Bass Music Festival 2026 - Badger Music & Arts Festival Colorado | Badger Music & Arts Festival

A Bass Music Festival Born Around a Campfire

Heavy Low End, Thin Mountain Air

August 13-16, 2026  |  Hartsel, Colorado

Badger is a bass music festival in the oldest sense of the phrase — not a brand activation with a stage bolted on, but a gathering of people who feel frequencies in their teeth and consider that a love language. It grew out of Badger Bass Camp and never lost the campfire.

At 9,000 feet, sub-bass behaves differently. The thin desert air moves under your sternum, drops land heavier, and the whole valley turns into a speaker cabinet. Deep dubstep, drum & bass, experimental low end, and everything else that wobbles — tuned for a sky with no ceiling.

This isn't a festival you attend. It's one you help build — scene-built, artist-calibrated, and stubbornly un-corporate. Show up with your goodest vibes, your strangest gear, and an appetite for sound you can stand inside of. Enjoy the transmission.

✦ New This Year ✦

Thursday, August 13 — Perseid Meteor Shower Pre-Party

Arrive a night early and open the weekend under a new-moon sky at the peak of the Perseid meteor shower — one of the darkest skies in Colorado. A dance party beneath the Milky Way, then ambient soundscapes as the stars take over.

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Festival Details

When

August 13-16, 2026

Fri - Sun

+ Aug 13 Meteor Shower Pre-Party

Where

Hartsel, Colorado

~90 min from Denver

Experience

Car Camping

Under the stars

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