Supreme Jazz Festival (East Sussex, England)
July 3-18 – Montreux Jazz Festival (Montreux, Switzerland)
July 8-11 – Mad Cool festival (Madrid)
July 8-12 – Windy City Smokeout festival (Chicago)
July 9 – O2 Silver Clef Awards (London)
July 9-19 – Festival D’été de Québec (Quebec City, Quebec, Canada)
July 10 – BST Hyde Park festival (London)
July 10-11 – Minnesota Country Club Festival (St. Paul, Minn.)
July 10-12 – Wireless Festival (London)
July 16-18 – 4848 Festival (Snowshoe, W. Va.)
July 16-19 – Country Thunder Wisconsin festival (Twin Lakes, Wis.)
July 17-19 – Inkcarceration festival (Mansfield, Ohio)
July 17-19 – MATI Festival and Conference (St. Louis)
July 17-19 – Minnesota Yacht Club Festival (St. Paul, Minn.)
July 17-19 – Under the Big Sky festival (Whitefish, Mont.)
July 18-19 – Summer of ’99 and Beyond Festival (Tinley Park, Ill.)
July 23-25 – Headwaters Country Jam (Three Forks, Mont.)
July 24 – Hot 97 Summer Jam (Newark, N.J.)
July 24-25 – Eaux Claires festival (Eau Claire, Wis.)
July 24-26 – Newport Folk Festival (Newport, R.I.)
July 28-Aug. 1 – Latin Alternative Music Conference (New York)
July 30 – AIR Awards (Adelaide, Australia)
July 30-Aug. 1 – Hinterland Music Festival (St. Charles, Iowa)
July 30-Aug. 2 – Lollapalooza (Chicago)
July 30-Aug. 2 – Y Not Festival (Pikehall, England)
July 31-Aug. 2 – Newport Jazz Festival (Newport, R.I.)
July 31-Aug. 2 – OSHEAGA Music and Arts Festival (Montreal)

August 2026

Aug. 1-2 – HARD Summer (Inglewood, Calif.)
Aug. 2-4 – Musikfest Music Industry Conference (Bethlehem, Pa.)
Aug. 3 – Country Radio Hall of Fame Induction and Dinner (Nashville)
Aug. 5-9 – Boardmasters festival (Newquay, England)
Aug. 7-8 – Up in the Sky Music Festival (Aspen, Colo.)
Aug. 7-9 – Baja Beach Fest (Rosarito Beach, Mexico)
Aug. 7-9 – Outside Lands (San Francisco)
Aug. 7-23 – L.A. Jazz Festival (Los Angeles)
Aug. 8 – Head in the Clouds Music & Arts Festival (Pasadena, Calif.)
Aug. 12-15 – Iceland Eclipse festival (Snæfellsnes Peninsula, Iceland)
Aug. 12-16 – Boomtown Festival (South Downs National Park, England)
Aug. 14-16 – Flow Festival (Helsinki, Finland)
Aug. 14-16 – KCON LA (Los Angeles)
Aug. 20-22 – Las Vegas Songwriters Festival (Las Vegas)
Aug. 20-23 – Green Man Festival (Bannau Brycheiniog National Park, Wales)
Aug. 22 – Just Like Heaven festival (Pasadena, Calif.)
Aug. 25 – SOURCE Hall of Fame Awards (Nashville)
Aug. 25-30 – MUTEK Montréal festival (Montreal)
Aug. 26-30 – Rock en Seine festival (Domaine national de Saint-Cloud, France)
Aug. 27-30 – Creamfields festival (Daresbury, England)
Aug. 27-30 – Reading & Leeds Festival (Reading & Leeds, England)
Aug. 28-29 – All Points East festival (London)

September 2026

Sept. 1-4 – BIGSOUND (Brisbane, Australia)
Sept. 3-6 – End of the Road festival (Dorset, England)
Sept. 4-6 – Country Splash festival (San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico)
Sept. 4-5 – Vive Latino España (Zaragoza, Spain)
Sept. 4-6 – Velocity at Field of Dreams festival (Dyersville, Iowa)
Sept. 4-7 – ARC Music Festival (Chicago)
Sept. 5-6 – Arre festival (Mexico City)
Sept. 5-6 – Bumbershoot Arts & Music Festival (Seattle)
Sept. 14 – Primetime Emmys (Los Angeles)
Sept. 15 – T.J. Martell Foundation New York Honors Gala (New York)
Sept. 16 – Americana Honors & Awards (Nashville)
Sept. 17-20 – Louder Than Life festival (Louisville, Ky.)
Sept. 18-20 – Borderland Music and Arts Festival (East Aurora, N.Y.)
Sept. 18-20 – Cascade Equinox Festival (Redmond, Oreg.)
Sept. 18-20 – Making Time ∞ festival (Philadelphia)
Sept. 18-20 – Shaky Knees Music Festival (Atlanta)
Sept. 19-20 – Experts Only festival (New York)
Sept. 19-20 – Sea.Hear.Now Festival (Asbury Park, N.J.)
Sept. 22 – Nashville Songwriter Awards (Nashville)
Sept. 24-27 – Bourbon & Beyond festival (Louisville, Ky.)
Sept. 25-26 – Somewhere Festival & Conference (Wichita, Kans.)
Sept. 25-27 – All Things Go Music Festival (Columbia, Md.)
Sept. 25-27 – All Things Go NYC (New York)
Sept. 25-27 – Oceans Calling Festival (Ocean City, Md.)
Sept. 25-27 – Ohana Festival (Dana Point, Calif.)
Sept. 27 – MTV Video Music Awards (Los Angeles)

October 2026

Oct. 1 – Day Zero Tulum festival (Tulum, Mexico)
Oct. 1-4 – Aftershock festival (Sacramento, Calif.)
Oct. 2-3 – Country Calling festival (Ocean City, Md.)
Oct. 2-4 – Austin City Limits Festival weekend 1 (Austin)
Oct. 7-9 – Beyond The Music conference (Salford, England)
Oct. 9-11 – Austin City Limits Festival weekend 2 (Austin)
Oct. 9-11 – FORM Arcosanti festival (Arcosanti, Ariz.)
Oct. 10 – Strummingbird festival Victoria (Ballarat, Australia)
Oct. 10-11 – Head Trip festival (Indio, Calif.)
Oct. 13-16 – Mondo.NYC conference (New York)
Oct. 15-18 – Vinyl Summit (Salina, Kans.)
Oct. 16-18 – Mission Bayfest (San Diego)
Oct. 17 – Strummingbird festival New South Wales (Newcastle, Australia)
Oct. 18 – Strummingbird festival Queensland (Sunshine Coast, Australia)
Oct. 19-22 – Billboard Latin Music Week (Miami)
Oct. 21-25 – Amsterdam Dance Event (Amsterdam)
Oct. 22 – Mercury Prize ceremony (Newcastle upon Tyne, England)
Oct. 24 – Sick New World festival (Fort Worth, Tex.)
Oct. 24-25 – Bamba Festival (Santiago, Chile)
Oct. 27 – City of Hope Spirit of Life Gala (West Hollywood, Calif.)
Oct. 27-29 – Music Tectonics conference (Santa Monica, Calif.)

November 2026

Nov. 8-10 – jump.global Summit (Los Angeles)
Nov. 9 – Music Industry Trusts (MITS) Award ceremony (London)
Nov. 11 – Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year ceremony (Las Vegas)
Nov. 12 – Latin Grammy Awards (Las Vegas)
Nov. 14 – Darker Waves festival (Huntington Beach, Calif.)
Nov. 14 – Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards (Los Angeles)
Nov. 18 – CMA Awards (Nashville)
Nov. 20-22 – Corona Capital festival (Mexico City)
Nov. 26-28 – XP Music Futures conference (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
Nov. 28-29 – Primavera Sound Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

December 2026

Dec. 5-6 – Primavera Sound São Paulo (São Paulo)
Dec. 7-8 – Live Summit Middle East (Abu Dhabi)
Dec. 11-13 – Tomorrowland Thailand (Pattaya, Thailand)

January 2027

Jan. 17 – globalFEST winter festival (New York)

February 2027

Feb. 7 – Grammy Awards (Los Angeles)

March 2027

March 12-14 C2C (Country to Country) Festival (London, Glasgow & Manchester, United Kingdom)
March 14 – 99th Annual Oscar s (Los Angeles)
March 17-19 – Country Radio Seminar (Nashville)
March 26-28 – Ultra Music Festival (Miami)

April 2027

April 9-11 – Coachella weekend 1 (Indio, Calif.)
April 16-18 – Coachella weekend 2 (Indio, Calif.)
April 18-20 – HITS Home conference (Nashville)

May 2027

May 13-24 – EDC (Las Vegas)

March 2028

March 5 – 100th Annual Osca r s (Los Angeles)

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