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The clock above counts down to Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival 2026 from Thursday, June 11 to Sunday, June 14, 2026 at the festival's permanent home, Great Stage Park, in Manchester, Tennessee.
Bonnaroo is the marquee multi-genre US camping festival, a four-day, 24-hour-a-day event on a 700-acre purpose-built farm 60 miles southeast of Nashville. Founded in 2002 around a jam-band-and-roots core, the festival has evolved into one of the most genre-broad bookings in the country, mixing pop and hip-hop headliners with electronic, country, indie, folk, and the late-night Superjam tradition that pulls together rotating supergroups. Bonnaroo's defining cultural traits are the on-site camping (90% of attendees stay on the farm for the full run), the 24-hour programming on smaller stages, and the "Roovian" community ethos that treats the festival as a temporary city.
The 2026 edition continues Bonnaroo's recovery and reinvestment cycle after weather cancellations in 2021 and 2024 prompted Live Nation and C3 Presents to upgrade drainage, infrastructure, and the festival's stormwater management system. Bonnaroo remains one of the few remaining destination camping festivals at scale in the US following the closures of Firefly and the contraction of the Vans Warped Tour.
Bonnaroo's full lineup is announced by C3 Presents in early to mid-January each year, with Phase Two additions in spring. Expected 2026 headliner candidates include returning frequent flyers like Tyler the Creator, Olivia Rodrigo, The Killers, and Kendrick Lamar, with the late-night Superjam typically led by a mystery artist revealed in the weeks before the festival. The What Stage (main) and Which Stage anchor headline performances; the That Tent, This Tent, and The Other Tent host afternoon and second-tier acts; and the late-night Where in the Woods area runs underground electronic programming through dawn. Per Roo tradition, expect surprise sit-ins, themed Kalliope parade processions, and the Friday-night Centeroo silent disco that has become a fan ritual.
Bonnaroo livestreams select stages each year via the festival's official YouTube channel, with Hulu having held streaming-partner rights in recent editions. The What Stage main-headliner performances begin around 22:00 CT each night, which is 23:00 ET, 20:00 PT, 04:00 BST, 05:00 CEST, 08:30 IST, and 12:00 JST the following day. Tickets sell in tiers from October 2025 onward via Bonnaroo.com, with general-admission, plus, and VIP options plus on-site car-camping, RV, and platinum lodging.
Bonnaroo anchors the early-summer US festival run alongside Glastonbury Festival 2027 (overseas the same window), and connects to the broader US calendar around Outside Lands 2026, Coachella 2027, and Burning Man 2026. The 2027 follow-on countdown is at Bonnaroo 2027. For headline-tour peers, follow the Oasis Live 2026 countdown.
When is Bonnaroo 2026? Thursday, June 11 to Sunday, June 14, 2026. Where is Bonnaroo held? Great Stage Park, the festival's permanent home in Manchester, Tennessee. How can I watch Bonnaroo? Select stages livestream on the official Bonnaroo YouTube channel, with broader streaming-partner coverage announced closer to the festival. Is camping required? No, but most attendees camp on-site; festival passes include car-camping by default, with upgrades available for RV, glamping, and Platinum tiers.
