Top Philadelphia Music Festivals For 2022

Get a taste of New Orleans in New Jersey with the return of Michael Arnone’s Crawfish Fest. The Sussex County Fairgrounds in Augusta hosts the event featuring such NOLA favorites as Tab Benoit, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Samantha Fish and Big Sam’s Funky Nation. Come for the music, stay for the boiled crawfish, jambalaya, etouffee, alligator sausage, po-boys and other NOLA-inspired dishes!

Enjoy tasty brews and rocking music at The Atlantic City Beer & Music Festival. Head out to Bader Field for two days of beer and tunes with Alkaline Trio, New Found Glory, Thrice, Four Year Strong and others.

Hip-hop veterans and Philly-natives The Roots will host this year’s Roots Picnic over two days at The Mann. Joining The Roots on the stacked 2022 lineup includes Mary J. Blige, Wizkid, Jazmine Sullivan, Kamasi Washington, Rick Ross, Soulquarians, Keyshia Cole, SWV and many more.

Kettle Jam in Clayton, Delaware is a three-day event packed with pickers. Among the bluegrass acts headed to Fields Farm are Cabinet, Rumpke Mountain Boys, The Plate Scrapers, Saltwater Stringband and West King String Band.

Want a heavy dose of metal to go along with your beer? Decibel Metal & Beer Fest Philadelphia takes over The Philly Fillmore for two days of headbanging and hops. Catch Candlemass, Cannibal Corpse, Nuclear Assault, Wolves in the Throne Room, Voivod and more.

Beardfest is back to celebrate its 10 year anniversary with a weekend of music and camping at Paradise Lake Campground in Hammonton, New Jersey. Join the party with Out of the Beardspace, as well as Dopapod, Cabinet, Too Many Zooz, The Main Squeeze, Consider The Source, Mikaela Davis and others.

Pharrell Williams is bringing together another impressive lineup for the 2022 Something In The Water festival. Performances taking place over three days at The National Mall in Washington D.C. include Williams, along with Dave Matthews Band, Jon Batiste, Run The Jewels, Thundercat, Usher and many more.

City Bisco is back in the Disco Biscuits’ hometown as the Philly native will invade The Mann for two days. Joining the band on the City Bisco 2022 lineup are moe., Bob Moses, The New Deal, TAUK, Shiba San, LP Giobbi and Township Rebellion.

The Peach Music Festival 2022 once again brings the jam to Montage Mountain this summer. The Peach lineup for the four-day extravaganza is topped by Trey Anastasio Band, The Black Crowes, Billy Strings and Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, who are joined by Goose, The Revivalists, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, The Word, Steel Pulse, Jennifer Hartswick, Maggie Rose and others. The Allman Brothers Band tribute Trouble No Mores will also perform at The Peach.

The long-running Briggs Farm Blues Festival will take over Briggs Farm for three days of blues and more. This year’s performers include Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, Lee Fields & The Expressions, Southern Avenue, John Nemeth, Nikki Hill, Alexis P. Suter Band, Veronica Lewis and Taylor Scott Band.

Hardcore fans will have three days of heaviness when This Is Hardcore Fest comes to the Franklin Music Hall. Thursday, Hatebreed, Merauder, Madball and Terror are among the bands slated to appear.

Come as you are to the Kempton Community Music Center for the 2022 Inclusion Festival. Some of those scheduled to perform include Yam Yam, The Mantras, Lachi, Snacktime Philly, Ryan Gilfillian, Kuf Knotz & Christine Elise, The Big Dirty and The Taxmen.

Midnight North, Johnny Neel, Panama Dead: Tribute to New Riders of the Purple Sage and Juggling Suns will be part of this year’s Weekend At Bertha’s. The three-day fest will be held at the Fire Base Lloyd in Townsend, Delaware.

Country music will make a splash when Tidal Wave 2022 takes place on Atlantic City Beach. Join Luke Bryan, Morgan Wallen, Dierks Bentley, Riley Green, Chase Rice, Tracy Lawrence, Lauren Alaina and other country stars on the sand.

WXPN’s XPoNential Music Festival 2022 returns for two-days of music along the Camden Waterfront in New Jersey. The Philly-based public radio station tapped The War On Drugs, Patti Smith, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, The Revivalists, Geese, Jenny Lewis, Taj Mahal, Kathleen Edwards and Valerie June.

Sea.Hear.Now Festival 2022 music and surf festival returns to Asbury Park, New Jersey. Acts performing at North Beach Asbury Park include Stevie Nicks, Green Day, My Morning Jacket, Billy Strings, Gary Clark Jr., Courtney Barnett and Celisse, among others.

The 2022 Firefly Music Festival will light up The Woodlands of Dover International Speedway. Among the luminaries on the lineup include Halsey, My Chemical Romance, Green Day, Dua Lipa, Charli XCX, Bleachers, The Head and the Heart, Weezer, Avril Lavigne, Cold War Kids and Jamie xx.

Frantic City 2022 comes to Atlantic City’s Orange Loop Amphitheater for the one-day event. Those performing include Car Seat Headrest Yo La Tengo, Snail Mail, Murder City Devils, Shannon and the Clams, Superchunk, Titus Andronicus, Protomartyr and Fred Armisen, among others.

York, Pennsylvania’s PeoplesBank Park will host this year’s White Rose Music Fest. The two-day event’s lineup features Jamey Johnson, Grace Potter, The Wood Brothers, Margo Price, Lucero, Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors, Langhorne Slim, Brittney Spencer and Madeline Edwards.

WMMR has been bringing the rock to Philadelphia since 1968, and this year is no different. The station’s 2022 MMRBQ Festival is getting down with the sickness at Camden’s Waterfront Music Pavilion featuring Disturbed, The Pretty Reckless, Royal Blood, and Living Colour along with local piano madman Low Cut Connie and more.