Inaugural Zona Music Festival bringing slew of top indie acts to downtown Phoenix

Downtown Phoenix will be transformed into indie pop/rock heaven later this year when the inaugural Zona Music Festival takes over Margaret T. Hance Park for two days.

BY KEVIN STONE

Aug 24, 2022, 3:00 PM

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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - APRIL 23: Members of the band 'Portugal. The Man' perform onstage during the 2018 ASCAP Pop Music Awards on April 23, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by JC Olivera/Getty Images)

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - AUGUST 18: Guitarist/keyboardist Alex Scally (L) and singer/keyboardist Victoria Legrand of Beach House perform during Psycho Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on August 18, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

WEST VALLEY CITY, UTAH - JUNE 29: Tegan and Sara perform at LOVELOUD Festival 2019 Powered by AT&T at USANA Amphitheatre on June 29, 2019 in West Valley City, Utah. (Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images for LOVELOUD Festival)

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - AUGUST 06: Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast performs during the Incheon Pentaport Music Festival on August 06, 2022 in Incheon, South Korea. (Photo by Justin Shin/Getty Images)

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA - DECEMBER 04: Jack Antonoff of Bleachers performs on stage during Audacy Beach Festival at Fort Lauderdale Beach Park on December 04, 2021 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Photo by Jason Koerner/Getty Images for Audacy)

PHOENIX – Downtown Phoenix will be transformed into indie pop/rock heaven later this year when the inaugural Zona Music Festival takes over Margaret T. Hance Park for two days.

Beach House, Portugal. The Man, Bleachers, Tegan and Sara, and Japanese Breakfast have top billing for the Dec. 3-4 event.

General admission and VIP weekend passes go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday. The event’s website doesn’t mention prices. Single-day tickets will offered at a later date.

The sprawling lineup has 39 acts and includes local mainstays such as Playboy Manbaby and Phoenix Afrobeat Orchestra.

“We are beyond thrilled to be among this incredible lineup and return to one of our favorite cities in the United States,” Tegan and Sara said in a press release.

“It’s been a long three years, and we are very much looking forward to getting on stage and strutting our stuff at Zona in December!”

The Zona Music Festival is a partnership between local promoter Psyko Steve Presents and Downtown Phoenix Inc.

Here’s the full lineup, in alphabetical order (the performance schedule hasn’t been released):

Bartees Strange
Beach Goons
Beach House
Black Carl
Bleachers
Breakup Shoes
Chicano Batman
Chloe Lilac
Destroy Boys
Diva Bleach
Flor
The Front Bottoms
The Garden
Glixen
The Happy Fits
Japanese Breakfast
Jeff Rosenstock
July Talk
Lucius
Lucy Dacus
Miniature Tigers
The National Parks
Pariah Pete
Phoenix Afrobeat Orchestra
Playboy Manbaby
Pom Squad
Portugal. The Man
The Red Pears
The Regrettes
Sales
Sasami
Sitting On Stacy
Sub Urban
Sydney Sprague
Tegan and Sara
Turnover
TV Girl
UPSAHL
Waxahatchee and Kevin Morby

Kevin Stone KTAR.com Senior Editor

Kevin Stone is KTAR's Senior Web Content Editor. He is a seasoned journalist who was born in New York and grew up in Phoenix. He got his start doing agate for the Mesa Tribune sports section in the 1990s while completing his print journalism degree.… Read more

Inaugural Zona Music Festival bringing slew of top indie acts to downtown Phoenix

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