EPCOT Garden Rocks Concerts 2026 Lineup and Seats
Disney has published the full 2026 performer schedule for the Garden Rocks Concert Series at EPCOT, with shows staged at the America Gardens Theatre during the EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival. The lineup runs from March 5 through June 1, 2026, and Disney is again pairing first come, first served concert access with optional dining packages that come with guaranteed seating.
The practical change for travelers is that the planning window is now clear. If a concert is a must do for your trip, you can match travel dates to specific performance weekends, and decide whether to pay for guaranteed seating via a dining package when reservations open on February 5, 2026.
Who Is Affected
This update matters most to travelers building an EPCOT day around one specific artist, families trying to protect an evening plan after a long park day, and visitors who want to avoid the uncertainty of lining up early for an amphitheater seat. It also affects anyone who prefers to eat at a particular EPCOT restaurant on a concert day, because dining packages are sold through a set of participating venues, and that can tighten reservation availability during peak meal windows.
Out of town visitors staying off site, or splitting time between multiple Orlando parks, are also impacted because the concert is not a standalone ticketed event. The opportunity cost is time, meaning you may need to shape Lightning Lane choices, dining times, and park hopping decisions around being physically near the America Gardens Theatre at the right time to queue.
What Travelers Should Do
If guaranteed seating matters, plan to book on February 5, 2026. Pick your target performance date first, then choose the dining package restaurant that best fits your route through World Showcase and your budget, and keep your afternoon flexible so you can check in for the meal and still make the show window without rushing.
If you are deciding whether to rebook your trip dates around an act, use a simple threshold. If the artist is the anchor for your EPCOT day, prioritize the correct weekend first, then build the rest of the trip around it. If the concert is a nice to have, keep your travel dates, and treat the show as opportunistic, meaning you will rely on first come seating, and accept that you might end up standing, arriving earlier than planned, or skipping it if the theater reaches capacity.
Over the next 24 to 72 hours after you book, monitor three things in My Disney Experience. Confirm your restaurant time, confirm that your seating badge details match your intended showtime, and keep an eye on any schedule adjustments that Disney posts for festival entertainment. If you are not using a dining package, monitor crowd patterns for your specific date, and be ready to shift dinner earlier so you can queue without cutting into your evening plans.
How It Works
Garden Rocks is staged during the EPCOT International Flower and Garden Festival, which runs March 4 through June 1, 2026. The concert series itself is presented on select dates in that window, and Disney has published the performer schedule from March 5 through June 1, 2026.
Seating works like a capacity bottleneck, and that is where the ripple effects start. When a well known act plays, the theater queue fills earlier, which pulls guests toward the American Adventure area sooner than they might otherwise arrive, and that changes how they tour World Showcase in the late afternoon. That first order crowd shift then spills into second order effects, including longer waits at nearby quick service counters, tighter table service availability at participating restaurants, and more last minute itinerary churn as guests reshuffle dinner and attractions to protect a seat.
Dining packages are the main tool Disney offers to reduce that uncertainty. The official dining package page spells out that most participating restaurants include an entrée and dessert, or one full buffet where applicable, plus a beverage, with Spice Road Table using a different format of shared plates. Each dining package includes one guaranteed seat per person for a Garden Rocks concert on the same day, and guests receive seating badges, enter a separate queue, and are seated first come within the reserved section.
Pricing and strategy vary widely by restaurant, so travelers should treat this as both an entertainment decision and a meal decision. Disney lists adult dining package prices ranging from lower cost options such as Regal Eagle Smokehouse on a same day basis to higher priced table service restaurants such as Le Cellier Steakhouse, with some restaurants counting as 2 table service meals on the dining plan. If your goal is the lowest cost path to a guaranteed seat, start with the participating list and prices, then decide whether the meal itself is something you would have booked anyway.