The Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival is a multi-day camping music festival on the 800-acre Sunshine Grove property in Okeechobee, founded in 2016 by Soundslinger LLC. Its debut lineup included Bassnectar, Skrillex, Kendrick Lamar, and Mumford & Sons, drawing about 32,000 attendees.
Its large camping format and arts/music identity make it a strong row when active.
Okeechobee's founders, Steve Sybesma and Paul Peck, brought direct experience from Bonnaroo's Superfly production team, which shaped the festival's large-scale camping-festival format from its first year rather than building up to it gradually
Its genre range, spanning rock, jam bands, hip-hop, R&B, funk, reggae, EDM, jazz, Americana, country, folk, gospel, and world music, is unusually broad even by major festival standards, reflecting an intentional booking strategy to avoid being pigeonholed into a single scene
The festival has not run continuously, with recorded gaps in 2019 and 2021, giving it a more turbulent operating history than many comparable mega-festivals, before returning on a 2022-to-present run
The festival continues the broad
multi-genre booking philosophy established by its Bonnaroo-connected founders in 2016
and its on-site camping format follows the large-scale American camping-festival tradition established by events like Bonnaroo itself
adapted to Okeechobee's Sunshine Grove property
Dates TBA · Usually March
Driving is required.
Festival camping attire suited to Central Florida's spring weather, including breathable clothing for daytime heat, layers for cooler nights, sturdy closed-toe shoes for grass and dirt...
Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival is easier with a small bag, charged phone and group plan that survives poor signal.
Okeechobee
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Okeechobee Music and Arts Festival is listed for Past edition: 19–22 March 2026. Always re-check the official or local source close to travel.
The festival is listed in Okeechobee, United States. The map coordinate is a planning reference, not a guarantee of a ticket gate or exact venue.
4 days is the listed festival span. Add time for arrival, local transport, queues, and any route changes during the event.
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Okeechobee, FL
Small: 40000
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