Don’t look now, EPCOT’s Food and Wine Festival is starting next month!
Food and Wine Festival
Disney has been dropping news regarding the EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival including confirmed foods, new merchandise, and unfortunately, even price increases. However, the most exciting news was the lineup for who will be performing at Eat to the Beat!
The 2025 EPCOT Food and Wine Festival will run from August 28th to November 22nd. The event will provide guests with exclusive snacks, drinks, activities, and live performances! Disney confirmed The Eat to the Beat Concert Series is back once again for 2025, and we can’t wait!
EPCOT Food & Wine Festival
Eat to the Beat has to be our favorite thing the festival has to offer (that you can’t put in your stomach). Multiple artists and groups come to perform a live concert inside EPCOT — for FREE! They perform at the American Gardens Theatre over at the American Adventure Pavilion.
Eat to the Beat
Shows will take place Fridays through Mondays throughout the festival. We’re excited to see everyone, but there are 11 artists and groups we have our eye on this year! If you had limited days to go to the festival, we’re giving you a list of who we think is a MUST-SEE during the festival. Seriously, these are the BEST days to go!
Eat to the Beat 2022
NEW Artists and Groups Performing
This will be the FIRST time these artists perform at the Food and Wine Festival! Not only are we fans of all these artists, but to be there for their first performance would be such a cool moment.
- September 5th-6th — KT Tunstall
- September 21st-22nd — Ben Rector
- October 10th-11th — The Wanted 2.0
- November 9th-10th — Jordin Sparks
- November 14th-15th — Bowling for Soup
- November 16th-17th — The Beach Boys
Eat to the Beat 2022
Fan-Favorite Artists and Groups Performing
There’s a reason these artists keep coming back, and it’s not just the great food the festival has to offer. These concerts you CAN’T miss — they’re some of our favorites to watch!
- August 29th-30th — Joey Fatone & Friends
- October 12th-13th — The Fray
- October 17th-20th —Hanson
- October 26th-27th — Smash Mouth
- November 2nd-3rd — Boys II Men
Eat to the Beat Standby
We’re expecting there to be long lines and busy crowds for these artists specifically! You’ll need to make sure you lineup early enough to get a good seat. If you’re not wanting to use up your Disney day in a standby queue for the show, there’s another option! Disney confirmed Eat to the Beat Dining Packages will return again this year.
You can score reserved seat by buying an Eat to the Beat dining package!
These special dining packages get you a meal at select EPCOT restaurants, as well as same-day reserved seating at the Eat to the Beat Concert that evening! You’ll be able to reserve your spots for the Eat to the Beat show by purchasing a dining package, which will become available starting on July 16th.
Food & Wine Festival
We’re so excited for the Food and Wine Festival this year! As we get closer, expect Disney to drop even more news. We’ll be updating you on it all, so make sure to stay tuned to the Disney Food Blog.
FULL LINEUP Announced for the 2025 EPCOT Food and Wine Festival Eat to the Beat Concert Series
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I saw The Beach Boys play there about 20 years ago so they aren’t first timers.
The Wanted were due to play there last year but when we got there, they’d cancelled at the last minute and Sheila E had kindly offered to cover as she’d just done her stint on the days leading up to it.
Funny story–several years ago we were sitting outside in the Pavilion, in view of the theater, not knowing who was about to play. It was Boyz II Men, who are local to where we’re from. I kept joking that we went all the way to Disney World to see a local group, lol.