Foo Fighters
Thirty years of Dave Grohl turning grief and volume into the most reliably cathartic rock show going — a hits catalog three hours deep, played like it's still a club gig.
Bourbon & Beyond 2026 Lineup
Rock, roots and Americana over four days in Louisville, with bourbon and food billed alongside the bands.
About Bourbon & Beyond 2026
Bourbon & Beyond is the roots-music half of Louisville's September double-header — the same Highland Festival Grounds as Louder Than Life the week before, and an almost entirely different crowd. Four days, 107 acts, and a bill built on the overlap between rock, Americana, and country: Foo Fighters, Mumford & Sons, Chris Stapleton, and Dave Matthews Band take a night each, with Kacey Musgraves, Jason Isbell, Charley Crockett, The Flaming Lips, and Joan Jett underneath them. The bourbon and the food programming are billed alongside the music rather than behind it, which sets the pace of the day: a distillery talk in the afternoon, a headliner after dark, and a long, unhurried stretch of bluegrass and soul in between.
Expect country, alt-rock, folk and rock across 107 acts.
The headliners
- Foo Fighters — Thirty years of Dave Grohl turning grief and volume into the most reliably cathartic rock show going — a hits catalog three hours deep, played like it's still a club gig.
- Mumford & Sons — Banjo-driven crescendos that defined a decade of festival folk, now delivered with the electric guitars left plugged in — the singalongs never optional.
- Chris Stapleton — A 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.
- Dave Matthews Band — Violin, saxophone, and Matthews's rhythmic yelp — a jam institution whose setlists still never repeat, and whose players still surprise each other nightly.
Up-and-comers to catch early
- Jesse Welles — A new protest song on the internet most weeks, and better live than the phone videos suggest.
- Cameron Whitcomb — Ex-pipefitter with a howl and a backflip — the rawest half hour of Saturday.
- hey, nothing — Two voices and not much else. Go early, stand close, and let the field fill up behind you.
- Couch — Berklee-trained horn-pop; the most purely fun forty-five minutes on the Thursday bill.
- Sawyer Hill — One song broke him overnight — the rest of the set explains why it stuck.
- Max McNown — Streaming-era folk-country with a voice that quiets a field on the Sunday bill.
Other acts worth planning around
- Kacey Musgraves — Nashville craft with the jokes and the knives left in — the sharpest writing on the weekend.
- Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit — Songs specific enough to feel like eavesdropping, played loud enough to still be a rock show.
- The Flaming Lips — Confetti, balloons, and Wayne Coyne. Stand somewhere you can see the whole stage.
- Joan Jett & The Blackhearts — A masterclass in pacing a rock set — no wasted seconds, no filler, no encore needed.
- Charley Crockett — Prolific to the point of absurdity, and every record another dispatch from the road.
- St. Paul and the Broken Bones — An eight-piece Alabama revue with a frontman who works a crowd like a congregation.
- Adam Ant — Burundi drums and pirate costumes, played entirely straight and better than it has any right to be.
- Yachtley Crew — Smooth '70s AM radio in captain's hats, performed with total sincerity — the weekend's best palate cleanser.
The lineup by day
- Thursday, September 24: Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Goose, The War on Drugs, 4 Non Blondes, Gary Clark Jr. + 22 more
- Friday, September 25: Mumford & Sons, Kacey Musgraves, Foster the People, Of Monsters and Men, The Flaming Lips, Father John Misty + 21 more
- Saturday, September 26: Chris Stapleton, The Red Clay Strays, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Jessie Murph, Charley Crockett, Squeeze + 20 more
- Sunday, September 27: Dave Matthews Band, Hootie and the Blowfish, Counting Crows, Jesse Welles, Portugal. The Man, Max McNown + 20 more
Bourbon & Beyond 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Bourbon & Beyond 2026?
September 24–27, 2026 — Thursday through Sunday.
Where does Bourbon & Beyond take place?
Highland Festival Grounds at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville — the same site as Louder Than Life the week before.
Who is headlining Bourbon & Beyond 2026?
Foo Fighters (Thursday), Mumford & Sons (Friday), Chris Stapleton (Saturday), and Dave Matthews Band (Sunday).
How many acts are playing Bourbon & Beyond 2026?
107 announced acts across four days.
Is the bourbon part actually a big deal?
It's billed alongside the music, not behind it — tastings, distillery sessions, and chef demos run through the afternoon. Details and ticket add-ons are on the official festival site.
What days do specific acts play?
Every act's day is already on this page — expand the full lineup below or check the day-by-day breakdown. Set times usually land closer to the festival.
How do I figure out which of the 107 acts I'd actually like?
Tell the finder at the top of this page a few bands you love — it'll match you with your must-see sets, with reasons why.
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Mumford & Sons
Banjo-driven crescendos that defined a decade of festival folk, now delivered with the electric guitars left plugged in — the singalongs never optional.
Chris Stapleton
A 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.
Dave Matthews Band
Violin, saxophone, and Matthews's rhythmic yelp — a jam institution whose setlists still never repeat, and whose players still surprise each other nightly.
Queens of the Stone Age
Josh Homme's robot-boogie riffs — heavy music with a lounge singer's sense of swing and menace, desert-rock royalty at full strut.
Kacey Musgraves
Deceptively gentle country that smuggles in sharp jokes and sharper edges under the pedal steel — 'Golden Hour' grace with a Texas smirk.
The Red Clay Strays
Gulf Coast southern rock with a frontman who sounds like he learned to sing in a revival tent — 'Wondering Why' the slow-burn breakout.
Hootie and the Blowfish
Darius Rucker's warm baritone over songs that sold fifteen million copies and never once tried to be cool — which is precisely why they aged well.
Counting Crows
Adam Duritz rewriting his own lyrics live every night — the songs never quite settle into their recorded shape, which is exactly the appeal three decades in.
Foster the People
Sunny indie-pop hooks concealing consistently dark lyrics — a trick they've never stopped pulling since 'Pumped Up Kicks' snuck onto every radio.
Goose
The jam scene's current standard-bearers — song-first, patient, and capable of going anywhere after the second chorus, with a fanbase growing by the tour.
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Unsparing, novelistic songwriting about the South, played by a band that can still level a room with a guitar solo.
Jesse Welles
The internet's protest-folk bard — a new topical song every week, Dylan-grade wit aimed at whatever the news cycle just did.
Jessie Murph
A rasp built for heartbreak, dragging country songwriting through trap drums and open-wound honesty — genre lines treated as suggestions.
Of Monsters and Men
Iceland's stomp-and-holler exports — 'Little Talks' and a decade of widescreen indie-pop, hey!-shouts included, Icelandic warmth at singalong scale.
The Flaming Lips
Confetti cannons, giant balloons, and Wayne Coyne's cracked falsetto — a live show engineered as a sensory event, 'Do You Realize??' as the group hug.
The War on Drugs
Motorik heartland rock — Springsteen refracted through a synth haze, transcendent live, 'Under the Pressure' as the long exhale.
Charley Crockett
Honky-tonk and Gulf Coast blues delivered by a genuine road-worn troubadour with a hat and a story to match — an album-a-year work rate straight from the old school.
4 Non Blondes
'What's Up?' — one enormous, unavoidable song and a Linda Perry vocal nobody has managed to imitate since, reunited so a whole field can scream the hey-yeah-yeahs together.
Portugal. The Man
Alaskan psych-rockers who backed into a global pop hit and kept the weirdness in the live set anyway — 'Feel It Still' plus deep-catalog detours.
Gary Clark Jr.
Fuzz-drenched Texas blues that keeps sliding into soul and hip-hop without ever losing the guitar — Austin's modern guitar hero at full sprawl.
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Leather, three chords, and total conviction — the blueprint for every woman fronting a rock band since, hits included.
Father John Misty
Josh Tillman's lounge-lizard prophet act — gorgeous orchestration, acid wit, and a crooner's delivery that sells every barbed line.
Max McNown
Oregon folk-country riser — earnest, streaming-era troubadour with a fanbase that found him one chorus at a time.
The Fray
Piano-led mid-2000s radio balladry that soundtracked more television drama than most composers manage — 'How to Save a Life' forever mid-montage.
Squeeze
Difford and Tilbrook's kitchen-sink character sketches set to some of the sharpest pop writing of the era — 'Up the Junction' a short story in song.
Cheap Trick
Power-pop hall-of-famers with a five-neck guitar and a catalogue built entirely out of choruses — 'Surrender' still the correct answer to most questions.
Marcus King Band
A guitar prodigy with a soul singer's voice, fronting a band that plays like the Allmans never stopped — Greenville grit at full burn.
Angus and Julia Stone
Sibling harmonies over hushed, sun-faded folk — Australian soft-focus songs whose whispered intimacy has somehow scaled all the way to headline size.
Cameron Whitcomb
Backflipping former pipefitter with a howl — raw-nerve folk-country redemption songs delivered with gymnastic stage energy and zero polish where it counts.
Adam Ant
Burundi drums, pirate costumes, and glam swagger — 'Stand and Deliver', 'Prince Charming', and the rest of a hits catalog that defined new wave's dress-up era at its most gleefully theatrical.
Amos Lee
A former schoolteacher with a honeyed, understated folk-soul voice built for the late-afternoon slot — easy warmth that has aged into deep-catalog dependability.
Fitz and the Tantrums
Horn-driven neo-soul-pop — 'HandClap' engineered for exactly this kind of afternoon, with a two-vocalist front line that works every inch of stage.
Violent Femmes
'Blister in the Sun' and the strangest great American songbook — acoustic punk forever, xylophone solos included.
Maddox Batson
Maoli
Hawaiian island reggae built on a genuinely soulful lead vocal — Maui warmth with country-soul phrasing.
Lindsey Stirling
Dancing electric-violin spectacle — classical chops at festival scale, choreography and pyrotechnics included, a one-woman production that earns the word spectacle.
Noah Cyrus
Country-leaning confessional songwriting that stepped decisively out of a very long family shadow — hushed duets and high-lonesome ache.
St. Paul and the Broken Bones
Paul Janeway in a sequined jumpsuit, singing like a preacher over an eight-piece Alabama soul revue — testimony with a horn section.
The Devil Makes Three
Drumless string-band punk about drinking and dying, played fast enough to dance to — gallows humor at hoedown tempo.
Better than Ezra
'Good' still is — New Orleans alt-rock lifers with easy charm and a '90s catalog deeper than the one-hit tag suggests.
Durand Jones & the Indications
Retro-soul made by people who studied the records — two voices trading leads over immaculate rhythm work, from falsetto sweetness to preacher grit.
Jet
'Are You Gonna Be My Girl' — Aussie garage swagger, reunited, with enough riff-rock singles to keep the tank full.
Plain White T's
Pop-punk lifers best known for an acoustic song that ate the world for a summer — 'Hey There Delilah' and sturdier rock behind it.
Buffalo Traffic Jam
The Return Of Jackie & Judy
Our Lady Peace
Canadian alt-rock with Raine Maida's distinctive strangled falsetto sitting above the crunch — 'Superman's Dead' and national-institution status up north.
Sons of Legion
Avery Anna
Matt Hansen
Gabriella Rose
Lisa Loeb
Cat-eye glasses and precise, conversational songwriting from the last great era of the coffeehouse single — 'Stay' still lands soft and exact.
Uncle Lucius
Texas southern rock with an organ in the mix and a slow-burn approach to a payoff — 'Keep the Wolves Away' the campfire hymn.
Yachtley Crew
A committed, captain's-hat-wearing tribute to smooth '70s AM radio, played entirely straight — the smoothness is non-negotiable.
Stella Lefty
Joan Osborne
A Kentucky native coming home, with a blues-soaked voice that outlived the one song everyone remembers — 'One of Us' just the front door.
Paula Cole
Lilith-era songwriting with jazz training underneath and a voice that goes places the radio edits never showed — the cowboys question still stands.
Vertical Horizon
Turn-of-the-millennium radio rock with a bigger acoustic-folk backstory than the hits suggest — 'Everything You Want' still inescapable.
Kaitlin Butts
Red dirt country with a theatrical streak and a sense of humour that cuts — Oklahoma storytelling that plays like a one-woman show with a band.
Langhorne Slim
A restless folk singer who performs like the songs might get away from him if he stops moving — pew-jumping revival energy nightly.
The Creekers
Henrik
The Infamous Stringdusters
Progressive bluegrass played by a band happy to jam a traditional tune well past its natural length — Grammy-winning chops, festival stamina.
Amigo the Devil
Banjo murder ballads delivered with genuine warmth and a stand-up comic's crowd work — the rare dark-folk act that leaves the whole room grinning.
Howie Day
Loop-pedal singer-songwriter fare from the era when one guy and a guitar could still chart — 'Collide' remains the slow-dance evidence.
Tonic
Late-'90s alt-rock with a warm, unfussy approach to a big chorus — 'If You Could Only See' still glowing.
Cracker
Sardonic alt-country-rock from David Lowery, still funnier and stranger than its radio singles let on — 'Low' the gateway, the deep cuts the reward.
Sierra Hull
A mandolin virtuoso since childhood, now writing songs that justify the technique — bluegrass pedigree stretched into something personal.
Kitchen Dwellers
Montana 'galaxy grass' — bluegrass instrumentation pushed toward psychedelia and volume, jamgrass with actual gravitational pull.
Nine Days
Power-pop with one indelible turn-of-the-century single and a catalogue worth more than that — 'Story of a Girl' still smiles when it cries.
The Verve Pipe
Michigan alt-rock whose biggest song is far bleaker than its radio ubiquity suggested — 'The Freshmen' still lands heavier than remembered.
Congress The Band
Southern rock grit on the undercard.
Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country
A Broadway-honed Telecaster player pushing honky-tonk into long-form psychedelic territory — country chops with a jam band's appetite for the unknown.
Noah Rinker
The Stews
Couch
Berklee-bred horn-pop that's tighter and sweeter than a band this young has any right to be — Boston funk with genuine pop songcraft up front.
hey, nothing
Hushed southern-gothic folk duo trading harmonies over songs that sound like they were recorded in a room at 3am — Georgia intimacy that silences a tent.
Bryan Martin
Penelope Road
S.G. Goodman
Kentucky drawl, punk heart — swampy Southern storytelling with teeth, farm-town detail delivered with DIY conviction.
Magoo
Atlus
Sawyer Hill
'Look At The Time' broke him overnight — big-voiced Southern alt-rock with grunge shadows and arena aims.
Rattlesnake Milk
Jason Scott & the High Heat
Levi Turner
Ben Chapman
Clover County
Nathan Bess
Palmyra
Kevian Kraemer
Ryman
Emerging indie songwriter.
Shelby Means
Caleb & Reeb
The Steel Wheels
Rainbow Girls
Fireside Collective
Wood Box Heroes
The Fretliners
Meels
Mason Via
Vickie Vaughn Band
World Famous Pets
As You Were
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