Rock, roots and Americana over four days in Louisville, with bourbon and food billed alongside the bands.
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.
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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.
From Lexington, KY · Sounds like Tyler Childers, Sturgill Simpson, Marcus King, Jason Isbell
Violin, saxophone, and Matthews's rhythmic yelp — a jam institution whose setlists still never repeat, and whose players still surprise each other nightly.
From Charlottesville, VA · Sounds like Phish, Widespread Panic, Goose, The String Cheese Incident
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.
From Seattle, WA · Sounds like Queens of the Stone Age, Weezer, Pearl Jam
Banjo-driven crescendos that defined a decade of festival folk, now delivered with the electric guitars left plugged in — the singalongs never optional.
From London, UK · Sounds like The Lumineers, The Head and the Heart, Marcus Mumford, Noah Kahan
'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.
From San Francisco, CA · Sounds like The Cranberries, Alanis Morissette, Joan Osborne
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.
From London, UK · Sounds like Bow Wow Wow, Duran Duran, Blondie
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.
From Miami, FL · Sounds like The Devil Makes Three, Colter Wall, Langhorne Slim
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.
From Philadelphia, PA · Sounds like Ray LaMontagne, Norah Jones, Amos Lee
Sibling harmonies over hushed, sun-faded folk — Australian soft-focus songs whose whispered intimacy has somehow scaled all the way to headline size.
From Sydney, Australia · Sounds like Dope Lemon, The Paper Kites, Fleet Foxes
'Good' still is — New Orleans alt-rock lifers with easy charm and a '90s catalog deeper than the one-hit tag suggests.
From New Orleans, LA · Sounds like Gin Blossoms, Sister Hazel, Toad the Wet Sprocket
Backflipping former pipefitter with a howl — raw-nerve folk-country redemption songs delivered with gymnastic stage energy and zero polish where it counts.
From British Columbia, CA · Sounds like Zach Bryan, Noah Kahan, Shane Smith & the Saints
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.
From San Benito, TX · Sounds like Colter Wall, Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers
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.
From Rockford, IL · Sounds like The Knack, Big Star, Squeeze
Southern rock grit on the undercard.
Sounds like Blackberry Smoke, Whiskey Myers, The Marcus King Band
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.
From Berkeley, CA · Sounds like Hootie and the Blowfish, The Wallflowers, Toad the Wet Sprocket
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.
From Richmond, VA · Sounds like Camper Van Beethoven, The Wallflowers, Cake
A Broadway-honed Telecaster player pushing honky-tonk into long-form psychedelic territory — country chops with a jam band's appetite for the unknown.
From Nashville, TN · Sounds like Goose, Billy Strings, Taper's Choice
Retro-soul made by people who studied the records — two voices trading leads over immaculate rhythm work, from falsetto sweetness to preacher grit.
From Bloomington, IN · Sounds like St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Leon Bridges, True Loves
Josh Tillman's lounge-lizard prophet act — gorgeous orchestration, acid wit, and a crooner's delivery that sells every barbed line.
From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like Harry Nilsson, Weyes Blood, Andy Shauf, Lana Del Rey
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.
From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like Capital Cities, Foster the People, Mayer Hawthorne, Walk the Moon
Sunny indie-pop hooks concealing consistently dark lyrics — a trick they've never stopped pulling since 'Pumped Up Kicks' snuck onto every radio.
From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like MGMT, Passion Pit, Portugal. The Man
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.
From Austin, TX · Sounds like Marcus King, Alabama Shakes, Jimi Hendrix
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.
From Norwalk, CT · Sounds like Phish, Eggy, Karina Rykman, Dave Matthews Band
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.
From Columbia, SC · Sounds like Counting Crows, Gin Blossoms, The Wallflowers
Loop-pedal singer-songwriter fare from the era when one guy and a guitar could still chart — 'Collide' remains the slow-dance evidence.
From Bangor, ME · Sounds like Gavin DeGraw, John Mayer, Tonic
Unsparing, novelistic songwriting about the South, played by a band that can still level a room with a guitar solo.
From Green Hill, AL · Sounds like Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers, John Prine, Chris Stapleton
The internet's protest-folk bard — a new topical song every week, Dylan-grade wit aimed at whatever the news cycle just did.
From Ozark, AR · Sounds like Bob Dylan, John Prine
A rasp built for heartbreak, dragging country songwriting through trap drums and open-wound honesty — genre lines treated as suggestions.
From Athens, AL · Sounds like carolesdaughter, Jelly Roll, Ashley McBryde, Lil Peep
'Are You Gonna Be My Girl' — Aussie garage swagger, reunited, with enough riff-rock singles to keep the tank full.
From Melbourne, AU · Sounds like The Vines, Wolfmother
Leather, three chords, and total conviction — the blueprint for every woman fronting a rock band since, hits included.
From Philadelphia, PA · Sounds like Blondie, The Runaways, Pat Benatar
A Kentucky native coming home, with a blues-soaked voice that outlived the one song everyone remembers — 'One of Us' just the front door.
From Anchorage, KY · Sounds like Sheryl Crow, Bonnie Raitt, 4 Non Blondes
Deceptively gentle country that smuggles in sharp jokes and sharper edges under the pedal steel — 'Golden Hour' grace with a Texas smirk.
From Golden, TX · Sounds like Maren Morris, Brandi Carlile, Kaitlin Butts, Taylor Swift
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.
From Tulsa, OK · Sounds like Kacey Musgraves, Sierra Ferrell, Charley Crockett
Montana 'galaxy grass' — bluegrass instrumentation pushed toward psychedelia and volume, jamgrass with actual gravitational pull.
From Bozeman, MT · Sounds like Greensky Bluegrass, The Infamous Stringdusters, Mountain Grass Unit
A restless folk singer who performs like the songs might get away from him if he stops moving — pew-jumping revival energy nightly.
From Langhorne, PA · Sounds like The Devil Makes Three, Deer Tick, Amigo the Devil
Dancing electric-violin spectacle — classical chops at festival scale, choreography and pyrotechnics included, a one-woman production that earns the word spectacle.
From Santa Ana, CA · Sounds like Apocalyptica, 2Cellos, David Garrett
Cat-eye glasses and precise, conversational songwriting from the last great era of the coffeehouse single — 'Stay' still lands soft and exact.
From Dallas, TX · Sounds like Suzanne Vega, Sarah McLachlan, Paula Cole
Hawaiian island reggae built on a genuinely soulful lead vocal — Maui warmth with country-soul phrasing.
From Maui, HI · Sounds like Rebelution, Common Kings, Sublime
A guitar prodigy with a soul singer's voice, fronting a band that plays like the Allmans never stopped — Greenville grit at full burn.
From Greenville, SC · Sounds like Gary Clark Jr., Chris Stapleton, The Red Clay Strays
Oregon folk-country riser — earnest, streaming-era troubadour with a fanbase that found him one chorus at a time.
From Bend, OR · Sounds like Zach Bryan, Noah Kahan
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.
From Long Island, NY · Sounds like Vertical Horizon, Tonic, The Verve Pipe
Country-leaning confessional songwriting that stepped decisively out of a very long family shadow — hushed duets and high-lonesome ache.
From Nashville, TN · Sounds like Kacey Musgraves, Lana Del Rey, hey, nothing
Iceland's stomp-and-holler exports — 'Little Talks' and a decade of widescreen indie-pop, hey!-shouts included, Icelandic warmth at singalong scale.
From Reykjavík, IS · Sounds like Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Florence + The Machine
Canadian alt-rock with Raine Maida's distinctive strangled falsetto sitting above the crunch — 'Superman's Dead' and national-institution status up north.
From Toronto, ON · Sounds like Live, Collective Soul, The Verve Pipe
Lilith-era songwriting with jazz training underneath and a voice that goes places the radio edits never showed — the cowboys question still stands.
From Rockport, MA · Sounds like Sarah McLachlan, Fiona Apple, Lisa Loeb
Pop-punk lifers best known for an acoustic song that ate the world for a summer — 'Hey There Delilah' and sturdier rock behind it.
From Chicago, IL · Sounds like The All-American Rejects, Yellowcard, Nine Days
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.
From Wasilla, AK · Sounds like MGMT, Foster the People, Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Josh Homme's robot-boogie riffs — heavy music with a lounge singer's sense of swing and menace, desert-rock royalty at full strut.
From Palm Desert, CA · Sounds like Kyuss, Arctic Monkeys, Them Crooked Vultures, Royal Blood
A mandolin virtuoso since childhood, now writing songs that justify the technique — bluegrass pedigree stretched into something personal.
From Byrdstown, TN · Sounds like Punch Brothers, Billy Strings, The Infamous Stringdusters
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.
From London, UK · Sounds like Elvis Costello, XTC, Cheap Trick
Paul Janeway in a sequined jumpsuit, singing like a preacher over an eight-piece Alabama soul revue — testimony with a horn section.
From Birmingham, AL · Sounds like Durand Jones & the Indications, Alabama Shakes, Leon Bridges
Drumless string-band punk about drinking and dying, played fast enough to dance to — gallows humor at hoedown tempo.
From Santa Cruz, CA · Sounds like Amigo the Devil, Old Crow Medicine Show, Langhorne Slim
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.
From Oklahoma City, OK · Sounds like MGMT, Mercury Rev, Animal Collective
Piano-led mid-2000s radio balladry that soundtracked more television drama than most composers manage — 'How to Save a Life' forever mid-montage.
From Denver, CO · Sounds like OneRepublic, Snow Patrol, Vertical Horizon
Progressive bluegrass played by a band happy to jam a traditional tune well past its natural length — Grammy-winning chops, festival stamina.
Sounds like Greensky Bluegrass, Billy Strings, Kitchen Dwellers
Gulf Coast southern rock with a frontman who sounds like he learned to sing in a revival tent — 'Wondering Why' the slow-burn breakout.
From Mobile, AL · Sounds like Whiskey Myers, Marcus King, Chris Stapleton
Michigan alt-rock whose biggest song is far bleaker than its radio ubiquity suggested — 'The Freshmen' still lands heavier than remembered.
From East Lansing, MI · Sounds like Vertical Horizon, Nine Days, Our Lady Peace
Motorik heartland rock — Springsteen refracted through a synth haze, transcendent live, 'Under the Pressure' as the long exhale.
From Philadelphia, PA · Sounds like Bruce Springsteen, Kurt Vile
Late-'90s alt-rock with a warm, unfussy approach to a big chorus — 'If You Could Only See' still glowing.
From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like Vertical Horizon, Matchbox Twenty, Nine Days
Texas southern rock with an organ in the mix and a slow-burn approach to a payoff — 'Keep the Wolves Away' the campfire hymn.
From Austin, TX · Sounds like Whiskey Myers, The Red Clay Strays, Cross Canadian Ragweed
Turn-of-the-millennium radio rock with a bigger acoustic-folk backstory than the hits suggest — 'Everything You Want' still inescapable.
From Washington, DC · Sounds like Matchbox Twenty, Third Eye Blind, Tonic
'Blister in the Sun' and the strangest great American songbook — acoustic punk forever, xylophone solos included.
From Milwaukee, WI · Sounds like The Pixies, Meat Puppets, Camper Van Beethoven, They Might Be Giants
A committed, captain's-hat-wearing tribute to smooth '70s AM radio, played entirely straight — the smoothness is non-negotiable.
From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like Christopher Cross, Hall & Oates
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.
From Boston, MA · Sounds like Lawrence, Vulfpeck, Durand Jones & the Indications
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.
From Georgia · Sounds like Ethel Cain, Adrianne Lenker, Noah Cyrus
Emerging indie songwriter.
Kentucky drawl, punk heart — swampy Southern storytelling with teeth, farm-town detail delivered with DIY conviction.
From Hickman, KY · Sounds like Waxahatchee, Drive-By Truckers
'Look At The Time' broke him overnight — big-voiced Southern alt-rock with grunge shadows and arena aims.
From Arkansas · Sounds like Royel Otis, Briston Maroney
September 24–27, 2026 — Thursday through Sunday.
Highland Festival Grounds at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville — the same site as Louder Than Life the week before.
Foo Fighters (Thursday), Mumford & Sons (Friday), Chris Stapleton (Saturday), and Dave Matthews Band (Sunday).
107 announced acts across four days.
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.
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.
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