Hangout Fest 2027 is expected to bring music back to the white sand beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama in May, and this comeback has a little more drama attached to it than the usual festival calendar rollover.
The classic Hangout Music Festival didn’t happen in 2025. Instead, Morgan Wallen took over the same beach site for Sand In My Boots, a three-day festival built around country, rock, hip-hop and crossover pop.
Then 2026 disappeared from the calendar completely.
Now Gulf Shores says a music festival has been approved to return in May 2027, which puts Hangout back in the conversation and makes the next version of the event one of the more interesting festival resets to watch.
➜ The real story: Hangout 2027 isn’t just another beach weekend waiting for a lineup poster.
It could decide what this festival actually is now: the genre-hopping Hangout people remember, a country-heavy Sand In My Boots-style hybrid, or something sitting right between the two.
Exact 2027 dates haven’t been announced. The strongest official information right now is that Gulf Shores expects the festival back in May 2027.
The current projection is May 21–23, 2027. That’s based on Hangout’s long-running habit of landing on the third weekend in May, not an official date announcement.
The 2027 lineup also hasn’t been announced, and tickets aren’t on sale yet. So right now, we’ve got a confirmed return window, a very familiar beach, a lot of recent history and one giant question mark where the poster should be.
Hangout Music Fest is expected to return to Gulf Shores in May 2027, but the exact weekend still hasn’t been announced.
There’s no 2026 date to simply move forward by one year because organizers skipped 2026 entirely. Gulf Shores said the timeline for producing the event had become too compressed, and festival leadership chose not to move forward with a 2026 edition.
That means the best date projection comes from the festival’s actual historical rhythm. Hangout traditionally lands on the third weekend in May. The last classic Hangout happened May 17–19, 2024, and Sand In My Boots used the same Gulf Shores festival site May 16–18, 2025.
Following that pattern puts the strongest 2027 projection at Friday, May 21 through Sunday, May 23.
Again, those dates are projected. The official part is May 2027 and the city’s approval for the festival to move forward.
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Classic Hangout has always worked because it refuses to stay in one lane.
The festival has historically mixed pop, indie, rock, hip-hop and electronic music on the beach, with past lineups pulling in artists as different as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kendrick Lamar, The Killers, The Weeknd, Paramore, The Chainsmokers, Lana Del Rey and ODESZA.
The last traditional Hangout lineup in 2024 was headlined by Lana Del Rey, Zach Bryan and ODESZA. The undercard included The Chainsmokers, Cage The Elephant, Dominic Fike, Reneé Rapp, Jessie Murph, Dom Dolla, Subtronics, Doechii, Chappell Roan, Nelly, A Day To Remember, The Beaches and plenty more.
Then 2025 changed the formula hard.
Sand In My Boots, curated by Morgan Wallen at the Hangout site, leaned into country without becoming a straight country festival. Morgan Wallen, Post Malone, Brooks & Dunn and HARDY led a lineup that also included Riley Green, Bailey Zimmerman, T-Pain, Diplo, Wiz Khalifa, The War on Drugs, 2 Chainz, Three 6 Mafia, 3 Doors Down, Ella Langley and Future Islands.
That 2025 edition matters because Gulf Shores has specifically pointed to the elevated standards of that event while discussing what it wants from the festival going forward.
So the safest expectation for 2027 isn’t a pure return to old Hangout and it isn’t automatically Sand In My Boots Part Two. A big-tent lineup with country, pop, rock and crossover names feels like the most logical direction until organizers tell us otherwise.
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There isn’t a reliable 2027 rumor sheet yet, so nobody should be treating artist names floating around online as confirmed bookings.
Still, if the 2027 festival follows the direction Gulf Shores liked in 2025, the first names worth keeping on the radar are Morgan Wallen, Post Malone, HARDY, Bailey Zimmerman, Riley Green, Ella Langley, Diplo and T-Pain.
That’s a Spacelab watchlist, not a leak.
Morgan Wallen and Post Malone would immediately connect the new festival to the huge 2025 reset. HARDY, Bailey Zimmerman, Riley Green and Ella Langley fit the country-heavy direction that worked on the beach, while Diplo and T-Pain are exactly the kind of crossover bookings that keep the weekend from turning into a single-genre event.
It’s also completely possible that organizers go bigger and less predictable. Hangout has a long history of grabbing major pop, rock and electronic names, so a 2027 poster could still swing much wider than the 2025 template.
The important distinction is simple: no 2027 performer has been officially announced yet.
Hangout Fest 2027 tickets aren’t on sale yet, and there are no official 2027 prices.
That means any site claiming to have a finalized 2027 face-value price chart right now is getting ahead of the festival.
The best reference point is the last traditional Hangout ticket structure. In 2024, Hangout sold three-day GA, GA+, VIP and Super VIP passes, plus shuttle passes and lodging packages. There were no single-day tickets, and one wristband covered all three festival days with re-entry.
Hangout used price waves, so the number climbed as cheaper allotments sold through. The official 2024 fee chart showed fourth-wave GA at $359 before a $82.53 service fee, for a $441.53 total. Fourth-wave GA+ was $579 before a $128.89 service fee, for a $707.89 total.
On the premium side, 2024 VIP started at $1,199 in the advance sale before fees, while Super VIP started at $2,199 before fees. The official chart listed those totals at $1,439.81 for advance VIP and $2,603.71 for advance Super VIP after service fees.
The 2025 Sand In My Boots reset pushed the high end even further. Starting prices were advertised around $399 for GA, $899 for Party Pit, $1,699 for VIP, $2,499 for Super VIP and $4,999 for the top Livin’ The Dream option.
Don’t read any of those numbers as 2027 prices. They’re historical reference points showing the range organizers have used on the same beach site.
If 2027 goes back toward the classic Hangout model, GA, GA+, VIP and Super VIP are the most familiar categories to watch for. If it keeps more of the Sand In My Boots setup, the festival could use a different premium structure again.
Hangout’s 2024 advance sale happened in December 2023, while Sand In My Boots put 2025 passes on sale in October 2024. That makes late 2026 a reasonable window to watch, but there’s no official 2027 on-sale date yet.
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When tickets do return, buy through the festival’s official links or its authorized ticketing partner. Hangout has previously warned fans about counterfeits and already-used wristbands from third-party sellers.
Hangout’s biggest advantage has always been ridiculously obvious: the festival is actually on the beach.
You’re not looking at a beach-themed stage sitting in a parking lot. You’re walking through sand in Gulf Shores with the Gulf of Mexico right there, music coming from multiple directions and sunscreen becoming a legitimate piece of survival gear.
The classic Hangout experience has included stages along the water, beach clubs, hammock areas, food and drink zones, art, a wedding chapel and plenty of places designed to make the weekend feel halfway between a festival and a vacation that got wildly overbooked.
The 2024 setup included the Hangout Main Stage, Shoreline, Boom on the Beach, Mermaid Stage and Monster Beach Club. The official festival experience even pushed the idea that you could bounce from a stage to the Gulf, cool off, then head straight back into the crowd.
That’s why the 2027 return matters. There are bigger festivals and there are more musically focused festivals, but very few can recreate the specific Hangout thing: huge artists, white sand, ocean air, beach bars and the feeling that your entire weekend is happening inside a music video with much worse phone battery life.
If organizers can pair that setting with a lineup strong enough to satisfy both fans and Gulf Shores, Hangout 2027 could feel less like a routine comeback and more like a full reboot.
Hangout Music Fest is expected to return to Gulf Shores in May 2027, but exact dates haven’t been announced. Spacelab’s current projection is May 21–23, 2027, based on Hangout’s traditional third-weekend-in-May pattern.
No. There are no confirmed Hangout Fest 2027 artists yet. Morgan Wallen, Post Malone, HARDY, Bailey Zimmerman, Riley Green, Ella Langley, Diplo and T-Pain are on Spacelab’s early watchlist because of the direction of the 2025 Gulf Shores festival, but none are confirmed for 2027.
Official 2027 ticket prices haven’t been announced and tickets aren’t on sale yet. The last traditional Hangout used GA, GA+, VIP and Super VIP tiers, while the 2025 Sand In My Boots event used a different premium structure.
Hangout Music Fest is expected to return to the Gulf Shores beach festival site around 101 E Beach Blvd in Gulf Shores, Alabama, the longtime home of the event. |
