What to expect from the 2026 Kilby Block Party – Deseret News
Salt Lake City is about to welcome hundreds of indie music followers for the seventh 12 months of Kilby Block Party, a three-day music pageant happening this weekend.
The spectacular array of featured artists consists of names like Lorde, Turnstile, The xx, Modest Mouse and Hayley Williams, together with in style Utah-based skills like The Moss and Ritt Momney.
Riley Bode, the pageant’s head of promoting, advised the Deseret News the pageant expects round 30,000 attendees per day this 12 months. Here’s all the things you want to know to put together.
Schedule and lineup
Kilby Block Party staggers its artists throughout 4 phases from 11:45 am to round 10 pm for the three days of the pageant. Gates open at 11:30 am
The full schedule is offered on the festival’s websitehowever the artists taking part in at the pageant embody:
Friday:
- Turnstile
- Modest Mouse
- Father John Misty
- Japanese Breakfast
- Pattie Gonia
- Ritt Momney
Saturday:
- The xx
- Alex G
- Lucy Dacus
- The Last Dinner Party
- Briston Maroney
- The Moss
Sunday:
- Lorde
- Hayley Williams
- Blood Orange
- Magdalena Bay
- Flipturn
- American Football
Tickets
All Kilby Block Party VIP tickets have been bought out, however Friday, Saturday and three-day normal admission tickets are nonetheless obtainable. Resale tickets can also be obtainable on the pageant’s Fan Marketplace.
Weekend passes embody limitless reentry, whereas single-day passes don’t.
Directions and parking
Kilby Block Party is held at the Utah State Fairpark in west Salt Lake City. There are plenty of street closures in the space. Detour maps can be found at the Utah State Fairpark website.
Attendees could buy a parking move, though restricted road parking is offered. A motorcycle valet is situated by the east entrance of the Fairpark car parking zone.
Festival tickets embody free journey via all UTA public transportation companies, together with the FrontRunner prepare, TRAX mild rail and buses. The TRAX Green Line has a cease throughout from the Fairpark.
meals
Outside food and drinks are usually not permitted, though attendees could deliver empty water bottles to fill as soon as inside the pageant. Several meals vans and different distributors might be at the pageant.
Kilby Block Party is a cashless occasion.
Safety
Although the pageant has handled rainstorms in the previous, this 12 months guarantees heat and sunny weather — temperatures ought to be in the mid-70s.
Bode stated the Kilby workforce has taken additional steps this 12 months to guarantee visitors’ well being and security. This consists of getting ready additional shade buildings, offering free water stations and having medical emergency workers available, together with psychological well being professionals.
There can even be an elevated safety presence at the pageant.
An inventory of prohibited objects, together with the pageant’s bag coverage, could be discovered here.
