HFStival, the long-dormant, yet supremely iconic Washington, DC-based alt-rock music festival, looks to be making a comeback in 2024. Update: The lineup for HFStival 2024 has officially been announced, featuring The Postal Service, Death Cab For Cutie, Incubus, and more.
Today, the social media accounts for both the 9:30 Club and Nationals Park in Washington, DC indicated the festival would return on Saturday, September 21st, 2024, at Nationals Park.
Organized by the great alt-rock radio station WHFS (R.I.P.), the original HFStival ran between 1990 and 2006. At its peak, it was the largest music festival on the east coast, drawing up to 90,000 attendees annually, with lineups headlined by the likes of Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Green Day, and Eminem.
After WHFS flipped formats and became a Latin pop station in 2005, one final HFStival was held in 2006 before the event went on an indefinite hiatus. The festival was briefly revived in the early 2010s with a pair of scaled-down events at Merriweather Post Pavilion, before again going on hiatus in 2012.
Consequence has reached out to 9:30 Club’s representatives for more information.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2024 • NATIONALS PARK pic.twitter.com/vU1i0J4NjZ
— 9:30 Club (@930Club) June 5, 2024
