Richard Ramirez's decades-deep harsh noise institution — stacked contact mics, feedback and leather-scene iconography, with a rotating cast of collaborators.
From Pittsburgh, PA · Sounds like Merzbow, Prurient, Whitehouse, Wolf Eyes
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.
About Honcho Campout 2026
Honcho Campout is the Pittsburgh queer party Honcho's annual move to the woods — 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: 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.
From Brooklyn, NY
JD Samson, Roddy Bottum and Michael O'Neill together — three decades of queer punk and art-pop pedigree in one band.
From New York, NY · Sounds like Le Tigre, Imperial Teen, MEN
Shannon Funchess's darkwave project — a cavernous voice over brutalist synths and drum machines, unmatched at volume and unforgettable up close.
From Portland, OR · Sounds like Cold Cave, Boy Harsher, Zola Jesus, Nine Inch Nails
Detroit selector working the funk, soul, boogie, and rare-disco end of the floor — record-first sets with city-deep crates.
From Detroit, MI · Sounds like Jeffrey Sfire, Moodymann, Theo Parrish
Seattle act with a punk-leaning, high-energy live show.
From Seattle, WA
Houston DJ working the harsh end of the noise and industrial spectrum.
From Houston, TX
New York harsh-noise project built from raw synthesis and feedback.
From New York, NY
New York figure in the kiki ballroom scene — function-honed beats and hosting energy brought straight to the floor.
From New York, NY · Sounds like MikeQ, Divoli S'vere, Byrell the Great
Brooklyn drag performer — a fixture of the city's queer nightlife stages.
From Brooklyn, NY
Hayden Dunham's project, where PC Music gloss dissolves into something weightless and half-submerged — avant-pop as a slow exhale.
From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like Caroline Polachek, A. G. Cook, Hannah Diamond
Lizzi Bougatsos and Sadie Laska's percussion-and-noise duo — two drummers, no safety rails, art-world racket at full commitment.
From New York, NY · Sounds like Gang Gang Dance, Boredoms, Growing
Atlanta drag performer — runway polish and hosting charm from the city's queer nightlife circuit.
From Atlanta, GA
Bronx ballroom commentator, calling the floor over vogue beats — chants, category control, and function-tested authority.
From Bronx, NY · Sounds like MikeQ, Divoli S'vere, Byrell the Great
The musical project of artist Raúl de Nieves, whose maximalist visual work and performance share the same feverish logic — beads, costume, and ecstatic noise.
From New York, NY
Portland electronic-pop project, heavier on mood than on hooks.
From Portland, OR
New York artist and a longstanding collaborator of HYD's — art-punk experimentalism from the downtown scene.
From New York, NY
House of Aviance veteran and one half of The Carry Nation — deep, tribal, unrelenting New York house with ballroom history in its bones.
From New York, NY · Sounds like The Carry Nation, MikeQ, Honey Dijon
New York composer who moves between abrasive rap production and hours-long ambient works with equal seriousness — two extremes, one uncompromising voice.
From New York, NY · Sounds like Grouper, claire rousay, Kara-Lis Coverdale
Brooklyn figure in the kiki ballroom scene — function energy brought to the festival floor, category-ready charisma included.
From Brooklyn, NY · Sounds like MikeQ, Divoli S'vere, Byrell the Great
New York figure in the kiki ballroom scene — floor-tested energy and function authority, runway command included.
From New York, NY · Sounds like MikeQ, Divoli S'vere, Byrell the Great
New York drag performer — polished looks and sharp hosting from the city's nightlife circuit.
From New York, NY
Pittsburgh noise project with a confrontational, punk-speed streak — harsh electronics played like hardcore, short sets with lasting ringing.
From Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh duo Anna Thompson and Taylor Knight, who build electronic scores and choreography as one inseparable thing — movement you can hear.
From Pittsburgh, PA · Sounds like Holly Herndon, Arca, Colin Self
Tucson project working where queer performance art and live electronics meet — desert-underground provocation with heart.
From Tucson, AZ
Brooklyn drag performer and host, better known as The Dauphine of Bushwick — nightlife-institution energy at festival scale.
From Brooklyn, NY
New Orleans drag performer on the national queer nightlife circuit — Southern camp with big-room command.
From New Orleans, LA
Drag Race season eleven winner and a genuinely strange performer, who backs the contortion with actual records — oddity as artistry.
From Denver, CO · Sounds like Todrick Hall, Big Freedia
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.
From New York, NY · Sounds like Nkisi, Debit, FOOZOOL
New York selector digging deep into rare disco and deep house — patient, warm-blooded sets built from records rather than trends.
From New York, NY · Sounds like Sav G, Jeffrey Sfire
Brooklyn DJ and resident of Papi Juice, the beloved queer POC party — house and club selections tuned for joy and sweat over genre purity.
From Brooklyn, NY · Sounds like Oscar Nñ, Physical Therapy
Brooklyn DJ working ballroom and Jersey club rhythms — chopped vocals, crashing kicks, and the runway-ready energy of the scene's rising generation.
From Brooklyn, NY · Sounds like MikeQ, Divoli S'vere, Byrell the Great
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.
From New York, NY · Sounds like Mike Servito, Honey Dijon
Detroit selector working funk, soul, boogie, and rare disco — crate-deep selections played with real reverence for the city's dance lineage.
From Detroit, MI · Sounds like Sav G, Jeffrey Sfire
Bronx DJ working ballroom, dancehall, and club rhythms — high-energy blends built for whistles, dips, and a floor that never settles.
From Bronx, NY · Sounds like MikeQ, Divoli S'vere, Byrell the Great
New York DJ working house and techno — sturdy, unflashy sets tuned to the city's club lineage.
From New York, NY · Sounds like Mike Servito, Honey Dijon, The Carry Nation
Pittsburgh and Cleveland DJ working house and techno — Rust Belt club sensibilities honed across two scenes' dancefloors.
From Pittsburgh, PA · Sounds like Mike Servito, Honey Dijon, The Carry Nation
Washington, DC selector working the soulful, disco-leaning end of house — warm, vocal-friendly grooves chosen over flash.
From Washington, DC · Sounds like Sav G, Jeffrey Sfire
Chicago selector and DJ-mix regular with a deep-house core — crate-led sets rooted in the city's house history.
From Chicago, IL · Sounds like Sav G, Jeffrey Sfire
Detroit selector working funk, soul, and deep house — warm, record-first sets in the city's deep tradition.
From Detroit, MI · Sounds like Sav G, Jeffrey Sfire
Montreal DJ working house and techno — sturdy club sets tuned to the city's after-hours lineage.
From Montreal, QC · Sounds like Mike Servito, Honey Dijon, The Carry Nation
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.
From Atlanta, GA · Sounds like MikeQ, Byrell the Great, UNIIQU3
Detroit selector working funk, soul, boogie, and rare disco — deep crates played with easy soul.
From Detroit, MI · Sounds like Sav G, Jeffrey Sfire
London DJ and a regular on the UK's queer club circuit — house and techno tuned for sweat and safety in equal measure.
From London, UK · Sounds like HE.SHE.THEY., Eris Drew
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.
From New York, NY · Sounds like Legowelt, Bézier, Ital
Bogotá DJ and producer working techno with a Latin American accent — regional percussion folded into club pressure.
From Bogotá, Colombia · Sounds like Mike Servito, Honey Dijon, The Carry Nation
Brooklyn-via-Miami DJ in New York's queer Latin club orbit — reggaeton, house, and heat in equal measure.
From Brooklyn, NY · Sounds like Oscar Nñ, 8ULENTINA
New York DJ working house and techno — club-honed sets with after-hours stamina, deep selections over big-room bait.
From New York, NY · Sounds like Mike Servito, Honey Dijon, The Carry Nation
Brooklyn DJ in New York's queer club orbit — party-first sets built for sweat and release.
From Brooklyn, NY · Sounds like Oscar Nñ, 8ULENTINA
Detroit-raised, New York-based, and one of the most trusted acid and mutant-disco selectors in American club music — impeccable taste, zero grandstanding.
From Brooklyn, NY · Sounds like Derrick Carter, Justin Cudmore, The Black Madonna
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.
From Miami, FL · Sounds like Ron Trent, DJ Sneak, Gene Farris
Pittsburgh DJ working house and techno — steady club craft from the Rust Belt underground, sets built for dancers over spectators.
From Pittsburgh, PA · Sounds like Mike Servito, Honey Dijon, The Carry Nation
New York DJ working house and techno — reliable club craft from the city's deep bench.
From New York, NY · Sounds like Mike Servito, Honey Dijon, The Carry Nation
Papi Juice co-founder and a central figure in New York's queer Latin club scene — community-building at dancefloor volume.
From Brooklyn, NY · Sounds like Papi Juice, Riobamba, Nick León
New York DJ working house and techno — after-hours sensibilities on a festival clock, patient builds over quick payoffs.
From New York, NY · Sounds like Mike Servito, Honey Dijon, The Carry Nation
Bermuda-born producer making raw, hardware-driven techno with an unusually emotional streak — machine music with a pulse.
From Brooklyn, NY · Sounds like Aurora Halal, DJ Stingray, Beta Librae
Detroit selector working funk, soul, boogie, and rare disco — deep crates in the city's tradition.
From Detroit, MI · Sounds like Sav G, Jeffrey Sfire
Hudson Valley DJ and producer with a small, well-regarded run of recent releases — upstate club craft on the rise.
From Hudson Valley, NY · Sounds like Beta Librae, Aurora Halal
New York DJ in the city's queer club orbit — party-first selections built for release, floor-first always.
From New York, NY · Sounds like Oscar Nñ, 8ULENTINA
New York DJ and party organiser working ballroom and house — function-honed sets with community at the center.
From New York, NY · Sounds like MikeQ, Divoli S'vere, Byrell the Great
Dutch selector known for genre-agnostic sets that move between disco, house, and considerably faster things — Rotterdam range with total control.
From Rotterdam, Netherlands · Sounds like Carista, Palms Trax, Jeff Mills
New York DJ and producer with a run of recent club releases — new-school energy in the city's lineage.
From New York, NY · Sounds like Mike Servito, Honey Dijon, The Carry Nation
San Francisco DJ working house and techno — Bay club craft with after-hours instincts.
From San Francisco, CA · Sounds like Mike Servito, Honey Dijon, The Carry Nation
New York DJ and organiser whose sets pull Sri Lankan and diasporic sounds into bass-heavy club territory — dancefloors as community work.
From Brooklyn, NY · Sounds like Discwoman, Jubilee, LSDXOXO
Berlin-based producer and DJ working fast, percussive club music with a hard techno spine — edits that hit from every direction.
From Berlin, Germany · Sounds like Nkisi, LSDXOXO, Yaeji
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.
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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