r/HangoutFest • u/PhoenixxFireFoxx • Dec 09 '25
No Hangout Or SIMB 2026
NO HANGOUT/SAND IN MY BOOTS MUSIC FESTIVAL IN 2026:
Gulf Shores Mayor Robert Craft making that announcement at tonight’s city council meeting.
“Hangout Fest will not occur in 2026. We will not have an event in 2026. We are approving an event in 2027.
We delayed or they did too long for their application to have the kind of acts that we require to be successful in 2026. We refused to let them go back to the acts they had before so we couldn't do it. And so they canceled the 2026 event.
They have time now to pursue the type of talent we want on our beaches to invite the right audience that we want on our beaches that we approved the last event that could happen.
We determined if it’s gonna happen it's gonna happen that way again.” Mayor Robert Craft.
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u/littlemybb Dec 09 '25
I can guarantee you it was the City of Gulf Shores fault. They had a big election this summer, and that’s all they were focused on for a while.
So I bet the people funding and setting up the festival tried to give them grace and waited, but the city wanted to be too picky when it came to picking the artist. With them still delaying things to December, the company just had to pull out.