About this Event
Get Ready for Pumpstock Music Festival 2026!
Come celebrate music, life, music, community, music, food, music and family with East Lansing's favorite outdoor music festival.
This year's festival artists span Americana to Alt Folk to World, from Detroit to Uganda. Details below!
Bring chairs, blankets, your family, your friends, and your dogs.
Outdoors and FREE at Bailey Park, 300 Bailey St, East Lansing.
We are VERY grateful to the City of East Lansing for AGAIN providing us an Arts Grant. We couldn't do this without EL's amazing support!
Our financial model this year also includes a Kickstarter fundraising plan.
If Pumpstock has ever made you tap your foot, smile, or feel at home in Bailey Park, we hope you’ll consider pitching in.
If you might attend this year's festival, if you love what we do for Mid Michigan, if you support independent arts presentation, please DONATE via Kickstarter to enable this year's festival.
Donate here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/298540254/pumpstock-music-festival-2026
THANK YOU!
This will be our Sixteenth year. WHAAAATT?? Five great bands on the main stage, 4 great acts on the local stage.
Music, food, art and fun for the entire family!
Krystal's Kitchen will serve tasty BBQ to you.
https://www.facebook.com/krystal.jackson.35
Sweet Lee's Teas will have great beverages!
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61550110590742
An instrument petting zoo sponsored by Music Is the Foundation.
Children's Art activities will be available, sponsored again by Lonier Family Dentistry.
Dave's Ukes (https://davesukes.com/) will be with us again. The best custom made Ukes.
Cold Plunge Records (Lois Mummaw and Gregg Hill) are again super generous Pumpstock Sponsors, enabling our outreach program. https://www.coldplungerecords.com/
Rogo the Clown providing glitter tattoos.
Professional sound provided by Jon Herrmann and Real Deal Audio, plus Lucy James, and of course Steve Simonson and All Around Audio.
This year's Pumpstock Teaching Artist is Jon Torrence, an amazing educator and musician from SE Michigan. He will deliver a session from the local stage, focused on your kids but fun for adults also. It'll be great!
Pumpstock's Main Stage, hosted by DJ, musician, and man about town Jim Hall (aka Proton Boy), features:
2:00 - The Springtails -
Swing Era Virtuosity
https://www.thespringtails.com/
The Springtails are a Michigan-based band featuring swing-era style vocals and eclectic acoustic instrumentation. They perform a variety of vaudeville, swing, pop, folk, and original songs.
3:15 - Abigail Staufer & The Bang Bangs
Folk Siren
http://abigailstauffer.com/
Abigail Stauffer turns the language of acoustic, pop, and neo-soul music into an irresistible invitation to heal and be healed. Her live performances evoke so much emotion, it's hard to believe each song isn't specifically about you.
4:30 - The Native Heart
Soulfull Jazz Influenced Americana
https://jontorrencemusic.com/bio
The Native Heart are artists and music-makers of mulitple genres, all with a jazz influence, that thrive on authenticity and intentional narratives. At the core of the collective is a love of creation and storytelling and celebrating that while we're all different, there is something significant that connects us.
5:45 - The Ben Gage trio
Americana Road Stories
https://www.bengagemusic.com/
Ben Gage blends folk guitar and blues harmonica into a distinctive Americana sound. His writing weaves road-earned stories with a deep love for the outdoors.
7:00 - Samuel Nalangira Trio (wsg Andy Wilson)
African Traditions with Contemporary Expressions
https://www.samuelnalangira.com/
Samuel Nalangira is a Ugandan-born, Michigan-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, choreographer, and educator whose work bridges centuries-old African traditions with inventive contemporary expression.
Samuel’s music is as much about community as it is about sound—inviting audiences into the heartbeat of Uganda while embracing a global musical conversation.
ON THE LOCAL STAGE (times tbd):
Vincente (Drew Hill)
Michigan's Bard.
https://linktr.ee/vincente_
Vincente is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Michigan. His style blends magical realism, rock ‘n roll, and atmospheric sonic landscapes. His musical foundations include classic punk and proto-metal. He has served as the lead guitarist and singer for The Cheetahs since 2012 and has been playing music since 2003.
La Media Hora
http://www.lamediahora.com/
Based in Greater Lansing, MI (USA), La Media Hora is a band specializing in performing Spanish, Mexican, Cuban, and Latin American music.
and more tbd!!
AJ Sol
https://annemariejomusic.com/
AJ Sol is a well accomplished singer-songwriter from the Detroit MI area and has been singing since she could talk. Music has always played a big part in her family, leading her to writing catchy, emotionally charged songs, playing guitar and often performing up to 4 shows a week. Being musically versatile, her genres include pop, rock, alternative, and soul.
Jon Torrence Music Workshop for Children (AND ADULTS!)
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
300 Bailey St, 300 Bailey Street, East Lansing, United States
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