Richard Ramirez's decades-deep harsh noise institution — stacked contact mics, feedback and leather-scene iconography, with a rotating cast of collaborators.
Honcho Campout 2026 Lineup
A queer camping party in the Pennsylvania woods: five days of house, techno, drag and ball culture across four open-air dancefloors.
Honcho Campout is expected back August 2027 (dates aren't announced yet). Until then, here's the full 2026 lineup and the acts you would have loved.
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About Honcho Campout 2026
Honcho Campout is the Pittsburgh queer party Honcho's annual move to the woods, held August 12-17, 2026 at Four Quarters Interfaith Sanctuary in Artemas, Pennsylvania, with the dancing running Thursday through Sunday across four open-air spaces: The Grove, Hemlock Hole, Hemlock Nights and Critters Lounge.
The defining thing about the booking is that Honcho gives most of it away. Papi Juice take over The Grove for a twelve-hour sunset-to-sunrise Friday. Detroit's Sav G programmes Hemlock Nights toward funk, soul, rare disco and deep house. Charlene curates the drag. And rather than one live stage, three anchor artists each build their own night at Critters Lounge: Black Leather Jesus on Thursday for noise, LIGHT ASYLUM on Friday with acts from the West Coast, CRICKETS on Saturday with New York and LA.
The rest is DJs, which is the point: a mix of thirty-year veterans and people three years in, weighted toward whoever is doing the actual work in their local scene. Expect house, techno, disco and ballroom rather than anything with a poster-sized headliner on it.
Note that the 2026 lineup is still being announced in waves. The festival has been posting new artist reveals daily, so this list will keep growing.
Expect house, techno, experimental and ballroom across 65 acts.
Honcho Campout 2026 lineup & schedule: all 65 acts
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Brooklyn drag performer and host, and a fixture of New York's queer nightlife bills — sharp hosting, sharper looks, and total command of a room.
JD Samson, Roddy Bottum and Michael O'Neill together — three decades of queer punk and art-pop pedigree in one band.
Shannon Funchess's darkwave project — a cavernous voice over brutalist synths and drum machines, unmatched at volume and unforgettable up close.
Detroit selector working the funk, soul, boogie, and rare-disco end of the floor — record-first sets with city-deep crates.
Seattle act with a punk-leaning, high-energy live show.
Houston DJ working the harsh end of the noise and industrial spectrum.
New York harsh-noise project built from raw synthesis and feedback.
New York figure in the kiki ballroom scene — function-honed beats and hosting energy brought straight to the floor.
Brooklyn drag performer — a fixture of the city's queer nightlife stages.
Hayden Dunham's project, where PC Music gloss dissolves into something weightless and half-submerged — avant-pop as a slow exhale.
Lizzi Bougatsos and Sadie Laska's percussion-and-noise duo — two drummers, no safety rails, art-world racket at full commitment.
Atlanta drag performer — runway polish and hosting charm from the city's queer nightlife circuit.
Bronx ballroom commentator, calling the floor over vogue beats — chants, category control, and function-tested authority.
The musical project of artist Raúl de Nieves, whose maximalist visual work and performance share the same feverish logic — beads, costume, and ecstatic noise.
Portland electronic-pop project, heavier on mood than on hooks.
New York artist and a longstanding collaborator of HYD's — art-punk experimentalism from the downtown scene.
House of Aviance veteran and one half of The Carry Nation — deep, tribal, unrelenting New York house with ballroom history in its bones.
New York composer who moves between abrasive rap production and hours-long ambient works with equal seriousness — two extremes, one uncompromising voice.
Brooklyn figure in the kiki ballroom scene — function energy brought to the festival floor, category-ready charisma included.
New York figure in the kiki ballroom scene — floor-tested energy and function authority, runway command included.
New York drag performer — polished looks and sharp hosting from the city's nightlife circuit.
Pittsburgh noise project with a confrontational, punk-speed streak — harsh electronics played like hardcore, short sets with lasting ringing.
Pittsburgh duo Anna Thompson and Taylor Knight, who build electronic scores and choreography as one inseparable thing — movement you can hear.
Tucson project working where queer performance art and live electronics meet — desert-underground provocation with heart.
Brooklyn drag performer and host, better known as The Dauphine of Bushwick — nightlife-institution energy at festival scale.
New Orleans drag performer on the national queer nightlife circuit — Southern camp with big-room command.
Drag Race season eleven winner and a genuinely strange performer, who backs the contortion with actual records — oddity as artistry.
Club Chai co-founder splicing SWANA percussion and folk melody into hard, unfamiliar club structures — dancefloor experimentalism that treats tradition as raw material rather than decoration.
New York selector digging deep into rare disco and deep house — patient, warm-blooded sets built from records rather than trends.
Brooklyn DJ and resident of Papi Juice, the beloved queer POC party — house and club selections tuned for joy and sweat over genre purity.
Brooklyn DJ working ballroom and Jersey club rhythms — chopped vocals, crashing kicks, and the runway-ready energy of the scene's rising generation.
New York DJ duo with a Boiler Room pedigree and a deep-house core — patient, soulful sets connecting house's Detroit and Chicago roots to the city's present.
Detroit selector working funk, soul, boogie, and rare disco — crate-deep selections played with real reverence for the city's dance lineage.
Bronx DJ working ballroom, dancehall, and club rhythms — high-energy blends built for whistles, dips, and a floor that never settles.
New York DJ working house and techno — sturdy, unflashy sets tuned to the city's club lineage.
Pittsburgh and Cleveland DJ working house and techno — Rust Belt club sensibilities honed across two scenes' dancefloors.
Washington, DC selector working the soulful, disco-leaning end of house — warm, vocal-friendly grooves chosen over flash.
Chicago selector and DJ-mix regular with a deep-house core — crate-led sets rooted in the city's house history.
Detroit selector working funk, soul, and deep house — warm, record-first sets in the city's deep tradition.
Montreal DJ working house and techno — sturdy club sets tuned to the city's after-hours lineage.
Ballroom producer and DJ whose vogue-floor edits and Jersey club reworks have shaped how kiki functions sound — chopped vocals and crashing beats, category is: everything.
Detroit selector working funk, soul, boogie, and rare disco — deep crates played with easy soul.
London DJ and a regular on the UK's queer club circuit — house and techno tuned for sweat and safety in equal measure.
Detroit-formed, New York-based DJ and producer with a long-standing devotion to italo, EBM, and cold synth-disco — neon nostalgia mixed with scholarly care.
Bogotá DJ and producer working techno with a Latin American accent — regional percussion folded into club pressure.
Brooklyn-via-Miami DJ in New York's queer Latin club orbit — reggaeton, house, and heat in equal measure.
New York DJ working house and techno — club-honed sets with after-hours stamina, deep selections over big-room bait.
Brooklyn DJ in New York's queer club orbit — party-first sets built for sweat and release.
Detroit-raised, New York-based, and one of the most trusted acid and mutant-disco selectors in American club music — impeccable taste, zero grandstanding.
A Chicago house lifer whose records go back to the early nineties and who has never stopped making them — acid-flecked classics played by their author.
Pittsburgh DJ working house and techno — steady club craft from the Rust Belt underground, sets built for dancers over spectators.
New York DJ working house and techno — reliable club craft from the city's deep bench.
Papi Juice co-founder and a central figure in New York's queer Latin club scene — community-building at dancefloor volume.
New York DJ working house and techno — after-hours sensibilities on a festival clock, patient builds over quick payoffs.
Bermuda-born producer making raw, hardware-driven techno with an unusually emotional streak — machine music with a pulse.
Detroit selector working funk, soul, boogie, and rare disco — deep crates in the city's tradition.
Hudson Valley DJ and producer with a small, well-regarded run of recent releases — upstate club craft on the rise.
New York DJ in the city's queer club orbit — party-first selections built for release, floor-first always.
New York DJ and party organiser working ballroom and house — function-honed sets with community at the center.
Dutch selector known for genre-agnostic sets that move between disco, house, and considerably faster things — Rotterdam range with total control.
New York DJ and producer with a run of recent club releases — new-school energy in the city's lineage.
San Francisco DJ working house and techno — Bay club craft with after-hours instincts.
New York DJ and organiser whose sets pull Sri Lankan and diasporic sounds into bass-heavy club territory — dancefloors as community work.
Berlin-based producer and DJ working fast, percussive club music with a hard techno spine — edits that hit from every direction.
The headliners
- CRICKETS — JD Samson, Roddy Bottum and Michael O'Neill together — three decades of queer punk and art-pop pedigree in one band.
LIGHT ASYLUM — Shannon Funchess's darkwave project — a cavernous voice over brutalist synths and drum machines, unmatched at volume and unforgettable up close.
Black Leather Jesus — Richard Ramirez's decades-deep harsh noise institution — stacked contact mics, feedback and leather-scene iconography, with a rotating cast of collaborators.
Charlene — Brooklyn drag performer and host, and a fixture of New York's queer nightlife bills — sharp hosting, sharper looks, and total command of a room.
Sav G — Detroit selector working the funk, soul, boogie, and rare-disco end of the floor — record-first sets with city-deep crates.
Up-and-comers to catch early
8ULENTINA — Club Chai co-founder splicing SWANA percussion into hard, unfamiliar club structures.
Suze Ijó — Dutch selector with a reputation for sets that refuse to stay in one tempo.
- CTRLZORA — Chicago selector with a deep-house core, in Sav G's Hemlock Nights block.
Dej.y — Detroit selector on a run of 2026 releases, working funk, soul and deep house.
Scotia — Hudson Valley DJ and producer with a small, well-regarded recent catalogue.- T.Wan — New York DJ and producer with a cluster of new club records.
- BATTYGYAL — Bronx DJ pulling ballroom, dancehall and club rhythms together.
- angela baskets — Detroit selector in the rare-disco and boogie lane.
Other acts worth planning around
Mike Servito — One of the most trusted acid and mutant-disco selectors in American club music.HYD — Hayden Dunham's weightless, half-submerged take on hyperpop.
Yvie Oddly — Drag Race season eleven winner, and a genuinely strange performer with real records behind her.
Nita Aviance — House of Aviance veteran and one half of The Carry Nation.
Divoli S'vere — Ballroom producer whose vogue edits shaped how kiki functions sound.Mystic Bill — A Chicago house lifer with records going back to the early nineties.
OHYUNG — New York composer moving between abrasive rap production and hours-long ambient work.
I.U.D. — Lizzi Bougatsos and Sadie Laska's two-drummer noise duo, on Saturday's live bill.
Russell E.L. Butler — Raw, hardware-driven techno with an unusually emotional streak.
The lineup by day
Thursday August 13 through Sunday August 16 are the programme days; August 12 is Wednesday arrival and August 17 is departure. Set times shown are the ones published so far. Much of the schedule is still to be announced.
Thursday lineup (August 13)
Black Leather Jesus, SLACKING, Degenerative Synthesis, DANY KISS, Jaybella Banks, Diosa + 11 more
Friday lineup (August 14)
LIGHT ASYLUM, SWISH BLADE, Mauve Decade, CUCCI, OHYUNG, Yvie Oddly + 15 more
Friday set times (18 sets)
- LOKA · The Grove
- Analog Soul · Hemlock Hole
- Russell E.L. Butler · Hemlock Hole
- Scotia · Hemlock Hole
- Fefe Fo Fum · Hemlock Hole
- 8ULENTINA · The Grove
- LIGHT ASYLUM · Critters Lounge
- Dej.y · Hemlock Nights
- OHYUNG · The Grove
- Mayon · The Grove
- Adam R · The Grove
- Yvie Oddly · Hemlock Nights
- Donna Gardner · Hemlock Nights
- Oscar Nñ · The Grove
- Sevyn Love · The Grove
- CTRLZORA · Hemlock Nights
- Yazzus · The Grove
- Chelle · Hemlock Nights
Saturday lineup (August 15)
CRICKETS, NILE, La Mosca, I.U.D., HYD, Tyler Ashley + 13 more
Sunday lineup (August 16)
Charlene, Nita Aviance, Suze Ijó, Mike Servito, Ben Manzone, destiny
Sunday set times (6 sets)
- Suze Ijó · Hemlock Hole
- Ben Manzone · Hemlock Hole
- Charlene · Hemlock Hole
- destiny · The Grove
- Mike Servito · The Grove
- Nita Aviance · The Grove
Honcho Campout 2026 lineup FAQ
When and where is Honcho Campout 2026?
August 12-17, 2026, at Four Quarters Interfaith Sanctuary in Artemas, Pennsylvania. Wednesday August 12 is arrival-pass only, the programme runs Thursday through Sunday, and everyone is off the property by Monday morning.
Is the Honcho Campout 2026 lineup complete?
No. The festival has been revealing artists in waves since mid-July and says to check back daily, so more names are still to come.
What kind of music does Honcho Campout book?
House, techno, acid, disco and ballroom across four dancefloors, plus three curated nights of live noise, darkwave and art-punk at Critters Lounge and a drag programme curated by Charlene.
How much do tickets cost?
Admission is sold on a sliding scale: DonorPlus at $1,100 and Donor at $675 for those who can give more, General Admission at $460, and a $240 Reserved tier for people who cannot afford GA. Meal plans, camping gear and glamping are sold separately.
Who curates Honcho Campout?
Honcho hands most of the programming to guest collectives and individuals. In 2026 that includes Papi Juice on The Grove, Sav G on Hemlock Nights, Charlene on drag, Valentino Valentine on the QFF Camp Kunt KiKi Ball, and Black Leather Jesus, LIGHT ASYLUM and CRICKETS on the three live nights.
Do you have to camp?
Yes, it is a campout. You can bring your own tent, rent gear through the festival's partner, or book a glamping tent in Main Camp or New Camp.
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