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Summerfest
Milwaukee, WI · Music
- When
- June 24 – July 10, 2027
- Where
- Henry Maier Festival Park · Milwaukee · WI
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
An eleven day music festival at Henry Maier Festival Park on Milwaukee's lakefront, spread across three long weekends with performances on a dozen stages. Guinness World Records has recognized it as the world's largest music festival. The 2027 edition runs three weekends, June 24 through 26, July 1 through 3, and July 8 through 10, moved a week later than usual to avoid landing on Juneteenth.
The history within reach
- Milwaukee Irish Festsame spot
A four day festival of Irish and Celtic music on seventeen stages at Milwaukee's lakefront festival grounds, calling itself the largest Irish cultural event in the world.
- Summerfestsame spot
An eleven day music festival at Henry Maier Festival Park on Milwaukee's lakefront, spread across three long weekends with performances on a dozen stages.
A parasite passed through the filtration plant and made an estimated 403,000 people ill, killing at least 69, the largest waterborne disease outbreak in American history.
- Summerfest begins0.3 mi
The mayor came back from Munich determined to give the city a festival.
- Hoan Bridge completed0.5 mi
A tied-arch across the harbour that stood for three years with no road connected at its south end, earning it the name the bridge to nowhere.