The Danish festival reveals its first 18 acts, with Ezra Collective, Patti Smith Quartet and Lambrini Girls also confirmed, tickets on sale now for the festival running June 26th to July 3rd near Copenhagen.
Roskilde Festival has revealed the first 18 acts for its 2027 edition, spanning genres, generations and musical expressions. Confirmed names include Tame Impala, Kacey Musgraves, Caroline Polachek, Ezra Collective, Suki Waterhouse, Lambrini Girls, Patti Smith Quartet and Underscores.
Almost 200 acts will eventually make up the full programme at the 55th edition of Roskilde, Northern Europe’s largest festival, which brings together 130,000 participants including 27,000 volunteers each year.
Tame Impala headlines the iconic Orange Stage, in what will be one of the project’s only European festival shows in 2027. Thomas Sønderby Jepsen, Head of Music at Roskilde, said this first wave spans pop, hyperpop, rock, metal, punk, hip-hop and jazz, with major names like Tame Impala, playing only a handful of European festivals next summer, sitting alongside compelling new voices.
Several of today’s announced artists carry a strong activist thread too. Caroline Polachek has been a vocal presence in debates around gender and representation in the music industry, a commitment Jepsen said she shares with Patti Smith, performing with Patti Smith Quartet and carrying over 50 years of rock, poetry and revolutionary spirit, and with Kacey Musgraves, who has built a reputation in country and Americana partly through her advocacy for LGBTQ+ rights.
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Elsewhere, genre-defying jazz group Ezra Collective bring their blend of jazz, soul, afrobeat and Cuban rhythms, alongside New York’s Nu Jazz, who fuse jazz with drum’n’bass, noise and electronic music. Electronic duo G Jones B2B Eprom and Norwegian hip-hop duo Karpe, playing Roskilde as part of their final ever tour, add to the bill, along with hyperpop DIY artist Underscores. Metal and punk also get a strong showing, with Neurosis, Konvent, Drain and Lambrini Girls all confirmed.
Roskilde Festival 2027 first wave lineup
- Tame Impala (AU)
- Caroline Polachek (US)
- Kacey Musgraves (US)
- Emma Sehested Høeg (DK)
- Ezra Collective (UK)
- Karpe (NO)
- Kundo (DK)
- Lambrini Girls (UK)
- Neurosis (US)
- Patti Smith Quartet (US)
- Suki Waterhouse (UK)
- Underscores (US)
- 454 (US)
- Drain (US)
- G Jones B2B Eprom (US)
- James K (US)
- Konvent (DK)
- Nu Jazz (US)
Tickets
A full festival ticket for the week costs €355 including fees, a one-day ticket is €205, and a two-day ticket, combining two of the final four festival days, is €300. Tickets are available now via ticketing partner Tickster, here.
Since 1971, Roskilde Festival has brought generations together through music, art and community, organised by the Roskilde Festival Charity Society and run by 27,000 volunteers. All profits go to humanitarian, non-profit and cultural work, particularly benefiting children and young people, with the festival having generated approximately DKK 476 million (€63.7 million) for charitable distribution over the years.
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