In the wake of news that the Hangout Music Fest won’t return in 2026, organizers of Sand in My Boots want you to know that the festival will be back … sometime.

Gulf Shores Mayor Robert Craft announced Monday at a city council meeting that the Hangout Music Fest would not occur in 2026, but that the city would approve an event for 2027.

The more pop-oriented Hangout Fest has history going back to 2010.

In 2024, that festival was replaced by Sand in My Boots, a country-centric festival that was curated by Morgan Wallen but largely produced by the same AEG Presents production team.

Craft’s announcement did not specift what form the 2027 event would take.

Craft and other city leaders have made it very clear that they prefer the type of audience drawn by the country-centric format of Sa

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