Festivals in Missouri

Set where the Missouri River pours into the Mississippi, the Show-Me State plays two musical capitals off one another — and they need each other. There's St. Louis, beneath the soaring Gateway Arch, cradle of ragtime and riverboat soul; and Kansas City, whose 18th & Vine district minted a restless, after-hours jazz that still swings in its clubs at dawn. Fittingly, it's St. Louis that hosts Music At The Intersection each fall, a celebration of Black American roots music where jazz, blues, soul and hip-hop converge in the Grand Center. Further southeast, juggalo culture pitches its big top for the Gathering Of The Juggalos, a loud, tribal Midwest institution all its own.

But the state isn't all heritage. Out by Kansas City, Dancefestopia turns a wooded estate into an electro village over a long September weekend, while the wide plains stomp to country at the Country Stampede, with headliners drawn straight from America's heartland. FestT calculates your FestiScore — how closely a lineup matches your favorite artists — and keeps dates, headliners and ticketing up to date, so you can spot the Missouri festival made for your ears at a glance, from the banks of the Mississippi to the western prairie.