2025 XPoNential Music Festival Is This Weekend: See Lineup, Ticket Info

PHILADELPHIA — The 32nd annual XPoNential Music Festival from WXPN is set for this weekend at Wiggins Park in Camden.

Music will fill the air over two stages across three days — Friday, Saturday, and Sunday — with headliners WAR, Courtney Barnett, and Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory.

The festival will also feature local favorites such as SNACKTIME, Black Buttafly, Owen Stewart, and Zinadelphia, as well as national acts Spin Doctors, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Tune-Yards, and Michigander.

See the full lineup below.

"This is one of the best lineups we've had," WXPN radio host Mike Vasilikos told Patch. "We like to bring in bands we've loved for a really long time, like WAR and the Spin Doctors, and connect them with newer acts, while also highlighting Philadelphia's artists."

Gates on Friday open at 4:30 p.m., and at noon on Saturday and Sunday.

Tickets start at $93.02. Go online here to see ticketing options and to purchase tickets.

Amenities at the festival include free non-alcoholic beverages, an artist meet-and-greet area for WXPN members, a children’s activities area, and extensive food, beverage, and other vendor selections.

The festival is made possible, in part, thanks to WXPN's partnership with the Camden County Board of Commissioners.

"Every year [the commissioners] do a great job making the space great for the festival," Vasilikos said.

The festival will feature the Marina Stage and the Roland Traynor River Stage.

Vasilikos said the festival's performances don't overlap, and both stages are close by giving fans plenty of time to catch all acts on a day's bill. Festival goers can expect about a 5-minute gap between performances.

The festival aspect Vasilikos is most excited for? Bringing WXPN's community of listeners together in one spot.

"We always feel like we have such as strong community of music lovers, but we don't get to see them," he said. "The festival bring that to life. Everyone is there for the right reasons: they're music lovers."

While radio is great for introducing listeners to new artists, it's not a medium for direct connection necessarily. XPoNential Festival does just that, Vasilikos said.

Sam Gellerstein, who plays bass guitar and sousaphone in SNACKTIME, said for he and his bandmates, "everything comes back to WXPN."

"We so much depended on the people like WXPN who believed in us during an early time in our career," he told Patch. It means everything to be playing [XPoNential Festival]."

This will mark the second time the seven-piece soul/funk/hip-hop fusion project is playing the festival.

After making waves during the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic with their free shows in and around Philly, SNACKTIME was included in the 2022 XPoNential Festival lineup.

But before that, the band in 2021 joined the festival by playing horns around the grounds. They were such a hit and their success was so undeniable that they opened for Nathaniel Rateliff the next year.

Gellerstein said what he and the band love about the festival is the varied nature of the lineup.

"It's not like 'here's this kind of music," he said of the festival. "It's eclectic."

For example, Saturday's lineup features indie rock darling Soccer Mommy, just 28 years old, while also featuring legendary English singer-songwriter Richard Thompson, 76, known for his time in the folk rock group Fairport Convention.

"You can be a Richard Thompson, who played the festival in the late 90s and all these years later he’s back and be next to Owen Stewart, who just released a new album," Vasilikos said. "It's cool to see people return to the fold at the festival and connect our audience with new music."

Gellerstein said SNACKTIME being in the same realm as legacy acts is an quite the honor for the band.

"To be attached to bands like WAR and Preservation Jazz Hall is incredible," he said.

Overall, SNACKTIME is simply excited to be giving music to the masses.

"We're always so grateful to playing in front of people," he said. "And to play at a hometown show and play for people who have known us from this beginning is awesome. We’ve been working our asses off."

Fans of SNACKTIME may even hear some new songs during the set on Friday night.

Below is the lineup and set times for the 2025 XPoNential Music Festival:

Friday

Marina Stage

• Fawziyya Heart — 5 p.m.
• Southern Avenue — 6:20 p.m.
• SNACKTIME — 8:20 p.m.

Roland Traynor River Stage

• Black Buttafly — 5:40 p.m.
• Preservation Hall Jazz Band — 7:15 p.m.
• WAR — 9:15 p.m.

Saturday

Marina Stage

• Maxwell Stern & The Good Light Band — 1 p.m.
• Tune-Yards — 2:25 p.m.
• Richard Thompson — 4:15 p.m.
• Kathleen Edwards — 6:15 p.m.

Roland Traynor River Stage

• Sadie Gust (2025 Song Challenge Winner) — 12:35 p.m.
• Owen Stewart — 1:45 p.m.
• Soccer Mommy — 3:20 p.m.
• Molly Tuttle — 5:15 p.m.
• Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory — 7:15 p.m.

Sunday

Marina Stage

• Emily Drinker — 12:30 p.m.
• Michigander — 1:50 p.m.
• Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country — 3:55 p.m.
• Craig Finn — 5:55 p.m.

Roland Traynor River Stage

• Zinadelphia — 1:10 p.m.
• Spin Doctors — 3 p.m.
• Greensky Bluegrass — 4:55 p.m.
• Courtney Barnett — 6:55 p.m.