One of the Bay Area’s biggest music festivals will no longer happen this year, as La Onda announced on Monday afternoon that this year’s event is off.
The festival took to Instagram with a grid post and story breaking the news. Ticket holders will receive a full refund within 30 days, and the organizers wrote that they “remain hopeful that a future Festival La Onda will be possible.” No specific reason for the cancellation was given. The event, slated to take place on May 30 and 31, was organized by the team behind another major Napa festival, BottleRock. This would have been the third year of the festival, and in 2024, the event drew 70,000 people to Napa.
This year, the lineup featured an all-star cast of Latin performers, headlined by Maná, J Balvin, Christian Nodal, and Ivan Cornejo. Last year’s top billing went to Marco Antonio Solís, Carín León, Grupo Firme and Banda MS. General admission tickets began at $218.
It’s not a good sign for the broader music festival ecosystem, which has fallen on tough times post-pandemic due to lagging ticket sales and rising costs. Although the nation’s premier festival, Coachella, sold out of passes quickly for this year, there’s been a string of cancellations of smaller festivals that shrank the music festival landscape in 2025. Bésame Mucho, another Latin festival located in the Los Angeles area, canceled its 2024 event, which was scheduled to be headlined by Shakira, Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull. Future Ruins, a festival with a lineup of A-list composers, was canceled just a month before its November 2025 debut. Long-running psych rock festival Desert Daze also stopped operations in 2024. Locally, San Francisco’s How Weird Street Faire concluded its 25-year run in 2024 as well.
