Venue
CMA Fest has exclusively partnered with a number of hotels within driving distance of Nissan Stadium. Explore options for 1-4 night stays here(Opens in new tab).
CMA Fest, the world’s longest-running Country Music festival, returns in 2026 to take over downtown Nashville from Thursday, June 4 to Sunday, June 7. For the first time this year, SoFi joins as presenting sponsor, as well as official bank and financial services partner of the festival. The heart of Music City will light up with hundreds of performances across 10 stages. From rising acts to chart-topping superstars, all CMA Fest performers donate their time, with festival proceeds supporting music education through the CMA Foundation(Opens in new tab).
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CMA Fest is hosted in downtown Nashville, Tennessee across 10 indoor & outdoor stages.
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Tickets for 2026’s CMA Fest are on sale now via Ticketmaster. In addition to the free daytime stages, which are open to the public, tickets can currently be purchased in the following formats: Four-Night Stadium Passes. Further ticket options will be available closer to the festival date.
CMA Fest provides mobile passes and tickets and personal festival schedules can be customized in the CMA Connect app(Opens in new tab). Consult the CMA Fest Virtual Assistant by clicking the “Need Help?” button in the app navigation for quick answers to ticketing questions.
For questions while on-site, information booths can be found at the following locations:
For any remaining questions about tickets, contact FestTickets@CMAworld.com. Ticketmaster is the only official and authorized ticketing partner of CMA Fest. Any passes or tickets purchased through any other outlet are not guaranteed by CMA Fest.
A number of premium packages are available for CMA Fest 2026. These packages include perks such as:
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While the main stage at Nissan Stadium, Ascend Amphitheater and Fan Fair X are ticketed parts of CMA Fest, attendees can enjoy free performances throughout the festival at the following locations: Chevy Riverfront Stage, Dr. Pepper Amp Stage, Chevy Vibes Stage, Good Molecules Reverb Stage and Hard Rock Stage.
Meet & greets will take place at Fan Fair X, hosted in Music City Center. Fan Fair X admission is included with the CMA Fest Four-Night Stadium Pass. Alternatively, four-day and single-day Fan Fair X tickets are available for purchase.
All clear plastic, vinyl and PVC bags that do not exceed 12” x 12” x 6” are allowed. Additionally, small clutch bags or wallets under 4.5” x 6.5” are permitted. All non-clear bags, including mesh and tinted plastic, are prohibited. All bags are subject to inspection.
The list of prohibited items under CMA’s event policy includes (but is not limited to):
Read the full list of prohibited items at CMA Fest here(Opens in new tab).
Items believed to be lost can be dropped at any of the information booths (on Broadway between 2nd and 3rd Ave; inside Music City Center on Level 2 inside the main entrance; and inside Music City Center on Level 3). Each day, items are brought to the information booth on Level 2 of Music City Center.
After a disappointing Friday night at Nissan Stadium, Saturday at Ascend for Girls night out was incredible. Wynonna and guests played the whole night, incredible vocals and such a good venue. The surprise guest being Lainey Wilson had the whole venue on their feet. Wynonna entertained her butt off! We will definitely check out this location first for shows.
Quality of performers at Nissan declining over the last few yrs. And rap artists in general are ‘not country’ either. Closing with Dierks and Luke was great but very few other ‘big name’ guests showed. Keith Urban great as usual. Where were the women, young or old? Seems few ready to ‘donate their time’ any longer. Same was true of close-up stage in convention center.
Having attended several times now, I was very disappointed in this CMA Festival. Riverfront was extremely unorganized. Waited 40 minutes in line to get close to front only to see people just blending in to get in ahead of others and then told area was full. Disappointed that more A-listers weren’t in attendance. Loved Darrius, Keith and Blake, but would be nice to have more of those we made great to show up and perform. Need more Uber/Lyft drop off points. STOP allowing homeless individuals to be in the CMA Fest areas. They were smoking pot in front of Savannah candy store and chattering with themselves while young kids stared in disbelief, passed out, begging for money and food. Have to put a stop to this. Enjoyed small stages and bars. Not sure we will spend the money for 2026 show without more A-listers performing.
Line-up sucked this year. They used to have really big artists. Now it's just whatever up and comer they're trying to force onto the market.
My husband and I had the best time at our first CMA Fest! Spent time with good friends and truly enjoyed it. Will definitely do it again.
Had a good time. Had a group of 6. Of course weather could have been better. We attended 5 years ago and it seemed like there were more well known artists performing then. There seemed to be more up and coming artists and some we didn’t know this year. Also, would be nice if concerts in Nissan stadium could start a little earlier. Didn’t seem like there were as many booths along Broadway this year. Also a lot of traffic in that area. We did enjoy ourselves.
The Friday night concert at Nissan Stadium was fantastic. The only disappointment was the fact that they had to delay the start of the show due to poor weather, so the artists could only perform a limited number of songs. But it was great!!
Amazing !!! Every year gets even better ! Nothing else like it around. As it is Nashville is a beautiful destination by itself.
I loved my first experience at CMA fest. I'm anxious to see the new stadium. I hated that Friday nights set was cut short due to weather. I definitely learned to purchase some of the additional options due to capacity was met several times for Riverfront and I was unable to go. I will definitely make it a yearly experience though.
Found it mostly unorganized. You could be standing in a line for a meet and greet maybe 20 minutes and when it is almost your turn be told the artist time is up. Was told to comeback for another artist because the line hadn't started. Come back in 20 minutes I was told. I came back like I was told to find a very long lineup and there was no way that the artist would see everyone in the line. Also found a few rude people. You could be standing in a meet and greet and people would just walk in front of you. This was bad for the ones that just had tape marking the rows. Outside you had to line up for the Riverfront stage to get to Fan Alley. And when Riverfront stage was full too bad you had to wait until the line moved again. If you didn't have a cell phone to scan, well you weren't allowed to participate in most things. The only good thing about Fan X was the Spotlight Stage where you could sit down and enjoy the singing.