King Saison

While the Chickenstock Music Festival has humble beginnings, it is now a high-energy summer event celebrating music on Top of the World. Every June the double-digit population swells to more than 1,000 adventuresome, fun-loving music enthusiasts who gather from mostly Alaska and the Yukon, but also from foreign lands. The raucous, but family friendly crowd dances, sings along, and hula hoops the weekend away. Of course, who can forget our bands that take center stage each year—it wouldn’t be much of a concert without them! While we love to familiarize folks with our tiny coop in Alaska’s interior, we also love showcasing the extreme musical talent of our bands that primarily come from in-state. Many thanks to the musicians who have graced our stage through the years! More than a dozen bands—some bluegrass, some country-ish, some a bit bluesy, some folksy, some nondescript and some more bluegrass—take the stage on two vintage WWII trucks that have been joined together ass-to-ass, while Chicken Air flies overhead and drops 3,000 marshmallow Peeps (yes, the kind you put in your kid’s Easter basket) while attendees attempt to relive their sixth-grade selves and remember all the moves to the “Chicken Dance.” As intended, Chickenstock isn’t just a music festival—it is a spotlight that shines on the map-dot town of Chicken and its 17 hardy residents (yes, that’s a whole 10 more people than Google claims!)