Cincinnati Music Festival at Paycor Stadium
Earth, Wind and Fire and Janet Jackson Headline 2025 Cincinnati Music Festival
Cincinnati Music Festival will return to Paycor Stadium in 2025 for the 20th consecutive year. Musical icons Earth, Wind and Fire and Janet Jackson will headline the 64th year of the event. Earth, Wind and Fire will be the feature group on Friday July 25, while Janet Jackson will cap off the night on Saturday July 26.
Other acts on Friday include Anthony Hamilton and three artists to be announced. Meanwhile, Saturday's lineup will feature a Special Tribute to Frankie Beverly, featuring Jubu with special guest appearances by Ronald Isley, Joe, After 7, Dave Hollister and Raheem DeVaughn and three more artists to be announced.
Earth, Wind and Fire is one of the most successful musical groups of all time, selling over 100 million albums worldwide. Their most popular song, September, has nearly 2 billion streams on Spotify. Janet Jackson has also sold over 100 million albums worldwide. She has had seven number-one albums, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame listed her album Janet as one of the 200 Definitive Albums of All Time.
Cincinnati Music Festival originally began in 1962 as the Ohio Valley Jazz Festival. The festival has brought in some of the biggest names in music history, including Aretha Franklin, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Whitney Houston and Stevie Wonder.