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 4

Date: February 7-11 2017

Venue: Cruise Ship

City, Country: Florida, USA- Cozumel, Mexico

Website: http://cruisetotheedge.com/

Bands: Kansas, Steve Hackett, Mike Portnoy, Patrick Moraz, Bad Dreams, The Neal Morse Band, IO Earth, Spock’s Beard, Alex Machacek, Anglagard, Stick Men, Haken, Curved Air, Frost*, Electric Asturias, Scott Henderson, District 97, Focus, The Fringe, Dave Kerzner, Pain of Salvation, John Lodge, John Wesley

RoSFest

Date: May 5-7 2017

Venue: Majestic Theater

City, Country: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania USA

Website: https://rosfest.com/2017-schedule/

Bands: Kyros, Moon Safari, Prog Nation, The Aaron Clift Experiment, Unified Past, The Neal Morse Band, The Fierce and The Dead, Evership, Edensong, Anglagard

Massive Unnamed Metal Show in Philly (not really a festival, but a solid and proggy metal show)

Date: May 6, 2017

Venue: Electric Factory Outdoors

City, Country: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA

Website: http://electricfactory.info/Event/5/6/2017/mastodon-opeth-gojira-eagles-of-death-metal

Bands: Mastodon, Opeth, Gojira, Eagles of Death Metal, Devin Townsend Project, Russian Circles

Terra Incognita Prog Festival

Date: May 20-21 2017

Venue: La Chapelle

City, Country: Quebec, Canada

Website: www.terraincognita.quebec

Bands: Universe Effects, Edensong, Glass Hammer, Il paradiso degli orchi, Comedy of Errors, Hostsonaten

ProgDay

Date: September 2-3, 2017

Venue: Storybook Farm

City, Country: Chapel Hill, North Carolina USA

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

Bands: Sonar (with David Torn), Flor de Loto, iNFiNiEN, Shylock, Bubblemath

Seaprog 2017

Date: June 2-4, 2017

Venue: Royal Room, Columbia City Theater

City, Country: Seattle, Washington USA

Website: http://seaprogfest.org/

Bands: Cabezas de Cera, Chemical Clock, Fraktal Phantom, Human Ottoman, Ibex. Jack o’ the Clock, Jan Koekepan, Lupertazzi, Moon Letters, Omni, Paraesthesia, Pinto Wagonfire, Points North, Rainstick Cowbell, Super Z Attack Team, The Central Committee and Friends, The Machine That We Built, Zero Times Everything

ProgPower USA XVIII 2017

Date: September 6-9 2017

Venue: Center Stage Theater

City, Country: Atlanta, Georgia USA

Website: http://progpowerusa.com/

Bands: Mike Portnoy, Myrath, Angel Dust, Lords of Black, Distorted Harmony, Sunburst, Katatonia, Amaranthe, Pain, Snowy Shaw, Dynazty, Teramaze, Haken, Orphaned Land, Serenity, Power Quest, Metal Church, Between the Buried and Me, Vanden Plas, Twilight Force, Next To None

Progstock 2017

Date: October 13-15 2017

Venue: Union County Performing Arts Center in .TBD

City, Country: Rahway, New Jersey, USA

Website: http://www.progstock.com/2017/

Bands: Echolyn, Glass Hammer, The Tangent, Karmakanic, Randy McStine Presents: a Kevin Gilbert Retrospective, Aisles, 3RDegree, Circuline, Rachel Flowers, Francis Dunnery, Peter Jones, Resistor, The Tea Club, Cell 15, Rani Chatoorgoon, Jason Rubenstein, Echotest

Progtoberfest III

Date: October 20-22, 2017

Venue: Reggies Chicago

City, Country: Chicago, Illinois USA

Website: http://www.reggieslive.com/show/progtoberfest-ii-4/ (last year’s event- will update as soon as new info appears)

Bands: Martin Barre, The Don & Bunk Show feat. Frank Zappa alums Don Preston, Bunk Gardner with Special Guests Ike Willis, The Alphonso Johnson Band, The Tangent, Karmakanic, Bruce Soord, Cast, Aisles, Wobbler, Dave Kerzner Band, Necromonkey, Mike Keneally and Beer for Dolphins, Thank You Scientist, District 97, Karcius, Luz de Riada, Randy McStine, Frogg Cafe, Discipline, XmarsX, Joe Deninzon & Stratospheerius, King Llama, Wave Mechanics Union, Eye, Abacab, SchoolTree, Kinetic Element, Echoes of Giants, In The Presence Of Wolves, Five of the Eyes, Agori Tribe, NEW! Performing NEU!, Progger, Lost World Band, Amalgam Effect, Roswell, Mano, Sons of Ra

Europe

Complexity Fest

Date: February 25, 2017

Venue: Patronaat Haarlem

City, Country: Haarlem, The Netherlands

Website: http://www.patronaat.nl/25-2-2017/complexity-fest-2017

Bands: Ihsahn, Obscura, Agent Fresco, Gorod, Frontierer, Napoleon, Uneven Structure, Virvum, Disillusion, Exist Immortal, Mutiny on the Bounty, Arms, Kadinja, Aiming for Enrike, MNHM, Ruby My Dear, Beaten to Death, Extremities, Pelgrim (more to be announced)

Progdreams VI

Date: March 4-5, 2017

Venue: Boerderij Cultuurpodium

City, Country: Zoetermeer, The Netherlands

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

Bands: Huis, Barock Project, Karnataka, Frost*, Tilt, Tiger Moth Tales, Antimatter, Lonely Robot

HRH Prog V

Date: March 16-19, 2017

Venue: Camp HRH

City, Country: Pwllheli, North Wales

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

Bands: Pendragon, The Enid, Gong, Jump, Hawkwind, John Lee’s Barclay James Harvest, Curved Air, The Pretty Things, David Cross Band, Davy O’List, Panic Room, Hexvessel, Dream Circuit, Credo, Maschine, Red Spektor, Wishbone Ash, IQ, Atomic Rooster, The Strawbs, Gandalf’s Fist, Karnataka, Heights, Verbal Delirium, Luna Kiss, Haze, The Gift, Konchordat

Artrock Festival V

Date: March 31- April 2, 2017

Venue:Neuberinhaus Reichenbach

City, Country: Vogtland, Germany

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

Bands: Omega, Stern-Combo Meissen & Leipzig Symphonic Orchestra+ Wilandes Choir, Chris Thompson, David Cross Band, Uli Jon Roth feat. Crystal Breed, Pain of Salvation, Mystery, Karnataka, Red Sand, Lazuli, Blind Ego, Sylvan, Jonas Reingold & Andy Bartosh, Seven Steps to the Green Door, Anton

Festival Prog-Réstiste 2017

Date: April 23, 2017

Venue: Centre Culturel de Soignies

City, Country: Soignies, Belgium

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/232517920494786/

Bands: Focus, Richard Pinhas, The Wrong Object, The Green Violinist- Several events

Gouveia Art Rock Festival

Date: May 6-7, 2017

Venue: Teatro-Cine (?)

City, Country: Gouveia, Portugal

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/326943870987790/

Bands: TBA

Prog the Castle 2017

Date: May 27-28, 2017

Venue: Alte Wollfabrik

City, Country: Schwetzingen

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/326943870987790/

Bands: Deafening Opera, Dante, Cheeto’s, Votum, The Watch, The Barstool Philosophers, Karibow, Franck Carducci, Credo, Vanden Plas

Midummer Prog Festival

Date: June 24, 2017

Venue: Openluchttheater

City, Country: Valkenburg, The Netherlands

Website: http://midsummerprog.com/

Bands: Anathema, Gazpacho, iamthemorning (more to be announced)

Harmonix Fest

Date: June 25, 2017

Venue: Robin 2

City, Country: Bilston, England

Website: http://oktopusuk.com/event/harmonix/

Bands: IO Earth, Circuline, Telescope Road, Oktopus

Be Prog! My Friend

Date: June 30-July 1 2017

Venue: Poble Espanyol

City, Country: Barcelona, Spain

Website: http://www.beprogmyfriend.com/17/en/home/

Bands: Marillion, Jethro Tull, Anathema, Ulver, Mike Portnoy, Animals as Leaders, Caligula’s Horse

Night of the Prog Festival XII

Date: July 14-16 2017

Venue: Loreley Amphitheater

City, Country: Sankt Goarshausen, Germany

Website: http://www.nightoftheprogfestival.com/index.eng.html

Bands: Soul Secret, Blind Ego, Crippled Black Pheonix, Mike Portnoy, Eyevory, Ashby, Karibow, Ray Wilson, Franck Carducci Band, Gong, Chris Thimpson, Kansas

Festival Rock au Chateau de Villersexel

Date: August 5-6, 2017

Venue: Château de Villersexel

City, Country: Villersexel, France

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

Bands: Magma, Caravan, Lazuli, Gens de la lune, Light Damage, Tristan Decamps, Children in Paradise, La Fabricca dell’ assoluto

A New Day Festival 2017

Date: August 25-27 2017

Venue: Mount Ephraim Gardens

City, Country: Faversham, UK

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

Bands: The Martin barre Band, IO Earth, Big Country, Dr Feelgood, Del Bromham’s Blues Devils, Lindisfarne, Solstice, Edgar Broughton, Soft Machine, Kindred Spirit, Jackie McAuley Band, The Fierce and The Dead, Slade, Martin Turner x Wishbone Ash, The Yardbirds, Gryphon, Paradise 9, (more to be announced)

2Days Prog +1 Festival

Date: September 1-3, 2017

Venue: Piazzetta della Musica

City, Country: Veruno Novara, Italy

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

Bands: Comedy of Errors, Discipline, Frost*, Glass Hammer, Karfagen (more to be announced)

Euroblast 2017

Date: September 29-October 1, 2017

Venue: Essigfabrik

City, Country: Cologne, Germany

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

Bands: Textures, Chimp Spanner, The Algorithm, Uneven Structure, Exivious, Jinjer, Voyager, Frontierer, Kadinja, Make Me A Donut (more to be announced)

ProgPower Europe

Date: October 5-8 2017

Venue: JC SJIWA

City, Country: Baarlo, The Netherlands

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

Bands: Tesseract, Voyager, Brutai, Kauan, Blindead (more to be announced?)

The Summer’s End Festival

Date: October 6-8, 2017

Venue: The Drill Hall

City, Country: Chepstow, England

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

Bands: Frost*, The Tangent, Karmaniac, Frank Carducci, Southern Empire, Maschine, Karibow, Elephants of Scotland, Midnight Sun, Half Past Four, Weendo

Prog en Beauce

Date: October 28-29, 2017

Venue: Salle Maurice Leblond

City, Country: Pierres, France

Website: http://www.progenbeauce.com/

Bands: Lazuli, Frank Carducci, Clepsydra, Gens de la Lune, JPL, Harvest, Weendo