PITTSBURGH — Thrival Music Festival is headed to Highmark Stadium.
After a couple of years at the Carrie Furnace historic mill site in Rankin, the innovative Pittsburgh music festival will set up Sept. 21 at the Station Square home of the Pittsburgh Riverhounds soccer team.
The band lineup will be announced soon, along with information on buying early-bird tickets.
Along with Rankin, Thrival previously was held at Bakery Square in East Liberty and a former mill site in Hazelwood, bringing in bands and acts that would later grow bigger, such as Portugal. The Man and Logic, plus already famed headliners such as Panic! at the Disco, the Chainsmokers, Moby and hometown rap star Wiz Khalifa.
This marks the busiest concert summer yet for Highmark Stadium, where punk bands NOFX and Bad Religion will perform May 20, with rock-reggae-hip-hop band Dirty Heads headlining a June 5 show.