Bonnaroo competition has confirmed it’s going to return in 2026, after its 2025 version was unexpectedly cancelled as a consequence of “record-setting rainfall”.
Final month, the Manchester, Tennessee competition was abruptly cancelled, with organisers saying an up to date climate forecast was exhibiting unsustainable situations for on-site campers, with heavy thunderstorms occurring all through the world.
The competition’s first day went easily, however the choice to cancel the rest of the occasion was made on Friday evening in mild of the acute climate.
Bonnaroo kicked off Thursday June 12 with performances from Luke Combs, Rebecca Black and extra. Friday evening’s headliners have been scheduled to be Tyler, The Creator, John Summit and Glass Animals, whereas Saturday’s line-up was supposed to be led by Olivia Rodrigo, Avril Lavigne and Justice.
Sunday, in the meantime, would have wrapped up with Hozier, Vampire Weekend and Queens of the Stone Age.
Now, in a brand new assertion, organisers have confirmed that the competition will come again in 2026. Bonnaroo will return to the identical location on the identical weekend subsequent 12 months — June 11-14 on the Farm in Manchester.
Within the publish, they defined that this 12 months’s climate was a freak prevalence: “Climate specialists have confirmed that we noticed record-setting rainfall this spring and early summer season, making what we skilled extraordinarily unusual. All issues thought-about, our conventional June time-frame stays essentially the most optimum time of 12 months for Bonnaroo.”
Nevertheless, some adjustments will probably be made. The competition will now not use the campground that was essentially the most flooded, and the group can also be planning to spend more cash bettering the competition’s campgrounds and different areas.
They will even be altering a number of the web site and stage planning, and have known as this a “multi-million-dollar multi-year plan”.
Following the cancellation of the 2025 occasion, it later emerged that they had deliberate to subject 75 per cent refunds (per The Hollywood Reporter), and appeared to handle the numerous backlash the proposed refunds induced in an Instagram publish shared Friday (June 20).
Writing that they have been “nonetheless listening and actively discussing plans to enhance The Farm,” they shared that they have been “updating the refund to 100%, moderately than the 75% initially provided.”
The assertion appeared to counsel the competition could be taking a while off after a number of turbulent years, with this 12 months’s version marking the third time in 5 years Bonnaroo has been cancelled.
“Right now, we won’t be saying future dates,” the publish continued. “When plans for the longer term take form, you all would be the first to know.”
Elsewhere within the assertion, the organisers thanked followers for bearing with them. “This cancellation broke our hearts past measure,” they stated, “however we knew it needed to occur in your security.”
Simply days earlier than the competition was cancelled, information emerged that Jonathan Mayers, co-founder of occasions firm Superfly Leisure and co-creator of Bonnaroo and Outdoors Lands, had died.