Got Summerfest fever? Well, the 2025 edition may be [counts months] seven months away, but that hasn’t stopped the Big Gig from announcing a handful of headliners. The first two were peak Summerfest: Lainey Wilson (modern country) and The Avett Brothers (The Avett Brothers). And today’s announcement is no less Summerfest-y: Cake!
That’s right! Nineties favorite Cake will headline the BMO Pavilion on Friday, June 27, during Summerfest 2025. Cake! We’d be lying if we said we weren’t kind of excited for this one! Fashion Nugget (1996) and Prolonging The Magic (1998) are really good!
Here’s the ticket info:
Tickets for reserved seating will go on sale this Friday, November 22 at 10:00 a.m. via Summerfest.com, Ticketmaster.com, or in person at the Summerfest Box Office, and includes admission to Summerfest the day of the performance.
Concerts at the BMO Pavilion during Summerfest will once again offer seating options for all evening headlining performances. Fans will have the choice of reserved seats available for purchase or free general admission seating on a first-come, first-served basis on the day of the show with a Summerfest ticket.
Oh wow, we just remembered “You Turn The Screws.” We used to love that one…
Summerfest 2025 will take place June 19-21, June 26-28, and July 3-5. The festival drew 555,925 attendees in 2024, down from 624,407 in 2023. In 2022, Summerfest drew 445,611 fans. In 2021—a late-summer installment and the first year of the nine-day, three-weekend format—409,386 folks showed up. Summerfest 2020 was canceled due to COVID. Summerfest 2019 drew 718,144 attendees. At the time, the 2019 attendance was Summerfest’s lowest in more than 30 years.
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