The 11^th annual Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival is just around the corner, making its return to The Park at Harlinsdale Farm in Franklin, TN, on September 27-28. Prepping festivalgoers with the ultimate digital roadmap for the big weekend, the official 2025 Pilgrimage Festival App just launched on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store today. As always, attendees are encouraged to download the app in advance of the show. It’s a one-stop shop for maps, weather updates, and a wealth of festival information. Fans may also organize a “personalized schedule” for the weekend to catch all of their favorite artists while familiarizing themselves with the food and beverage vendors and artisans on-site.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE APP

With the festival a little more than two weeks away, GA+ wristbands, VIP wristbands, and parking hangtags are currently shipping out now. GA tickets will arrive as digital passes emailed to ticket holders starting Friday, September 12.

This afternoon, Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival Co-Founder and Better Than Ezra frontman Kevin Griffin will guest on WSMV’s Today In Nashville for an interview about the festival and more. It airs at 2:30pm CT on Nashville’s NBC affiliate station channel 4, WSMV. Be sure to check your local listings to tune in.

Moreover, Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival welcomes a diverse collective of sponsors for 2025, including Gibson, White Claw, Corona, George Dickel, Splash Refresher™, Nelson’s Green Brier Distillery, Lucchese, Republic Bank & Trust Company, Desnuda Organic Tequila, Pickers Vodka, Whataburger^®, Blue Hound Brew, Fever-Tree, National Seating & Mobility, Crescent 9 THC Seltzer, ASCAP, HART Jewelry, and Tennessee Brew Works.

This coming weekend, Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival and Gibson Gives will excitedly step up to the plate for the third annual “Pilgrimage Night” presented by the Nashville Sounds at their home field First Horizon Park on Saturday, September 13. With gates opening at 5:15 p.m., Nathan Followill of Kings of Leon will take the mound to throw out the evening’s first pitch at 6:15 p.m. prior to game start at 6:35 p.m. The Sounds will face the Gwinnett Stripers. Get tickets to “Pilgrimage Night” here (purchase through this link for a $5 donation to be made to Gibson Gives).

All eyes are on Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival with Holler enthusiastically declaring the “organizers have continued to outdo themselves in the last few years and the same goes this year” as People, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Relix, Melodic Magazine, and more have spotlighted the festival.  Meanwhile, Franklin Lifestyle ran a cover story entitled “Pilgrimage Heats Up Franklin.” Plus, Billboard promised, “The Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival is set to bring surges of guitar-slinging rock, Red Dirt country, blues and Americana.” 

Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival is produced by Griffin, Michael Whelan, and W. Brandt Wood. Now in its 11^th year, it has become a tradition for an ardent community of annual attendees, while it continues to captivate newcomers as well.

Living up to its name, Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival serves an epicenter for artists across genres and fans from around the world to congregate and come together. 2025 will undoubtedly continue this tradition with powerhouse performances, a diverse concourse of vendors and activations, and a community like no other.

Purchase remaining tickets and VIP packages here. Sign up for updates at PilgrimageFestival.com, and be on the lookout for more upcoming 2025 festival announcements.

 

 

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