Al Balad Music Festival is a regional music festival organized every two years by Al Balad Theatre. Al Balad Music Festival introduces established and emerging independent artists. The festival takes place in the heart of Amman in both the Roman Theater and the Odeon theatre usually running for a week in the summer. Al Balad Music festival introduces a platform to support independent and emerging Arab artists and musicians. The first festival took place in 2009. In the five editions of the festival since, Al Balad Music Festival showcased more than 50 different musical performances to the Arab and Jordanian audiences.

The festivals hosted a wide assortment of local, regional, and international artists exposing the audiences in Jordan to a rich and diverse range of genres of music and talents. It presented many Arab stars to the Jordanian audience for the 1st time.
Participating artists included: Jordanian Band Mirage 2017 – The Electro Arabic Dabke Palestinian band “47 SOUL (2017) – Tareq Al Nasser and RUM Band (2017) – Hind Hamed solo Jordanian vocalist, (2017) – Jordanian Solo Guitarist and vocalist Bisher Abu Talib. (2017) – Ayloul, (2017) – Yacoub Abu Ghoush (2017) – OUM from Morocco (2017) – Tunisia Dhafer Youssif (2015) – the late Palestinian Artist Rim Banna (2013) – Lebanese Oumeima El Khalil (2011) – Dina El Weididi – Egyptian Meryam Saleh (2013) – Lebanese Tania Saleh (2013) – Egyptian Tamer Abu Ghazaleh (2013) – Swedish/Iraqi Tarabank (2015)

In addition, Al Balad Music Festival encouraged and facilitated experimental fusion collaborations between bands from different musical backgrounds. These included collaboration between vocalist Terez Suleiman from Palestine and Sophia Portugal from Portugal presenting the show “Mina”. Another collaboration was “Karavan”, which was the fusion between the Tunisian Mounir Troudi and the band from Golan Hawa Dafi. “The Salhi Project” of Mounir Troudi and percussionist Imed Alibi was also presented accompanied by the French Trumpet Michelle Marre. The largest collaboration was presented at the 2017 festival for the show “El Khat Da Khati” combining the work of Eskenderella from Egypt and Yalalan from Palestine in 2017.