Pitchfork Music Festival

Big Thief

Ms. Lauryn Hill

Get Your Tickets

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 20th Anniversary Performance

Moses Sumney

berhana

Buy Ticket

Blood Orange

Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society

Info

$375

Kelela

→

The Curls

Irreversible Entanglements

DRAM

BUY NOW!

Treat yourself to a more luxurious festival experience this year with our Pitchfork +PLUS upgrade. Take the fast lane into the festival, make full use of our air-conditioned bathrooms, and grab your beer in no time through the exclusive +PLUS lanes. Spend your weekend enjoying food and cocktails curated especially for you by James Beard award-winning restaurant Fat Rice, and take a break between sets in one of our shaded seating areas. And with phone charging options available, you can be prepared to share every moment. Located in a tree-lined area directly across from the Blue Stage on the south end of the park, +PLUS is a perfect place to make your home base for the entire weekend. Amenities include: • Expedited entry to the festival • “Come and Go” re-entry access to the festival grounds • Air-conditioned bathrooms • Bank-connected wristband for cashless transactions and express lines at all bars • Access to food and drinks made by Fat Rice • Blue Stage viewing platform • Shaded seating areas • Cell-phone charging options • Tote bag with festival essentials • Complimentary storage locker (based on availability) Already purchased a three-day standard pass? You can switch to a +PLUS pass for no extra charge. Just purchase your +PLUS ticket and email your new confirmation number and your original 3-day confirmation number to tickets@atpluto.com. You will receive a refund on the original three-day ticket within 48 hours. This no-extra charge upgrade is only available until June 1.

Alex Cameron

Tame Impala

Schedule

Saba

Buy Ticket

Nilufer Yanya

Lucy Dacus

Get in touch →

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Fleet Foxes

Open Mike Eagle

Courtney Barnett

Japanese Breakfast

Nnamdi Ogbonnaya

Raphael Saadiq

Melkbelly

Buy Ticket

$75

+PLUS Pass

Syd

View full Gallery →

Single Day Ticket

+ More Info

Noname

→

Buy Ticket

→

$175

Earl Sweatshirt

3 Day Ticket

The War on Drugs

Experience

Smino

→

Mount Kimbie

Girlpool

Julie Byrne

Japandroids

This Is Not This Heat

Zola Jesus

Paul Cherry

Circuit des Yeux

+ More Info

Kweku Collins

Lineup

Entry to festival for all 3-days where you can enjoy 3 stages with 40+ bands, a record fair, a craft fair, 20+ food vendors, and many more exciting features. No outside food or beverage except sealed bottled water. Rain or shine, artists subject to change.

Saturday July 21, 2018

Buy Ticket

(Sandy) Alex G

Want more general fest info, FAQs, rules & regs, info on press, sponsor, and vendor opportunities, or have medical inquiries?

Check out highlights from last year below:

Ravyn Lenae

Email Address

Buy Ticket

Julien Baker

+ More Info

BUY NOW!

Chaka Khan

Tickets

Kelly Lee Owens

Buy Ticket

Lucy Dacus

Nilufer Yanya

Saba

Schedule

+ More Info

Submit

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Raphael Saadiq

Entry to festival for all Friday/Saturday/Sunday where you can enjoy 3 stages with 40+ bands, a record fair, a craft fair, 20+ food vendors, and many more exciting features. No outside food or beverage except sealed bottled water. Rain or shine, artists subject to change.

Melkbelly

Nnamdi Ogbonnaya

Open Mike Eagle

Fleet Foxes

Courtney Barnett

Japanese Breakfast

+ More Info

Tame Impala

Blood Orange

Buy Ticket

Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society

Buy Ticket

berhana

Moses Sumney

Big Thief

Ms. Lauryn Hill

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 20th Anniversary Performance

Friday July 20, 2018

+PLUS Pass

DRAM

$175

Alex Cameron

Irreversible Entanglements

The Curls

Info

Kelela

Get in touch →

Single Day Ticket

Kweku Collins

$375

Lineup

3 Day Ticket

Sunday July 22, 2018

Circuit des Yeux

Japandroids

Julie Byrne

Girlpool

This Is Not This Heat

Paul Cherry

Zola Jesus

(Sandy) Alex G

Julien Baker

BUY NOW!

Chaka Khan

Kelly Lee Owens

Tickets

Buy Ticket

View full Gallery →

Ravyn Lenae

+ More Info

Mount Kimbie

Noname

Pitchfork Music Festival Union Park, Chicago July 20—22, 2018

pitchfork.com

Click here to download our festival poster and share it with friends.

Syd

Celebrating its 13th year in 2018, the internationally recognized Pitchfork Music Festival presents 40+ acts over the course of three days each summer in Chicago's Union Park. The festival highlights the best in new and emerging music. Since 2006, this independently run festival has consistently proven to be one of the most welcoming, comfortable, reasonably priced, and rewarding weekends of music around. Hosting 60,000 attendees of all ages from 45 states and 26 countries, Pitchfork Music Festival offers a wide array of activities beyond the music. With 50 individual vendors, as well as specialty record and craft fairs, the festival works to support local businesses while promoting the Chicago arts and food communities as a whole. We maintain a commitment to keeping ticket prices low, providing new and useful amenities, and working with the city’s best local vendors each year. Stay tuned for more line-up and festival feature updates.

$75

Buy Ticket

pitchfork.com

Smino

Experience

Click here to download our festival poster and share it with friends.

The War on Drugs

→

Earl Sweatshirt

This year we have two great activity zones in the Kids Area! Music House, School of Performing Arts are bringing us a musical petting zoo, hip hop beat-making, performance play, workshops, and raffles!

Kids Area

Features

Nonprofit Partner

Experience

Renegade Craft Fair, the world’s largest curated showcase of independent craft and design, creates a vibrant and lively marketplace that reflects and illuminates the work of today’s modern makers. Equal parts entrepreneurial incubator and community gathering space, it all culminates in a lively celebration of contemporary craft and design culture

Nonprofit Partner

BUY NOW!

MADE Gallery

Get Involved

Schedule

Fat Rice

Vendors

Tickets

FUTURGARB

+PLUS

Dönermen Truck

Kids Area

Book Fort is a roving, interactive book fair that seeks to make a meaningful contribution to communities through readings, performances, and opportunities to connect with a highly-curated selection of independent publishers, presses, and literary organizations. A list of Book Fort publishers will be announced soon.

Rice Table

Goddess and Grocer

Leghorn Chicken

+PLUS

Sponsors

We also welcome Field Museum of Natural History, who have partnered with Johalla Projects to provide a mobile interactive museum experience fitted with dinosaur bones, prehistoric plants, birds, a park-wide scavenger hunt and more!

→

+PLUS

MADE Gallery

FUTURGARB

Nonprofit Partner

Schedule

CELEBRATING ITS 13TH YEAR IN 2018, the internationally recognized Pitchfork Music Festival presents 40+ bands over the course of three days each summer in Chicago's Union Park. The festival highlights the best in new and emerging music. Since 2006, this independently run festival has consistently proven to be one of the most welcoming, comfortable, reasonably priced, and rewarding weekends of music around. Hosting 50,000 attendees of all ages from 45 states and 26 countries, Pitchfork Music Festival offers a wide array of activities beyond the music. With 50 individual vendors, as well as specialty fairs, the festival works to support local businesses while promoting the Chicago arts and food communities as a whole. We maintain a commitment to keeping ticket prices low, providing new and useful amenities, and working with the city’s best local vendors each year.

Get Involved

Features

Fat Rice

Billy Goat Tavern

→

Info

CHIRP Record Fair

The Chicago Diner

Black Dog Gelato

Experience

Buffalo Exchange

Crossroads Trading

Ariel La Boutique

Chicago History Museum

→

Coco Loco

→

BUY NOW!

→

Baizaar

Every year, Pitchfork Music Festival hosts independent retail vendors, including many Chicago-based organizations. Check out the vendors we’re hosting this year!

Connie's

Lineup

Food

→

Steingold's Deli

Chicago Area Peace Corps Association Chicago Women's Health Center Foundations of Music Girls Rock Chicago Heartland Small Animal Rescue Illinois Choice Action Team (ICAT) Jane Addams Resource Corporation Literacy Works Mercy for Animals Notre Dame AmeriCorps Chicago One Tail at a Time Open Books The Arts of Life The Clinic Vest Project Tree House Humane Society YWCA Metropolitan Chicago

Retail

All rules and regulations are subject to change.

Storage

There are numerous hotel accommodations in close proximity to the festival. Camping is not available on the festival grounds or surrounding area.

Lockers will once again be available for rental at this summer's festival courtesy of Entertainment Lockers. Keep your hands free and your phone charged! Rent a locker with unlimited cell phone charging.

The Pitchfork Music Festival is committed to making its facilities accessible to and usable by all patrons and visitors. There are ramps from the sidewalks to street and ADA restrooms. In addition, we can offer wheelchair accessible viewing for the two main stages.

BUY NOW!

Lineup

By entering the festival grounds you will be agreeing to allow your image to possibly be photographed or filmed for the use of the producers. You are not allowed to bring in video cameras or professional-quality cameras (NO cameras with detachable lenses).

Health & Common Sense

The Ashland #9 bus runs north/south and stops right on the western edge of Union Park. The Madison #20 bus runs east/west and runs just south of the park, it also runs directly from Ogilvie station and is a short walk from Union Station downtown.

The main gate for the event is located on Ashland Avenue, on the west side of Union Park. The secondary gate for all festival attendees is at Washington Blvd. and Ogden Ave., on the east side of Union Park. Gates open at 12pm on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The Box Office will be open on Thursday, July 19 from 12pm to 7pm. During the festival, July 20-22, the Box Office is open between 11am and 9pm each day.

Recycling: Managing waste is a very important part of any large gathering, and Pitchfork Music Festival has worked with our sustainability coordinator since 2006 to develop a comprehensive plan to limit what we send to landfill. This plan depends on a broad network of folks, including our professional cleanup crews, the in-house recycling volunteers who work directly with all of our sponsors and vendors, and our trash hauler. But we need YOUR help as well. I

Experience

Tickets

More medical and accessibility information →

Please Respect Our Neighbors.

Getting Here

Pitchfork Music Festival does its best to cater to the various dietary preferences and needs of all our guests. At least one third of our food vendors present menus that provide gluten-free and vegan options. If you have more specialized dietary concerns, please see information about medical needs

If you have pre-existing medical conditions that require medication, special diets, or simply awareness, please notify our medical team in advance and then our security staff when entering the festival. They can direct you to our first aid tent near the main gate to ensure that medications are properly stored, and other needs are met. Please bring a copy of a letter from a medical professional. If you have any medical-related questions, please email our medical staff.

Please keep in mind that there will be absolutely no re-entry into the festival. PLUS+ wristband holders are able to exit and re-enter the festival through designated portals.

The Ashland stop on the Green and Pink lines is right at the northwest corner of the park. There is an accessible entrance.

Accessibility

Sustainability

Info

Weather

Gates

Location

The festival does not provide any parking for festival attendees. There are no sanctioned parking lots for public use in the Union Park area associated with the festival.

Rules & Regs

Sustainability

Entertainment Lockers

→

There is an expedited entry line for PLUS+ attendees exclusive use at both the main and secondary gates.

→

Reserve your locker! →

Code of Conduct

Prohibited Items

Security & Safety

PMF uses the print-at-home ticket service Eventbrite. All purchased tickets need to be printed at home. If changes occur to your plans and you can no longer attend, no name changes are needed - you can simply give the digital print-at-home ticket to your friend. PLEASE NOTE: tickets will only scan once at entry, prohibiting multiple copies of the same ticket from being used.

Biking is a great way to get to the festival. This year we have ample and secure bike parking available located near the north gate of the festival. Check back for the exact location in June.

Acts & Set Times

In order to help us create the best experience for you, please contact us ahead of time with any questions, needs or concerns.

Code of Conduct

Artists subject to change. No outside food or beverage allowed, except two sealed bottles of water. No video recorders and no cameras with detachable lenses will be allowed on the festival grounds. If you are at all unsure about the equipment you're planning to bring, leave it at home! Children under the age of 10 are free when accompanied by an adult.

The Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation will be ticketing people for posting flyers on light poles, telephone poles, or any other piece of city property. At $250 per flyer, you might want to consider whether this will be a cost-effective way to promote your band/energy drink/toothpaste/movie night/etc.

Lost & Found

Alcoholic Beverages

BUY NOW!

All attendees will be searched upon entering the festival grounds. The following items will not be allowed: Tents, flags, lounge chairs, musical instruments, knives or other weapons, video cameras, audio recording devices, professional cameras (NO cameras with detachable lenses), selfie sticks, pets, food, beverages (other than sealed bottled water), drugs or drug paraphernalia.

Getting Here

Lost and Found is located in the will call trailer on Ashland Avenue. You can pick up lost and found items at Union park for one week after the festival.

More medical and accessibility information →

Experience

Tickets

Special Dietary Needs

Sustainability

Accessibility

Train

Pre-Existing Medical Needs

Re-Entry Policy

The Pitchfork Music Festival takes our responsibility to the environment seriously, and we encourage our audience, musicians, and vendors to do the same. Following are some steps we’ve taken to ensure that our environmental “footprint” is as small as possible. Recycling: Managing waste is a very important part of any large gathering, and Pitchfork Music Festival has worked with our sustainability coordinator since 2006 to develop a comprehensive plan to limit what we send to landfill. This plan depends on a broad network of folks, including our professional cleanup crews, the in-house recycling volunteers who work directly with all of our sponsors and vendors, and our trash hauler. But we need YOUR help as well. If you come to PMF, please recycle your plastic cups and bottles, aluminum cans, and paper in the 130 blue recycling bins found throughout the festival grounds!! Composting: Starting in 2011, Pitchfork has provided compost containers for all of our food vendors, to ensure that any food scraps generated at the event get reused.

Car

Reserve your locker! →

Accommodations

Storage

Please visit this website regularly for the most up-to-date information.

If you need space to store any equipment such as oxygen tanks or insulin, please email medical ahead of time, so that we can make accommodations.

BUY NOW!

Bus

Chicago's well-respected and experienced security company S3 will be providing their services at the Pitchfork Music Festival. Their presence is intended to make this concert experience safe and fun for everyone. Please respect and follow all rules and regulations. They were created with your safety in mind.

Photography

pitchfork.com

Lineup

Info

We want all our visitors to have a healthy and safe festival experience, so please take these common-sense steps to ensure you’re feeling great when the weekend is over: ① stay hydrated; ② eat regularly; ③ dress appropriately; and ④ protect yourself from the sun.

Bike Parking

Ticket Reassignment & Other Ticket Issues

A valid government-issued photo ID is required to purchase alcoholic beverages on the festival grounds. Attendees will need to show their ID to festival security personnel in order to receive a wristband that will allow them to purchase alcohol. Sales of alcohol will end promptly at 9:30 pm. There are NO REFUNDS for unused beverage tickets.

Pitchfork seeks to be a welcoming summer festival and community. As a festival guest, you have an active role in creating an enjoyable and accepting environment for your fellow attendees, including speaking out when you see unacceptable behavior. Pitchfork has a zero-tolerance policy for harassment or discrimination of any kind, including but not limited to: race, color, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, and disability status. Offensive behavior includes, but is not limited to: • Acts of physical assault or battery • Verbal abuse • Racial or ethnic slurs • Groping, sexual assault, or unwanted sexual remarks • Stalking • Threatening language Any individuals or groups found in violation of this policy may be removed from the festival. If you feel you’ve been harassed, or feel unsafe, please visit our Response and Resource Center, or a festival staff member, or member of our security team.

Rules & Regulations

The Pitchfork Music Festival will take place rain or shine.

We have designated viewing platforms for ADA festival attendees. In order to access these platforms, please check-in at the ADA entrance which is on Ashland, just north of the main entrance.

All acts advertised have confirmed their appearance at the Pitchfork Music Festival. Acts, however, are subject to change without notice. A complete list of set times will be released in early June, but may be subject to change.

Union Park 1501 W. Randolph St. Chicago, IL 60607

Union Park and the surrounding historic neighborhoods have been very gracious in welcoming us to their home for eleven years. Please show your respect and consideration for them as you enter and leave the festival. Don't be loud, don't litter, don't lock your bikes to private property, and don't post or distribute flyers in the neighborhood. Please help us to continue the longstanding exchange of goodwill with the wider community around our event.

Code of Conduct

Accessibility

pitchfork.com

Rules & Regs

Getting Here

Location

Gates

If you come to PMF, please recycle your plastic cups and bottles, aluminum cans, and paper in the 130 blue recycling bins found throughout the festival grounds!! Composting: Starting in 2011, Pitchfork has provided compost containers for all of our food vendors, to ensure that any food scraps generated at the event get reused.

Gates

→

You can reserve a locker for one day or all three! When you reserve a locker online, you will receive an email 24 hours before the fest containing your locker location, locker number, and lock combination so you can simply find and use your locker.