Festivals in North Rhine-Westphalia

The Rheurdter Pfingstkirmes is the traditional Pentecost Volksfest (folk festival) of the Lower Rhine municipality of Rheurdt in the Kleve d...

From May 9th to 14th, 2026, the 16th edition of the Riesenbecker Sixdays will take place – a running stage festival in Riesenbeck (part of H...

From August 1st to 2nd, 2026, the third edition of the Rise up Festival will take place at Ahe Hammer in Herscheid — a former forge in the S...

From August 11th to 13th, 2026, the baroque Wasserschloss Schloss Wickrath in southern Mönchengladbach will transform into a medieval market...

On the weekends of August 29-30 and September 5-6, 2026, Burg Satzvey in the Eifel region will transform into a medieval festival landscape....

The Ritterspiele Schloss Burg present their family spectacle „Young Knights and Castle Dragons“ in May 2026 — performances by the Georgs Kni...

From May 1st to 3rd, 2026, Lauersfort Castle in Moers-Kapellen will transform into a medieval stage: Horse jousting twice daily (1:00 PM and...

The Rochdale Festival is a free open-air event for electronic music in eastern Bielefeld. On Saturday, May 9, 2026, Freiraum Rochdale on Old...

„Umsonst und draußen, live und unplugged" (Free and outdoors, live and unplugged) — that's the program promise of Rock am Dom Gelsenkirchen....

Rock am Kreis is the biennial rock open-air event organized by a volunteer festival team in Kranenburg on the Lower Rhine – right on the Dut...

On June 12 and 13, 2026, the square under the Christmas tree in Wermelskirchen will transform into an open-air stage for young and regional...

From May 22nd to 24th, 2026, the Gelsenkirchen Amphitheater at Nordsternpark will transform into the pilgrimage site of the European metal s...

From June 11 to 14, 2026, the Gustorfer Höhe Gliding Field in Grevenbroich will transform into a hard rock stage with high-flying riffs and...

Music meets awareness, volume meets solidarity: The Rocken Hilft Festival for Mental Health brings Metalcore, Postcore, and Alternative Rock...

From Friday, October 2nd, to Sunday, October 4th, 2026, the Aktionsgemeinschaft AGIL invites you to the annual Rocktober in Essen-Kettwig. T...

The RODAROCK Festival is an established metal event in the Euregio Aachen-Maastricht-Liège. On Saturday, July 25, 2026, the old open-air swi...

On Saturday, June 20, 2026, the municipality of Rödinghausen invites you to an open-air concert in the Mehrgenerationenpark starting at 4:30...

From November 28th to 30th, 2026, the LWL-Open Air Museum Hagen in the Mäckingerbach valley will transform into one of Westphalia's most bea...