All Things Go Music Festival
- Dates
- Sep 25 to 27, 2026
- Status
- Confirmed
- Venue
- Merriweather Post Pavilion
- Price
- $149 to $279Payment plan available
- Camping
- None on site
- Last checked
- Aug 23, 2026
All Things Go Music Festival returns to Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, Sep 25 to 27, 2026, with Brandi Carlile, CMAT, Ethel Cain, plus 13 more. Froligo tracks the confirmed lineup, current ticket prices, attendee feedback and travel details.
The experience
What's special
All Things Go grew from an indie-and-rock music blog founded in 2011 into an independently run festival built around a heavily female, queer, and non-binary-led lineup, staged on the rolling lawns of Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. Attendees and organizers describe the crowd as unusually open, inclusive, and community-minded, an identity reinforced by the festival's own harm-reduction and voter-registration partnerships alongside the music. What began with roughly 5,000 attendees in its early years has grown into a regularly sold-out, multi-day event that now spans several cities
What people love
Attendees consistently point to lineup depth as the festival's core value, describing a full day of dozens of acts as an unusually good deal for the ticket price. Free, uncomplicated on-site parking and easy-to-find water refill stations draw repeat praise, particularly after earlier editions worked out water-station bottlenecks that had frustrated attendees. The festival's on-site harm-reduction resources, including opioid-overdose reversal medication, are also singled out favorably by attendees who value that community-care touch
Last time around (2025)
The most recently held edition ran September 26-28, 2025 at Merriweather Post Pavilion, expanding to three days in Columbia for the first time alongside a parallel three-day New York edition and a new Toronto date, with headliners including Noah Kahan, Doechii, Kesha, Clairo, and DJO. Press coverage described continued strong demand and sold-out passes, with the festival's combined multi-city attendance expected to top 100,000 for the year. No major incident or widespread attendee complaint specific to this edition surfaced in available coverage, though detailed post-event attendee accounts of the 2025 Columbia dates were notably thinner online than for the 2023-2024 editions
Listen
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Lineup
Getting there
Nearest airport BWI.
How do I get to All Things Go Music Festival?
By car
Most people drive to All Things Go Music Festival. The nearest major airport is BWI, and from there it is a straightforward drive to the venue. Check current road and traffic conditions before you set off, and see parking below.
By train
For attendees arriving by rail from Washington DC (Union Station) or Baltimore (Camden Station) rather than flying into BWI, the MARC Camden Line stops at Dorsey Station which is also a named stop on the same RTA Route 501 that continues on to Mall in Columbia, giving the same ~1-mile walk to the venue from there. This is a rail-plus-bus combo, not a line that reaches BWI airport or the venue directly. Flagging a real limitation: MARC Camden Line runs weekdays only (no Saturday/Sunday service), which limits usefulness for this Fri-Sun festival to Friday arrivals
Book / info →By bus & public transit
Route 501 runs between BWI Marshall Airport and Mall in Columbia, with intermediate stops including Arundel Mills Mall, MD Food Center, Snowden Square, and Dorsey MARC Station (per RTA's own Route 501 brochure). From the Mall in Columbia stop it's roughly a 1-mile walk to the venue this is the exact route Merriweather's own directions page names for BWI arrivals
Book / info →Festival shuttle
Rally sells round-trip bus seats to All Things Go 2026 from roughly 74 pickup points across DC, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia (confirmed DC stops include Columbia Heights, Dupont Circle, Foggy Bottom and Union Station), dropping off/picking up at 5565 Sterrett Place, Columbia, a short walk from the venue. This is a third-party crowd-funded operator not run by All Things Go or Merriweather Post Pavilion, and not BWI-specific Routes need a minimum rider count to be confirmed and are fully refundable up to 7 days out
Book / info →Taxi & rideshare
Rideshare pickup/drop-off is not at the venue gate. The venue's own account directs riders to a designated Uber/Lyft point at Columbia Mall (lower Sears-lot area, near GPS 39.2138394,-76.8628835), reached by exiting via the West or North Gate and crossing Little Patuxent Parkway. Traditional taxi is also available via Columbia Cab Company, listed directly on the venue's own current directions page
Book / info →Taxis and rideshare such as Uber and Lyft can be limited near the venue, especially late at night or in rural areas. Agree a pickup point and time in advance and keep a backup plan.
🅿 Parking
On site parking available. Cost FREE for all Merriweather Post Pavilion concertgoers, no advance reservation or purchase needed. The venue operates 'over a dozen parking lots around downtown Columbia' and opens the lots closest to the venue first (not every lot is used for every show). Lots open 1 hour before gates, not earlier than 5pm on weekdays (Lot 2 never opens before 6pm weekdays). ADA-accessible parking is in Lots 2 and 4, first-come first-served, with a complimentary shuttle from Lot 2 to the venue entrances for guests who need it. Corroborated independently on the festival's own getting-there page ('FREE Parking is Available at the Festival').
🚙 Car hire
Compare car hire at BWI
Merriweather offers free, no-reservation on-site parking and there's no camping option requiring self-transport, so a rental car is a genuinely practical way for BWI fly-in attendees to reach the venue directly instead of routing through the RTA bus/rideshare-to-Sears-lot workaround also useful for attendees combining the festival with wider DC/Baltimore-region travel over the weekend
Search car hire →Live price search coming soon.
Where
Venue
The venue has its own page with capacity, accessibility and parking.
Camping & Accommodation
Where can I stay near All Things Go Music Festival?
No on site camping. Here is where to stay nearby.
Hotels nearby 5
~0.5 mile from the venue; the hotel's own site describes it as within walking distance and part of the same Merriweather/Lake Kittamaqundi development
Link coming soonsuite/extended-stay option useful for the 3-day festival
Link coming soonAirbnb & private camping
Columbia, MD (a planned suburban community between DC and Baltimore) has a moderate but real short-term-rental inventory, including listings within a mile or two of Merriweather/Columbia Town Center. unlike Lollapalooza, where Airbnb itself publishes festival-weekend demand data so treat any festival-weekend price premium as plausible but unconfirmed for this event specifically, not a documented pattern
Search Airbnb →Columbia is a dense, developed DC-Baltimore-corridor suburb, not a rural area, so there is no Hipcamp-listed site within walking distance or a short drive of Merriweather Post Pavilion itself. Hipcamp's own Maryland directory confirms real listings in the wider region e.g. a horse-farm property in Damascus, MD and a farm property in Westminster, MD but both sit roughly 20-30 miles from the venue, a drive rather than a camping-adjacent-to-the-venue option. This is a materially weaker fit for All Things Go than hotels/Airbnb, the same pattern already noted for other suburban/urban-venue festivals (Shaky Knees, Lollapalooza)
Search Hipcamp →Accessibility & comfort
What the organiser or venue publishes about getting around, and what they do not.
All Things Go publishes no accessibility page of its own. Its Help and FAQ page answers access questions only by directing patrons to the venue, and repeatedly refers visitors to the Merriweather Post Pavilion website. The real detail is therefore the venue policy of Merriweather Post Pavilion, 10475 Little Patuxent Pkwy, Columbia MD, published at merriweathermusic.com/accessibility.
Read the full notes
Merriweather states it makes its facilities accessible to individuals with disabilities. ADA accessible parking is in Lots 2 and 4, and parking at the festival is free, though the venue does not publish the distance from those lots to the gates.
All entry and exit gates are accessible. Mobility accessible seating can be bought through Ticketmaster or the box office, with wheelchair and scooter accessible locations where patrons can stay in their wheelchair or transfer to a seat, and wheelchair accessible plus companion seats throughout Section 100, Row Z of Sections 200 to 204 and Row JJ of Sections 300 to 302; note this is the venue concert seating map, and All Things Go is a festival, so confirm how it maps to the festival layout.
An ADA lift between the South Plaza and the Lawn Level is located to the left of the South Entrance along the gate. Merriweather does not have wheelchairs on site to borrow or rent. Patrons needing accommodations for medications, medical devices or service animals should contact the venue on 410-715-5550 or [email protected] in advance, or speak to the Security Supervisor at their gate.
For non obvious disabilities the venue encourages emailing supporting medical documentation a few days ahead. No terrain or ground surface description for the lawn area is published by either the festival or the venue, no accessible viewing platform for the festival layout, no accessible camping (the event is not a camping festival), no companion or carer ticket discount policy, and no shuttle information.
General festival enquiries go through the contact form and email on allthingsgofestival.com/help
Sign language interpretation is handled by the venue, Merriweather Post Pavilion, not by the festival. Interpreter services are provided subject to interpreter availability and depend on how much advance notice is given. Requests should be emailed to [email protected].
Read the full notes
The venue says it will attempt to honour requests made fewer than 14 days before a show and 4 weeks prior to a festival event but may be unable to confirm availability, so for All Things Go the effective request window is about four weeks ahead.
People requiring hearing accessible or visually accessible seating should call 410-715-5550 or email the same address
Confirm your specific needs with the organiser's access team before you travel.
Checked 2026-09-03 · source
Pricing
Price history and tiers
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