For Hippies: Frendly Gathering
June 26 - 27
$139 for weekend pass
For Dreadheads: Lake Tahoe Reggae Festival
June 27
$45 - 90
For Rock ‘n’ Rollers: Taos Solar Music Festival
June 27 - 28
$110 for weekend pass, $60 for single day passes
Just a half-hour from Taos Ski Valley, John Butler Trio, The Wallflowers and a plethora of other artists are set to rock out at this year’s Taos Solar Music Festival. The event has occupied Taos every summer since 1999, providing good music and promoting sustainable energy, rain or shine. For extra adventure, pitch a tent at the event’s campground and spend the whole weekend in the great outdoors.
For Families: The Bank of the Cascades Bend Summer Festival
July 10 - 12
Free
For Washingtonians: Chinook Fest Summit
July 10
$35 - 120
For Winos: Mountain Music Festival and Northwest Winefest
July 18
Free
$5 - 27 for wine tasting
For Bluegrassers: Targhee Bluegrass Festival
August 7 - 9
$179 - 199 for weekend pass, $69 for day passes
Big names including Keller Williams, Lake Street Dive, and The Infamous Stringdusters are coming to the not-so-well-known Grand Targhee Resort in August for the foot-stompin'Targhee Bluegrass Festival. Beers on tap from Grand Targhee brewery will be sipped (or chugged), food from the resort will be devoured, and good times will be had by all, as they have since 1987.
For Country Folk (and Bostonians): Country Musicfest
August 15
$20-35
For Simple Folk: Vermont Music Fest
August 8
$16
Smack-dab between Sugarbush and Mad River Glen—only 5 miles from each—Vermont Music Fest is returning to Waitsfield for a day of fun, sun, food, drinks, and music. The event started out as a celebration of a local couple’s wedding back in 2009, and they had so much fun that now it’s a not-to-miss community-wide event. Make sure to watch the Wiffle Scramble, the fest’s highly anticipated wiffleball tourney.
For Jazz Junkies: Vail Jazz Festival
June 28 - September 7
Free - $425
