Blossom
A stone garden path at golden hour, clipped hedges and flowers on both sides.

April 21–23, 2028 · Southern Arizona

The fans pick the main stage

Blossom is three nights of music, healing and fire in the Arizona desert. Ticket holders vote on who plays the main stage. Walk the garden to see how it works.

Get your Sprout

A potting bench with a seedling and a Sprout ticket on a garden stake.

01 · Your ticket

A Sprout ticket is a vote

The first 3,333 tickets are $222, up to four per person. Each ticket casts one vote. Sprouts vote first, and only Sprouts vote on the headliners. Workshops, water and food are included.

Get your Sprout

A round meadow bed of five hundred small flowers opening.

02 · The 500

500 rising artists

The main stage is only for newer artists working their way up. 500 of them start in the running. If that is you, this is your shot at the main stage of an international festival.

Enter the main-stage ballot

Timber arches over the path, one for each weekly round, each with a brass plaque.

03 · The rounds

500 down to 9

Voting opens January 1, 2028: six weekly rounds take the field from 500 → 250 → 100 → 50 → 25 → 9, then the final week ranks the nine. Number one headlines.

Every day each ticket backs one act; at midnight ET the acts with the fewest picks drop out until the round’s number is left.

    See the rounds

    A timber planter of six flowers whose heights show their votes; the lowest wilts.

    04 · Results

    Counted in the open

    Every ticket, vote and trade goes on a public ledger, chained entry to entry and stamped to the Base blockchain, so the count can be checked by anyone.

    How it works

    Four timber market stalls with linen awnings either side of the path.

    05 · Join in

    Help make it happen

    Blossom also runs on volunteers, workshop leaders, market vendors and artists who build installations.

    VolunteerLead a workshopSell at the marketBring an art piece

    The path running between the two Petal stages under festoon lights at dusk.

    06 · Petal stages

    Past the Petal stages

    Established acts play the two Petal stages from 4 PM to 9 PM, three sets a night on each. They are booked by the festival, not voted. At 9 they close and everyone walks to the main stage.

    Apply for a Petal set

    The main stage at the end of the path at night, its LED wall showing one headliner and eight more spots.

    07 · Main stage

    One headliner, eight more

    Nine artists play the main stage, all voted in by ticket holders: one headliner and eight more. 500 start in the running.

    Get your SproutEnter as an artist