Shoe Fest

05/29/2026

Happy Friday, Shoe Fam! ☀️👟🏕️💙🎉

We’re so very excited to bring you our full lineup for Shoe Fest 2026. Joining us in celebrating 15 amazing and magical years are Andy Frasco & The U.N., Hartliss(Brendan Bayliss of Umphrey’s McGee + Jennifer Hartswick of Trey Anastasio Band), Polyrhythmics, Southern Avenue, Organ Fairchild, and more!

Tickets for Shoe Fest 2026 are moving quick. Grab yours now and save. 🎫⬇️

Much love and thanks, Shoe Fam. We can't wait to see you all go dancing through those gates!

05/27/2026

Hi wonderful Shoe Fam 🤩☀️👟🏕️💙

100 days til we celebrate year 15!!

AND fUN news, this Friday. 🤘💃🕺

05/12/2026

Letting them good times roll this Friday night in Chicago! Pre-party, dance party, Old Shoes, Horseshoes. We’ll see ya there and we’ll have some vintage Shoe Fest posters in tow, taboot!

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Friday, May 15th
Old Shoe + Horseshoes & Hand Grenades
Garcia’s Chicago

Let’s boogie 💕

05/01/2026

Happy weekend, Shoe Fam!

Sending you all our love and thanks. We can’t wait to celebrate 15 amazing years, together! 🤩🏕️👟💙🔥💃🕺🎉

04/08/2026

SHOE FEST 2026 – FIRST ROUND ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENT
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We're so excited to celebrate 15 years of Shoe Fest with you all! Joining us are Leftover Salmon, Shadowgrass, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, Chicago Farmer, Allie Kral, Mr. Blotto, The Spooklights and so many more INCLUDING a rowdy headliner yet to be announced!

To check out the full lineup, purchase tix and get more info:
https://shoe-fest.com/all-tickets

September 4-6 / Manteno, IL (60 miles south of Chicago) / 2 Stages / 200 acres of big tree shade with a creek running through it / Family Friendly

Art by Kory McGeehan ✨🎨

Festival passPurchase 3-Day FESTIVAL & KID PASS herePass includes tent camping relevant to days of the pass purchased. Kid Passes for children 12 and under purchased here. Every child 2 and up will require a Festival Pass    LET'S GO! LET'S GO! PARKING PASSShoe Fest offers Parking Passes for advan...

04/03/2026

Happy Friday, friends and fam! An update and a shout out.

Our first lineup drop is just a handful of days away(4/8), and we can’t wait to start pulling back that curtain on Shoe Fest 2026 🤩🏕️👟💕🔥💃🕺🎉

Celebrating 15 years. We gonna boogie!

AND our longtime friend and Shoe Fest artist, Chicago Farmer will be at the wonderful Martyrs’ in Chicago, tonight and tomorrow. See you all there!!

Sending you all love and thanks, Shoe Fam

03/30/2026

We have loved having Broken Robots at Shoe Fest. They are just wonderful folks and Tony is as good they come. Our good friends at Martyrs are holding a very special event tonight to celebrate our friend Tony.

A note from Martyrs’:

As Tony has entered hospice, the event aims to raise money to cover end of life and memorial expenses in addition to celebrating Tony and his incredible contributions to all things music.

We Love Tony!

Join us tonight, Monday, March 30th to celebrate our beloved sound engineer and friend Tony Baker.

Tony has entered hospice.

The event aims to raise money to cover end of life and memorial expenses in addition to celebrating Tony and his incredible contributions to all things music.

Doors 6PM. Show 7PM. ~15 bands & performers. It’s gonna be an awesome party and we are going to keep it light and fun.

$20 suggested donation at the door. If you can’t make it, please consider donating to the gofundme linked below.

See you tonight!!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-tony-with-love-and-care

Stream it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH7q1qsjZyY

03/06/2026

Happy Friday, Shoe Fam!

We are now accepting Volunteers for Shoe Fest 2026. We’re so fortunate to have a such a wonderful team of all stars on our Shoe Crew. 🤩👟🏕️💚 Y’all rock. Big love and thanks to all of you!

https://shoe-fest.com/volunteer

P.S. Artist Announcement #1 is just around the bend!

02/06/2026

Shoe Fest 2026 Tickets are now ON SALE 🤩👟🏕️💕🔥🎉🎉🎉

Join us Labor Day weekend at the magical and gorgeous Camp Shaw in Manteno, IL for 3 days of camping & music as we celebrate 15 years of Shoe Fest.

https://shoe-fest.com/all-tickets

Much love and thanks to you all!!

02/05/2026

Shoe Fam! With tickets dropping tomorrow morning for our 15th Shoe Fest 🤩👟🏕️💕🔥 we want to check in and see which artists you’d like to see at Shoe Fest 2026.

Show us that wish list 🥰🤘