The beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama, will be uncharacteristically quiet in the spring of 2026 after Mayor Robert Craft on Monday announced the cancellation of next year's Hangout Music Festival.

At a Gulf Shores City Council meeting on Monday night, Craft said organizers of the popular festival were unable to secure "the type of talent that we want on our beaches" in time for the coming year, Alabama-based WBRC News reported. Craft said he expects the festival to resume in 2027, according to WBRC.

The decision follows Morgan Wallen's controversial takeover of the music festival this May, a three-day event dubbed "Sand in my Boots" that featured a lineup brimming with other country music artists, including Brooks and Dunn, Post Malone and Hardy. Wallen, a wildly popular country musicia

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