Music festivals are the best way to tackle your band bucket list. Here at Proglodytes, we thought we would try and compile a list of all of the progressive rock/metal music festival that we knew of, in case there is one that is happening close to you. If you are aware of one that we left off, or if we need to update any details, please let us know, and we’ll make sure to keep it up to date.

North America

Cruise to the Edge

Date: March 27-April 1, 2020

Venue: Cruise Ship

City, Country: Various

Website: http://cruisetotheedge.com/

Bands: Yes, Marillion, Steve Hackett, Flying Colors, Jordan Rudess, Saga, Anathema, King’s X, Riverside, The Flower Kings, Haken, Nerve Bundle, Protocol, Stick Men, Pain of Salvation, Pendragon, Gong, Curved Air, Le Orme, Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin, Lifesigns, Glass Hammer, Stu Hamm, Moon Safari, Dave Kerzner, McBroom Sisters, Alex Machacek Fernando Perdomo, Gabriel, Marbin, Brook Hansen

RoSFest

Date: May 8-10, 2020

Venue: Sarasota Opera House, Mandebille Beer Garden

City, Country: Sarasota, Florida USA

Website: https://rosfest.com/

Bands: Big Big Train, Cast, Thank You Scientist, U.P.F., Pattern Seeking Animals, Dilemma, The Tea Club, Lobate Scarp, Moon Letters, Arc Iris

Terra Incognita Prog Festival

Date: May 15-17, 2020

Venue: La Chapelle

City, Country: Quebec, Canada

Website: www.terraincognita.quebec

Bands: Anekdoten, La Maschera di cera,Professor Tip Top, Isproject, Sintonia Distorta, Quel Che Disse Il Tuono, 35 Tapes, Head With Wings

ProgDay

Date: TBA

Venue: Storybook Farm

City, Country: Chapel Hill, North Carolina USA

Website: http://www.progday.net/

Bands: TBA

Seaprog 2020

Date: TBA

Venue: Royal Room, Columbia City Theater

City, Country: Seattle, Washington USA

Website: http://seaprogfest.org/

Bands: TBA

DanFest 2020

Date: TBD

Venue: TBD

City, Country: Girard, Pennsylvania

Website: https://www.thedanfest.com/?fbclid=IwAR1jXtNdkeWVv-udtBFcMTMkGm3j3x-3FXy_apwyXqI-Sz1eL-T_SbKxR7U

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ProgPower USA XI 2020

Date: September 11-12, 2020

Venue: Center Stage Theater

City, Country: Atlanta, Georgia USA

Website: http://progpowerusa.com/

Bands: Mindmaze, Zonder/Wehrkamp, Power Quest, Dream Evil, Darkwater, Northtale, The Ocean, Pain of Salvation, Stratovarius, more TBA

Progstock 2020

Date: October 9-11, 2020

Venue: Union County Performing Arts Center

City, Country: Rahway, New Jersey, USA

Website: http://www.progstock.com/

Bands: District 97, Mile Marker Zero, California Guitar Trio, IO Earth, more TBA

Progtoberfest VI

Date: TBA

Venue: Reggies Chicago

City, Country: Chicago, Illinois USA

Website: http://www.reggieslive.com/

Bands: TBA

Europe

Complexity Fest

Date: February 15, 2020

Venue: Patronaat Haarlem

City, Country: Haarlem, The Netherlands

Website: https://www.facebook.com/complexityfest

Bands: And So I Watch You From Afar, Dragged Into Sunlight, Night Verses, Raketkanon, Stuff., Otoboke Beaver, Thank You Scientist, Goat, Vasa, Cold Night for Alligators, Pijn, Herod, Our Oceans, Ithica, Ni Zalm, Bieldermann, Beaten to Death, Astrosaur, Mary Fields

Prognosis Festival

Date: March 20-21, 2020

Venue: Effenaar Grote Zaal

City, Country: Effenaar, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Website: https://prognosis-festival.com/

Bands: Katatonia, Enslaved, Don Airey, Sermon, Dilemma, The Fierce and the Dead, Anathema, Sons of Apollo, Focus, Long Distance Calling, Masvidal, Bruce Soord, Voyager, Rendezvous Point, Scarlet Stories

Fusion 2020

Date: March 20-22, 2020

Venue: Stourport Civic Centre

City, Country: Stourport-on-Severn, England

Website: https://www.facebook.com/pg/fusionmusicfestivals/posts/?ref=page_internal

Bands: Mellotonanism, The Wooddemons, Chloe Mogg, Lazuli, The Emerald Dawn, ESP Project, Kyros, Maschine, Marley Davidson, Quilll, Frank Carducci, The Paradox Twin, Sky Architect, Leafblade, That Joe Payne, Magenta, Lifesigns

Prog in the Park

Date: April 4, 2020

Venue: Glen Pavilion

City, Country: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland

Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups/212460709393100/?fref=gc&dti=1212533295490905&hc_location=ufi

Bands: The Scottish Pink Floyd, Alan Reed and the Daughters of Expediency, Long Earth, This Winter Machine, Clockwork Angels, Ali Ferguson Band, Jennifer Clark

Artrock Festival VII

Date: April 3-5, 2020

Venue:Neuberinhaus Reichenbach

City, Country: Vogtland, Germany

Website: https://www.facebook.com/Artrock-Festival-Reichenbach-985219821539737/

Bands: Carl Palmer ELP Legacy, Mostly Autumn, Mystery, Ray Wilson, UPF, Red Sand, Threshold, Abel Ganz, Tony MacAlpine, Huis, Comedy of Errors, Credo, Maschine, Overhead, Ubi Maior, Crystal Palace, Melli Mau and Martin Schnella, Amarok, AnTon, Polis, Retrospective, Broekhuis-Keller-Schonwalder

The Winter’s End Progressive Rock Festival 2020

Date: April 23-26, 2020

Venue: The Drill Hall, Lower Church St, Chepstow

City, Country: Chepstow, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.winters-end.co.uk/

Bands: Seyes, Paul Ford and Rob Wilsher (Multi Story), Subsignal, Red Bazar (feat. Peter Jones), Pendragon, Hayley Griffiths, Also Eden, Midas Fall, Last Flight to Pluto, Mostly Autumn, Solstice, The John Hackett Band, League of Lights, Emperor Norton, more TBA

Gouveia Art Rock Festival

Date: May 1-3, 2020

Venue: Teatro-Cine

City, Country: Gouveia, Portugal

Website: https://www.facebook.com/GouveiaArtRock/?fref=ts&hc_location=ufi

Bands: TBA

We Låve Rock Festival 2020

Date: May 22-23, 2020

Venue: Grønsand Gjestegård

City, Country: Buskerud, Norway

Website:https://www.facebook.com/events/462062454247653/

Bands: Mystery, Hasse Froberg & Musical Companion, Infringement, Caravan, Lesoir, Sky Architect, Midnight Sun, more TBA

Comendatio Music Fest 2020

Date: June 6-7, 2020

Venue: Paço Da Comenda

City, Country: Rua de Coimbra, Tomar, Portugal

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2423193691327900/

Bands: Monuments, Haken, VOLA, Voyager, Rendezvous Point, Godsticks, Catacombe, Poem, Subversive, Mobius, Rei Bruxo, Needle, Dream Pawn Shop, Fifth Empire, more TBA

Midsmmer Prog Festival

Date: June 20, 2020

Venue: Openluchttheater

City, Country: Valkenburg, The Netherlands

Website: http://midsummerprog.com/

Bands: Kayak, Antimatter, Klone, RPWL

Rock the Night Festival

Date: June 25-27, 2020

Venue: Auditorio Miguel Rios

City, Country: Rivas Vaciamadrid, Madrid Spain

Website: http://www.rockthecoastfestival.es

Bands: Avantasia, Heilung, Jinjer, Haken, Tygers of Pan Tang, Omnium Gatherum, Mercyful Fate, Devin Townsend, Doro, Cirith Ungol, Loudness, Beast in Black, Night Demon, Volbeat, Foreigner, Skid Row, FM, Dying Fetus, Takida

Night of the Prog Festival XV

Date: July 19, 2020

Venue: Loreley Amphitheater

City, Country: Sankt Goarshausen, Germany

Website: http://www.nightoftheprogfestival.com/en/home-2/

Bands: Pure Reason Revolution, Cheetos Magazine, Gabriel, Kayak, Pendragon, Ayreon, Moon Safari, more TBA

Eppyfest 8

Date: TBA

Venue: St. Margaret’s Hall

City, Country: Cheltenham, UK

Website: https://eppyfest.businesscatalyst.com/

Bands: TBA

Festival Rock au Chateau de Villersexel

Date: August 1-2, 2020

Venue: Château de Villersexel

City, Country: Villersexel, France

Website: https://www.rockauchateau.fr/

Bands: TBA

A New Day Festival 2019

Date: August 27-30, 2020

Venue: Mount Ephraim Gardens

City, Country: Faversham, UK

Website: http://www.anewdayfestival.com/

Bands: Focus, Tankus the Henge, Collateral, Stevie Simpson, Roger Chapman, Family and Friends, Strawbs, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Flor de Loto, Edgar Broughton, Osibisa, Kylver, Lapis Lazuli, Skids, The Blockheads, Inglorious, Praying Mantis, Mythra, Big River, Stonewire, Leatherat, The True Deceivers, more TBA

Crescendo

Date: TBA

Venue: Esplanade du Concié

City, Country: Saint Palais Sur Mer, France

Website: http://festival-crescendo.com

Bands: TBA

2Days Prog +1 Festival

Date: September 4-6, 2020

Venue: Piazzetta della Musica

City, Country: Veruno Novara, Italy

Website: https://www.facebook.com/VerunoProgRockFestival/

Bands: Retrospective, Lazuli, The Fierce & The Dead, Seven Steps to the Green Door, more TBA

Progdreams VIII

Date: TBA

Venue: Boerderij Cultuurpodium

City, Country: Zoetermeer, The Netherlands

Website: https://www.facebook.com/progdreams/

Bands: TBA

Euroblast Festival

Date: October 1-3, 2020

Venue: Essigfabrik

City, Country: Cologne, Germany

Website: http://www.euroblast.net/en/

Bands: Black Tongue, Dirty Loops, Khroma, Plini, Volkor, more TBA

ProgPower Europe

Date: October 2-4 2020

Venue: JC SJIWA

City, Country: Baarlo, The Netherlands

Website: http://www.progpowereurope.com/

Bands: Green Carnation, Mother of Millions, Sunsless Dawn, Wilderun, Avandra, Obsidian Tide, Abraham Sarache

The Summer’s End Festival

Date: October 1-4, 2020

Venue: The Drill Hall

City, Country: Chepstow, England

Website: http://www.summersend.co.uk/

Bands: TBC, Moulettes, Pallas, Cosmograf, Gungfly, Antimatter, Jimp, Cyan, Ms Amy Birks, Lesoir, I am the Manic Whale, Mt. Amber, Meer

Ready for Prog? Festival

Date: October 30-31, 2020

Venue: Le Metronum

City, Country: Toulouse, France

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/527132164430941/

Bands: TBA

HRH Prog IX

Date: March 28-29, 2020

Venue: O2 Shepherds Bush Empire

City, Country: Shepherd’s Bush, London and Sheffield, United Kingdom

Website: http://www.hrhprog.com/

Bands: Rick Wakeman, Dave Brock, John Lees’ Barclay James Harvest, Focus, The Spacelords, Nth Ascension, The Skys, Franck Carducci, Bram Stoker, The Room, Psychic Lemon