RISE Festival 2025 Taps John Mayer & Goose To Help Close 10-Year Anniversary Celebration

The RISE Festival returns for its 10th installment in the Mojave Desert 20 miles south of Las Vegas October 3 – 5, 2025. John Mayer, RÜFÜS DU SOL and Calvin Harris headline what organizers proclaim is “the world’s largest sky lantern festival.”

Ben Böhmer, LP Giobbi, Emmit Fenn, Coco & Breezy and Eduardo Castillo join RÜFÜS DU SOL on the lineup for Friday, October 3. RISE Festival will host performances by Calvin Harris, Oliver Heldens, RY X, Rivo and Carrie Keller on Saturday, October 4, along with a special guest to be announced. The three-day “immersive journey of personal reflection, collective joy, and transformational beauty” ends on Sunday, October 5 with sets from John Mayer, Goose, Elderbrook, Patrick Watson, Forester and City of the Sun.

“The 10th anniversary of RISE Festival is by far our most ambitious, expansive, and exciting edition yet,” noted RISE Festival CEO David Oehm in a press release. “This new musical chapter brings an even deeper vibrancy and spirit to our gathering. It’s a celebration of shared energy, of artistic excellence, and of our collective journey beneath the stars.”

Sky lanterns will be distributed to festivalgoers. They will be released twice per night, with attendees asked to write their “hopes, dreams, fears, and intentions” on each one.

RISE Festival 2025 tickets go on sale tomorrow, May 16 at 10 a.m. PT via the event’s website.

John Mayer praised Goose on his SiriusXM channel Life With John Mayer shortly after its 2023 launch. The Dead & Company guitarist fit multiple Goose songs into his playlists.

One of those tracks was “Hungersite” from Goose’s 2022 studio album Dripfield. After spinning the cut, John Mayer professed his admiration for the band, specifically citing his love for guitarist Rick Mitarotonda. Read what Mayer had to say regarding Goose:

“That’s Goose. A new discovery for me. A band I just love. Every time I heard it for like, the first four or five times, I’d look at the radio, go, ‘What is this? I love it.’ Same song, John. ‘What is this? I love it.’ Same song, John.

“I have so much to say about this band and especially this song. I love their guitar player. Just love. People ask me a lot. They go, ‘You know, who are you into right now?’ I think Rick from Goose is a monster guitar player because he’s not just a great player, but he’s playing in the vocabulary of the tune. And it’s really hard to get an in-studio recording to have the same fire as a live recording.

“People normally go, ‘Well, the studio recording is relatively placid, you gotta get the live recording, which all the fire is in.’ This is a studio recording that has all the same excitement as a live show. That’s really hard to do. I just love that song.”