Looking for the best Las Vegas Music Festivals in 2024? Well, look no further, as I’ve put together this fun guide showcasing some of the biggest festivals in Las Vegas to add to your bucket list!
There’s no place quite like Sin City. Vegas, baby. As the late, great Hunter S. Thompson said, “. “A little bit of this town goes a very long way.”
World famous casinos, lights bright enough to blind you, flashy cars cruising the Strip, crazy nights out and beautiful people everywhere you look. It’s temptation at every turn. Las Vegas is also renowned for its huge range of concerts and residencies, and to add to the Nevada capital’s love of epic tunes, the list of music festivals in Las Vegas are only growing with each year that passes.
Top 18 Las Vegas Music Festival experiences!
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1) Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas 2024
Photo via EDC Facebook
When: May 17-19, 2024
Where: Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas
https://lasvegas.electricdaisycarnival.com
Starting off the list is the world-famous Electric Daisy Carnival because there’s simply no better rave in the entire world. I’ve attended EDC three different times: the last time it was in Los Angeles (2011), the first year it was in Las Vegas (2012), and once again in Vegas in 2014. All I have to say is that is truly unlike any other musical experience in the world and is truly a must for EDM fans around the world. The sheer size and magnitude of EDC will blow your mind, and Insomniac events goes above and beyond to make sure the “headliners” (the attendees) all have a life-changing experience.
They’ve taken EDC around the world with events in Europe, India, and Mexico…but none of those can really compare to the big show. Happening every year in May, this dusk til dawn is the place where your raving dreams come true!
Take my word for it – out of all these Las Vegas Music Festivals – this should be at the top of your list!!
“The Electric Daisy Carnival brings all the glitter and glam of Las Vegas to this three-day celebration of electronic music. Now a worldwide phenomenon, there’s no place like home for the flagship version of EDC, which shows off hundreds of performers set to the backdrop of a full-sized carnival.”
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2) iHeart Radio Music Festival
Photo via iHeartRadio Facebook
When: September, 2024 (TBC)
Where: T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas
https://www.iheart.com/music-festival/
“Since 2011, iHeartRadio Music Festival has taken place each year in Las Vegas, in September. It boasts a myriad of world-class musical acts, and has quickly become a fixture on the festival scene. For the first several years, the festival was held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. However, recently, the main festival stage was moved to the T-Mobile Arena.
But that’s not the only place to see great music: the festival also features the iHeartRadio Daytime Village, a second venue that features additional up-and-coming acts. As an attendee at this amazing festival, you are treated to performance after performance, both indoors and outdoors, all weekend long. Prepare for music overload, in the best way possible! This is truly the experience of a lifetime for music lovers of all ages.”
3) Life is Beautiful 2024
Credit: Alive Coverage
When: September 20-22, 2024
Where: Downtown Las Vegas
“Life is Beautiful takes over Downtown Las Vegas for a three-day weekend each year, promising festival goers a host of surprises in four key areas: Art, Music, Food and Learning – truly providing something for everyone.
Previous lineup mixes popular acts such as Imagine Dragons, Kendrick Lamar, Major Lazer, Brandon Flowers and Hozier with classic icons such as Duran Duran and Stevie Wonder. Street art, huge murals, installations and a multi-sensory Art Motel entice art-lovers, and a VIP area – complete with celebrity chef cooking demos, real grass to lounge on and free lemonade – helps you forget the desert heat.”
4) When We Were Young Festival Las Vegas 2024
When: October 19-20, 2024
Where: Las Vegas Festival Grounds
https://www.whenwewereyoungfestival.com/
Taking the internet by storm and reaching viral status with one of the most incredibly stacked line-ups filled with nostalgia, When We Were Young Festival is easily the hottest new Las Vegas Music Festival 2024 will offer. Selling out in record time, When We Were Young is the for the millennial out there who loved those emo sounds (which is pretty much everybody).
5) Exodus Festival
Photo via Facebook
When: Summer, 2024 (4 different weekends from May to September)
Where: Various locations
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“Step inside the world’s biggest clubs and pool parties while dancing to the best DJ’s. Leave the party planning to us and enjoy your epic weekend in Sin City.”
Exodus Festival continues to be the most cost-effective, convenient and hassle-free way to experience Las Vegas. Spend your money on enjoying your Vegas experience and leave the DJ and party selection up to us! With 10 years experience in curating your Las Vegas experience, all you need is 1 wristband to gain entry into 15 Las Vegas Premiere nightclubs and pool parties over 5 days, all via our special Exodus VIP line. This isn’t just any other weekend in Las Vegas, this is the Exodus Festival weekend. Everyone deserves to be treated like a Vegas VIP.
6) Las Vegas Bender Jamboree 2024
When: September 12-15, 2024
Where: Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino
“After two amazing Bender Jamborees in 2018 and 2019, we were poised to return in 2020 until a certain virus decided upon an impromptu world tour. While that slowed us down, it could not stop the Jamboree! We are proud to rise once again, at Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, September 12-15, 2024. Get ready for a musical vacation of a lifetime! 4 days & nights of world class music, all within a four-star Las Vegas resort! Say goodbye to port-a-potties, say no more to roasting in an open field all day. At the Jamboree, your private oasis awaits! Dip back to your room for a power nap or a bathroom break. Enjoy a fine dinner in the steakhouse or play a few hands of blackjack, all within paces of the entertainment! Comfort, convenience, and world class entertainment is the hallmark of the Bender Jamboree. Join us, and you’ll see why our motto is “Everything, An Elevator Ride Away!”
7) Psycho Las Vegas
When: TBC, 2024
Where: TBC
https://www.facebook.com/psychoLasVegas
A MAD MUSICAL ODYSSEY
“Psycho Las Vegas is unmatched in its level of presentation. The event will feature four stages, including the newly renovated Events Center, the iconic House Of Blues, the Mandalay Bay Beach, featuring a wave pool and lazy river, and an old-school Vegas-style Lounge in the middle of the casino floor.”
8) Rise Lantern Festival
Photo via Rise Festival Facebook
When: October 4-5, 2024
Where: Jean Dry Lake Bed (25 miles south of Las Vegas)
RiSE is a space away from the everyday. A naturally inspiring setting paired with entertainment, food, and artistic spaces. Culminating in the world largest sky lantern release.
“Rise is more than your typical music festival. The annual Rise Lantern Festival returns to the Las Vegas Valley, drawing an anticipated crowd of 10,000 people. The goal of the event is experiencing “the collective elevation of peoples’ hopes, dreams, resolutions, goals, and desires” as thousands of event-goers simultaneously release paper hot-air propelled lanterns into the sky. The final lantern release will be done to top DJ music after a fireworks display. The festival will also have more than one dozen local food truck options as well as beer and wine.”
9) Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival
When: May 24-27, 2024
Where: Downtown Las Vegas
https://www.punkrockbowling.com
https://www.facebook.com/punkrockbowling/
“Combining mankind’s three greatest creations (punk rock, bowling, and Las Vegas), this annual festival has grown popular enough to spin off editions across the country. But nothing compares to the flagship festival of Punk Rock Bowling in its downtown Las Vegas home over Memorial Day Weekend. 100 bands, 1000 bowlers, poker tournaments, movie screenings, and plenty of booze — sounds like the perfect weekend.
It all started many Bloody Mary mornings ago (1999) when brothers, Shawn and Mark Stern decided over a round at the local alley that they wanted to throw a bowling party for their friends in the punk rock community consisting of bands, labels and zines at the time. What started as a small party and an excuse to head to Las Vegas, morphed into what is now known as the rager of all ragers, Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival.
10) Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend Festival
When: April 18-21, 2024
Where: Orleans Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas
https://www.facebook.com/VivaLasVegasRockabilly/
Yearly music festival, car show, burlesque, pool party etc.
“The Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekender is the largest and most respected Rockabilly festival in the world that annually attracts 20,000 attendees to The Orleans Hotel and Casino in the exciting Las Vegas. It is four nonstop days of music, hot rods, burlesque, and partying. Rock n’ roll aficionados from Europe to Japan, and even South America mark their calendars each year for the event.
This “can’t miss” festival features the best Rockabilly music from over 60 world-renowned bands and dozens of wild DJs, sure to keep you on your feet. The weekender also puts on North America’s biggest pre-1960’s era car show where you can find hundreds of hot rods and just as many vendors selling vintage and vintage reproduction must-haves.”
11) Vegas Beer and Music Festival
Photo via Facebook
When: March & October (Halloween edition), 2024
Where: Downtown Las Vegas
https://www.vegasbeerandmusicfestival.com
“The Vegas Beer & Music Festival is the perfect celebration of craft beer and live music in the heart of Las Vegas in Downtown. The event is a walk around event where guests have access to complimentary samples over 60 craft beers and dress up in costumes. Scary creatures will also be roaming the premises. The Team at Rock Star Beer Festivals has been producing high energy craft beer and music festivals since 2011. The goal of their events is to create a party centered around craft beer. They bend the lines of typical beer festival and focus on the overall vibe of the event. The events are unique in design.
Currently, the events are in: San Diego, Orange County, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Denver, San Francisco, Long Beach, Riverside, Portland, Austin, and Scottsdale”
12) Holi Festival of Colors Las Vegas
Photo via Sandra Goodin Photography
When: TBC, 2024
Where: Sunset Park, Las Vegas
http://www.festivalofcolorsusa.com/festival-of-colors/festival-colors-las-vegas-nv/
“Interactive Dance, Mantra Bands, DJ’s, Yoga, Colors, Cuisine, Free Hugs, Lotsa Love. Holi is celebrated in India as a spring festival. After the chill of winter, people come outdoors, bury the hatchet, and loosen uno by throwing multi colored powders on each other. The colors represent all the colors of spring, and the diversity among human and animal kind which makes life interesting and profitable.Our east meets west version of this exuberant festival includes yoga, mantra bands, DJ’s, Hip Hop, Bollywood Dance, vegan food, free hugs, and, of course colors. For the young at heart.”
13) Sick New World
When: April 27, 2024
Where: Las Vegas Festival Grounds
https://www.sicknewworldfest.com
“Earlier this year, Las Vegas hosted the first-ever edition of nu metal-leaning festival Sick New World, and today they’ve announced the lineup for its second edition, happening April 27, 2024 at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds. Like the 2023 lineup, there’s definitely a lot of nu metal nostalgia, but there’s also industrial, hardcore, alternative rock, other types of metal, and more. This year also dips its toes more into the realm of classic slowcore and shoegaze, with Slowdive, Duster, and Drop Nineteens providing an ethereal contrast to all the heavier stuff.
System Of A Down will once again be one of the headliners. The other headliner is Slipknot, and other big names include A Perfect Circle, Alice In Chains, Bring Me The Horizon, Danny Elfman, Primus, Swans, Lamb of God, Knocked Loose, Spiritbox, and more.”
14) Forever Midnight Las Vegas
When: December, 2024 (NYE festival)
Where: LV Festpark, Las Vegas
“For these 2 days in late December is forever midnight in Los Angeles and Las Vegas! Where will you be partying forever midnight?”
15) Super Bowl Music Fest
When: February 8-10, 2024
Where: Aviva Stadium, Las Vegas
“What if the Super Bowl halftime show was three days long? Wouldn’t that be amazing?”
16) Holo Holo Las Vegas
When: April 27-28, 2024
Where: Downtown Las Vegas Events Centre
https://www.holoholofestival.com/vegas/
“‘Holo Holo’ means ‘to travel, to sail, to move’, and invokes the spirit of a familiar expression one hears often in Hawai’i between friends. For two days, the Holo Holo Festival will take over the Downtown Las Vegas Event Center, transforming the streets into an oasis full of reggae music, island style food, and craft vendors.”
17) Reggae Rise Up Vegas
When: October 4-6, 2024
Where: Downtown Las Vegas Events Center
“Reggae Rise Up is heading back to downtown Las Vegas this fall for two full days full of positive vibes and great music!”
18) Big Blues Bender
When: September 5-8, 2024
Where: Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino
“The Bender returns to Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino! The Big Blues Bender is the nation’s premiere blues event featuring the top names in a multi-stage, round the clock festival experience.”
Am I missing any epic music festivals in Las Vegas 2024…?
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Who wrote this? What the hell is an EDM? U mean EDC u obviously have never been to it if u don’t even know the name, which is only three effing letters to remember.
hahaha what are you even talking about? It says Electric Daisy Carnival, and I have been three times…
You didn’t mention Sick New World
Thanks for your information! Las Vegas has some amazing festivals!
You missed Big Blues Bender in September