Hear that? It's Ocean City, Maryland, calling about it's annual music and food festival.
Come September, Oceans Calling Festival will put on another three-day show at the town's boardwalk. Not only is the festival filled with iconic indie rock bands, like Blink-182, the Dave Matthews Band and The Beach Boys, but you can experience east coast cuisine. Presale tickets go live on Thursday and they are already selling fast.
Acclaimed chefs Robert Irvine, Amanda Freitag and Marc Murphy will appear to help prepare classic bites, like crab and anything with Old Bay, for festival goers. What could be more perfect than a weekend filled with food, music and rides and games at the Ocean City boardwalk.
Here's everything to know about the Oceans Calling Festival, scheduled for Sept. 27-29, including the full lineup and ticket purchasing options.
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Oceans Calling Festival 2024 tickets
Tickets for this year's festival go on sale Feb. 29. Pre-sale begins at 10 a.m. ET, and a general sale will follow at 11 a.m. ET if tickets remain. For those who don't want to risk it, tickets are also available on StubHub.
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According to the festival website, there are four levels of tickets available for single-day purchase:
- General admission – starts at $160
- General admission plus – starts at $345
- VIP – starts at $535
- Platinum – starts at $1,020
All tiers starting with general admission give festival-goers access to live music at all three stages, food and drink vendors, concessions, merchandise and free water stations. GA+ includes unlimited access to the GA+ lounge, air-conditioned restrooms, private bars and dedicated concierge assistance.
VIP packages include everything in the GA+ package as well as exclusive viewing areas for all three stages and lockers and phone charging unit rentals. Platinum tickets include all those amenities as well as complimentary all-day dining, complimentary full-service bar and an exclusive festival gift.
Those wanting to go all out for Oceans Calling also have the option of three-day Ultimate ticket, which starts a $6,000. The package includes all Platinum amenities as well as:
- Access to Artist Bar at Sea Bright Stage
- Exclusive side stage viewing (pending artist approval)
- Special FOH/Soundboard viewing area
- Golf cart transportation between stages
- Festival concierge for assistance
- $100 credit to use at official Festival Merch store
- Exclusive festival merchandise gift
Oceans Calling Festival 2024 lineup: Full list of acts performing
The festival is scheduled to have a loaded lineup of rock and indie artists. In total, there are 39 acts that will perform throughout the three-day show. Blink-182, The Killers and the Dave Matthews Band are the headliners this year.
Exact schedules and stages are yet to be determined, but Oceans Calling already announced the lineup for each day of the festival.
You can buy tickets for each day here: Friday | Saturday | Sunday
Friday
- Blink-182
- Cage the Elephant
- Sublime
- 311
- O.A.R.
- The Revivalists
- The Darkness
- Sugar Ray
- Larkin Poe
- Tonic
- Phillip Phillips
- Winona Fighter
- Vincent Lima
Saturday
- The Killers
- The Offspring
- Rebelution
- The Beach Boys
- Young the Giant
- The All-American Rejects
- The Hives
- Grouplove
- Switchfoot
- The Beaches
- Tom Odell
- Trevor Hall
- The Samples
- Katelyn Tarver
Sunday
- Dave Matthews Band
- Mt. Joy
- Counting Crows
- Boyz II Men
- Barenaked LAdies
- Blues Traveler (performing "Four")
- Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
- Guster
- Big Head Todd and The Monsters
- Lisa Boeb
- Jade Bird
- Stephen Kellogg
