Your Guide to Live Music in Upstate New York

Great South Bay Music Festival

Outdoor summer music festival crowd with stage lights at Shorefront Park

Gov’t Mule, My Morning Jacket, and Sublime headline four days of jam and rock at Shorefront Park in Patchogue. Great South Bay is Long Island’s premier multi-day music festival.

Into The Pines: The High Harvest

Illuminated pine grove pathway at Sterling Stage Kampitheater during nighttime festival

October foliage, campfire smoke, and five days of roots music at Sterling Stage. Into The Pines High Harvest catches the Central New York season at its most vivid — the fall edition that fans wait for all year.

Into The Pines

Festival crowd at Sterling Stage Kampitheater with band performing on wooded outdoor stage

Five days of jam and folk deep in the Central New York countryside. Into The Pines brings camping festival culture to Sterling Stage Kamphitheater with an intimate, woods-wrapped vibe.

Mountain Jam

Mountain Jam Festival at Belleayre Mountain in the Catskills

Mountain Jam scaled to 40,000 fans, then deliberately downsized to 7,500 at Belleayre Mountain in the Catskills. The Radio Woodstock-founded camping festival is sitting out 2026 with eyes on a 2027 return.

Rock the Dock Music Festival

Rock the Dock Music Festival at Lake George Steamboat Pier

A steel pier, vintage steamboats, and the best jam bands in the Northeast — Rock the Dock turns the Lake George Steamboat Company into the Adirondacks’ most unforgettable single-day music event. Saturday, July 11, 2026.

Great Blue Heron Music Festival

Great Blue Heron Music Festival aerial view in Sherman NY

For over 30 years, the Great Blue Heron Music Festival has gathered roots music lovers on a 200-acre family farm in Sherman, NY for a Fourth of July weekend of Americana, jam bands, camping, and community unlike any other festival in the state.

Estival Festival

Estival Festival main gates at Sugar Mountain Caneadea NY

Tucked into the rolling hills of Allegany County, about an hour south of Rochester and a world away from everything else, Sugar Mountain is the kind of place that feels like it was built specifically for a music festival.

Neighbor at Putnam Place | March 28, 2026

Neighbor performing live

The room is small enough that there’s not a bad spot in the house — which matters for a band like Neighbor, where the conversation between players is half the show. Catch them at Putnam Place on March 28, 2026. Don’t miss it.

Grateful Dub at Putnam Place | April 24, 2026

Roots of Creation performing live

Performed by the band Roots of Creation — veterans of the reggae-jam crossover world — the project pulls in rotating guest musicians from the broader jam scene to keep things loose and alive. Grateful Dub is live at Putnam Place on April 24, 2026. Tickets are moving.

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