FORM Arcosanti is the world's most curated boutique music festival, returning to Arcosanti — Paolo Soleri's experimental "arcology" town in the Arizona high desert — from October 9–11, 2026 for three days capped at just 2,500 attendees. FORM is the festival every artist on the global indie, electronic, jazz, and experimental scene wants to play, and every dedicated festival-goer wants to attend. The combination of Soleri's otherworldly architecture, the radical intimacy of the 2,500 cap, and the famously adventurous booking has made FORM the festival other festivals try (and fail) to replicate.
The 2026 lineup is among the strongest in the festival's history. Attendees include Lorde, Disclosure, Turnstile, Geese, Adrianne Lenker, Blood Orange, Kamasi Washington, Dylan Brady (of 100 gecs), and Ben UFO. The deeper lineup features Tinashe, Fcukers, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Nourished By Time, ML Buch, James K, Underscores, Zack Fox, Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore, Avalon Emerson, YHWH Nailgun, Twin Shadow, Keiyaa, David Moore, Annahstasia, Jacob Alon, John Carroll Kirby, and the Ben UFO-curated DJ programming. Tickets are largely sold out — final tickets release periodically.
Arcosanti itself is the venue and the experience. Paolo Soleri's experimental Italian-style "arcology" town has been under continuous construction since 1970 in the high desert outside Mayer, Arizona, and the architecture itself — bronze bells, vaulted apses, hand-cast concrete, and the surrounding mesa landscape — is what gives FORM its identity. There is no festival in the world that takes place in a venue this conceptually and architecturally unique. The 2,500 cap and the on-site lodging (with camping for those without rooms) creates the most intimate festival experience in North America.