Brittany Howard's voice is the whole argument: southern soul-rock that sounds like it was recorded in a room too small for it.
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Borderland 2026 Lineup
A three-day Americana and indie weekend on a state-park horse farm outside Buffalo.
Borderland 2026 has already wrapped, but you can still dig through the lineup and find the acts you would have loved.
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About Borderland 2026
Borderland spends three days on a state-park horse farm in East Aurora, fifteen minutes southeast of Buffalo, and books like a festival that knows exactly who is driving out to it. Knox Farm's meadows hold three stages, the whole bill fits on one page, and the 2026 headline slots go to Alabama Shakes on Friday, Jack White on Saturday and Lord Huron on Sunday, with Pixies taking the hour before Jack White. Around them sits the roots-and-indie middle the festival has always been good at: Jesse Welles, The Head and the Heart, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Shovels & Rope, Leftover Salmon and Rebirth Brass Band.
The other half of the bill is Western New York. Uncle Ben's Remedy, Olmsted Dub System, Witty Tarbox, The Rollin' Rust, Folkfaces and Battle of the Borderland winner VOYAGR all play the two smaller stages, and the Split-Rail Stage runs tribute sets by local bands: Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, the Grateful Dead, the 80s and a Killers-to-Strokes indie hour. Friday's main-stage curveball is moe.organ Fairchild, a Bob Weir tribute built from members of moe. and Buffalo's Organ Fairchild. The Brass Machine second-lines through the set breaks all three days, so the gaps in your schedule are not really gaps.
Expect indie folk, folk, funk and indie rock across 38 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Friday to Sunday, three days
- Where
- Knox Farm State Park, East Aurora, NY
- Lineup
- 38 acts
- Website
- Official site
Borderland 2026 lineup & schedule: all 38 acts
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The White Stripes' architect, still committed to analog friction: old amps, unrehearsed setlists, and a guitar tone like a blown speaker.
Garage rockBlues rock
Cinematic Los Angeles folk rock built on Ben Schneider's reverb-soaked storytelling and a running mythology of doomed romance.
Indie folkFolk rock
Witty Tarbox
Alternative
VOYAGR
Indie folkAmericana
Roy G Biv
RockFunk
The Sideways
Indie rock
Australia's percussive-guitar phenom plays open-tuned instrumentals that went viral for a reason, two hands doing a band's work.
AcousticInstrumental
moe.organ Fairchild
A husband-and-wife duo who swap instruments mid-song and make scrappy, hard-swinging Americana far louder than two people should manage.
AmericanaFolk rock
The internet's protest-folk bard writes a new topical song every week, with Dylan-grade wit aimed at whatever the news cycle just did.
FolkProtest
A touring party with a band attached: barrelhouse piano, horn-fed funk and a frontman who spends half the set in the crowd.
FunkJam
The Brass Machine
Brass bandFunk
The Mustard Tigers
Country
Uncle Ben's Remedy
Country
The Rollin' Rust
Americana
Olmsted Dub System
ReggaeDub
Liberian-born, Chattanooga-raised songwriter making what he calls Afro-Appalachian folk: soft-spoken banjo songs about displacement and hope.
Indie folkFolk
New Orleans second-line tradition run through funk and hip-hop, and the yardstick every other brass band gets measured against.
Brass bandFunk
Florida indie rock built for festival fields, with 'August' euphoria, surging choruses, and a live energy that outruns the recordings.
Indie rock
Attic-band indie rock with barefoot summer energy, loose, breezy Long Island guitar songs that built a word-of-mouth following from DIY beginnings.
Indie rock
Loud-quiet-loud's inventors, the band your favorite band ripped off, with 'Debaser' through 'Where Is My Mind?' still setting the terms.
Alt-rock
Hushed, aching songwriting from a Texan who turned a bedroom recording into a global hit.
Indie folkSinger-songwriter
Folkfaces
Folk
Emerging indie songwriter.
Pop
Buffalo Music Club
Penelope Road
Atlanta group that came together in 2022, working a guitar-led strain of indie rock.
Alternative
Clay Street Unit
Bluegrass
Paul Janeway in a sequined jumpsuit, singing like a preacher over an eight-piece Alabama soul revue: testimony with a horn section.
SoulR&B
Georgia singer-songwriter working a whispered-to-belted dynamic, with streaming numbers to match.
FolkSinger-songwriter
Seattle indie-folk harmonies where 'Rivers and Roads' will wreck you on a beach at dusk, exactly as designed.
Indie folk
Colorado's original slamgrass band, three decades of bluegrass picking spliced with Cajun, zydeco and jam-band sprawl.
BluegrassJam
Wildflowers: Tom Petty Tribute w/ Leroy Townes Band
The Arcade: A Live Music Tribute to the 80s
Songbirds: Tribute to Fleetwood Mac
Buffalo Is Dead: A Tribute to the Grateful Dead
Tribute to Classic Rock w/ Johnny Hart & The Mess
The Indie Hour w/ Slow Animals
The headliners
Alabama Shakes · Brittany Howard's voice is the whole argument: southern soul-rock that sounds like it was recorded in a room too small for it.
Jack White · The White Stripes' architect, still committed to analog friction: old amps, unrehearsed setlists, and a guitar tone like a blown speaker.
Lord Huron · Cinematic Los Angeles folk rock built on Ben Schneider's reverb-soaked storytelling and a running mythology of doomed romance.
Up-and-comers to catch early
- VOYAGR · Buffalo indie-folk act, 2026 Battle of the Borderland winner, and the first band on Friday's main stage.
Mon Rovîa · Afro-Appalachian folk from a Liberian-born, Chattanooga-raised songwriter; the quietest set that will hold a full field.
Arcy Drive · Long Island indie rock with hooks built for a crowd twice the size of the Homespun tent.
Chance Peña · A billion streams deep and still writing like a man alone in a room.
- Clay Street Unit · High-speed bluegrass with a jam-forward streak; a good reason to be on site early Sunday afternoon.
Other acts worth planning around
Pixies · Forty years in, an hour before Jack White, playing the loud-quiet-loud template they wrote.
The Head and the Heart · Sunday's late-afternoon singalong, and the set most of the field will already know the words to.
Jesse Welles · One man, one guitar and a stack of songs about the news; Friday's main-stage bet on writing over volume.
St. Paul and the Broken Bones · An eight-piece Alabama soul revue that treats a Sunday afternoon like a tent revival.
- moe.organ Fairchild · A Bob Weir tribute assembled from moe. and Buffalo's Organ Fairchild, and a Friday one-off that will not tour.
Shovels & Rope · Two people, four instruments and more racket than the Homespun tent is built for.
Rebirth Brass Band · The New Orleans standard-bearer, and the Saturday set most likely to turn the tent into a parade.
Leftover Salmon · Thirty-plus years of slamgrass, closing out the Homespun stage on Sunday.
The lineup by day
Friday lineup (September 18)
Alabama Shakes, Jesse Welles, moe.organ Fairchild, Andy Frasco & The U.N., Shovels & Rope, The Sideways + 7 more
Friday set times (12 sets)
- Witty Tarbox · Homespun Stage
- VOYAGR · Main Stage
- Roy G Biv · Homespun Stage
- The Sideways · Main Stage
- Steph Strings · Homespun Stage
- moe.organ Fairchild · Main Stage
- Shovels & Rope · Homespun Stage
- Wildflowers: Tom Petty Tribute w/ Leroy Townes Band · Split-Rail Stage
- Jesse Welles · Main Stage
- Andy Frasco & The U.N. · Homespun Stage
- The Arcade: A Live Music Tribute to the 80s · Split-Rail Stage
- Alabama Shakes · Main Stage
Saturday lineup (September 19)
Jack White, Pixies, Flipturn, Mon Rovîa, Chance Peña, Arcy Drive + 8 more
Saturday set times (14 sets)
- Uncle Ben's Remedy · Main Stage
- The Mustard Tigers · Homespun Stage
- The Rollin' Rust · Main Stage
- Olmsted Dub System · Homespun Stage
- Mon Rovîa · Main Stage
- Rebirth Brass Band · Homespun Stage
- Songbirds: Tribute to Fleetwood Mac · Split-Rail Stage
- Flipturn · Main Stage
- Arcy Drive · Homespun Stage
- Pixies · Main Stage
- Chance Peña · Homespun Stage
- Buffalo Is Dead: A Tribute to the Grateful Dead · Split-Rail Stage
- Jack White · Main Stage
Sunday lineup (September 20)
Lord Huron, The Head and the Heart, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Leftover Salmon, Jonah Kagen, Clay Street Unit + 7 more
Sunday set times (13 sets)
- Folkfaces · Homespun Stage
- Ryman · Main Stage
- Buffalo Music Club · Homespun Stage
- Penelope Road · Main Stage
- Clay Street Unit · Homespun Stage
- Tribute to Classic Rock w/ Johnny Hart & The Mess · Split-Rail Stage
- St. Paul and the Broken Bones · Main Stage
- Jonah Kagen · Homespun Stage
- The Head and the Heart · Main Stage
- Leftover Salmon · Homespun Stage
- The Indie Hour w/ Slow Animals · Split-Rail Stage
- Lord Huron · Main Stage
Borderland 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Borderland 2026?
September 18–20, 2026 (Friday through Sunday).
Where does Borderland take place?
Knox Farm State Park in East Aurora, New York, about fifteen minutes southeast of Buffalo.
Who is headlining Borderland 2026?
Alabama Shakes on Friday, Jack White on Saturday and Lord Huron on Sunday. Pixies play Saturday at 7pm, right before Jack White.
How many acts are playing Borderland 2026?
38 acts across three stages: the Main Stage, the Homespun Stage and the Split-Rail Stage.
Are Borderland set times out?
Yes. Every act's day, stage and set time is on this page. Save the ones you want and they become your own running order.
What time do gates open?
1pm on Friday, 11am on Saturday and Sunday. The box office opens an hour before gates each day.
How do I figure out which of the 38 acts I'd actually like?
Tell the finder at the top of this page a few bands you love, and it'll match you with your must-see sets, with reasons why.
When is Borderland 2027?
Borderland is expected back in September 2027; the festival has not announced the 2027 dates yet. The 2026 lineup stays on this page until it does.
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