2023 Sturgis Buffalo Chip Sturgis Rally Concerts & Entertainment

Blow through the gates of the Buffalo Chip four whole days before the festival’s official rally kickoff date to nab your favorite camp spot, watch the festival spring to life and rock out to nightly concerts on the Bikini Beach Stage!

The Moto Meetup - The Buffalo Chip Official Sturgis Rally Kickoff Party begins with a bang on Friday, Aug. 4 with the Support Bikers Moto Meetup at the Big Engine Bar at 4 p.m.

The Parade - At 5 p.m. you can line up to join hundreds of bikers* to parade through the Chip’s legendary amphitheater for the kickoff. The parade starts at 6 p.m.

How to Join the Parade - Make a reservation that includes Aug. 4. Email us at [email protected] with your existing reservation number and the number of bikes on your reservation that you want to be in the parade. Please enter “Parade” in the Subject Line.

You will receive correspondence about where to meet and lineup at the Support Bikers Moto Meetup.

Battle Of The Bands, Beer Wall Smash, and More - Once inside the amphitheater, the festivities will continue with a Beer Wall Smash Stunt, Star-Spangled Banner, live entertainment on the Main Stage from the winners of the Sturgis Battle of the Bands Competition, ZZ Top, and the International Bikini Team!

*Only the first 100 registered will get to park bikes inside the amphitheater for that night’s show. The rest will parade through and be ushered to parking outside the amphitheater gates.

Calling all Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers! That Little Ol’ Band from Texas, ZZ Top, is returning to The Best Party Anywhere®! They’re Bad, and they’re coming to rock the Buffalo Chip’s Official Sturgis Rally Kickoff. These classic rock megastars bring their legendary raunchy blues rock boogie to the Chip’s Wolfman Jack Stage on Friday, Aug. 4, 2022, and you’ll want to make sure you and your Cheap Sunglasses are close by when they do.

You’ll be left with Something to Talk About after an unapologetically rowdy live performance from gold-selling singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer Koe Wetzel Saturday, Aug. 5. Watch in awe as this Northeast Texas rebel bulldozes the boundaries between Nashville songcraft, rowdy Texas spirit, and Seattle hard rock with massive hits such as “February 28, 2016,” “Something To Talk About,” “Drunk Driving,” and “Good Die Young,” as well as tracks from 2022 album release “Hell Paso.”

Hey rockers and hip-hoppers…Get on your bikes and keep Rollin’ Rollin’ Rollin’ into the Largest Music Festival in Motorcycling. Nu-metal pioneers Limp Bizkit will be making their Sturgis Rally debut at the Buffalo Chip during the 2023 Sturgis Rally, bringing along their infectious spirit, some of the most recognizable songs of the late '90s and tracks from their latest album “Still Sucks”. Throw your hands up to tracks like “Break Stuff,” “Rollin’,” “My Way,” and “Dad Vibes” on Monday, Aug. 7 following a performance from Lita Ford.

Immerse yourself in glam metal as Lita Ford takes you back in time to an era filled with lightning-fast licks and enough hair spray to make Bigfoot look pretty. This guitar goddess will remind you just how much you love the ‘80s when she lights up the Buffalo Chip’s motorcycle and music festival with searing solos and brilliant, emotional ballads on Monday, Aug. 7.

Take a trip down memory lane back to the good old days as you bask in the nostalgic glow of lighters waving in unison to the sounds of some of the biggest hits to fill arenas in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Whether you’ve been attending their shows for 30 years or you’re a brand-new fan, when chart-topping classic rock favorites REO Speedwagon hit the Wolfman Jack Stage ahead of coheadliner Styx, you won’t be able to fight the warm, warm and fuzzy feelings anymore

Boogie down to snarling slide guitars, ballsy, bluesy saxophone lines, thundering rock-solid rhythm and the Bad to the Bone bark of one of blues-rock’s biggest, baddest dogs. Legendary blues-rockers George Thorogood and the Destroyers are Movin’ On Over to the Wolfman Jack Stage prior to a performance from Whiskey Myers, and when they do, you’ll be feelin’ so nice, you’ll be lovey-dovey.

Get the Limited-Edition Poster to Benefit the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation

On Thursday, Aug. 10 Blake Wallenda and Daredevil Kyle Ives will risk their lives attempting a death-defying feat that even Evel Knievel and Karl Wallenda wouldn’t attempt…The Death Wire Daredevil Spectacular! Before the headlining performance by Def Leppard, Blake Wallenda, will attempt one of the longest highwire walks of his career, “The Death Wire Walk,” over the Sturgis Buffalo Chip amphitheater while Kyle Ives attempts to jump a motorcycle over him. To commemorate this history-making performance, the Buffalo Chip commissioned artist Darren McKeag to create a collector’s edition poster that you would be proud to hang on your wall, and sales to benefit the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation. Additional activities will include a ramp-to-ramp jump by Shawn Ives, Sherco Trials Stunts and more.

The heavenly sounds of hallowed rock will send you into hysteria when Def Leppard descends upon you during the 2023 Sturgis Rally The charismatic quintet will be adding its melodic riffs, soaring guitar solos and unmistakable showmanship to the legendary lineup of Sturgis concerts on the Wolfman Jack Stage Thursday, Aug. 10 following The Death Wire Daredevil Spectacular, which goes to show the Chip’s party will be balls to the wall all the way to the end!

Sound the alarms! You’re about to feel like waking up for a night of hard-hitting rock jams that’ll go off like a powder keg the second the first note cuts through the warm August air. Sturgis Buffalo Chip fan favorites Pop Evil will wake the lions of the Best Party Anywhere ahead of a performance from Def Leppard on Friday, Aug. 10, and the roar will be deafening.

Want to be the first to find out what Sturgis Rally concerts and entertainment will be rocking the Chip in 2023? Be sure to sign up for the Sturgis Rider® Newsletter to get the announcements before anyone else. And if there’s a band you’re dying to see, click “Request a Band” and shoot us their name in the comments section on that page!