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Event Information:
The
Hangout Music Festival, styled as
the Hangout Music Fest, is an annual
three day music festival in Gulf
Shores, Alabama. It is the first
major music festival held on the
beach in the city. The festival was
attended by 13,000–15,000 people per
day in 2010. Attendance in had
to be capped at 35,000 per day, an
unprecedented number for the second
year of a music festival in the
region, due to safety concerns. The
event was estimated to have
generated approximately $30 million
for the Gulf Shores area economy.
Advance tickets for the event,
which continues to be capped at
35,000 attendees per day, sold out
within one hour. General admission
tickets sold out on February 21,
, almost three months prior to
the event.
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The
festival has five stages for .
They include the Hangout (Main)
Stage, "Letting Go" Stage, Chevrolet
Stage, and Xbox Stage. The BP Shaka
Island Kids Stage is for children.
The festival will take place
May 18-20, . The three main
headliners were announced to be Jack
White, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and
Dave Matthews Band. Other scheduled
performers include: Alabama Shakes,
Skrillex, The String Cheese
Incident, Wilco, Paul Oakenfold,
Archnemesis, The Flaming Lips, Chris
Cornell, STS9, Dispatch, Gogol
Bordello, Michael Franti and
Spearhead, Mac Miller, Flogging
Molly, Coheed and Cambria, G. Love
and Special Sauce, Randy Newman,
Young The Giant, Dr. Dog, Cage The
Elephant, M. Ward, Yelawolf,
Switchfoot, Julian Marley, Zeds
Dead, Mavis Staples, Shpongle, Gary
Clark Jr., Rebelution, Allan Stone,
Big Freedia, Steve Winwood, The
Devil Makes Three, Paper Diamond,
Futurebirds, Tribal Seeds, Hey
Rosetta!, Sleeper Agent, The
Lumineers.
Gulf
Shores is a coastal city in Baldwin
County, Alabama, United States. As
of the 2000 Census, the population
was 5,044. However, since the year
2000, Baldwin County as a whole, has
experienced rapid population growth,
second only to Shelby County in
Alabama. The location of Gulf Shores
on the northern coast of the Gulf of
Mexico makes it vulnerable to
hurricanes. In September 1979,
Hurricane Frederic leveled most of
the town. In September 2004,
Hurricane Ivan caused extensive wind
and flooding damage. In 2005, while
still cleaning up from Hurricane
Ivan, Hurricane Katrina caused
extensive damage and flooding.
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