Shangri-La Festival is Minnesota's most beloved independent boutique festival, returning to Harmony Park Music Garden in Clarks Grove from September 3–7, 2026 for five days of jam, bluegrass, funk, livetronica, folk, and electronic music. Now in its 18th year, Shangri-La has built its cult following on a simple premise — keep it small, keep it intentional, and let the music and the community do the work. The 3,000-person capacity ensures the festival feels more like a family reunion than a commercial event.
The 2026 bill spans the full spectrum of the Midwest jam-electronic scene with deep roots in regional bluegrass and folk traditions. We don't publish the lineup on this page; the festival posts its own artist announcements at https://shangrilafest.com/. The festival's booking team is known for landing acts at exactly the right inflection point — the touring jam bands, rising bluegrass groups, and underground livetronica producers that the Minnesota and Wisconsin festival scenes have championed for decades.
Harmony Park Music Garden is one of the most unique festival venues in the Midwest — a privately owned 80-acre site in southern Minnesota purpose-built for outdoor music festivals, complete with multiple stages, mature trees for shade, an on-site pond, and an established camping infrastructure refined over decades of hosting. The Shangri-La community returns year after year, and attendees who attend once tend to come back annually. If you're looking for production scale and headline names, look elsewhere. If you want a true community festival, Shangri-La is the home.