Alejandro Fernández and Banda MS to Headline Arre Festival as It Returns to Mexico City

Alejandro Fernández and Banda MS will top the bill when the Arre Festival returns to its original home at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez on Sept. 5 and 6, 2026. The event, now formally called Arre Pepsi Black and produced by Ocesa, brings some of regional Mexico’s biggest names back to Mexico City after a 2025 edition staged in Monterrey.

Alejandro Fernández performs onstage during Univision’s 37th Premio Lo Nuestro at Kaseya Center on February 20, 2025 in Miami, Florida. Romain Maurice/Getty Images

Lineup and context

The two-day lineup spans mariachi, banda, norteño, tumbados and tropical sounds, and reads like a cross-generational map of regional Mexican music right now. Alongside Fernández and Banda MS, confirmed performers include Los Tucanes de Tijuana, Calle 24, Clave Especial, Eslabón Armado, Gabito Ballesteros, Grupo Cañaveral, Los Dos Carnales, Los Plebes del Rancho de Ariel Camacho and Víctor Mendivil. Organizers say more names will be announced later.

Festival Arre first launched in 2023 and drew more than 70,000 people its opening year, a benchmark organizers say has been matched in subsequent editions. That momentum comes amid a wider bump for Mexico on the global music map: the IFPI reported that Mexico entered the top 10 global music markets for the first time in 2024, propelled by a 15.6% rise in recorded music revenue, according to the Global Music Report 2025.

For fans planning for live moments and the loud, rowdy mix of generations that regional Mexican festivals tend to deliver, the move back to the Autódromo promises a festival-sized atmosphere with a lineup built to lean into both tradition and the current scene’s crossover energy.

Tickets go on sale starting May 13 at Ticketmaster.com.mx. Check out the full 2026 lineup below.