Music Festivals in Alberta

From mud festivals to cowboy gatherings, here is a list of music festivals to rock out to during the year 2022.

List of 60+ Music Festivals in Alberta.

Contents

• Upcoming Festivals from our Calendar (mostly from Calgary & Edmonton Area)
• Alberta Music Festivals in Winter & Spring (~ December 22 to June 15)
• Alberta Music Festivals in Summer to Fall (~ June 15 to  December 21)

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Alberta Music Festivals in Winter (~ December 22 to March 20)

BIG Winter Classic – Calgary

Arts, music and local craft beer will collide at BIG Winter Classic for a four-day winter wonderland weekend that doesn’t involve getting up at 6 am and hitting the slopes.  Details

 

Usually held in January

Various Venues, Calgary

Tongue On The Post Festival – Medicine Hat

Winter folk music festival! Details

Usually held in January

Medalta Potteries, 763 Medalta Ave SE, Medicine Hat and other venues.

Block Heater – Calgary

The Calgary Folk Music Festival presents the Block Heater, a winter music extravaganza. Details

Usually held in February

Various Venues, Inglewood – Calgary

Winter Roots Roundup Festival – Edmonton

The festival focuses on knitting together the best of folk, roots and blues music through film, workshops and live performances. Details

~ Early February

Garneau and University area, Edmonton

Mid Winter Blues Fest – Calgary

By Calgary Blues Music Association. Details

~ End of February/Early March

Various Venues, Inglewood – Calgary

Uptown Folk Club Winterfest – Edmonton

A two day Music Festival featuring local and North America’s best Folk & Roots Performers. Details

~ Mid of February, around family day weekend

Uptown Folk Club 7308-76 Ave NW Edmonton

Now Hear This – Edmonton

New Music Edmonton’s annual festival. Spanning three days with dozens of performances, Now Hear This showcases an incredible roster of local, national and international musicians, composers, dancers, visual and sound artists, and much more, alongside free lectures, panel talks and open participation events. Details

Usually held in March

Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037 84th Ave, Edmonton and other venues

Festivals in Calgary

Alberta Music Festivals in Spring (~ March 20 to June 21)

Early Music Festival – Edmonton

Music  festival featuring works prior to circa 185os. Details

May

First Presbyterian Church
10025 105 St NW, Edmonton

Shredmonton Metal Festival And Conference – Edmonton

Showcasing Western Canada’s heaviest hitting bands, as well as featuring multiple seminars hosted by professionals in various fields of the music industry. Details

Last held in 2018.

Rainmaker Concert Series and Music Fest – St Albert

Part of Rainmaker Rodeo & Exhibition – annual Rodeo, exhibition and music festival. Features some of the hottest acts to the Concert stage, great marketplace vendors, awesome Midway, the all family circus, some of the best Cowboys and Cowgirls that ride here in Alberta! Hosted by The St. Albert Kinsmen club. Details

Rainmaker Concert Series and Music Fest: End of May

Kinsmen Grounds, 47 Riel Drive, St. Albert.

NUOVA Opera & Music Theatre Festival – Edmonton

Classical Opera & Music Festival. Details

Late May to June.

In and around Edmonton.

Heart of the City – Edmonton

Heart of the City Music and Arts Festival is an all ages festival with fun things for all to do. Details

~ 1st Weekend of June

Giovanni Caboto Park, 95 St and 109 Ave, Edmonton

Summer Concert Series – Banff National Park

Celebrate the arrival of summer with Outdoor Concert series at Performance in the Park in Banff National Park. Details

Summer.

Shaw Amphi Theatre, Banff Centre for Arts

JazzYYC Summer Festival – Calgary

Calgary’s Jazz festival.

Details

Mid June

Various Venues,  Calgary

Lethbridge Jazz & Blues Festival

Enjoy an amazing array of musical talent from Lethbridge, and from across the country. Details

Late Spring

 Various Venues, Lethbridge

Alberta Music Festivals in Summer (~ June 15 to September 22)

Beaumont Blues & Roots Festival

Enjoy the best in live Canadian blues, roots, folk, rockabilly and country music featuring all Canadian ~ musicians and bands. Details

~ June 3rd weekend – Father’s Day weekend

Four Seasons Park, 41 Ave, Beaumont

Sled Island – Calgary

Sled Island is an annual summer festival featuring over 250 bands plus film, comedy and art across 30+ venues in Calgary! Details

End of June

Various Venues,  Calgary

Summer Solstice Music Festival – Edmonton

Chamber Music Festival. Details

~ June 3rd weekend – Father’s Day weekend

 Various Venues, Edmonton

Medicine Hat Jazz Fest

Medicine Hat Jazz Fest serves up an array of jazz beats for seven days all around town. Details

Late June

 Various Venues, Medicine Hat

North Country Fair – Driftpile

Great music, rustic camping, a beautiful Boreal Forest venue, delicious food, craft vendors, interesting workshops, children’s activities. The Solstice Sun barely sets and the music plays on til dawn. Details

June

Driftpile, near Joussard,

Edmonton International Jazz Festival

The Edmonton International Jazz Festival (EIJF) honors the community’s decades-long jazz tradition, uniting everything from funk, Afro-Cuban, bebop, contemporary, swing, R&B, standards and more under one musical umbrella. The Festival includes shows for hard-core jazz aficionados and newcomers alike with intimate club shows, cabaret-style performances, free outdoor concerts and international touring acts. Details

June

Various Venues,  Edmonton

Calgary Stampede – Calgary

The greatest outdoor show on Earth is also a concert extravaganza. Iconic chart-toppers rocks the Scotiabank Saddledome stage during Virgin Mobile Stampede Concert Series. The Coca-Cola Stage brings you 10 straight days of performances by North America’s hottest young artists, while listen to country music at Nashville North. Details

Early July

 Calgary Stampede Grounds.

Pembina River Nights – Mayerthorpe

A music festival on the Pembina River in Central Alberta.  Details

July

Rangeton Park, Mayerthorpe

C’mon Festival – Edmonton

Chamber music festival. Details

~ Mid July

Studio 96, 10909 96 Street, Edmonton

PeaceFest -Peace River

Details

~ June/July

Peace River

Wild Mountain Music Festival – Hinton

Wild Mountain has built its reputation from the stage out. We run a two stage format, so the music never stops. With a twist of your lawn chair, its easy to follow both stages. From Colin James to the break through with the Sheepdogs, then Sam Roberts and a packed field in 2014 for Blue Rodeo, one of Canada’s preeminent bands, Wild Mountain brings a unique mix of music and art to the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Details

Third weekend of July

Entrance Ranch near Hinton, Alberta

K-Days – Edmonton

Major summer festival of Edmonton with international artists performing at two stages.

Details

~ Last two weeks in July

Northlands, 7515 – 118 Avenue, Edmonton

Sasquatch Gathering – Mayerthorpe

The Sasquatch Gathering and Music Festival is a non-profit recreational and artistic event presented by the Sasquatch Community Arts Society, a registered Alberta not-for-profit association.

Details

July

Metis Crossing, Smoky Lake

Calgary Folk Music Festival

An annual sound salvation that programs 76 icons and upstarts from 16 countries on 8 stages in concerts and magical collaborative sessions. It’s a genre-defying, continent-linking festival where fiercely independent, creative troubadours and master instrumentalists from Mauritania, Korea, New Zealand, Australia, the UK, Ethiopia, the US and Canada celebrate diverse traditions, deep roots and cool grooves. Details

July

Prince’s Island Park, Calgary

Terminus Festival – Calgary

Western Canada’s only multi-day industrial/ebm/dark electro festival featuring bands from all over the world. Details

July

 Dickens, 1000 9th Ave. SW, Calgary

Calgary International Blues Festival

Featuring a full week of blues that culminate in 4 days & nights of non-stop music at Shaw Millienium Park followed by the nightly Twilight Blues dance parties, this family friendly event is renowned for its great music, relaxed atmosphere and warm hospitality! Details

July End

 Shaw Millenium Park, Calgary

Chasing Summer – Calgary

Western Canada’s largest electronic music festival. Details 

August

Max Bell Centre Festival Grounds
1001 Barlow Trail Southeast, Calgary

Loud As Hell Heavy Metal Festival – Drumheller

This annual event in Drumheller is celebrating it’s 7th year of hosting a weekend full of heavy metal in the Canadian Badlands. Details

August long weekend

Dinosaur Downs stampede grounds, Drumheller

Canmore Folk Music Festival

The Canmore Folk Music Festival is the longest running folk music festival in Alberta and one of its finest.
Adhering to a philosophy and legacy of folk, world, blues and roots music, the festival since 1978 has attracted up to 21,000 music fans annually from across southern Alberta, western Canada, the northwestern USA and indeed the world. Details

August

Centennial Park, Canmore

Blueberry Bluegrass Country Music Festival – Stony Plain

Canada’s largest bluegrass festival. The Blueberry Bluegrass and Country Music Festival features some of the top performers in bluegrass music as well as talented up-and-coming musicians. The three-day music festival is jam-packed with activities for the whole family, including on-stage live music, workshops, a “slow-pitch jam,” food concessions and craft tables, the Kids’ Corner, and a festival souvenir table.  Details

~ Last weekend of July/1st Weekend of August

Stony Plain Exhibition Park, 4202 – 50 Street, Stony Plain

Big Valley Jamboree – Camrose

Canada’s largest bluegrass festival. The Blueberry Bluegrass and Country Music Festival features some of the top performers in bluegrass music as well as talented up-and-coming musicians.

Details

~ August Long Weekend

Camrose Regional Exhibition, Exhibition Drive, Camrose

Edmonton Folk Music Festival

One of the best Folk Music Festivals in Canada.

 Details

~Early August

Gallagher Park (97 Ave and 94 St), Edmonton

Southern Alberta Music Festival – Mossleigh

Kick back and relax while you listen to a variety of country, blues, folk and good old fashioned rock n’ roll. Details

August

 Aspen Crossing,  Mossleigh

Calgary ReggaeFest

Experience why this Calgary family event has become the premier summer Reggae Festival in all of Canada. Chill out with a brew in the Village, hang with the kids in the Zone, savor the flavours of island spices and see what souvenir you’d like to take home. Details

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Bro-Tel Backyard Festival

This initiative began in the summer of 2015 when a few friends thought about doing a little house concert to bring some of the community together in their home, and to showcase some local talent.

Details

August

John Dudar Park, Township Rd 534, Myrnam

Country Thunder Music Festival – Calgary

Enjoy you three days filled with epic country music!

Details

August

Prairie Winds Park, 223 Castleridge Blvd NE, Calgary

Stony Plain Cowboy Gathering

Gain a new appreciation of the west’s rich and incredible cowboy heritage and celebrate the cowboy scene through music, cowboy poetry and the visual arts & crafts. With extraordinary entertainers, you’ll have the time of your life!   Details

August

Heritage Park, 5100 41 Avenue, Stony Plain

Bear Creek Folk Festival – Grand Prairie

The fest features 4 stages with over 30 provincial, national, and international touring artists performing from a wide range of genres, including country, Celtic, blues, gospel, Americana, bluegrass, world music, contemporary and traditional folk, rock , and many things in between. With its diverse and high-calibre lineup, there is something for everyone to enjoy!  Details

August

Borstad Hill, Muskoseepi Park, Grand Prairie

Come by the Hills – Wainwright

The festival features an ecclectic music line up in a beautiful setting. Details

August

Mistahaya Retreat Centre, Wainwright

Edmonton Blues Festival

The annual Edmonton Blues Festival continues to bring you the best in blues. Grammy winners, Juno winners, Maple Blues Award Winners, Blues Music Award winners, IBC winners, the best up and coming acts in the blues and bona fide legends all make their way to Edmonton each summer to create “Blues Heaven” in the sonically superior and party friendly Heritage Amphitheatre. Details

~ Late August

Heritage Amphitheatre in Hawrelak Park, Edmonton

Symphony Under the Sky – Edmonton

Join us under the stars for four irresistible nights of music ranging from classical gems to Hollywood hits, by Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Details

~ Labour Day Weekend

Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park, Edmonton

Honens Festival & Piano Competition – Calgary

Experience the festival that discover and launch the careers of the world’s most promising pianists. Enjoy listening to Complete Pianists—21st century artists for 21st century audiences and other renowned musicians throughout the festival. Details

September

Jack Singer Concert Hall at Arts Commons, 205 8th Avenue SE, Calgary

Jasper Music Folk Festival – Jasper National Park

Roots, rhythm, folk and blues music. Details

September

500 Bonhomme St, Jasper

Alberta Music Festivals in Fall (~September 22 to December 21)

Festival of Canadian Jazz – Edmonton

Annual Yardbird festival of Canadian Jazz.  Details

November

 Yardbird Suite, 11 Tommy Banks Way, Edmonton