{"id":59270,"date":"2026-03-03T15:40:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/sharon-osbourne-says-ozzfest-will-return-with-ozzys-blessing\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:40:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:40:37","slug":"sharon-osbourne-says-ozzfest-will-return-with-ozzys-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/sharon-osbourne-says-ozzfest-will-return-with-ozzys-blessing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Osbourne Says Ozzfest Will Return with Ozzy&#8217;s Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, we\u2019re gonna do it,\u201d Sharon said during the MIDEM 2026 conference in France<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAfter a near-decade-long hiatus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sharon-osbourne\/\">Sharon Osbourne<\/a> says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ozzfest\/\">Ozzfest<\/a> is \u201cabsolutely\u201d in the works for next year, saying the Black Sabbath <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ozzy-osbourne\">frontman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ozzy-osbourne\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ozzy-osbourne\" data-tag=\"ozzy-osbourne\">Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>, gave his blessing for the event to continue on in his memory before his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ozzy-osbourne-black-sabbath-dead-obituary-1227265\/\">death last July<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cYeah, we\u2019re gonna do it,\u201d Osbourne said last month during a sit-down talk at the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YENfRZSCWJk?t=2704\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">MIDEM 2026 conference<\/a> in Cannes, France. \u201cThe 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 [were] no plans to stop it. We were still gonna do it, but Ozzy couldn\u2019t. And Ozzy and I would talk about it, and he\u2019d say, \u2018Do you think Ozzfest would work without me?\u2019 And I\u2019m, like, \u2018Yeah, it\u2019s a brand. It will work without you.\u2019 And he said, \u2018We should do it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOsbourne is envisioning turning Ozzfest \u2014\u00a0which ran from 1996 through 2018 \u2014\u00a0into an even bigger production, with plans to take the venture out on the road as a touring festival. Osbourne said the revival will remain true to its original inception, with heavy metal and hard rock acts leading the line-up, but with the possible addition of more genres.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe last Ozzfest was held in 2018 at the Forum in Los Angeles, with performances from Ozzy, Rob Zombie, Jonathan Davis, and Marilyn Manson. Before his death from cardiac arrest and coronary artery disease on July 22, 2025, Ozzy was able to give his fans a bittersweet final goodbye with a hometown \u201cBack to the Beginning\u201d show with members of Black Sabbath at Villa Park in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sharon-osbourne-says-ozzfest-will-absolutely-return-1235522458\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Yeah, we\u2019re gonna do it,\u201d Sharon said during the MIDEM 2026 conference in France After a near-decade-long hiatus, Sharon Osbourne says Ozzfest is \u201cabsolutely\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":59271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}