Ella's Headlining Patriotic Festival 2027, and Tickets Go On Sale This Week
Ella headlines Saturday of the 2027 Patriotic Festival in Virginia Beach. Presale opens June 4 and general tickets go on sale June 5, so here's the plan.
We've been so locked into this summer's tour calendar that it's easy to forget Ella's schedule is already filling up almost a year out — and this one's worth marking down now, because the tickets go on sale in a couple of days.
Ella is headlining Saturday night of the 2027 Patriotic Festival, the long-running military-and-music celebration that's heading back to the Virginia Beach Oceanfront after a few years inland. The festival runs May 28 through 30, 2027, on Memorial Day weekend, with a country bill that's hard to argue with: Bailey Zimmerman takes Friday, Ella owns Saturday, and Riley Green closes the whole thing out on Sunday.
When tickets go on sale
Here's the part to put in your phone. Presale access opens June 4 at 10 a.m., and general tickets follow on June 5 at 10 a.m. at the festival's site. If you've watched how fast Ella's own shows have been moving lately, you already know the move is to be ready when the clock hits ten rather than thinking it over for a day. A Saturday-night Oceanfront headline slot on a holiday weekend is the kind of date that gets snapped up.
Why this one feels like a moment
The Patriotic Festival started in Virginia Beach more than two decades ago, then spent the last few years over in Norfolk — this year's edition was at Scope Arena with Zach Top, Brooks & Dunn and The Red Clay Strays up top. Bringing it back to the sand for 2027 is a bit of a homecoming for the event, and the organizers clearly went big to mark it. Co-founder Ira Agricola called the lineup "everything we envisioned for the Patriotic Festival's return to Virginia Beach," which is the kind of thing organizers always say, except this time the names back it up.
What gets us is the trajectory. A festival planning its splashy comeback hands Ella a headline night a full year out — that's a programmer betting she'll be just as big in summer 2027 as she is right now, and on this year's evidence that's a safe bet. If you've been tracking her run the way we have, from the Country Airplay crown for "Be Her" to a summer split between two tours, a Memorial Day weekend headline by the beach fits right in.
An outdoor Ella show with the ocean behind the stage? We'll see you in the sand.