The Joshua Tree Music Festival (JTMF) takes place every spring (in May) and fall (in October) at the Joshua Tree Lake Campground, within a 50-minute drive from Palm Springs. The festival is held on the backdrop of the scenic Copper Mountains, with stunning views of the renowned Joshua Tree National Park. This location offers camping space, hot showers, and RV hook-ups. The festival features two stages, a market and organic food vendors. Attendees are encouraged to participate in yoga, visual arts, music, and other workshops. Other highlights include a night Astronomy theater and Kidsville family-friendly section, which offers lots of activities for children.
Joshua Tree Music Festival is a four-day event, which promotes social interaction to create positive, life-changing moments. This principle is also reflected in its music choice. The festival focuses on world music and up-and-coming artists. Its lineups included Greensky Bluegrass, Deer Tick, Trombone Shorty, Edward Sharpe, Brett Dennen, the Avett Brothers, Toubab Krewe, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Elle King, Chicano Batman, Trampled by Turtles, and Valerie June. Every lineup is diverse, funky, and lovingly curated.
May 2024 Lineup
Joshua Tree offers a diverse live music experience for one's body, mind, and soul. The highlights of the 2024 spring edition include the performance by Fantastic Negrito, or Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz, the Grammy award-winning singer of blues, funk, rock, roots, and jazz. Moon Hooch, an American band from Brooklyn, consisting of two saxophonists and a drummer, plays jazz, groovy funk, and EDM. A Canadian-American singer, Steve Poltz, plays pop rock, indie-rock, and folk rock. Funk You is an eclectic band from Georgia known for its blend of modern and vintage sounds. Cuban rapper Telmary is combining music genres and connecting people of different backgrounds. Other performers are no less interesting and genre-blending: Madison McFerrin, Q.Varo, Bongo Sidibe & The TonTons, Object Heavy, Evan Hatfield, Mak Nova w/ ElieDanGary, Orchestra Gold, Mikey Reyes & The Feeling, Spacehall Sound Machine, Lis, QWANQWA, and Afrobeta.
Tickets
One-day general admission starts at $65 (for Thursday), $85 (for Sunday), or $100 (for Friday and Saturday). A four-day pass costs $270. A Super Supporter 4-day festival package costs $450. It includes a four-day festival wristband, walk-in tent camping in the main campground, an early entry pass for Wednesday, and dinner with beverages on Thursday night.
All tickets include walk-in tent camping. Visitors can park their cars in a day parking lot and take their gear to the campground within walking distance. A single-day admission includes camping for that night. Those who want to have their cars in the campground, need to purchase an additional vehicle pass.
Festival History
Joshua Tree Music Festival was organized by Barnett English, founder of organic espresso café JavaGogo, who has attended and worked at over 650 camp-out music festivals since before creating his own. The inaugural JTMF event took place on April 11-13, 2003.
