FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — After a two-year hiatus, the Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival is on its way back to lake-adjacent Sunshine Grove on March 19-22, with a lineup that sort of, maybe suggests a throwback to its original vibe, which gave rock bands with actual guitars and drums a share of the spotlight.

The first wave of performers announced on Wednesday is topped by Americana duo the Lumineers, which feels like a statement, if you’re looking for one.

There will of course be myriad DJs and EDM flag bearers at Okeechobee 2026, led by Fisher, GRiZ and Alison Wonderland. But the lineup also includes indie rockers Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Young the Giant, Flipturn, jammy Philly quartet the Disco Biscuits, the eclectic Dogs in a Pile and other bands.

Multigenre vocalist T-Pain is also high on the bill, along with rising rapper BigXthaPlug. More headliners are expected to be added, and the all-star jam session known as PoWoW! often includes new names.

Tickets for the camping festival are available now, with prices starting at $439.25 for a four-day, general-admission festival ticket. If you are bringing a car, a basic four-day GA car-camping pass is an additional $134.58.

As always, you’ll also find a range of VIP glamping and parking packages, along with several elevated food and drink add-ons.

For tickets and other information, visit OkeechobeeFest.com.

You may remember that Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival made a magical and euphoric debut in 2016 as 30,000 visitors spread out on one of the most beautiful spots on the camping-festival map: 800 acres of pristine woods and intimate clearings on a small lake at remote Sunshine Grove. The lineup that year included Mumford & Sons, Kendrick Lamar, Skrillex, Bassnectar, Robert Plant, Hall & Oates, Jason Isbell, the Avett Brothers, Ween, Kamasi Washington and a little-known Post Malone.

The 2017 OMF lineup had Kings of Leon, Sturgill Simpson, Usher and the Roots, Flume, Wiz Khalifa, Solange, Cold War Kids, and George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic.

But that something-for-everyone diversity seemed to fade through the years, as festival promoter Insomniac, best known for the Electric Daisy Carnival, leaned into the EMD trend.

OMF was canceled in 2019, snuck in just before the COVID shutdown in 2020, returned in 2022 and 2023, then was canceled again in 2024 and 2025.

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