Summerfest is an annual music festival held at the 75-acre (30-hectare) 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 800 acts and over 1000 performances. Since the mid-1970s, it has run from late June through early July, usually including the 4th of July holiday. Summerfest attracts between 800,000 and 900,000 people each year, promoting itself as “The World’s Largest Music Festival”, a title certified by the Guinness World Records since 1999
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Headliners
Festival lineup
- A Flock of Seagulls
- Alesso
- Alien Ant Farm
- Anderson East
- Arcade Fire
- Ash
- Bebe Rexha
- Benjamin Booker
- Big Boi
- Billy Currington
- Bishop Briggs
- Blake Shelton
- Bonnie Raitt
- Boz Scaggs
- Buckcherry
- Buddy Guy
- BØRNS
- Candlebox
- Capital Cities
- Caroline Rose
- Charli XCX
- Cheap Trick
- Cheat Codes
- Chromeo
- DJ Jazzy Jeff
- Dave Matthews Band
- Def Leppard
- Echosmith
- Fastball
- Florida Georgia Line
- Foster the People
- Gavin DeGraw
- George Thorogood & The Destroyers
- Gin Blossoms
- GoldLink
- Grace Vanderwaal
- Greta Van Fleet
- Grizzly Bear
- HELLYEAH
- Halsey
- Hunter Hayes
- Hurray for The Riff Raff
- Imagine Dragons
- J. Cole
- James Taylor
- Janelle Monae
- Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
- Jethro Tull
- Jon Batiste with The Dap-Kings
- Jonathan Davis (of Korn)
- Jonny Lang
- Journey
- Joywave
- Judah and the Lion
- Kaleo
- Kesha
- Kip Moore
- Knox Fortune
- Lil Uzi Vert
- Lit
- Logic
- Louis the Child
- Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real
- Machine Gun Kelly
- Manchester Orchestra
- Marshmello
- Matthew Sweet
- Mayer Hawthorne
- Maze featuring Frankie Beverly
- Meat Puppets
- Men I Trust
- Michael Franti & Spearhead
- Midland
- Nelly
- Nick Lowe featuring Los Straitjackets
- O.A.R.
- P.O.D.
- Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo
- Phantogram
- Phil Vassar
- Pixies
- Plain White T's
- Pop Evil
- Rachel Platten
- Rick Springfield
- Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers
- Shawn Mendes
- Slightly Stoopid
- Soccer Mommy
- Social Distortion
- Spoon
- Steven Tyler
- Sugar Hill Gang and Grandmaster Melle Mel & Scorpio Furious 5
- Sunflower Bean
- The All-American Rejects
- The Crystal Method
- The Edgar Winter Group
- The Flaming Lips
- The Fray
- The James Hunter Six
- The Neighbourhood
- The O'My's
- The Posies
- The Soul Rebels
- The Wailers
- The Wallflowers
- The Weeknd
- The Wild Feathers
- The Wombats
- Third Eye Blind
- Tory Lanez
- Trace Atkins
- Trampled by Turtles
- Walter Trout
- Welshly Arms
- Xavier Omar
- Yonder Mountain String Band
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