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Morgan Wallen’s three-day Sand In My Boots Festival — which sold out within a matter of hours in 2025 — will not take place again in 2026.
However, officials reportedly aim to bring it back in 2027.
Wallen’s first-ever Sand In My Boots Festival ran from May 16 through 18 earlier this year in Gulf Shores, Alabama, Wallen headlined the festival and curated the lineup, which included co-headliners Post Malone, Brooks & Dunn and HARDY. Gulf Shores Mayor Robert Craft confirmed during a council meeting on Monday evening (December 8) that the long-running Hangout Music Fest, which switched names to Sand In My Boots in 2025, “will not occur in 2026,” per Birmingham, Alabama-based AL.com. “We will not have an event in 2026. We are already approving the event in 2027. …We delayed too long, or they did, in their application to be able to get the kind of acts that we required them to have to be successful in 2026. We will refuse to let them go back to the acts that we’ve had before. So they couldn’t do it and so they canceled the 2026 event.”
Wallen has not publicly addressed the future of the Sand In My Boots Festival as of publication time on Tuesday (December 9).
“We started talking about curating a festival that includes my friends, and artists who have influenced me, years ago. It took a lot of folks a lot of hours to plan Sand In My Boots, and it only took two hours for y'all to sell it out,” the country star said of the inaugural event in a press release issued last year. “We can't wait to deliver a special weekend for everyone in May.”