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The Hangout Beach, Music & Arts Festival

May 14 2010 - May 16 2010  •  Gulf Shores AL  •  City Beachfront
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Founded: 2010
Co-Producer 1: HUKA Entertainment
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Phone: 251.948.3030
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Category: Rock
Region: Southeast
Type: Festival

"The inaugural Hangout Beach, Music & Arts Festival will be held May 14-16 in Gulf Shores, Alabama. The first ever large-scale festival on the beach will be open each day from noon to 11pm and will feature an eclectic lineup of 60-plus artists over three days of sun-soaking festival fun unlike any other event. The festival will include four stages with the two main stages rising from the sand itself. Attendance will be limited to 35,000 people per day. "—Description by festival




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Buzz is building for this weekend's Hangout festival; proceeds will benefit Gulf cleanup

By Samantha Spector

A great music festival should have a great name, one that conveys the essence of the festival's vibe. In a word, Bonnaroo evokes adventure and organized chaos while All Good says chill out and groove. The Hangout Beach, Music and Arts Festival needs no furthers explanation: Beach. Music. Art.

The Hangout gets its name from the historic bar on the beach at the festival site along the so-called Redneck Riviera in Gulf Shores AL. The festival is a...

The Hangout keeps piling on big-name acts—don't wait for tickets

The Hangout has had two additional lineup rounds since its auspicious kickoff last month, and it just keeps getting better. A number of the adds are top-of-the-bill acts at other festivals. Here, only Phish frontman Trey Anastasio playing with his side project TAB cracks the top three.

Other big names that have been recently named include Ben Harper and Relentless7, The Flaming Lips and former Wallflower Jakob Dylan with his new configuration Three Legs featuring stars in their...

Plans for The Hangout puts Gulf Shores AL on the festival map

I love how they describe the location for the new Hangout Beach Music & Arts Festival—"on the beach, next to the Hangout restaurant, at the southern end of Alabama Highway 59. If you hit the Gulf of Mexico, you went just a little too far."

Word first came out in December that a new festival was planned was planned for May 14-16. Now the festival is out with its first round of announcements, and it is a pretty impressive start.  The first batch of artists named suggest...

In Gulf Shores, Plan B looks like a winner for Hangout developer
Big new fest approved for Gulf Shores AL in May

The city council in Gulf Shores AL approved a plan for a major new rock festival to be sited on the city beachfront this coming May 14-16. Promoter Shaul Zislin, a local restauranteur, says he will stage The Hangout Music Festival as a three-day event on four stages and plans to attract up to 35,000 attendees per day. No artist names have been dropped, but festival planners have likened the event to major festivals like Rothbury and Coachella. Now that the city has signd off, expect to hear...