When I really think about it, it’s probably no big deal, but when the feelings of embarrassment kick in, I don’t know what to do!

Use our Big List of Summer 2025 Music Festivals to see what events are taking place across the country throughout June, July, and August.

Harm reductions initiatives are becoming more commonplace at major music festivals, both through partnerships with festival organizers as well as volunteer efforts done without explicit permission.

The traditionally two-day festival has been condensed to a one-day event due to a decline in sponsorship. Organizers said they are determined to keep the spirit and impact of the celebration alive.

This year's Ojai festival, led by super-flutist Claire Chase, brilliantly featured Anaheim native Susie Ibarra, who just won the Pulitzer Prize for music.

Stages throughout the fest will be packed with acts from Milwaukee and beyond, and even more bands than in previous years.

“You must get drunk without stopping. But what with? On wine, poetry, or virtue, as you please. But get drunk,” wrote Charles Baudelaire more than 150 years ago. Add to that list “music” and “lack of sleep,” and that pretty much sums up your average Boston Early Music Festival.

Guest conductor Andrew Litton devised a sufficiently show-stopping opener on Wednesday by conducting and playing “Rhapsody in Blue.”

With flutist Claire Chase as this year’s music director, the California festival highlighted female composers and an array of talented performers in programming that, while admirably experimental, tended toward the monotonous.

The news of the event's cancellation came after they issued several weather delays and an evacuation for concertgoers on Friday.