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Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival
Okeechobee, FL · Music
- When
- March 4–7, 2027
- Where
- Sunshine Grove · Okeechobee · FL
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
An 800-acre camping festival at Sunshine Grove has brought major touring acts to rural Okeechobee County every March since 2016. Produced by the promoters behind Bonnaroo, it draws tens of thousands for multiple stages, art installations, and overnight camping. (2027 dates approximate, based on the festival's decade-long early-March pattern.)
The history within reach
- Okeechobee Music & Arts Festivalsame spot
An 800-acre camping festival at Sunshine Grove has brought major touring acts to rural Okeechobee County every March since 2016.
Zora Neale Hurston, who chronicled Black Florida in her writing, spent her last years here writing for the local paper, and was buried in an unmarked grave until Alice Walker came looking in 1973 and put up a stone reading 'A Genius of the South.' The town now keeps a trail of her places, ending at the Garden of Heavenly Rest..
The lake's dike failed in the night and drowned at least 2,500 people in the farm towns south of Okeechobee, most of them Black migrant workers.
Two paired festivals under one roof at the county event center, pairing bacon-forward vendors and Southern barbecue with an indoor-outdoor fall craft fair.
The Seminole Tribe's Brighton Reservation hosts a PRCA rodeo, alligator wrestling, and traditional dance each February, a tradition running for more than eighty years.