Ozzfest will be resurrected next year.
During her recent appearance at MIDEM 2026, the Global Meeting for Music Industry Leaders in Cannes, France, Sharon Osbourne said, “Yes, we’re gonna do it. The last one we did was 2018. It was just a month before Ozzy got sick, and that was at The Forum in L.A. And there was no plans to stop it. We were still gonna do it, but Ozzy couldn’t. And Ozzy and I would talk about it, and he’d say, ‘Do you think Ozzfest would work without me?’ And I’m, like, ‘Yeah, it’s a brand. It will work without you.’ And he said, ‘We should do it.'”
And it once again will be a traveling festival, which it stopped being after 2007.
Also at the conference, Sharon addressed the classical tour of Black Sabbath‘s catalog, which will be performed by local orchestras.
She said, “ Ozzy’s keyboard player, Adam Wakeman (son of former Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman) came up with the idea… And then we said, ‘Great.’ He’s converted the music into classical music, and then I said, ‘We need guitar players to come in at some point. You need that.’ So we’re gonna bring in about four guitar players to play together. And so people see the original version and the classical in one night. And we’re gonna do it with state-of-the-art graphics and state-of-the-art sound system, go to major cities, pick up the local philharmonic.”
While no dates have been announced, there’s talk of launching at London’s Royal Albert Hall.
