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Blue Ox Music Festival

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Event:
Blue Ox Music Festival
Start:
June 26, 2025
End:
June 28, 2025
Category:
Updated:
August 16, 2021
Venue:
The Pines Music Park
Phone:
715-602-4440
Address:
5024 Crescent Avenue, Eau Claire, WI, 54703, United States
Blue Ox Music Festival, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

The annual Blue Ox Music Festival in Eau Claire, Wisconsin offers an intimate Bluegrass and Americana music experience from June 26-28. 2025. Founded in 2015, both the festival and campgrounds are family owned and operated by a team striving for a music festival experience designed to be welcoming and approachable for people of all ages. Blue Ox features over 35 artists spread across 3 days on three stages and on-site camping.

Bubbles at the Blue Ox Music Festival, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Blue Ox 2025 Experience/Activities include:

  • The Soul Sanctuary: A wellness tent featuring yoga, sonic Ceremony, sound healing, meditation, breathwork, reiki and more.
  • Instrument Workshops: Learn more about Bluegrass, Americana, Roots and traditional string genres of music from instructors who are musicians themselves. 2021 instructors include The High 48s and Nora Brown.
  • Potluck Pickin Area: Bring your instruments and meetup with fellow musicians for campground jam sessions hosted by the Potluck String Band.
  • Late Night Sets: From Midnight – 2AM enjoy music on the Backwoods Stage, located in the heart of the campground.
  • Family Stage Entertainment and Kids’ Activities: Kids 13 and under receive free Blue Ox Festival admission with a paid adult pass
  • On-site 9-Hole Disc Golf Course
  • Regional Food Trucks/Vendors & Hardgood Vendors
  • Beverage Options: Blue Ox 2021 official Breweries: Founders Brewery & Summit Brewing. Also on tap: Odell Brewing, New Belgium, Dogfish Head, Earth Rider and Third Space. Seltzers by Founders Brewery and Ciders by Milk & Honey Cider. Wollersheim Wines and Signature cocktails featuring Tattersall distillery Liquor will be available. (Non-alcoholic options will be provided by Food Vendors).
  • Fire/Flow Performing Artists: The Torch Sisters performing Sat, August 21st at 10PM
  • Art In the Pines Art Installations: An assortment of unique and engaging art created and installed by regional artists spread around the campground and within the festival bowl.

Over the past five years the Blue Ox Music Festival has featured artists such as Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Greensky Bluegrass, The Sam Bush Band, Peter Rowan, Drive by Truckers, The Del McCoury Band, Billy Strings, Margo Price, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, The Devil Makes Three, Trampled By Turtles, Railroad Earth, Tyler Childers, Son Volt and many more…

You can even check out the Blue Ox Podcast to find out more about the artists, venue, things to do, and more!

Tickets are available in a variety of pricing and combinations, find out more here.

Blue Ox Music Festival Schedule

THURSDAY

MAIN STAGE

Sam Bush Band

Rising Appalachia

Horseshoes & Hand Grenades

Chaparelle

SALOON STAGE

Mountain Grass Unit

Cole Chaney

Two Runner

Molly Brandt

BACKWOODS STAGE

(TBA as of late March, check back for updates)

*Set-times subject to change

FRIDAY

MAIN STAGE

Greensky Bluegrass

St. Paul and the Broken Bones

Molly Tuttle

Big Richard

Charlie Parr

SALOON STAGE

Amigo the Devil

The Last Revel

Dig Deep

Tall Tall Trees

The Cody Sisters

Clare Doyle

*Set-times subject to change

BACKWOODS STAGE

Ginstrings

The Spine Stealers

Hemlock Chaser

Triple Fiddle

Sandhill Strangers

*Set-times subject to change

SATURDAY

MAIN STAGE

Warren Haynes Band

Margo Price

Pert Near Sandstone

Peter Rowan w/Sam Grisman Project

Hurray for the Riff Raff

*Set-times subject to change

The Blue Ox Music Festival welcomes campers on-site; shuttle service is also available from a number of hotels in the Eau Claire area.

A guide to the grounds at the Blue Ox Music Festival in Eau Claire

The Pines Music Park, where Blue Ox Music Festival is held, is just southwest of Eau Claire on the west side of the Chippewa River, opposite Highway 85. I-94 and Highway 37 connections bring you there. U.S. 12, U.S. 53, and Highway 93 also bring you to Eau Claire.

Blue Ox Music Festival Address:

The Pines Music Park
5024 Crescent Avenue
Eau Claire, WI 54703
(715) 602-4440
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