The heaviest end of North American bass music, staged with a wall of subs and a light rig that does half the assault.
From Kelowna, BC · Sounds like Subtronics, Sullivan King, Zeds Dead, Svdden Death
Hulaween 2026 Lineup
Four days of jam, funk and bass under Spanish moss, built around three nights of String Cheese.
About Hulaween 2026
Suwannee Hulaween happens under the live oaks and Spanish moss of the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park — four late-October days built around three nights of The String Cheese Incident as resident hosts. Around them, each night gets its own co-headliner: Excision on Thursday, My Morning Jacket on Friday, Pretty Lights on Saturday and Geese on Sunday, plus a one-off Warren Haynes Incident collision.
No festival splits the jam-and-bass difference quite like it. The improvisers get STS9, EOTO, Lettuce, Karina Rykman, Eggy and The Greyboy Allstars; the electro-soul lane runs the Big Gramatik team-up, Daily Bread, Maddy O'Neal and OPIUO; and a legitimate dance wing — Green Velvet, Ben Böhmer, KETTAMA, Salute, INVT, Tokyo selector ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U — keeps the campground moving until sunrise.
Expect electronic, dance, bass and jam across 82 acts.
Hulaween 2026 lineup: all 82 acts
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Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock — yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
From Brooklyn, NY · Sounds like Black Midi, Wet Leg, Parquet Courts, King Krule
Jim James's reverb-drenched howl over southern rock that keeps drifting into something cosmic and unhurried — jam-scene trust earned two hours at a time.
From Louisville, KY · Sounds like Wilco, The War on Drugs, Band of Horses, Dr. Dog
Sample-built electro-soul — dusty vinyl crackle and horn stabs stretched over subwoofer-scale low end, the genre's founding document still touring.
From Fort Collins, CO · Sounds like Gramatik, GRiZ, Emancipator, Big Gigantic
Three nights as Hulaween's resident hosts — bluegrass roots stretched through funk, calypso, and full-blown electronica, costumes strongly encouraged.
From Boulder, CO · Sounds like Phish, Widespread Panic, Leftover Salmon, STS9
A one-off collision: the festival's house band handing its stage over to a guitarist raised on Allmans-scale blues — jam-summit history in real time.
Sounds like Gov't Mule, The Allman Brothers Band, Phish
Tokyo cult selector Yousuke Yukimatsu — genre-shredding DJ sets that went from viral clips to worldwide bookings, anything-goes technique with total joy.
From Osaka, Japan · Sounds like DJ Nobu, Powell, Yousuke Yukimatsu
Deep, dubwise bass music built on space and restraint rather than impact — subterranean low end and meditative pacing in the West Coast deep-dubstep lineage.
Sounds like Of The Trees, Ternion Sound, Tsuruda
AHEE
AK Sports
Anthill Cinema
Baalti
Berlin melodic-house romantic — the hot-air-balloon Cercle set guy, whose gorgeous live performances turn synth washes into genuine emotional events.
From Berlin, Germany · Sounds like Lane 8, Yotto, Tinlicker, Jerro
Big Gigantic and Gramatik pooling their horns and their sample crates into one funk-forward electronic set — a livetronica summit built for instant dancefloor payoff.
Sounds like Pretty Lights, GRiZ, Big Gigantic, Gramatik
A belter fronting an Asheville rock band that plays like a soul revue — warm, horn-bright arrangements built around a voice that doesn't need the microphone.
From Asheville, NC · Sounds like Grace Potter, Alabama Shakes, Susan Tedeschi
Casey Club
Close Friends Only
Costa
High-velocity festival bass designed for maximum impact in the shortest possible window — Ohio-bred drops engineered like demolition charges.
From Toledo, OH · Sounds like Excision, Subtronics, Svdden Death
Curra
Dusty, hip-hop-rooted electro-soul that would sound at home on a boom-bap record if you slowed it down — Atlanta sample-craft in the Pretty Lights lineage.
From Atlanta, GA · Sounds like Pretty Lights, Manic Focus, Emancipator
Producer-songwriter making dance music that keeps one foot firmly in pop structure — melodic drops with verse-chorus bones.
Sounds like Lewis OfMan, Kasablanca, Elderbrook
Dean Turnley
Angus Stone's hazy side project — slacker psych for a very late afternoon, all languid grooves and heavy-lidded charm.
From Byron Bay, Australia · Sounds like Tame Impala, Mac DeMarco, Angus Stone
DRAMA
Effy
Younger-generation jam band with real songcraft under the improvisation — melodic, patient jams that reward staying for the full set.
From Connecticut · Sounds like Goose, Phish, Karina Rykman
Two String Cheese members improvising entire electronic sets live, with nothing pre-written — dubstep and house conjured on the spot, never repeated.
From Boulder, CO · Sounds like STS9, The Disco Biscuits, Papadosio
Sibling NYC hyperpop chaos agents — glitchy, funny, and relentless, a live set that plays like a timeline scrolled at maximum speed.
From New York, NY · Sounds like 100 gecs, Snow Strippers, underscores, Charli xcx
Heavy, riddim-leaning dubstep built for the low end and not much else.
Sounds like Svdden Death, Barely Alive, Kompany
Chicago house royalty with a green-haired alter ego and a catalogue of acid-house hooks that never stopped filling floors — 'La La Land' still detonates.
From Chicago, IL · Sounds like Claude VonStroke, Chris Lake, Honey Dijon
Florida jam quartet leaning into the psychedelic, synth-heavy end of the improvisational spectrum — space-funk explorations with dancefloor drive.
From Florida · Sounds like STS9, Papadosio, Lotus
Gudfella
Neon no-wave that turned genuinely poppy without losing any of the nervous energy — DIY-scene veterans reborn as day-glo dance-punk evangelists.
From New York, NY · Sounds like Talking Heads, Deerhoof, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
UK bass with a dancehall bounce — the sound of a soundsystem set rather than a festival drop, 'Skanka' the breakout.
From London, UK · Sounds like Skin On Skin, Interplanetary Criminal, Skream, Benga
Hershe
Heyz
HHUNTER
Miami duo making raw, hardware-driven Latin club music with genuine local roots — dembow and techno melted together live.
From Miami, FL · Sounds like Nick León, DJ Python, Safety Trance, Kelman Duran
Jackie Hollander
Gentle, wistful progressive house that treats the dancefloor as somewhere to think rather than thrash — melodics in the Lane 8 school.
Sounds like Ben Böhmer, Lane 8, Yotto
Instrumental flatpicking pushed into jazz and surf territory by a trio with no singer to slow it down — acoustic velocity with a wink.
From Asheville, NC · Sounds like Billy Strings, Punch Brothers, Mountain Grass Unit
Joy Wagon
KARAN!
A bassist-bandleader playing exploratory rock with the grin of someone who cannot believe this is the job — a jam-scene favorite on pure charisma and chops.
From New York, NY · Sounds like Khruangbin, Goose, Vulfpeck
Melodic techno with actual vocal hooks — built for the moment the lights come up over a field, performed as a live duo rather than a DJ set.
Sounds like Ben Böhmer, Anyma, Tinlicker
Irish rave-house heat — big-room energy with underground credentials, breakbeats and pianos at full sprint, Galway-to-warehouse momentum fully underway.
From Galway, Ireland · Sounds like Skin on Skin, Mall Grab, Sammy Virji, Cloonee
An organ-guitar-drums supergroup trading in the kind of greasy instrumental interplay that needs no vocalist — jam-world pedigree, pure pocket.
Sounds like Lettuce, Medeski Martin & Wood, Soulive
Berklee-forged funk played with horn-section precision and zero interest in restraint — a groove institution drifting ever deeper into psychedelia.
From Boston, MA · Sounds like The Greyboy Allstars, Soulive, Vulfpeck, Khruangbin
Trio riding the new melodic-bass wave — riddim with feelings, drops that aim at the chest and the heart at once.
From United States · Sounds like ISOxo, Knock2
Sunlit French synth-pop with a producer's ear for a drum sound and a crooner's delivery — Parisian cool at rooftop-party temperature.
From Paris, France · Sounds like Yellow Days, Toro y Moi, L'Impératrice
Textural, psychedelic bass music — heavy without being blunt about it.
Sounds like LSDREAM, CharlestheFirst, Ravenscoon
Colorado electro-soul that stays melodic and funk-anchored no matter how heavy the low end gets — Denver scene craft with soul-sample warmth.
From Denver, CO · Sounds like Manic Focus, Daily Bread, GRiZ
Magoo
Soul samples and live instrumentation layered into the warm end of the bass-music spectrum — Chicago electro-soul with a jam heart.
From Chicago, IL · Sounds like Pretty Lights, GRiZ, Daily Bread
Midnight Generation
Minim
Moonstone Riders
MOTIFV
Young Alabama pickers playing traditional bluegrass fast enough to satisfy a jam crowd — flatpicking chops with festival stamina.
From Birmingham, AL · Sounds like Billy Strings, Greensky Bluegrass, Jon Stickley Trio
Natalie Brooke
Woozy, organic bass music that prizes texture and space over the drop — forest-floor sound design in the CharlestheFirst lineage.
Sounds like CharlestheFirst, Tsuruda, LSDREAM
Squelchy, cartoonishly funky glitch-hop played with a genuine bass player's sense of groove — New Zealand funk engineering at festival scale.
From New Zealand · Sounds like Gramatik, GRiZ, Big Gigantic
Playlunch
Richard Finger
Liverpool DJ-producer pushing bassline-flecked house — Merseyside heat in the garage revival's slipstream, club momentum rising fast.
From Liverpool, UK · Sounds like Sammy Virji, Interplanetary Criminal, Salute
Rudashi
Saka x Fly
Euphoric, garage-inflected house with a melodic streak that lands somewhere between rave and daydream — full-color club joy.
From Vienna, Austria · Sounds like KETTAMA, Overmono, Barry Can't Swim
Chicago funk-soul with horns and a frontman working the crowd harder than the setlist requires — party-first, always.
From Chicago, IL · Sounds like Lettuce, Vulfpeck, Turkuaz
Steller
Sound Tribe's long-running fusion of live instrumentation and programmed electronics, built to unfold over an hour — jamtronica's founding congregation.
From Atlanta, GA · Sounds like The Disco Biscuits, Lotus, The String Cheese Incident
Supertaste
A loose, Dead-devoted side project made entirely for the people who record every set — in-joke as genre, played with real chops.
Sounds like Grateful Dead, Goose, Circles Around The Sun
The Ain't Sisters
Deep-crate boogaloo and soul-jazz played by a band that has been doing it since the acid-jazz era — grooves aged like good vinyl.
From San Diego, CA · Sounds like Lettuce, Soulive, Medeski Martin & Wood
The Yeah Babys
Tini Gessler
Tire Fire
Instrumental Seattle soul with a horn section that plays like a single instrument — pocket-first funk with zero filler.
From Seattle, WA · Sounds like Lettuce, The Greyboy Allstars, Khruangbin
Lo-fi psych filtered through Ruban Nielson's guitar tone — woozy, funk-adjacent, and slightly out of focus by design, 'Multi-Love' warmth throughout.
From Portland, OR · Sounds like Tame Impala, Mac DeMarco, Khruangbin, Toro y Moi
Laid-back Alabama five-piece riding breezy, groove-forward indie rock — sun-baked guitars and easy falsetto hooks, Muscle Shoals-region ease in a new generation.
From Florence, AL · Sounds like Hippo Campus, Peach Pit, Rainbow Kitten Surprise
The headliners
- Excision — The heaviest end of North American bass music, staged with a wall of subs and a light rig that does half the assault.
- My Morning Jacket — Jim James's reverb-drenched howl over southern rock that keeps drifting into something cosmic and unhurried — jam-scene trust earned two hours at a time.
- Pretty Lights — Sample-built electro-soul — dusty vinyl crackle and horn stabs stretched over subwoofer-scale low end, the genre's founding document still touring.
- Geese — Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock — yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
- The String Cheese Incident — Three nights as Hulaween's resident hosts — bluegrass roots stretched through funk, calypso, and full-blown electronica, costumes strongly encouraged.
- The Warren Haynes Incident — A one-off collision: the festival's house band handing its stage over to a guitarist raised on Allmans-scale blues — jam-summit history in real time.
Up-and-comers to catch early
- Eggy — The young jam band the scene keeps passing forward — songs first, jams earned.
- Mountain Grass Unit — Fast enough for the jam kids, traditional enough for the purists.
- INVT — Miami's hardware-driven Latin club duo — the most distinctive dance set on the farm.
- Willis — Sun-baked Alabama groove-rock made for a hammock at golden hour.
- Salute — Garage-inflected euphoria — rave built on warmth.
- Frost Children — Hyperpop siblings loose in the jam world — chaos, welcomed.
Other acts worth planning around
- The Warren Haynes Incident — A genuine one-off — the festival's house band plus one of southern rock's great guitarists.
- EOTO — Cheese members improvising full electronic sets from nothing — the late-night institution.
- Big Gramatik — Two electro-soul catalogs, one horn section — a team-up that only happens here.
- Green Velvet — Acid-house royalty in the woods.
- Ben Böhmer — Melodic house that lands hardest exactly when the lights come up over the trees.
- The Greyboy Allstars — Deep-crate soul-jazz from lifers — the musicians' hang of the weekend.
- Guerilla Toss — Neon no-wave gone poppy — nervous energy as a dance party.
Hulaween 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Hulaween 2026?
October 22–25, 2026 — Thursday through Sunday, the weekend before Halloween.
Where does Hulaween take place?
The Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida — a campground amphitheater under live oaks and Spanish moss.
Who is headlining Hulaween 2026?
The String Cheese Incident host three nights, with nightly co-headliners Excision (Thursday), My Morning Jacket (Friday), Pretty Lights (Saturday) and Geese (Sunday).
Is Hulaween a costume festival?
Very much so — it's Halloween week at a campground, and costumes and themed sets are part of the culture.
How many acts are playing Hulaween 2026?
82 acts across the four days.
How do I work out which acts I'd like?
Tell the finder at the top of this page a few artists you love — it'll match you with the acts on this lineup you shouldn't miss, with reasons why.
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