Burning Man
Burning Man began in 1986 when Larry Harvey and Jerry James built and burned a wooden figure on San Francisco’s Baker Beach. The gathering later developed into Black Rock City in Nevada’s Black Rock…
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Events & Event History
Explore current, recurring and historic events with documented history, locations, attendance and past performers. When a reliable fact is not available, Class Act leaves it out.
Recurring Events
Cheyenne Frontier Days
Cheyenne Frontier Days is a long-running Western celebration built around professional rodeo, concerts, parades, cultural programming and community events.
College Football Playoff National Championship
The College Football Playoff National Championship determines the champion of the College Football Playoff era of major-college football.
Comic-Con International: San Diego
Comic-Con began in San Diego in 1970 and was created to celebrate comics along with film, science fiction, fantasy literature and other popular arts.
Disney On Ice
Disney On Ice is a touring family entertainment production that presents Disney characters and stories through live ice-skating shows in arenas.
Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas
Electric Daisy Carnival is Insomniac’s flagship dance-music festival. Insomniac says EDC began in 1997 as a warehouse party in Los Angeles and later expanded into an international festival brand.
Harlem Globetrotters World Tour
The Harlem Globetrotters combine basketball skill, athleticism, comedy and audience entertainment in a touring live show built around exhibition games.
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo combines professional rodeo competition, livestock and agricultural programming, a carnival, educational programs and major nightly concerts.
Monster Jam
Monster Jam is a touring motorsports entertainment series featuring monster trucks in arena and stadium competitions and exhibitions.
NCAA Men’s Final Four
The NCAA Men’s Final Four is the semifinal and championship stage of the Division I men’s basketball tournament. Host cities change by year.
New York Comic Con
New York Comic Con is a major annual pop-culture convention covering comics, television, film, gaming, creators, collectibles and fan culture.
PBR World Finals
The PBR World Finals is the championship event for Professional Bull Riders’ premier individual competition season.
Wrangler National Finals Rodeo
The Wrangler National Finals Rodeo is the season-ending championship event of professional rodeo, bringing the top 15 contestants in seven rodeo disciplines to ten rounds of competition.
Historic Events
Atlanta International Pop Festival
The Atlanta International Pop Festivals of 1969 and 1970 brought large-scale rock festivals to Georgia and helped establish promoter Alex Cooley as a major concert producer.
California Jam
California Jam was a one-day rock festival held April 6, 1974 at Ontario Motor Speedway in Southern California.
California Jam II
California Jam II was a one-day rock festival held March 18, 1978 at Ontario Motor Speedway, four years after the original California Jam.
Day on the Green
Day on the Green was Bill Graham’s recurring series of large outdoor stadium concerts at the Oakland Coliseum, bringing major rock acts to the Bay Area through the 1970s, 1980s and into the early…
Hear 'n Aid
Hear 'n Aid was a heavy-metal charity music project created in response to African famine relief efforts. The centerpiece was the all-star song “Stars.”
Isle of Wight Festival 1970
The 1970 Isle of Wight Festival was a five-day music festival and one of the largest gatherings of the original British festival era.
Knebworth Historic Concerts
Knebworth Park became one of Britain’s landmark large-scale outdoor concert locations beginning with the Bucolic Frolic in 1974.
Live 8
Live 8 was a coordinated series of benefit concerts held on July 2, 2005 in multiple cities around the world ahead of the G8 summit.
Live Aid
Live Aid was a globally linked benefit concert staged on July 13, 1985, centered on Wembley Stadium in London and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, with additional performances and broadcasts around the world.
Monsters of Rock
Monsters of Rock debuted at Donington Park on August 16, 1980 and became one of the best-known hard rock and heavy metal festival brands of the era.
Monterey International Pop Festival
The Monterey International Pop Festival was held June 16-18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds and became a landmark event in the development of the modern rock festival.
Ozark Music Festival
The Ozark Music Festival was held July 19-21, 1974 at the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia.
Rock in Rio 1985
The first Rock in Rio was held over ten days in January 1985 and placed Brazil on the international large-scale festival circuit.
Texxas Jam
Texxas Jam was a large stadium rock festival series that began at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas in 1978 and continued in various forms through the 1980s.
US Festival
The US Festival was a large music-and-technology festival project created by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak through Unuson. Two major editions were staged at Glen Helen Regional Park in Southern California: September 3-5, 1982 and…
Woodstock Music & Art Fair
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was held August 15-18, 1969 on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York. The official Woodstock history says more than half a million people came to hear 32…
World Series of Rock
The World Series of Rock was a recurring series of day-long, multi-act summer rock concerts at Cleveland Municipal Stadium from 1974 through 1980.