Summerfest is a yearly music festival held at the 75-acre Henry Maier Festival Park along the lakefront in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The festival lasts for 11 days, is made up of 11 stages with performances from over 700 bands, and since the mid-1970s has run from late June through early July, always including the 4th of July holiday.
Ticket Price: $36 (3-Day GA); Marcus Amphitheater shows sold separately
Headliners
Festival lineup
- 311
- AWOLNATION
- Aerosmith
- Anthony Hamilton
- Art of Dying
- Atmosphere
- Band of Horses
- Ben Caplan and The Casual Smokers
- Ben Folds Five
- Big Time Rush
- Black Box Revolution
- Bob Mould performing Copper Blue
- Boston
- Brantley Gilbert
- Brendan Benson
- Burton Cummings
- Cake
- Chappo
- Cheap Trick
- Cherri Bomb
- Chevelle
- Chicago
- Civil Twilight
- Common
- Counting Crows
- Cowboy Mouth
- David Gray
- DeVotchKa
- Emily's Army
- Eric Benet
- Field Report
- Fitz and the Tantrums
- Flagship
- Foo Fighters
- Fountains of Wayne
- Fruit Bats
- Gabriel Sanchez Presents The Prince Experience
- Gary Clark Jr.
- Gavin DeGraw
- Givers
- Gold Fields
- Gold Motel
- Gov't Mule
- Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
- Halestorm
- Hanson
- Heartless Bastards
- Hollywood Undead
- Iron Maiden
- Jimmy Cliff
- Joe Walsh
- Joss Stone
- Kasey Anderson and the Honkies
- Kellie Pickler
- Kelly Clarkson
- Kool & the Gang
- La India
- Lady Antebellum
- Lupe Fiasco
- MUTEMATH
- Magic Wands
- Mayer Hawthrone
- Motion City Soundtrack
- My Morning Jacket
- My Pet Dragon
- Nathaniel Rateliff
- Neil Diamond
- O.A.R.
- Otis Taylor
- Paul Oakenfold
- Paul Thorn
- Phantom, Rocker & Slick
- Phil Vassar
- R3hab
- Robyn
- Scorpions
- Skillet
- Squeeze
- Starship featuring Mickey Thomas
- Steve Aoki
- Steve Miller Band
- Sublime with Rome
- The Avett Brothers
- The B-52s
- The Beach Boys
- The BoDeans
- The Dirty Heads
- The Head and the Heart
- The Hives
- The Joy Formidable
- The Roots
- The Walkmen
- Thievery Corporation
- Tito Rojas
- Tommy Trash
- Train
- Trampled By Turtles
- Vanaprasta
- Walk Off The Earth
- We Are Augustines
- We Came As Romans
- Young the Giant
- ZZ Top
- Zac Brown Band
- Zedd
- Ziggy Marley
- tune-yards
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