Music festivals are the best way to tackle your band bucket list.   Here at Proglodytes, we thought we would try and compile a list of all of the progressive rock/metal music festivals that we knew of, in case there is one that is happening close to you. If you are aware of one that we left off, or if we need to update any details, please let us know, and we’ll make sure to keep it up to date.

North America

Terra Incognita Prog Festival
Date: May 17-19
Venue: La Chapelle
City, Country: Quebec, Canada
Website: www.terraincognita.quebec

Bands: Friday: Vecteur K, RPWL. Saturday: Sunset Mission, Lifestream, RPWL. Sunday: In Sylva, 35 Tapes, RanestRane.

Legalize Lex 2024
Date: April 20th, 2024
Venue: Al’s Bar
City, Country: Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Website: https://www.facebook.com/people/Legalize-Lex/61555343011739/

Bands: Shi, Faerie Ring, Stormtoker, Season of the Witch, Blessed Black, Blind Scryer, Swamp Hawk, Lordship.

ProgDay
Date: TBA
Venue: Storybook Farm
City, Country: Chapel Hill, North Carolina USA
Website: http://www.progday.net/

Bands: TBA

Prog on the Lake
Date: August, 2024
Venue: Arts on the Lake
City, Country: Kent Lakes, NY, USA
Website: 

Bands: TBD

ProgPower USA XXIII
Date: September 4-7, 2024
Venue: Center Stage Theater
City, Country: Atlanta, Georgia USA
Website: http://progpowerusa.com/

Bands:   Wednesday: Angra, Circus Maximus, Victorius, Darkwater. Thursday: Dark Tranquility, Leprous, Twilight Force, Northale, Nospun, TBA. Friday: Amorphis, Lovebites, Soen, Elegy, Fifth Angel, Stryker. Saturday: Winger, Pagan’s Mind, Damian Wilson, Eleine, Disillusion, Frozen Crown.

Progstock 2024
Date: October 18-20, 2024
Venue: Williams Center
City, Country: Rutherford, New Jersey, USA
Website: http://www.progstock.com/

Bands: Circuline, The David Cross Band, Gong, Melanie Mau & Martin Schnella, Rachel Flowers, SAGA, SiX BY SiX, more TBA

RoSFest
Date: Postponed indefinitely
Venue: Sarasota Opera House, Mandebille Beer Garden
City, Country: Sarasota, Florida USA
Website: https://rosfest.com/

Bands: TBA

Cruise to the Edge 2024
Date: March 8-13, 2024
Venue: Cruise Ship
City, Country: Miami, Jamaica, Grand Cayman
Website: https://cruisetotheedge.com/

Bands: Marillion, Steve Hackett, Flying Colors, Big Big Train, Riverside, Adrian Belew, The Flower Kings, Jordan Rudess, Martin Barre, Lifesigns, Symphony X, Queensryche, Haken, Lonely Robot, Protocol,, Wishbone Ash, Gryphon, Ryo Okumoto, Stick Men, Airbag, Klone, Baraka, Dave Kerzner All Star Prog Band, Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin, Jane Getter Premonition.

Europe

Complexity Fest
Date: August 17, 2024
Venue: Patronaat Haarlem
City, Country: Haarlem, The Netherlands
Website: https://www.facebook.com/complexityfest

Bands: Plini, Night Verses, Frail Body, Squid Pisser, More TBA

Fusion 2024
Date: March 1-3, 2024
Venue: Stourport Civic Centre
City, Country: Stourport-on-Severn, England
Website: http://www.fusionprogfestivals.com/

Bands: Friday: Candacraig, Ghost of the Machine, Madfellaz, Henge. Saturday: Ruby Dawn, Flamboroughhead, Lesoir, Landmarq, Kiteparade, Pearl Handed Revolver, Frank Carducci. Sunday: Monkey Trail, The Room, The Mighty Ra, The Hayley Griffiths Band, Overhead, Rosalie Cunningam, Magenta.

The Winter’s End Progressive Rock Festival 2024
Date: April 11-14, 2024.
Venue: The Drill Hall, Lower Church St, Chepstow
City, Country: Chepstow, Wales, United Kingdom
Website:  http://www.winters-end.co.uk/

Bands: Thursday: Jump, +Tribe3. Friday: The Fierce and the Dead, The Beatriz Players. Saturday: Solstice, Tim Bowness, Yesterdays, Zopp, Dominic Sanderson. Sunday: Oliver Wakeman’s Anam Cara, Kyros, Alex Carpani, Trilogy, Glen Brielle.

HRH Prog 14
Date:
Venue: Camp HRH
City, Country:   Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
Website: http://www.hrhprog.com/

Bands: Pendragon, Colosseum, Curved Air, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Atomic Rooster, The Enid, Caravan, Kingdom of Madness, The Spacelords, David Cross Plays Larks Tongues In Aspic, John Hackett Band, Man, Soft Machine, Krankschaft, Monkeytrial, The Bee Tellers, Thought Bubble, Blackheart Orchestra, Magick Touch, Zopp, Splink, Deviant Amps, Cairo, Voda, Argham, The Hayley Griffiths Band, Third Quadrant, Dream Machine, Fluctus Quadratum, Tribe 3.

Artrock Festival XII
Date: April 5-7, 2024
Venue: Neuberinhaus Reichenbach
City, Country: Vogtland, Germany
Website: https://prog-rock.club/

Bands: Thursday: Pre-order concert with Emerald Lies. Friday: Flying Circus, Karmamoi, Chandelier, Comedy of Errors. Saturday: Manticora, TPSC, Lesoit, Trettioariga Kriget, Verbal Delirium, Von Hertzen Brothers. Sunday: Flamborough Head, Max Forleo, Hayley Griffith, Frank Carducci, Alex Carpani Feat. David Jackson and Theo Travis.

Prognosis Festival in Eindhoven
Date: March 10, 2024
Venue: Dynamo, Catharinaplein 21
City, Country: Effenaar, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Website: https://www.prognosis-festival.nl/

Bands: Cynic, Obscura, Persefone, Hypno5e, Cryptosis, Lampr3a.

We Låve Rock Festival 2024
Date: May 24-25th, 2024
Venue: Grønsand Gjestegård
City, Country: Hurum, Norway
Website: https://www.hurumrock.no/

Bands:Friday: The Chronicles of Father Robin, Moon Safari. Saturday: Beardfish, Von Hertzen Brothers, Anders Buass, A.C.T., Seven Impale, Lumsk.

Comendatio Music Fest 2024
Date: June 15-16, 2024
Venue: Paço Da Comenda
City, Country: Rua de Coimbra, Tomar, Portugal
Website:  https://www.facebook.com/comendatiomf

Bands: Leprous, Textures, Long Distance Calling, Ne Obliviscaris, Persefone, Heart of a Coward, Hypno5e, The Voynich Code, Sullen, Corrosive, Fallen at Dawn, Nowehre to be Found, Revenge of the Fallen, God Hates a Coward.

Midsmmer Prog Festival
Date: June 28th – June 29th, 2024
Venue: Openluchttheater
City, Country: Valkenburg, The Netherlands
Website: http://midsummerprog.com/

Bands: Friday: Steve Rothery Band, Arena, Kristoffer Gildenlow. Saturday: Karnivool, Plini, Temic.

Rock Imperium
Date: June 19- June 22, 2024
Venue: Parque El Batel
City, Country: Cartagena, Spain
Website:  https://www.rockimperiumfestival.es/en/

Bands: Wednesday: Judas Priest, Extreme, Uriah Heep, In Extremo, Ronnie Romero, Anthem, Turmion Kätilöt, Blackbriar, Thursday: Avantasia, Glenn Hughes, Kamelot, TNT, Richie Kotzen, Plini Marduk, Cirith Ungol, Kadavar, Praying Mantis, Xandria, Night Demon, Celtian, Shores Of Null, Arwen, Lonely Fire, Archetype Of Disorder. Friday: Saxon, Accept, Emporer, Beast In Black, Igorrr, Napalm Death, Einar Solberg, Nestor, Tete Novoa, The Raven Age, Phantom Excaliber, Diabulus In Musica, Astray Valley, Hard Love, Invicti, Nyhem Saturday: Yngie Malmsteen, Warlock, The Darkness, Carcass, Riverside, Textures, Spidergawd, Tankard, Green Lung, Lovebites, Riot City, Sobra Spell, Glasya, The Last Internationale, Holycide, Darknoise, Vatican Spectrum.

Night of the Prog Festival XVI
Date: July 19-21, 2024
Venue: Loreley Amphitheater
City, Country: Sankt Goarshausen, Germany
Website: http://www.nightoftheprogfestival.com/en/home-2/

Bands: Friday: Inhalo, Cheeto’s Magazine, IZZ, Sylvan, Alex Henry Foster, Arena, Riverside. Saturday: !Gerald!, Ritual, Karnataka, BEardfish, Lazuli, Pendragon, Steve Hackett. Sunday: OK Goodnight, The Windmill, Amarok, Meer, The Flower Kings, Steve Rothery Band, Big Big Train.

Eppyfest 10
Date: July 27th – July 28th, 2024
Venue: Smokey Joe’s Diner
City, Country: Cheltenham, UK
Website: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/eppyfest/1064621

Bands: Saturday: Tim Bowness, The Scaramanga Six, Zopp. Sunday: Simon McCorry, Phil Mercy, Hands of the Heron.

ArcTanGent 2024
Date: August 14-17, 2024
Venue: Fernhill Farm
City, Country: Bristol, UK
Website: https://arctangent.co.uk/tickets/

Bands: Wednesday: And So I Watch You From Afar, Bossk, Cobra the Impaler, Curse These Metal Hands, Din of Celestial Birds, Host Body, Hidden Mothers, LLNN, Psychonaut. Thursday: Explosions in the Sky, Clown Core, Amenta, Red Fang, Julie Christmas, Textures, Conan, Bo Ningen, Avkrvst, Cats and Cats and Cats, Doodseskader, Earthside, Filth Is Eternal, Kulk, Healthyliving, Hundred Year Old Man, John Cxnner, Kalandra, Kaqnashi, Maebe, Oddism, Pleiades, Skemer, Squid Pisser, Sun Spot, Tokky Horror, Underdark, Wyatt E. Friday: Meshuggah, Animals as Leaders, Plini, Ishahn, Three Trapped Tigers, Delta Sleep, Night Verses, Sigh, Show Me The Body, Author & Punisher, Year of No Light, AK/DK, Asymetric Universe, Bipolar Architecture, Blackshape, Every Hell, Fange, Frail Body, Glassing, Iress, Komfortrauschen, Love Sex Machine, Madmess, Maruja, Modern Technology, The Omnific, Outrun the Sunlight, Sang Froid, Shy, Low, The Sun’s Journey Through the Night, Torpor, Yomi Ship, Zetra. Saturday: Mogwai, Electric Wizard, And So I Watch You From Afar, Caspian, Brontide, Slift, Bossk, Hexvessel, Ken Mode, Earthtones, Anta, Anteros, Briqueville, Cassus, Codex Serafini, Collosal Squid, Gallops, Haus Horo, Haal, Iskandr, Nadir, Peach, The Psychotic Monks, Quade, Saver, Sunnata, Vower, Wuw.

A New Day Festival 2024
Date: August 16-18, 2024
Venue: Mount Ephraim Gardens
City, Country: Faversham, UK
Website: http://www.anewdayfestival.com/

Bands: Friday: Tangerine Dream, Focus, When Rivers Meet, Flor de Loto, Gerry Jablonski Band, Zac Shulze Gang, Cuprum, Jump Paradise 9, BushFieldSmith, Stevie Simpson & The Damn Fine Folk. Saturday: Hawkwind, Gong, Curved Air, Solstice, Stray, Molotov Jukebox, Edgar Broughton, Soho Dukes, Voodoo Lake, Cold Flame. Sunday: Feeder, Sweet, The Men They Couldn’t Hang, Martin Turner x Wishbone Ash, KT Bush Band, Sandy Denny Project, Bollywood Brass Band, Tytan, Jackie McAuley & Rod Demick, Haze.

Crescendo
Date: August 16-18, 2024
Venue:  Esplanade du Concié
City, Country: Saint Palais Sur Mer, France
Website: http://festival-crescendo.com

Bands: TBA

2Days Prog +1 Festival
Date: September 6-8, 2024
Venue: Campo Sportivo, Via Chiesa
City, Country: Veruno Novara, Italy
Website: https://www.facebook.com/VerunoProgRockFestival/

Bands: Friday: Freak Kitchen, Agusa, Caraggio. Saturday:, The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, Wobbler. Sunday: Seven Impale.

Euroblast Festival
Date: October 3-5, 2024
Venue: Essigfabrik
City, Country: Cologne, Germany
Website: http://www.euroblast.net/en/

Bands: TBA

The Summer’s End Festival
Date: TBA
Venue: Chepstow Drill Hall
City, Country: Chepstow, England
Website: http://www.summersend.co.uk/

Bands: TBA

ProgPower Europe
Date: October 4-6, 2024
Venue: JC SJIWA Baarlo
City, Country: Baarlo, The Netherlands
Website:  http://www.progpowereurope.com/

Bands: Ions, Madder Mortem, No Terror In The Bang, The Anchoret, More TBA