Festivals in Montana

Under the vastness of the Big Sky, between the peaks of the Beartooth Range and the valleys of the Gallatin, Montana grows a festival scene in its own image: wide-open, authentic and deeply rooted in country and Americana. In Big Sky, the Wildlands Festival unfolds two days of music built for mountain amphitheaters, with Carrie Underwood, Riley Green and LeAnn Rimes set against the Rockies. Further east, tucked beneath the Beartooth Pass, the small town of Red Lodge hosts the Red Lodge Songwriter Festival, an intimate celebration of craft and folk where the art of the song matters more than the spectacle.

Bozeman, the state's college town and cultural heart, brings its historic downtown alive each summer with the Sweet Pea Festival, a sprawling festival of the arts that blends music, open-air stages and local makers. For lovers of bluegrass and acoustic jams, the Woodtick Festival carries that rural, neighborly tradition out across the prairies. FestT calculates your FestiScore — how well a lineup matches your favorite artists — and keeps dates, headliners and ticketing up to date, so you never miss a beat of Montana's musical summer.