Two decades of Raleigh bluegrass instrumentation put to work on songs that owe as much to Big Star as to Bill Monroe.
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Shakori Hills 2026 Lineup
Four days of camping, clogging and roots music on a Chatham County farm, with Donna the Buffalo exactly where they always are.
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About Shakori Hills 2026
Shakori Hills runs twice a year on a farm outside Pittsboro, and the fall edition is its 22nd. Four days, four stages, October 1–4, with camping, workshops, a puppet parade and a square dance threaded between the sets. Donna the Buffalo founded the thing and still anchor it: Thursday night on the Meadow Stage, Saturday night after Margo Price, and the all-star jam that closes the whole festival on Sunday.
The 2026 bill reads roots music widely. Margo Price takes Saturday night and Anders Osborne Friday, with The Steel Wheels and Chatham County Line in the early evenings. Under them it gets more interesting: Joe Troop & The Truth Machine, Keith Secola on two stages, Horace Trahan's zydeco closing the Dance Tent, the Gullah Collective's Lowcountry set, Brazilian songs from Também, dub Addis after midnight, and a deep bench of Triangle bands in the Cabaret Tent.
Expect folk, americana, folk-rock and old-time across 69 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Thursday to Sunday, four days
- Where
- Shakori Hills Community Arts Center, Pittsboro, NC
- Lineup
- 69 acts
- Website
- Official site
Shakori Hills 2026 lineup & schedule: all 69 acts
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Three decades of groove-driven Americana with fiddle and accordion out front, and a following that books its holidays around them.
AmericanaRoots-rock
The Steel Wheels
Americana
New Orleans guitar poet, swampy blues-rock with a songwriter's soul, equally at home stretching into a festival jam or landing a confessional ballad.
Blues-rockNew Orleans
Margo Price
Country that argues back, written from the wrong side of Nashville and delivered with the sneer fully intact.
CountryAmericana
Gullah Collective
Sea Islands Gullah Geechee music kept as a living tradition, drums and call and response rather than a museum piece.
GullahFolk
Rose & The Bros
Country
Mono Means One
Rock
Bittersweet Brass Band
Turnabout Players
Horace Trahan & Buffalo Zydeco
A Louisiana accordion player who came up in Cajun music and crossed to zydeco, and can still empty every chair by the second song.
ZydecoCajun
Richie & Rosie
Banjo and fiddle from Ithaca, old-time duets sung close and played without any hurry at all.
Old-timeFolk
Patreka Wortham
Christian
Keith Secola
'NDN Kars' became the unofficial anthem of Indian Country, and the band behind it plays roadhouse rock over a powwow drum.
Native-americanFolk-rock
David Via & Corn Tornado
Driftwood
Upstate New York string band that plays fast and a little loose, fiddle-led and built for a late tent.
AmericanaString-band
Nashville project of bassist Scott Mulvahill and singer Laura Berens: acoustic string-band instruments played as disco and R&B, with soul vocals on top.
R&B/soul
New Planets
Worldwide
Joe Troop & The Truth Machine
A North Carolina banjo player who learned to pick in Argentina, writing bilingual bluegrass about borders and the people crossing them.
BluegrassLatin-folk
Sam Fribush Organ Trio
Hammond organ funk out of North Carolina, played for the dancers at the back rather than the critics at the front.
JazzSoul
Africa Unplugged
Worldwide
Moonholler
Omar Ruiz-Lopez & Eric Hirsch
Emerson Bruno
North Carolina songwriter whose '60s-rooted folk-rock got a lush second album, Sounds for the Restless Mind, tracked with veteran engineer John Davenport and finished with Truth Club's Max Gowan.
Folk-rockSinger-songwriterAmericana
Derek Lane's Kitchen Sink
Silver Rein
Alternative
Duck
Emily Musolino
A North Carolina blues rock guitarist who sings every bit as hard as she plays.
Blues-rockBlues
OhNo! Casino
Trance
Dr. Fruit
Children's music
Old Oxford
Evan Horne
Folk
Baby Grand
Argentinian-rooted North Carolina singer weaving jazz, soul, gospel, disco, and Latin folk into empowered, anything-can-happen live shows, a genuine one-of-one on any bill.
Neo-soulLatin jazzFunk
Wild Roots
Yet To Be Gold
Jesse Fox
Sugar Snap Peas
Jazz
The Wilted Plums
Evan Blackerby & The Bandwagon
Bluesy Americana songwriter raised on Otis Redding cassettes and Stevie Ray Vaughan CDs, with a voice pitched between Ray LaMontagne and Jack Johnson; here with his full band.
AmericanaFolk-rockBlues
Onyx Club Boys
The Midnight Still
Lennon KC
Alternative
Cinémathèque
Marvelous Funkshun
Rock
Anza
Zac Richey
Broccoli Brothers Circus
Children's music
John Ferrara
Bulltown Strutters
Six More Miles
Rock & roll
Também
Brazilian
Maia Kamil
Folk
Omar Ruiz-Lopez
Random Animals
R&B/soul
Ashley Virginia
Folk
Raistlin Brabson & Up Jumped Trouble
Stephen Klingman and Open Circle
Fribush Bros & Friends
dub Addis
Ethiopian melodies run through a dub mixing desk, horns and tape delay over a very deep bass.
Ethio-jazzDub
Cane Creek Cloggers
A Chatham County clogging team, Appalachian percussive dance done as a group and done at speed.
CloggingOld-time
Olivia Outdoors
Richie Stearns
Folk
Buffalo Zydeco
Murphy Campbell
Western North Carolina ballad singer from a family that has carried the mountain tradition for generations, reaching for the old modal sound rather than modernizing it.
AppalachianOld-timeFolk
Drew Foust & The Wheelhouse
The Resonant Rogues
Asheville duo pulling Appalachian songs through Balkan folk and prewar jazz, accordion and banjo inside the same tune.
FolkBalkan
GrassRoots All-Star Jam with Donna The Buffalo & Friends
Jason Hann
Percussionist from The String Cheese Incident and EOTO, improvising electronic sets built live from the drums up.
JamElectronic
The headliners
Anders Osborne · New Orleans guitar poet, swampy blues-rock with a songwriter's soul, equally at home stretching into a festival jam or landing a confessional ballad. New Orleans guitar playing that goes somewhere different every night.
Chatham County Line · Two decades of Raleigh bluegrass instrumentation put to work on songs that owe as much to Big Star as to Bill Monroe. A Raleigh band playing a farm half an hour from home.
Donna The Buffalo · Three decades of groove-driven Americana with fiddle and accordion out front, and a following that books its holidays around them. The band this festival grew out of, playing it three times over four days.
Up-and-comers to catch early
- Patreka Wortham · A voice that earns a mid-afternoon Meadow Stage slot and then some.
- Maia Kamil · Soul and jazz phrasing out of the Triangle.
- Zac Richey · Opens the Saturday and is worth being early for.
Other acts worth planning around
- The Steel Wheels · Virginia four-part harmony built around one microphone.
- Joe Troop & The Truth Machine · Bluegrass picking put to work on politics, in two languages.
The lineup by day
Thursday lineup (October 1)
Chatham County Line, Donna The Buffalo, Gullah Collective, Rose & The Bros, Africa Unplugged, Derek Lane's Kitchen Sink + 7 more
Thursday set times (13 sets)
- Africa Unplugged · Meadow Stage
- Chatham County Line · Meadow Stage
- Moonholler · Carson's Grove
- Omar Ruiz-Lopez & Eric Hirsch · Dance Tent
- Emerson Bruno · Cabaret Tent
- Donna The Buffalo · Meadow Stage
- Derek Lane's Kitchen Sink · Carson's Grove
- Gullah Collective · Dance Tent
- Silver Rein · Cabaret Tent
- Duck · Meadow Stage
- Emily Musolino · Carson's Grove
- OhNo! Casino · Cabaret Tent
- Rose & The Bros · Dance Tent
Friday lineup (October 2)
Anders Osborne, The Steel Wheels, Bittersweet Brass Band, Gullah Collective, Horace Trahan & Buffalo Zydeco, Mono Means One + 20 more
Friday set times (26 sets)
- Africa Unplugged · Dance Tent
- Derek Lane's Kitchen Sink · Meadow Stage
- Dr. Fruit · Cabaret Tent
- Old Oxford · Dance Tent
- Evan Horne · Carson's Grove
- Baby Grand · Cabaret Tent
- Azul · Meadow Stage
- Wild Roots · Dance Tent
- Yet To Be Gold · Carson's Grove
- Gullah Collective · Meadow Stage
- Jesse Fox · Cabaret Tent
- Rose & The Bros · Carson's Grove
- Sugar Snap Peas · Dance Tent
- The Wilted Plums · Cabaret Tent
- The Steel Wheels · Meadow Stage
- Evan Blackerby & The Bandwagon · Carson's Grove
- Onyx Club Boys · Dance Tent
- The Midnight Still · Cabaret Tent
- Anders Osborne · Meadow Stage
- Mono Means One · Carson's Grove
- Bittersweet Brass Band · Dance Tent
- Lennon KC · Cabaret Tent
- Cinémathèque · Meadow Stage
- Turnabout Players · Carson's Grove
- Horace Trahan & Buffalo Zydeco · Dance Tent
- Marvelous Funkshun · Cabaret Tent
Saturday lineup (October 3)
Donna The Buffalo, Margo Price, David Via & Corn Tornado, Driftwood, Keith Secola, New Planets + 20 more
Saturday set times (26 sets)
- Anza · Cabaret Tent
- Zac Richey · Meadow Stage
- Broccoli Brothers Circus · Cabaret Tent
- Richie & Rosie · Meadow Stage
- John Ferrara · Cabaret Tent
- Patreka Wortham · Meadow Stage
- Yet To Be Gold · Cabaret Tent
- Bulltown Strutters · Dance Tent
- Sugar Snap Peas · Carson's Grove
- Keith Secola · Meadow Stage
- Six More Miles · Carson's Grove
- Também · Dance Tent
- David Via & Corn Tornado · Carson's Grove
- Driftwood · Meadow Stage
- Maia Kamil · Cabaret Tent
- Omar Ruiz-Lopez · Dance Tent
- Margo Price · Meadow Stage
- Random Animals · Carson's Grove
- Ashley Virginia · Cabaret Tent
- Raistlin Brabson & Up Jumped Trouble · Dance Tent
- Donna The Buffalo · Meadow Stage
- Slap Dragon · Carson's Grove
- Stephen Klingman and Open Circle · Cabaret Tent
- New Planets · Dance Tent
- Fribush Bros & Friends · Carson's Grove
- dub Addis · Cabaret Tent
Sunday lineup (October 4)
Driftwood, Joe Troop & The Truth Machine, Keith Secola, New Planets, Sam Fribush Organ Trio, Buffalo Zydeco + 8 more
Sunday set times (14 sets)
- Cane Creek Cloggers · Dance Tent
- Jesse Fox · Carson's Grove
- Olivia Outdoors · Cabaret Tent
- Richie Stearns · Meadow Stage
- New Planets · Carson's Grove
- Joe Troop & The Truth Machine · Meadow Stage
- Buffalo Zydeco · Dance Tent
- Murphy Campbell · Carson's Grove
- Drew Foust & The Wheelhouse · Meadow Stage
- The Resonant Rogues · Dance Tent
- Keith Secola · Carson's Grove
- Sam Fribush Organ Trio · Meadow Stage
- Driftwood · Dance Tent
- GrassRoots All-Star Jam with Donna The Buffalo & Friends · Meadow Stage
Shakori Hills 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Shakori Hills Fall 2026?
October 1–4, 2026 (Thursday through Sunday) at the Shakori Hills Community Arts Center in Pittsboro, North Carolina.
Who is headlining?
Donna the Buffalo, Margo Price, Anders Osborne, The Steel Wheels and Chatham County Line top the festival's own lineup listing. Margo Price plays Saturday night and Anders Osborne Friday.
Does Shakori Hills happen twice a year?
Yes. There is a spring festival and a fall festival on the same site. This page covers the fall 2026 edition, the 22nd.
How far is it from Raleigh or Chapel Hill?
About forty minutes from Chapel Hill and under an hour from Raleigh and Durham, off Henderson Tanyard Road in Chatham County.
Does this page list the workshops and dance classes?
No. The festival's schedule also carries dance workshops, a band contest, a poetry slam, morning yoga and the Paperhand puppet parade. This page lists the 69 music acts and their set times.
Are set times confirmed?
They come from the festival's published schedule grid. Shakori notes that the schedule is subject to change, so check on site.
How do I find the acts I'd like?
Type a few artists you love into the finder at the top of this page. It matches them against this lineup and explains each pick.
When is Shakori Hills 2027?
Shakori Hills is expected back in October 2027; the festival has not announced the 2027 dates yet. The 2026 lineup stays on this page until it does.
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