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A music festival is returning to North Carolina, but it will look different this year.
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The Good Moon festival is set to bring concerts to the Triangle for the second year. Instead of having artists hit the stage at Durham Bulls Athletic Park, the 2026 performances will be held at four other locations in downtown Durham.
The news comes from Durham-based electronic-pop band Sylvan Esso and their recording company, called Psychic Hotline.
“This Good Moon is our biggest and fullest yet, featuring so many of our favorite artists,” Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn, the duo that makes up Sylvan Esso, said in a Tuesday, May 12 news release. “It is a joy to bring them to our home in Durham.”
Tickets are going on sale soon for the festival, which is scheduled for October. Here’s what to know about where and when the concerts will be held, who will perform and how to get tickets.
Good Moon debuted in 2024, and organizers plan to hold it every other year. The 2026 festival is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 8 to Saturday, Oct. 10.
The event will use four venues in downtown Durham, which has multiple parking options. Here’s where the concerts will be held:
On Saturday, Oct. 10, there will be a “free daytime concert at the Amphitheater at American Tobacco Campus,” event organizers wrote in the news release.
Sylvan Esso will headline two of the shows at the Durham Performing Arts Center, and singer-songwriter Tyler Childers will headline one show at the same location, Good Moon wrote in an Instagram post. Here’s who else is in the lineup across multiple venues:
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At American Tobacco, fans can watch “Time Indefinite,” a music film from William Tyler. Here’s who’s set to perform at that venue’s free concert:
The N&O reached out to Good Moon representatives for a more detailed concert schedule and is waiting to hear back.
Fans wanting to buy tickets won’t have to wait for long.
Pre-sale tickets will go on sale starting noon Thursday, May 14 and three-day VIP passes go on sale the following day. For more information, visit goodmoonnc.com.
Then, the rest of the seats will be available to the general public starting Friday, May 22. Those tickets will be available for individual nights.
The music festival continues to put the spotlight on Sylvan Esso. The members of the band, who got married in 2016, have been nominated for two Grammy awards and are planning for a sold-out Los Angeles residency in June.
“The combination of her campfire-sing-along voice and his atmospheric, elastic beats comes out as quirky electro-folk — maybe the warmest electronic pop anybody is making nowadays,” The N&O reported in 2018.
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This story was originally published May 13, 2026 at 10:03 AM.