NEWS & UPDATES

New for Blue Ox 2025

We are excited to have you back at the Pines in a few short weeks. Every year we send out a post-festival survey to receive feedback about your experience. Based on your feedback from the past couple of years, we have some new things to announce for Blue Ox 2025! FESTIVAL BOWL REORGANIZATION! No […]

Beer, Liquor & NA 2025

Blue Ox 2025 offers a wide variety of beverage options to quench your thirst. *Blue Ox accepts both cash and credit card for beverage purchases at the Beer Tent and Lodge. Most food and hardgood vendors accept card but some only accept cash. Merch Tent accepts both cash and card payment. ATM will be available […]

2025 Virtual Band Competition

Congratulations Ladybird (Milwaukee, WI)!! You can catch their performance on Saturday June 28th (time TBA) on the Backwoods Stage. Milwaukee country rock outfit Ladybird have spent the last two years in development, quickly becoming one of the city’s most promising new acts. Composed of guitarist Sam Szymborski, bassist Josh Rardin, drummer Aidan Gouran, pedal steel […]

2024 Virtual Band Competition

Submission form Closed! Chance to perform on the Backwoods Stage at Blue Ox 2024! Deadline: Tuesday, February 27th @ 11:59 PM CT to be considered. Are you a Bluegrass, Americana or Folk artist (or any other type of band you think would jive with Blue Ox fans) that would like to perform at the Blue […]

2023 Virtual Band Competition

Deadline: Friday, February 17th @ 11:59 PM CST to be considered. Chance to win a slot to perform on the Backwoods Stage at Blue Ox 2023! Are you a Bluegrass, Americana or Folk artist (or any other type of band you think would jive with Blue Ox fans) that would like to perform at the […]

New Ticket Platform for Blue Ox 2023

Afton Tickets and PayPal Pay Later — Elevate Ticketing, which we had been working with since our festival started back in 2015, is merging with AXS so we had to decide if we wanted to merge with them or seek out a new platform. We decided on the latter and are pleased to announce that […]