More Bands & Entertainment Coming Soon!
The 40th anniversary of the Best Party Anywhere® is on at the Sturgis Buffalo Chip! Confident that open air festivals can be held responsibly, we’ve charging ahead toward the 2021 Sturgis Rally!
The Largest Music Festival in Motorcycling® is continuing to live up to its name for the 40th anniversary with another jaw-dropping announcement for 2021! If you want the best prices for your much-needed vacation, you’ll need to act fast.
PRE-SALE PRICES ON CAMPGROUND ADMISSION PASSES END SOON
(All concerts and entertainment are free with camping.)
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All Concerts & Entertainment Free with Camping
Kid Rock – Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021
You’ve waited long enough. The time has come to reunite with your friends, crank your party up to eleven and lose your mind to the tight rhymes, magnetic party anthems, and down-home Americana crossover stylings of Kid Rock. The freedom-loving, fire-spitting, over-the-top, American badass will make his triumphant return to The Best Party Anywhere® on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021, and it’s the party you need to be looking forward to all year and All Summer Long.
Anybody who’s ever been to the Sturgis Buffalo Chip’s music festival can attest to South Dakota’s toasty summer nights. On Sunday, Aug. 8, it’ll go from balmy to straight-up incendiary when rockabilly legends Reverend Horton Heat burn up the Wolfman Jack Stage. The Dallas, Texas-based band will crank the heat prior to a headlining performance by Kid Rock, and you’d better have your fire extinguisher handy when they do
Your goosebumps will have goosebumps as you travel into the era of raw rock with legends Stone Temple Pilots. When the eight-time platinum-selling act makes their Buffalo Chip debut on Monday, Aug. 9, you’ll experience the same blend of crunching riffs, candied melodies and psychedelic flair that made you fall in love with STP in the ‘90s. Sing along to signature hits like "Plush," "Creep," "Big Empty," "Vasoline," "Interstate Love Song," and "Big Bang Baby," as well as tracks from their most recent sonic adventure “Perdida.”
ZZ Top – Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021
Calling all Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers! That Little Ol’ Band from Texas is returning to The Best Party Anywhere®! They’re Bad, and they’re coming to rock the Sturgis Buffalo Chip for its 40th anniversary party in 2021. Classic rock megastars ZZ Top bring their legendary raunchy blues rock boogie to the Chip’s Wolfman Jack Stage on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, and you’ll want to make sure you and your Cheap Sunglasses are close by when they do.
Anthrax – Thursday, Aug. 12, 2021
Brace yourself as one of the notorious “Big Four,” as in Metallica, Slayer, Megadeath and Anthrax thrash metal legend notoriety, pummels you with lightning-fast riffs and solos. Never before to the Sturgis Rally, Anthrax joins the concert lineup like a fist to your eye, bringing the noise to the Sturgis Buffalo Chip Main Stage following coheadliners Black Label Society. Jump in and surrender to the madness Thursday, Aug. 12.
Thrust your horns up for these vigilant keepers of the hard rock flame! Black Label Society, led by charismatic beast and consummate showman Zakk Wylde, will bash out thick riffage from the Wolfman Jack Stage Thursday, Aug. 12 ahead of that night’s performance from coheadliner Anthrax!
Shinedown – Friday, Aug. 13, 2021
Put on your riot gear and get ready to rumble because it’s about to get heavy. Shinedown’s hard rock Molotov cocktail of fiery vocals and razor-sharp riffs will detonate into one of the most explosive concerts of the Buffalo Chip’s 40th anniversary party.
Like a double shot of straight bourbon whiskey, the sounds of Black Stone Cherry will go down smooth and fire up your night when they make their Sturgis Buffalo Chip debut this August. The Edmonton, Kentucky quartet will bring their fiery yet rootsy Southern hard rock to the legendary Wolfman Jack Stage Friday, Aug. 13, prior to that night’s headlining performance from Shinedown.
P.O.D. – Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021
Ready or not, here comes the boys from the South! Three-time GRAMMY Award-nominated, multiplatinum mainstay P.O.D. are headed to the Sturgis Buffalo Chip Saturday, Aug. 14, making dang sure that the 40th anniversary of Best Party Anywhere goes out with a BOOM. The San Diego quartet will bring their hypnotic hybrid of hard rock, hip-hop, reggae and alternative to the legendary Wolfman Jack Main Stage following a performance from fellow Buffalo Chip newcomers From Ashes to New on the final night of the festival.
Things are guaranteed to get crazy when From Ashes to New rises for the final night of Sturgis Rally concerts. The Lancaster, PA-based quartet will blast their blend of rock, hip-hop, pop and metal from the Sturgis Buffalo Chip®’s Wolfman Jack Stage on Saturday, Aug. 14 prior to P.O.D. When they do, you’ll have no choice but to get caught in the panic.
More 2021 Bands & Entertainment Coming Soon!
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See How the Sturgis Buffalo Chip Compares to the Others
Sometimes it’s good to have options. And as you can see below, only the original biker-dedicated destination that brought music and motorcycling together during the Sturgis rally gives you more options than anybody else. See for yourself why it’s the best choice for your vacation!
You can’t get more for less anywhere else in the world.