The 2025 Bishop Hill Midsommar Music Festival is a family-friendly event occurring on Saturday June 21.  Highlights of this festival includes free concerts in the park, a Swedish Maypole celebration, and much more.  Please bring a lawn chair and join us as we celebrate this Swedish holiday in historic Bishop Hill, Illinois.

The free concerts at the village park gazebo will begin at 10 a.m.  This year’s lineup includes Black Hawk Pipes and Drums, Chloe Mae Finch, Orion Community Band, and the Norwegian Bachelor Farmers.  Immediately following the musical performances at 4 p.m., everyone is invited to decorate the Maypole with flowers and to join the procession. The procession will begin in the park and end at the Colony School where visitors can join in the Maypole dancing and have refreshments provided by the Bishop Hill Vasa Lodge. No experience is required to join in the dancing.

The Midsommar Music Festival is sponsored by the Bishop Hill Heritage Association, Bishop Hill Arts Council, Bishop Hill State Historic Site, Bishop Hill Old Settler’s Association, Vasa National Archives, Bishop Hill Vasa Lodge #683, and area businesses.  Funding provided by the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, the Minneapolis Foundation, and the Illinois Arts Council.    For directions or more information, visit www.visitbishophill.com, or call 309-927-3899.

2024 MIDSOMMAR MUSIC SCHEDULE

SATURDAY June 22

Schedule for the day includes the following FREE performances at the center of the park

in front of the gazebo:

              – MAIN STAGE –

Black Hawk

Pipes & Drums                                          10 am

Chloe Mae Finch                                     11:30 a.m.

Orion Community Band                           1:30 p.m.

Norwegian Bachelor Farmers                  3 pm

***Maypole dressing begins at 4 pm and procession to the Colony

    School begins just after it is dressed.

Maypole dancing at Colony School at 4:30 p.m., followed by supper provided by the Bishop Hill Vasa Lodge