The Halloween season is creeping upon us, which means it’s about time to come up with a costume and decide your plans for the night. Or in this year’s case, with Halloween lying on a Sunday, maybe even the full weekend. After a year of social distancing, we’re all yearning to relish live music and show ourselves in full glory like never before. So if you haven’t yet decided where to move your feet this Halloweekend, here is a list of six Halloween music festivals to help you make a more informed decision.
Escape Halloween, BOO! Seattle, Rolling Loud NYC, Get Freaky, Outside Lands, and Suwannee Hulaween are all eager to present you with their epic Halloween weekend event – you pick.
6 Halloween Music Festivals You Don’t Want to Miss This Year
Escape Halloween
For true connoisseurs of majestic shows, Insomniac organizes a Halloween celebration in its signature style. Returning for its 10th year, Escape Halloween will present an entire surreal city with massive stages, mind-blowing installations, and freaky characters at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California, October 29-30. Certainly, the Psycho Circus-themed event will be North America’s largest Halloween festival with an unreal lineup including DJ Snake, Gryffin, The Chainsmokers, Zedd, Eric Prydz, Zomboy, Benny Benassi, Green Velvet and many more. Above all, Insomniac has specials for house and techno lovers: Cirez D, Ben Klock, Ida Engberg, and Layton Giordani performing on a specially curated stage. Don’t miss your chance to meet all of the paranormal phenomena Escape Halloween has prepared this year.
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Suwannee Hulaween
Not your typical music festival, the four-day Suwannee Hulaween will camp out at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida. The tree-covered venue will allow attendees to commune with nature while catching stunning set flows along the way. That is to say, the festival will include artists of various genres, featuring The String Cheese Incident with their bluegrass-focused music three nights in a row. House music will be on tap for the soul from Chris Lake, LP Giobbi, Lane 8, and Claude VonStroke. In addition, Skrillex, Leon Bridges, and Zeds Dead will bring their unapologetic deadbeats sound. Moreover, LSDream, Lettuce, Mersiv, My Morning Jacket, Wreckno and Bonobo will all make appearances at Suwannee this Halloween weekend.
Suwannee Hulaween goes down October 28-31. Tickets are sold out, but waitlist and exchange are available.
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Boo! Seattle
The travelling BOO! music festival will set up shop in Seattle for this year’s 12th annual edition. After successful BOO! festivals in Arizona, California, Florida, and Texas, things will get Spooky in Seattle October 29-30 at the WAMU Theater. Those attending the two-day affair will be treated to bass, house, and techno by Kaskade, Rusko, Tchami, TroyBoi, Delta Heavy, Kill Script and others on three stages thematically designed to make the show as immersive as possible. You certainly can’t go wrong picking BOO! Seattle among other Halloween music festivals this year.
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Rolling Loud NYC
Debuting for the first time in NYC in 2019, Rolling Loud is returning to the big apple this year on Halloween weekend. The three-day hip-hop and rap festival is planned for October 28-30 at Citi Field Stadium in Queens. The no-holds-barred lineup includes legendary artists like 50 Cent, J. Cole, Travis Scott, Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Baby, Roddy Ricch, and others. Above all, the organizers invited local artists, including A$AP Ferg, Bizzy Banks, Joey Bada$$, The Diplomats, Young M.A., Sheff G, and more. Additionally, the festival presents a surprise appearance from Bobby Shmurda.
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Get Freaky
This Halloween, V2 presents Get Freaky, a psycho dance party guaranteed to throw Salt Lake City into a high convulsion. So reserve the weekend of October 29-30 to celebrate Halloween at The Great Saltair. Get Freaky is a rave you do not want to miss. The organizers have prepared an impressive lineup bringing plenty of heat to the fest.
Get Freaky 2021 is headlined by REZZ on Friday and Dillon Francis on Saturday. Dubstep master, Figure, techno-house generator, No Mana, and Latin-infused electro-house beast, Deorro, are all coming to SLC this Halloween weekend. You certainly will get your load of bass from Ace Aura, Flosstradamus, Dirtyphonics, G Jones, SHSTR, and Spag Heddy. Don’t miss Get Freaky this Halloween weekend in SLC.
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Outside Lands
Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, Northern California’s premier outdoor event, is hosted on Halloween this year. Moving from its traditional August run, Outside Lands 2021 invites you to a three-day weekend, October 29-31, at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. The festival will feature various music genres, starting with indie rock, continuing with pop and hip-hop, and seasoning it with EDM subgenres. Headliners will include Tyler, the Creator, Young Thug, Lizzo, J Balvin, Glass Animals, Kehlani, The Strokes, Vampire Weekend, RÜFÜS DU SOL, Tame Impala, ZHU, and many more.
Besides music, you will have a chance to explore the tastes of local cuisine provided by the Bay Area’s best restaurants and food vendors. Moreover, the organizers go above and beyond by providing a chill-out cannabis experience called Grass Lands with cannabiz partners Cookies, Eaze, PAX, and more.
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