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.
Bourbon & Beyond 2026 Lineup
Rock, roots and Americana over four days in Louisville, with bourbon and food billed alongside the bands.
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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, 110 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 Portugal. The Man 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.
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Violin, saxophone, and Matthews's rhythmic yelp — a jam institution whose setlists still never repeat, and whose players still surprise each other nightly.
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.
Banjo-driven crescendos that defined a decade of festival folk, now delivered with the electric guitars left plugged in — the singalongs never optional.
'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.
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.
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.
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.
Sibling harmonies over hushed, sun-faded folk — Australian soft-focus songs whose whispered intimacy has somehow scaled all the way to headline size.
Arizona-raised songwriter who broke through online — heartbreak country sung with a crack left in it.
'Good' still is — New Orleans alt-rock lifers with easy charm and a '90s catalog deeper than the one-hit tag suggests.
Buffalo Traffic Jam
Backflipping former pipefitter with a howl — raw-nerve folk-country redemption songs delivered with gymnastic stage energy and zero polish where it counts.
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.
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.
Southern rock grit on the undercard.
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.
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.
A Broadway-honed Telecaster player pushing honky-tonk into long-form psychedelic territory — country chops with a jam band's appetite for the unknown.
Retro-soul made by people who studied the records — two voices trading leads over immaculate rhythm work, from falsetto sweetness to preacher grit.
Josh Tillman's lounge-lizard prophet act — gorgeous orchestration, acid wit, and a crooner's delivery that sells every barbed line.
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.
Sunny indie-pop hooks concealing consistently dark lyrics — a trick they've never stopped pulling since 'Pumped Up Kicks' snuck onto every radio.
Gabriella Rose
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.
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.
Henrik
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.
Loop-pedal singer-songwriter fare from the era when one guy and a guitar could still chart — 'Collide' remains the slow-dance evidence.
Unsparing, novelistic songwriting about the South, played by a band that can still level a room with a guitar solo.
The internet's protest-folk bard — a new topical song every week, Dylan-grade wit aimed at whatever the news cycle just did.
A rasp built for heartbreak, dragging country songwriting through trap drums and open-wound honesty — genre lines treated as suggestions.
'Are You Gonna Be My Girl' — Aussie garage swagger, reunited, with enough riff-rock singles to keep the tank full.
A Kentucky native coming home, with a blues-soaked voice that outlived the one song everyone remembers — 'One of Us' just the front door.
Deceptively gentle country that smuggles in sharp jokes and sharper edges under the pedal steel — 'Golden Hour' grace with a Texas smirk.
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.
Montana 'galaxy grass' — bluegrass instrumentation pushed toward psychedelia and volume, jamgrass with actual gravitational pull.
A restless folk singer who performs like the songs might get away from him if he stops moving — pew-jumping revival energy nightly.
Dancing electric-violin spectacle — classical chops at festival scale, choreography and pyrotechnics included, a one-woman production that earns the word spectacle.
Cat-eye glasses and precise, conversational songwriting from the last great era of the coffeehouse single — 'Stay' still lands soft and exact.
Throwing Copper made them inescapable in 1994 and the songs never really left — Ed Kowalczyk's clenched, searching delivery over guitar figures built to fill a field, with 'Lightning Crashes' still the moment a crowd goes quiet.
Teenage country singer who arrived with an enormous social-media following already in place — polished radio instincts from someone barely old enough to drive.
Hawaiian island reggae built on a genuinely soulful lead vocal — Maui warmth with country-soul phrasing.
A guitar prodigy with a soul singer's voice, fronting a band that plays like the Allmans never stopped — Greenville grit at full burn.
California pop songwriter who found his audience online first, trading in blunt, bruised confessionals set to big radio-shaped hooks.
Oregon folk-country riser — earnest, streaming-era troubadour with a fanbase that found him one chorus at a time.
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.
Country-leaning confessional songwriting that stepped decisively out of a very long family shadow — hushed duets and high-lonesome ache.
Noah Rinker
Iceland's stomp-and-holler exports — 'Little Talks' and a decade of widescreen indie-pop, hey!-shouts included, Icelandic warmth at singalong scale.
Canadian alt-rock with Raine Maida's distinctive strangled falsetto sitting above the crunch — 'Superman's Dead' and national-institution status up north.
Lilith-era songwriting with jazz training underneath and a voice that goes places the radio edits never showed — the cowboys question still stands.
Pop-punk lifers best known for an acoustic song that ate the world for a summer — 'Hey There Delilah' and sturdier rock behind it.
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.
Josh Homme's robot-boogie riffs — heavy music with a lounge singer's sense of swing and menace, desert-rock royalty at full strut.
A mandolin virtuoso since childhood, now writing songs that justify the technique — bluegrass pedigree stretched into something personal.
Sons of Legion
Nashville outfit pulling blues, soul and Southern rock into their country — heavier and grittier than the format usually allows.
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.
Paul Janeway in a sequined jumpsuit, singing like a preacher over an eight-piece Alabama soul revue — testimony with a horn section.
Stella Lefty
The Creekers
Drumless string-band punk about drinking and dying, played fast enough to dance to — gallows humor at hoedown tempo.
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.
Piano-led mid-2000s radio balladry that soundtracked more television drama than most composers manage — 'How to Save a Life' forever mid-montage.
Progressive bluegrass played by a band happy to jam a traditional tune well past its natural length — Grammy-winning chops, festival stamina.
Gulf Coast southern rock with a frontman who sounds like he learned to sing in a revival tent — 'Wondering Why' the slow-burn breakout.
The Return Of Jackie & Judy
Michigan alt-rock whose biggest song is far bleaker than its radio ubiquity suggested — 'The Freshmen' still lands heavier than remembered.
Motorik heartland rock — Springsteen refracted through a synth haze, transcendent live, 'Under the Pressure' as the long exhale.
Late-'90s alt-rock with a warm, unfussy approach to a big chorus — 'If You Could Only See' still glowing.
Texas southern rock with an organ in the mix and a slow-burn approach to a payoff — 'Keep the Wolves Away' the campfire hymn.
Turn-of-the-millennium radio rock with a bigger acoustic-folk backstory than the hits suggest — 'Everything You Want' still inescapable.
'Blister in the Sun' and the strangest great American songbook — acoustic punk forever, xylophone solos included.
A committed, captain's-hat-wearing tribute to smooth '70s AM radio, played entirely straight — the smoothness is non-negotiable.
As You Were
Atlus
Ben Chapman
Louisiana singer with a gravel baritone and a hard-edged, outlaw-leaning streak, who built his audience through streaming rather than country radio.
Caitlynne Curtis
Caleb & Reeb
Clover County
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.
Asheville five-piece pushing string-band instrumentation toward progressive folk — tight ensemble playing with a taste for the unexpected turn.
Haircut 100
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.
Hunter Hawkins
Jason Scott & the High Heat
Kevian Kraemer
Levi Turner
Lou Ridley
Magoo
Denver band formed in 2022, stretching bluegrass instrumentation into loose, improvisation-heavy sets.
Mason Via
Meels
Nathan Bess
Virginia trio built on three-part harmony and rotating lead vocals — folk songwriting with string-band bones.
Penelope Road
Atlanta group that came together in 2022, working a guitar-led strain of indie rock.
Northern California trio whose close harmonies carry songs that swing between hushed intimacy and raucous, politically pointed singalongs.
Rattlesnake Milk
Austin band running honky-tonk through a cowpunk filter — country songcraft played with rock and roll looseness.
Emerging indie songwriter.
Kentucky drawl, punk heart — swampy Southern storytelling with teeth, farm-town detail delivered with DIY conviction.
'Look At The Time' broke him overnight — big-voiced Southern alt-rock with grunge shadows and arena aims.
Shelby Means
Stanley Simmons
Still Unknown
The Fretliners
Colorado string band working the fast, tight end of contemporary bluegrass — traditional instrumentation, original writing.
The Steel Wheels
The Stews
Auburn, Alabama band formed in 2020, working a loose, guitar-forward rock sound honed on the Southeastern college circuit.
Vickie Vaughn Band
Wood Box Heroes
Bluegrass outfit assembled in 2024 from veteran Nashville pickers — traditional string-band instrumentation pushed toward a harder, louder edge.
World Famous Pets
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.
Live — Added to the Thursday bill in August: 'Throwing Copper' front to back is not promised, but the songs that made 1994 still land like they did.
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 lineup (September 24)
Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Goose, The War on Drugs, 4 Non Blondes, Gary Clark Jr. + 23 more
Thursday set times (29 sets)
- The Stews · Barrel Stage
- Caitlynne Curtis · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Langhorne Slim · Oak Stage
- Congress The Band · Barrel Stage
- As You Were · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Stanley Simmons · 100 Proof Stage
- The Return Of Jackie & Judy · Oak Stage
- Penelope Road · Revival Stage
- Wood Box Heroes · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Cheap Trick · Barrel Stage
- Kevian Kraemer · 100 Proof Stage
- S.G. Goodman · Revival Stage
- Gary Clark Jr. · Oak Stage
- Mason Via · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Howie Day · 100 Proof Stage
- 4 Non Blondes · Barrel Stage
- Magoo · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- hey, nothing · Revival Stage
- Live · Oak Stage
- Nine Days · 100 Proof Stage
- Sierra Hull · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Couch · Revival Stage
- Goose · Barrel Stage
- Plain White T's · 100 Proof Stage
- The War on Drugs · Oak Stage
- Lindsey Stirling · Revival Stage
- Queens of the Stone Age · Barrel Stage
- The Fray · 100 Proof Stage
- Foo Fighters · Oak Stage
Friday lineup (September 25)
Mumford & Sons, Kacey Musgraves, Foster the People, Of Monsters and Men, The Flaming Lips, Father John Misty + 22 more
Friday set times (28 sets)
- Nathan Bess · Barrel Stage
- Noah Rinker · Oak Stage
- Palmyra · Revival Stage
- Lou Ridley · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Ben Chapman · 100 Proof Stage
- Gabriella Rose · Barrel Stage
- Jason Scott & the High Heat · Revival Stage
- Fireside Collective · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- The Devil Makes Three · Oak Stage
- Sawyer Hill · 100 Proof Stage
- St. Paul and the Broken Bones · Barrel Stage
- Amigo the Devil · Revival Stage
- Rainbow Girls · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Angus and Julia Stone · Oak Stage
- Henrik · 100 Proof Stage
- Shelby Means · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Marcus King Band · Barrel Stage
- Jet · Revival Stage
- Kitchen Dwellers · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Father John Misty · Oak Stage
- Maoli · 100 Proof Stage
- Yachtley Crew · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Of Monsters and Men · Barrel Stage
- Violent Femmes · Revival Stage
- Foster the People · Oak Stage
- The Flaming Lips · 100 Proof Stage
- Kacey Musgraves · Barrel Stage
- Mumford & Sons · Oak Stage
Saturday lineup (September 26)
Chris Stapleton, The Red Clay Strays, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Jessie Murph, Charley Crockett, Squeeze + 21 more
Saturday set times (27 sets)
- Atlus · Barrel Stage
- Bryan Martin · Oak Stage
- Avery Anna · Barrel Stage
- Levi Turner · 100 Proof Stage
- Buffalo Traffic Jam · Oak Stage
- Rattlesnake Milk · Revival Stage
- The Creekers · 100 Proof Stage
- Maddox Batson · Barrel Stage
- Still Unknown · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Haircut 100 · Revival Stage
- Durand Jones & the Indications · Oak Stage
- Kaitlin Butts · 100 Proof Stage
- The Fretliners · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Cameron Whitcomb · Barrel Stage
- Cracker · Revival Stage
- Meels · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Charley Crockett · Oak Stage
- Matt Hansen · 100 Proof Stage
- Adam Ant · Revival Stage
- The Infamous Stringdusters · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Jessie Murph · Barrel Stage
- Stella Lefty · 100 Proof Stage
- Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit · Oak Stage
- Squeeze · Revival Stage
- The Red Clay Strays · Barrel Stage
- Noah Cyrus · 100 Proof Stage
- Chris Stapleton · Oak Stage
Sunday lineup (September 27)
Dave Matthews Band, Hootie and the Blowfish, Counting Crows, Jesse Welles, Portugal. The Man, Max McNown + 20 more
Sunday set times (26 sets)
- Hunter Hawkins · Barrel Stage
- The Verve Pipe · 100 Proof Stage
- Uncle Lucius · Oak Stage
- Clover County · Revival Stage
- Ryman · Barrel Stage
- Tonic · 100 Proof Stage
- Sons of Legion · Oak Stage
- World Famous Pets · Revival Stage
- Vertical Horizon · 100 Proof Stage
- Fitz and the Tantrums · Barrel Stage
- Paula Cole · Revival Stage
- Amos Lee · Oak Stage
- Vickie Vaughn Band · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Our Lady Peace · 100 Proof Stage
- Max McNown · Barrel Stage
- Caleb & Reeb · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Joan Osborne · Revival Stage
- Portugal. The Man · Oak Stage
- The Steel Wheels · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Jesse Welles · Barrel Stage
- Better than Ezra · 100 Proof Stage
- Counting Crows · Oak Stage
- Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country · The Bluegrass Situation Stage
- Lisa Loeb · Revival Stage
- Hootie and the Blowfish · Barrel Stage
- Dave Matthews Band · Oak Stage
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?
110 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 now has a day, a stage and a set time. Expand the full lineup below, or use the day-by-day breakdown. The festival published its full schedule on 12 August.
How do I figure out which of the 110 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.
Who plays Thursday at Bourbon & Beyond 2026?
Thursday, September 24: Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Goose, The War on Drugs, 4 Non Blondes, Gary Clark Jr., plus 23 more acts.
Who plays Friday at Bourbon & Beyond 2026?
Friday, September 25: Mumford & Sons, Kacey Musgraves, Foster the People, Of Monsters and Men, The Flaming Lips, Father John Misty, plus 22 more acts.
Who plays Saturday at Bourbon & Beyond 2026?
Saturday, September 26: Chris Stapleton, The Red Clay Strays, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Jessie Murph, Charley Crockett, Squeeze, plus 21 more acts.
Who plays Sunday at Bourbon & Beyond 2026?
Sunday, September 27: Dave Matthews Band, Hootie and the Blowfish, Counting Crows, Jesse Welles, Portugal. The Man, Max McNown, plus 20 more acts.
Are set times out for Bourbon & Beyond 2026?
Yes. The full schedule is live: the day-by-day section on this page lists every act with its set time.
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