Boardwalk Rock Schedule 2027
Fri May 14 to Sun May 16, 2027, Ocean City Inlet Beach, 809 South Atlantic Ave, Ocean City, MD 21842. Day split confirmed. Set times and stages not published yet.
Last updated: Oct 21, 2026. Set times and stage assignments: not published yet, checked against the official help center on Oct 21, 2026.
The boardwalk rock schedule for 2027 is confirmed by day, but set times are not out yet. Korn headline Friday, May 14, Bad Omens headline Saturday, May 15, and Iron Maiden headline Sunday, May 16 at Ocean City Inlet Beach. Gates open at 12 PM and close at 11 PM each day.
The festival runs three days, with 43 acts on 3 stages: 2 on the beach and 1 along the boardwalk. C3 Presents produces it. The official help center states it plainly: the 2027 schedule is not yet available, and fans should check back closer to the date. That position was checked on Oct 21, 2026.
This page holds what you can plan with today: the full bill for each day, gates and re-entry, how a day ran in 2025 (labelled as 2025), and what to do before the grid drops. Together, they are the boardwalk rock 2027 schedule as it stands today.
Set times and stages: not published yet
No official set times exist for 2027 yet. The festival's own help center says the 2027 schedule is not yet available, in its article Is there a schedule of performances? That article was last updated on Oct 20, 2026, and this page checked it again on Oct 21, 2026.
Stage assignments are in the same state. No official source assigns any act to a stage for 2027, and 2027 stage names are not confirmed. Any act-to-stage list you see today is a guess.
No official 2027 grid exists anywhere yet, so any site that shows 2027 set times today is not using official data. When the official grid publishes, this page adds the full stage-by-stage times within 24 hours and re-stamps the date at the top.
Boardwalk Rock schedule by day
The lists below are the boardwalk rock festival 2027 schedule by day, with the full bill for each day. No running order within a day is published, so each list leads with its headliner, and the order of the rest is not a running order.
Friday, May 14: Korn
Friday bill: Korn, Breaking Benjamin, The Prodigy, Cypress Hill, Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, Clutch, Sevendust, Theory of a Deadman, Filter, All Them Witches, Corrosion of Conformity, Eve 6, Local H, Nonpoint, SOiL.
That is 15 acts on the opening day. Friday is the only day with The Prodigy and Cypress Hill.
Saturday, May 15: Bad Omens
Saturday bill: Bad Omens, Good Charlotte, Marilyn Manson, Motionless in White, Bullet for My Valentine, Poppy, Tesla, Superheaven, Buckcherry, Drowning Pool, Sponge, Showing Teeth, Tetrarch, Asava.
That is 14 acts. The day mixes new metalcore acts with long-run acts such as Marilyn Manson and Tesla.
Sunday, May 16: Iron Maiden
Sunday bill: Iron Maiden, Alice in Chains, Judas Priest, Sleeping with Sirens, The Pretty Reckless, Down, The Warning, Loathe, The Hu, Apocalyptica, GWAR, Dirty Honey, The Flys, Mac Sabbath.
That is 14 acts, and Sunday holds the classic metal weight of the weekend: Iron Maiden, Alice in Chains and Judas Priest share one day. For bill depth for each day, see the Boardwalk Rock lineup page.
Gates, entry and re-entry
Gates open at 12 PM and close at 11 PM each day. The festival states those hours in its help center article on dates and hours, and they are the only day times published for 2027 so far.
The festival sits at Ocean City Inlet Beach, 809 South Atlantic Ave, Ocean City, MD 21842. Entrances sit at N. Division St, North Beach, Caroline St, Talbot St, Somerset St, Wicomico St, Worcester St and S. Division St. The Caroline St entrance serves Ultimate, Bungalows, Platinum and VIP pass holders.
You can leave and re-enter on the same day until 7 PM. Each re-entry needs a wristband scan out and in, with a security check each time.
No first-set time for 2027 is published, so do not assume a start time for the music. Gates at 12 PM are the first fixed point you can plan around today.
What a festival day looked like in 2025
The lines in this section are 2025 facts only. They show the shape of a day at this festival last time it ran. They are not 2027 times.
In 2025 the festival used three stages named Thunder, Bolt and Lightning. Doors opened at 12 PM. First sets began at 12:15 to 12:30 PM, and the closing headliner sets ran from 9:30 to 11:00 PM. Sets ran at the same time on all three stages through the day.
That shape built in clashes. On the Saturday in 2025, Extreme and The Struts both played from 2:45 to 3:45 PM, on the Lightning and Thunder stages. Fans had to pick one.
Fans were sharing the official 2025 daily schedule art by Feb 19, 2025, about three months before that festival opened in May. That is a past pattern, not a date promised for 2027.
Plan your day before set times drop
Start with the day, since the day split is the one choice that is fully confirmed today. Pick by headliner first, then by the full bill under that headliner.
Expect clashes when the grid lands. Three stages ran at the same time in 2025, and the festival keeps the same three-stage form in 2027. Fans in 2025 split into two camps: some stayed put at one stage all day to hold a good spot, and some hopped between stages and took the walks and the missed songs as the cost.
Reports on the walk between stages do not agree. One fan report put it at about 10 minutes from the south stage to the north stage. A magazine review put it at a good 15 to 20 minutes, much of it on sand. Both are attendee reports, not official times, so leave slack in any plan that moves between stages.
When your day is set, two pages take you further. The lineup page gives the bill depth behind each day, and the Boardwalk Rock tickets page covers the passes that include your day.
Schedule questions
When are Boardwalk Rock set times announced?
No official date for the announcement exists. The festival has given no timing beyond its note to check back closer to the date. The 2025 pattern, with the grid public by Feb 19 for a May festival, is the only guide there is, and it is a past pattern, not a promise. This page adds the grid within 24 hours of the official release.
Which stage is each act on?
That is not published yet. No act has an official stage for 2027, and the 2027 stage names are not confirmed. The Thunder, Bolt and Lightning names above are last year's stages, and no source confirms they return, so this page assigns no 2027 act to any of them.
What time do the gates open?
Gates open at 12 PM each day and close at 11 PM each day, on all three days. Re-entry runs until 7 PM each day. The festival has not published where any act falls within those hours yet.
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