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 displaying unsustainable circumstances for on-site campers, with heavy thunderstorms occurring all through the realm.
The competition’s first day went easily, however the choice to cancel the rest of the occasion was made on Friday night time in gentle of the acute climate.
Bonnaroo kicked off Thursday June 12 with performances from Luke Combs, Rebecca Black and extra. Friday night time’s headliners had been scheduled to be Tyler, The Creator, John Summit and Glass Animals, whereas Saturday’s line-up was meant 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 yr — June 11-14 on the Farm in Manchester.
Within the publish, they defined that this yr’s climate was a freak incidence: “Climate consultants have confirmed that we noticed record-setting rainfall this spring and early summer season, making what we skilled extraordinarily unusual. All issues thought of, our conventional June timeframe stays essentially the most optimum time of yr for Bonnaroo.”
Nevertheless, some adjustments can be made. The competition will not use the campground that was essentially the most flooded, and the group can be planning to spend extra money enhancing the competition’s campgrounds and different areas.
They can even be altering a number of the website and stage planning, and have referred to as this a “multi-million-dollar multi-year plan”.
Following the cancellation of the 2025 occasion, it later emerged they’d deliberate to situation 75 per cent refunds (per The Hollywood Reporter), and appeared to handle the numerous backlash the proposed refunds precipitated in an Instagram publish shared Friday (June 20).
Writing that they had been “nonetheless listening and actively discussing plans to enhance The Farm,” they shared that they had been “updating the refund to 100%, quite than the 75% initially supplied.”
The assertion appeared to recommend the competition can be taking a while off after a number of turbulent years, with this yr’s version marking the third time in 5 years Bonnaroo has been cancelled.
“Presently, we is not going to be asserting future dates,” the publish continued. “When plans for the long run 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 mentioned, “however we knew it needed to occur to 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.
