Bikes, Bands, and a Year-Delayed Music Video: The Sound of Mid South 2026
From a late night dance party to Belle & The Vertigo Waves filming 'DFL' live in the finish line chute, a first-person look at the music of The Mid South
When Bobby Wintle stepped to the microphone during Brahmulus's set March 13 at the KICKER Soundstage, the crowd at Block 34 knew what he was about to say. It had been exactly a year since wildfires swept through southwest Stillwater during the final day of The Mid South 2025, destroying 98 homes and forcing the cancellation of Saturday's events. The finish line had stood silent. A lot of things were supposed to happen that day that didn't.
"If we don't have hope," Wintle said, "time feels hopeless." Hope, it turned out, was what saturated the entire 2026 weekend.
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