Earlier this year I wrote an article highlighting some Grammy award winners and Grammy award nominees who will be at a number of festivals this season.
Grammy artists are busy this year helping keep music outlets afloat, headlining festivals, and more. Of the list I compiled, I have been lucky enough to see over ten artists from the lists in the 11 festivals I have attended this season. It is August and we still have months to go in the festival season. 2017 has already provided some amazing Grammy acts at outstanding festivals. Some Grammy collaborations are even on tour together. Fantastic Negrito will be supporting Sturgill Simpson at some shows while on tour; both are 2017 Grammy winners. I have seen both this year and yes they are worth seeing.
The list has a few different genres and maybe even a few places/festivals you (or me) have never been. The good thing about festivals are many people go planing on hearing certain artists and then get mind blown or find their new favorite artists by going with the flow. It’s a two in one combo to go somewhere you have never been while hearing breathtaking music. I promise you every Grammy artists I’ve seen this year is 100% worth experiencing. I for sure plan on seeing a few more Grammy performances myself before the year ends. Maybe you will too, check out the list below:
Kelsea Ballerini- iHeartRadio
The Chainsmokers – Made In America
Chance The Rapper – Day N Night, Life Is Beautiful, Austin City Limits Weekend 1 & 2, Lost Lake
Anderson .Paak – MEMPHO
Bob Moses – Village Green, Buzz Beach Ball, North Coast, Clockenflap, Envision (2018)
Flume – Festival Cabaret Vert, Reading & Leeds, Bumbershoot, Oppikoppi, Rocking The Daisies, Zoukout
Sofi Tukker – Hellow, Bumbershoot, Life Is Beautiful
Tycho – Life Is Beautiful, Movement, Island of Light
Blink-182 – Music Midtown, Life Is Beautiful
Cage The Elephant – LouFest, Life Is Beautiful, MEMPHO, Cal Jam, Corona Capital, Riptide Music
Gojira – Louder Than Life
Weezer – Hellow, Bumbershoot, Buzz Beach Ball, LouFest, KAABOO, Music Midtown, The Meadows, Riptide
Solange – Bumbershoot, Made In America, Hopscotch, Austin City Limits Weekend 1 & 2, AFROPUNK
Schoolboy Q – Life Is Beautiful
D.R.A.M. – Austin City Limits Weekend 1 & 2
Lil Yachty – Breakaway Music, Bumbershoot, Lost Lake
Lil Wayne – Paid Dues, Mala Luna
De La Soul – Lost Village, The Big Feastival, House of Common, The Meadows, Life Is Beautiful, Bestival Bali
DJ Khaled – iHeartRadio
Sarah Jarosz – Tonder, Four Corners Folk, Sisters Folk
Bobby Rush – Crescent City Blues & BBQ
O’Connor Band – Bluegrass-Folk-Classical
Fantastic Negrito – The Meadows, Bourbon & Beyond, Lake Eden
J Boog – Life Is Beautiful, Closer To The Sun, One Love (2018)
SOJA – Closer To The Sun
Rebelution – American, Desert Oasis
Leon Bridges – Roots N Blues N BBQ
Coldplay – iHeartRadio
OK Go – Tinnabulation