Mpls: Minnesota Yacht Club | St. Paul, MN | July 17-19, 2026

Minnesota Yacht Club
July 17-19, 2026
at Harriet Island
minnesotayachtclubfestival.com

Minnesota’s biggest music festival, Minnesota Yacht Club returns this July 17-19, 2026, and, again, it’s bigger than ever! Very excited to see The Strokes reformed and playing at the biggest festival in the Twin Cities! Do yourself a favor and buy your tickets early, it will sell out and you’ll regret it later.

We covered the Yacht Club in 2024 and 2025 and wrote, “The final day of the Minnesota Yacht Club Festival, at Harriet Island, in St Paul, was looking to be nearly perfect weather and was certainly the heaviest attended crowd of the festival early in the day… Green Day’s set started a little later, due to a delay from 311’s set, when a fan passed out and forced the band to play passed their allotted set time. Then after a long, long, long intro (three intros!) including a full playback of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, then Drunk Bunny shows up to ramp up excitement with The Ramones’ Blitzkrieg Bop. And finally the band walk on music featuring a medley of The Imperial March, Blitzkrieg Bop, We Will Rock You and I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll, the band launched into fan favorite American Idiot with some choice lyrics change (like I’m not a part of a MAGA agenda). We suspect the reasons for the long intro is to make up the time the band has to fill, over an hour and 30 minutes (and many of their songs are quick 2-3 minute songs). Green Day was recently in Minneapolis last August, 2024 (alongside Smashing Pumpkins and Rancid), but their fanbase still showed up in force to see their favorite band close out the Minnesota Yacht Club. It’s clear that their music spans over generations, from fans in the 90s to teenagers, just discovering their music.”

2026 Artist Lineup

We recently had to upgrade W♥M due to running low on storage. As part of the upgrade, we can now host video files width “unlimited bandwidth”. This post is to just test out the video option. I do not plan on hosting videos on this website, this is just strictly a test to see how well it performs, etc.

Here is a very brief video of Bugsy asking the audience to say ‘Yippee’, from their appearance at the Minnesota Yacht Club in July 2024. What an unforgettable music festival. And just a reminder that the third annual Minnesota Yacht Club will take place on July 17-19, 2026 at Harriet Island.

There are many bands on the 2026 lineup (see below), but one name would really benefit from a large audience – and that is the profanity and musical party powerhouse Matt & Kim. They are such a fun duo to see live, they really feed off the energy of the crowd and I think they will have a blast at this show. We saw them in Aug 2015 and said, “They [Matt & Kim] were described as “dance party”, and it wasn’t until I saw them in person in Minneapolis in 2012 that I absolutely believed it. Of all the shows I saw in 2012, that one stood out as easily one of my highlight. We’ve seen them again at Rock the Garden in 2014, and a couple of things you should know about this party band: 1. Kim does this walking on people bit, 2. They go from zero to one hundred percent, 3. They have potty mouths (esp Kim), 4. Plenty of confetti, and 5. Just have a good time. Don’t over analyze their songs or question their singing abilities, you’re missing the point if you do. I had a lot of fun, and I think the audience did too. Some new gimmick they did tried for this show was getting everyone to blow up balloons and then tossing them up in the air. They also brought out a parachute and had people holding it up (wasn’t quite sure this one worked as well as they intended).”

2026 Artist Lineup

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