The Hangout Music Festival will not return to Gulf Shores in 2026, but neither will Sand in My Boots.

“The Hangout Music Festival will not occur in 2026. We will not have an event in 2026,” Gulf Shores Mayor Robert Craft said during a city council meeting Monday night. He added that the city has already moved to approve the return of a festival in 2027. Advertisement

Festival organizers, he said, waited too long to secure the caliber of performers the city expects for the beachfront event.

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“We will refuse to let them go back to the acts that we’ve had before. And they can’t. So they couldn’t do it, and so they canceled the 2026 event,” said Craft.

He said the extra time before 2027 will allow organizers to recruit “the typ

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