{"id":336481,"date":"2025-10-27T17:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/336481\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T17:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:13:11","slug":"windy-city-smokeout-announces-2026-dates-headliners-heres-whos-performing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/336481\/","title":{"rendered":"Windy City Smokeout announces 2026 dates, headliners. Here&#8217;s who&#8217;s performing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country music stars Lainey Wilson, Jordan Davis, Hootie &amp; the Blowfish, and Treaty Oak Revival will be among the headliners at next year&#8217;s Windy City Smokeout at the United Center, as the festival also will add a fifth day in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The country music and barbecue festival, which will be held in the parking lots outside the the United Center from July 8-12, will host their first-ever early bird experience on Wednesday, July 8, headlined by Treaty Oak Revival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wednesday evening&#8217;s early bird experience will provide a more intimate concert, along with a variety of new food vendors for guests to experience, as Smokeout&#8217;s 2026 pitmasters focus on putting the finishing touches on Thursday&#8217;s BBQ preview and prepping for the world&#8217;s largest parking lot party the weekend ahead,&#8221; organizers said.<\/p>\n<p>Four-day general admission, VIP, Platinum and Wednesday wristbands for Windy City Smokeout are now on sale at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windycitysmokeout.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">windycitysmokeout.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4-Day General Admission: $255<\/li>\n<li>4-Day General Admission, plus BBQ Brunch: $320<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday General Admission: $49<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday VIP Admission: $99<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The rest of the festival&#8217;s lineup and single=-day admission prices will be announced soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Country music stars Lainey Wilson, Jordan Davis, Hootie &amp; the Blowfish, and Treaty Oak Revival will be among&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":336482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,59706],"class_list":{"0":"post-336481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-united-center"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115447254847844467","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}