Concerts You Have to See at the 81st Sturgis Motorcycle Rally

Join us in Downtown Rapid City this summer for our Golden Hour Live Series headlining nationally acclaimed, live entertainment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.